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 Pathfinders?
After reading the article in Forbes, I've been expecting this outcome. I was hoping to be wrong.
It is a kick in the * to us consumers. Bioware products which up to now has been some of the best of the best in gaming. Both IP's of ME and DA have been top quality. I respected their talents and drive for perfection. Even ME:A once many of the problems were fixed has been entertaining and left me waiting for the SP DLC's. So now we know, since Bioware was bought by EA, that the drive and talents that once drove a great company has become totally ordinary and ruled by "a sucker is born every day".
I don't blame the people of Bioware so much as the corporate mindset at EA. Yes it's a business but this particular industry has to engender loyalty in their customers or the customer can go elsewhere. As these are the only 2 IP"s that I play at EA (I quit SWToR when it went boring easy mode), I guess they want me to go elsewhere. I can do that.
I have been a Bioware fan since Baldur's Gate came out in 1998. I have preordered every game and bought all DLC's. I will never do so again. Andromeda had potential and as part of the Mass Effect franchise was apart of something special. So I spent my 100 bucks and I got taken to the cleaners. I can't say I'll never play another Bioware/EA game again, but I will wait until I can buy the steam code on ebay for 10 bucks. They lost a hard fan over they way they've unrolled this game and handled the aftermath.
@Phantom_DeltaOps 2007 to be more precise. ME1 was already out and DA:O was too deep in production to be changed. After that is all EA.
I can't say that i did not see this coming. And is not exactly the first time when it happens. Remember when they've decided to can the expansion for DA2. Sure, some elements of the story got into DA:I, but the reasoning was similar. Mediocre reception and sales that did not meet EA's expectations.
And, yeah. I do enjoy ME:A, though not as much as the older games. Right now i am playing more in co-op than in SP, as i don't have the heart to finish it (i have only the final mission left).
I'm completelly disapointed...
I thought that at least they would respect the fan base and the millions of people that buy games for them year after year...
Really, saying something that "we will continue to tell stories in the Andromeda Galaxy through our upcoming comics and novels, including the fate of the quarian ark"... no DLC. No possible future game launch to clarify all the clifhangers ys more than an insult to the fans to me...
I't been exaclty 5 months since lauch (I remember it preciselly, because it was the day that my son was born), and you already put the tomb stone on the game? Nice going... good way to * the great fanbase that ME has...
EA, I don't think I will buy a game from you again, at least no at full retail and/or collector edition price... Not ever again...
Bioware was much better of without EA, then was a real game studio... EA really screwed it up...
A shame...
I wont be touching another EA game. The only people that are going to be supporting this are the cheat engine devs.
@Reanaa wrote:
I have been a Bioware fan since Baldur's Gate came out in 1998. I have preordered every game and bought all DLC's. I will never do so again. Andromeda had potential and as part of the Mass Effect franchise was apart of something special. So I spent my 100 bucks and I got taken to the cleaners. I can't say I'll never play another Bioware/EA game again, but I will wait until I can buy the steam code on ebay for 10 bucks. They lost a hard fan over they way they've unrolled this game and handled the aftermath.
I will never understand why people preorder at all in the age of digital downloads with endless supply. Seems like an expensive gamble to me.
