Mass Effect Andromeda officially dead...
Right... So it has happened. Mass Effect Andromeda is officially dead. No DLC's, no more updates. https://www.masseffect.com/news/mass-effect-andromeda-update-from-the-studio Any thoughts my fellow...
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I'm fine with them not releasing any DLC, but I think it's outrageous that they're dropping support when some major bugs have still not been fixed. For instance 'hold to sprint' still doesn't work properly (the character keeps sprinting after you release the sprint key) and 'toggle to sprint' only toggles off if you press the sprint key while not pressing any movement keys, otherwise the character keeps sprinting until they fall down a chasm. I've never played a game with such an awkward control scheme to make a character run faster. It's a shame that such basic functionality will not be implemented after all this time.
Unlike some this won't make me dislike BioWare. I'm looking forward to what Mark Darrah's team has in store for Dragon Age 4.
Yeah, now it's official. I had hoped they'd change their minds but I guess they've decided that ME:A is dead in the water and they just will keep it afloat after stop gapping the most important issues. It's floating. It's a pretty good game but it's not going anywhere. I am ticked off at the lack of dlc because there are stil a lot of loose ends and I wonder if this story arc will actually end up getting a sequel now. Clearly this statement means that they feel this new approach failed. Pretty sure also the merchandise of ME:A doesn't even come close to the original N7 stuff in sales.
The way this statement is written makes me believe that they see the ME:A direction as a failure on a conceptual level and whatever they may have had as ideas for sequels, may never see the light of day.
The last part of their message reads:
We appreciate all the millions of people who came with us to the Andromeda galaxy. We hope to see you again in the Mass Effect universe.
So I guess they still sold millions of copies as we knew and decided that's as good as it was going to get. Initially it read to me as if they were sort of not sure if they were every going to touch ME again after this, but after thinking about it for a bit, it seems to me that this is the closest we'll get to an apology.
I now read it as: thanks for those who bought it in spite of everything that went wrong with the game and we hope it hasn't soured you for the future.
My biggest concern here is this: BW seems to be very much into Anthem. If it is successful it may not be a good thing for ME and DA to be honest. On the one hand it may be fine because they'll bring it out and then can decide how to divide their resources for the next 10 years giving them a more solid basis for multiple IPs. In the end they have opened more studios and you don't generally do that to just support one game but then if it really becomes successful and they want to bring out content for it regularly they may end up pulling resources from all studios.
So maybe as a customer it's better for me if Anthem fails?
Don't like having to think like this though.
It just shows that EA does not give a rats * about the fan base. It's all about money! No surprises there I guess.
"Well we will not spend any cash on additional SP content, because why should we? But we still want YOU to spend some cash, so just give us more money in the commission for the comic books and novels. Great deal... from our stand point!"
I am a massive Mass Effect fan. I have turned all my friends into fans as well. For me... it's like a personal defeat. It's too bad that EA can see us players as living and breathing wallets.
so they make us sleep for 600 years.. in cryo sleep, wake us all up in an unfamiliar galaxy that looks nothing like brochures said it would look and now they want to put us all on ice again?!?!?!?
I have to say thats how it feels.
@RamirezKRK-PL wrote:It just shows that EA does not give a rats * about the fan base. It's all about money! No surprises there I guess.
"Well we will not spend any cash on additional SP content, because why should we? But we still want YOU to spend some cash, so just give us more money in the commission for the comic books and novels. Great deal... from our stand point!"
I am a massive Mass Effect fan. I have turned all my friends into fans as well. For me... it's like a personal defeat. It's too bad that EA can see us players as living and breathing wallets.
My wallet has slammed shut, since $$ is the only thing they understand.
I dont care what other ME games or any other games they do. Untill Andromeda is given its proper completion in game form, not stupid comics and books - its staying zipped uo tightly, not another cent from me and I know I am not the only one done with EA.
The MEA direction was not the failure. Not taking longer to complete the game properly, supporting it properly now with the rest of the patches it should have had months ago and not giving it dlc, those are the failures. The game itself, bar a few odd animations, was very solid with a very promising new future and mysteries to solve.
So mad they are dropping MEA.
The buggy launch and animation memes hit sales figures.
The game likely sold enough to wash its face, but not enough for the install base to justify making DLC.
I don't like it, but I understand it.
The way marketing and communications have been handled have not been great in my view.
