The reason I see for people hating it is two fold. First a group of people were still hurt over how ME3 turned out and thus had zero desire to give any break to MEA when it came out. The second reason I see, is that people are comparing MEA to the ENTIRE 1-3 series and all the development that was in them. By the second point, people don't compare MEA to ME1 and say look at the similar character development, but instead look at the entire series and say how shallow the new peeps are compared to Ashley, Liara, Tali, or Garrus of ME3. I also happen to think that Bioware itself fell into the second category as well, forgetting that you don't need to bring EVERYTHING into the game including world building, all in one game.
There was also that whole announced conspiracy to sabotage ME:A because "SJW'S AND FEMINAZIS ARE RUINING MASS EFFECT!!!111" and the subsequent abuse, doxxing, and general terrorizing of Bioware Montreal. And then the constant launch day rumors that ME:A was bricking HD's, no it's erasing mobo drivers, no it's brainwashing your children with Cultural Marxism!
FOX news even did a global news segment. Go ahead, look it up. I'll wait. ME is LGBTQ propaganda, that was their story.
And of course it worked. Fed partially by EA's catastrophic launch, by gaming media in an OUTRAGE FRENZY over graphic glitches like the faces thing, and by the game clearly being unfinished today and right now despite at one point outselling everything else EA had to offer,
PUT TOGETHER,
EA did the sensible thing and gave the terrorists what they wanted.
And here we are.
OP is 100% right. Even the very justified rage about ME3's awful initial ending proved as much. Who did the players blame? Bioware. Not EA, not the publisher many of them literally consider to be the worst corporation on Earth, not the people demanding Mass Effect 3 ship unfinished like they do with everything more complex that APEX Legends, lolz, no no they blamed the story teller because when you spend decades of work and hundreds of millions of dollars producing a blockbuster sci-fi epic what you really intend is to let everyone down at the literal apex of your trilogy with a shrug and a "meh, colors bro."
We are the reasons why we don't get nice things.
So I fire up Andromeda, click RESUME and get "blah blah data cannot be loaded because it's from the full version of the game and this is the trial."
God damn it, EA.
I feel sorry for you at least you blame the correct entity. I was one of those who were unhappy with EA not Bioware, I was playing MEA from day one out came an update and suddenly I couldn't play MEA any longer. I'm sorry but I was livid spent $80+ for a game I could no longer play because of some fix. Eventually things worked out I loved the game and I have over 3600 hrs into it and want more, plain and simple it was released too soon.
