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 very unlikely to ever buy a game by Bioware or EA again. Andromeda was the first, and now probably the last. That they're willing to just leave an IP in tatters like this is pathetic. Even Hello Games are sticking behind No Man's Sky, apparently that is beyond Bio-EA's skill to do.
I liked Andromeda, I thought the hate was blown out of proportion. It deserved criticism but not hate, and I wanted to keep supporting the game and even played the multiplayer after I finished the singleplayer, which I rarely do for games with multiplayer side-addons. but now? Well now they're not supporting it so there's nothing to criticize, to criticize is to hope things get better. And so now I'm siding with the "haters", screw Bioware and EA for this.
@Sirenapples wrote:I'm very unlikely to ever buy a game by Bioware or EA again. Andromeda was the first, and now probably the last. That they're willing to just leave an IP in tatters like this is pathetic. Even Hello Games are sticking behind No Man's Sky, apparently that is beyond Bio-EA's skill to do.
Yeah that's a big difference with EAWare...it either goes well and then they do the bare minimum or it goes wrong and they abandon ship and focus on something new. Best Customer Experience is a term that these guys have no concept of.
I liked Andromeda, I thought the hate was blown out of proportion. It deserved criticism but not hate, and I wanted to keep supporting the game and even played the multiplayer after I finished the singleplayer, which I rarely do for games with multiplayer side-addons. but now? Well now they're not supporting it so there's nothing to criticize, to criticize is to hope things get better. And so now I'm siding with the "haters", screw Bioware and EA for this.
It was blown out of proportion but it wasn't without reason. It really needed some serious patching. The game's pretty good now, just taking a break but I have to ask EAWare why they think that I as a customer would want to invest into their games? I'll give an example. There's a couple of new albums coming out. I like these bands. The singles are great tracks and both albums have a collector's edition and various versions on vinyl. I decided to buy them all. I used to have that with Mass Effect as well, but that's changed this year. Not because of the game itsel but how they are handling it.
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@Sirenapples wrote:I'm very unlikely to ever buy a game by Bioware or EA again. Andromeda was the first, and now probably the last. That they're willing to just leave an IP in tatters like this is pathetic. Even Hello Games are sticking behind No Man's Sky, apparently that is beyond Bio-EA's skill to do.
Yeah that's a big difference with EAWare...it either goes well and then they do the bare minimum or it goes wrong and they abandon ship and focus on something new. Best Customer Experience is a term that these guys have no concept of.
I liked Andromeda, I thought the hate was blown out of proportion. It deserved criticism but not hate, and I wanted to keep supporting the game and even played the multiplayer after I finished the singleplayer, which I rarely do for games with multiplayer side-addons. but now? Well now they're not supporting it so there's nothing to criticize, to criticize is to hope things get better. And so now I'm siding with the "haters", screw Bioware and EA for this.
It was blown out of proportion but it wasn't without reason. It really needed some serious patching. The game's pretty good now, just taking a break but I have to ask EAWare why they think that I as a customer would want to invest into their games? I'll give an example. There's a couple of new albums coming out. I like these bands. The singles are great tracks and both albums have a collector's edition and various versions on vinyl. I decided to buy them all. I used to have that with Mass Effect as well, but that's changed this year. Not because of the game itsel but how they are handling it.
I agree, i would have done things totally different, i mean i know that a quality game, with a quality storyline with as little plot holes as possible that obviously are not meant to be there, unless its for DLCs, i am sure that all of you would buy all Mass Effect games if they were all polished, as bug free as humanly possible with all plot holes filled, unless it will be filled by a DLC....i know i would, but as it stands right now, i will NEVER buy a bioware game again...not even this Antham, cause i know they will do the same to that game, that they are clearly trying to do their own version of Destiny, but they will do just...terrible at it.
That has been my general feel since i bought ME:Andromeda. What this game seriously needed was a bug-tracker so people could look up all the bugs that have been reported first, and also the progress on them (if any), and if not then report a new bug with evidence if possible. From there, what was truly missing was enough community liaison with the 'man on the ground' approach. We could post til we couldn't type any more on here, on what LOOKS like an official forum, yet when you look at it, if you strip away the goodwill and help of the fellow gamers.. what was left was actually 'not that much' in the way of support.
I felt from the very beginning that it lacked these basic things.. but even more than that.. it lacked promotion! I dunno, it just seemed to lack the 'fanfares' announcing new features incoming.. the building up of the community pre-patch so that they were eagerly awaiting the new features.. instead.. what we got was a monthly patch and 1 (1.07 hotfix) which all landed roughly at the same time if not before the patch notes.. but lets be honest it is dubious at best that detail of new features was unknown PRIOR to patch day, and i will dispute that one forever.. so what was missing was even lazy jpegs announcing the new things.. it was all hit and miss then on patch day, and from one patch to the next you had no idea if a serious bug or issue with the game was going to get fixed. (audio issue aside as they will never.. ever.. fix that).
It just in the end seems like they pushed a product out .. likely against the wishes of the coders who perhaps wanted or needed 2-3 more weeks just to iron out some bugs or detail, and it all came down to MONEY.. it MUST launch on THIS date or we miss the launch window completely. The fanbase they have/had would have been happy to have the product polished i'm sure.
One thing is for sure though, i don't hate bioware as such, i'm not a hater.. a complainer yes.. but i'm only a complainer when there is a major issue and as you'll see from my sound issue thread, it wasn't like i didn't try absolutely everything, including fronting the question twice on the multiplayer livestreams.
I'm not buying either Anthem or SW Battlefront II, i'm a HUGE sci-fi fan, and my games reflect this.. i'm very unlikely to be seen on COD or Battlefield ever, and other game genres would have to be really special for me to pick it up and play it. SO for me to decide against buying these two products is a big decision for me, and one i've not made lightly, i just want to see a product get the support and attention it needs when i pay over the odds pricewise for it, and even go for the deluxe edition too which i most often do.
While i wish them well with Anthem etc, there is this whole part of me that is angry now that they just walked away from a huge existing fan base while sticking two fingers up at them and hoping that at least some of them will follow them to Anthem. Well, it is everyones personal decision if they do, but i'm not going to be one of them.. not after this.
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