When is Mass Effect Andromeda getting single player DLC?
I can't get a answer from Mass Effect or Bioware on Twitter or Facebook on Mass Effect Andromeda single player DLC. They like keeping everything a secret! I hate waiting!
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E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
@EgoMania wrote:
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
@Nykara360 wrote:
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
What I meant really is that to me it's not about getting even or back at them but to look at them as a company and decide if I still want to put any money into the company called BioWare.
That's where the question lies for me. The messed up DA2 and DA:I was not a fantastic game for me either. It's the first BioWare game I own I refuse to buy DLC for. ME2 was good and I like ME3 a lot also. So that was a better situation but in the meantime they destroyed SWTOR with their arrogance really.
So now ME:A got the short end of the stick and I just really desperately want them to take the fans that do buy the game and play it more seriously. I'm looking at ME:A not as a disappointment but as the game where I will see whether or not BioWare can win me back as a customer.
I've stopped spending any money on them. It's up to them now. If they do well for us on ME:A, I will consider Anthem on its own merits. If they don't I don't consider myself a BioWare customer anymore. I've done it with Perfect World. Let's hope BioWare are not the next but there is a point where it becomes a matter of principle and after SWTOR and how they handled the development of ME:A, they no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
Chances are they don't care about me. That's ok, I just need to do what's right for me.
@EgoMania wrote:
@Nykara360 wrote:
Worthwhile though. After Andromeda apparently getting shafted by EA I am done. Why would I bother trusting them after this?What should have been a fun year of Mass Effect with dlcs etc has been totally ditched by them. So not investing in another EA game only to have my hopes dashed yet again because they only care about getting the best profits, not about making their customers happy or taking time to release a non buggy game in the first place.
What I meant really is that to me it's not about getting even or back at them but to look at them as a company and decide if I still want to put any money into the company called BioWare.
That's where the question lies for me. The messed up DA2 and DA:I was not a fantastic game for me either. It's the first BioWare game I own I refuse to buy DLC for. ME2 was good and I like ME3 a lot also. So that was a better situation but in the meantime they destroyed SWTOR with their arrogance really.
So now ME:A got the short end of the stick and I just really desperately want them to take the fans that do buy the game and play it more seriously. I'm looking at ME:A not as a disappointment but as the game where I will see whether or not BioWare can win me back as a customer.
I've stopped spending any money on them. It's up to them now. If they do well for us on ME:A, I will consider Anthem on its own merits. If they don't I don't consider myself a BioWare customer anymore. I've done it with Perfect World. Let's hope BioWare are not the next but there is a point where it becomes a matter of principle and after SWTOR and how they handled the development of ME:A, they no longer get the benefit of the doubt.
Chances are they don't care about me. That's ok, I just need to do what's right for me.
Its not Bioware who messed up, its EA and this is what EA does. They buy out other gaming companies, sap their money from their popular games for a while a ditch them.It's very clear MEA was pushed forward before it was properly completed. 6 more months with a full team would have seen a far more polished game. Instead they pushed it out and pulled all but a few of the team off the game and put them on Anthem. Even if they didn't want to stall the release date - they should have left the entire team on the game for longer, we would have gotten patches sooner and far better patches then we have seen so far. Andromeda on the whole is a decent game but the character aesthetics let it down emensly, as does the half assed cinematics. Although some are more polished, they are still half assed compaired to what we know the team can do.
We should have not only gotten more complete patches, finished a good couple of months ago, but also our first dlc by now.
No, I do not wish to invest in EA any longer. Not until they do something about Andromeda and no I won't be looking at Anthem. I've played SWTOR long enough to see how they handle MMOs, as well as MEA MP. Grinds are not fun, they are 20 years ago back in the days of MMOs like Everquest. Fun gameplay is what people want, not boring grinds.
Even though SWTOR is still one of the top grossing MMOs currently on the market it is being poorly handled with subpar updates. Anthem will see this same fate in time so I refuse to invest in it when they can't even do right by the games they already have runnning. They have done nothing to proove to me otherwise. All they care about is pushing new games forward, sucking money from them and moving onto the next one. Nope. Until they can prove to me they can do right by their current games and the customers of said games, I am done.
@EgoMania wrote:
@The13Inquisitor wrote:E3 is nearly over and not a damn word has been said about DLC for Andromeda.
Anyone else thinking about boycotting Anthem out of spite?
As much as I wish there had been some news about DLC for Andromeda, I'm not going to lower myself to that level. Besides, Anthem doesn't come out for at least another year or more. That's a long time to hold such a non-productive grudge.
Yeah, i don't think they are ready for DLC yet either. They've been releasing patches at approx. 1 month intervals so far.
While patches is mostly scripting and some retouches, DLC is way more work >story>call in voice actors to record>character animation> facial animation and syncing, blah blah ...
I don't think they worked on patches *plus* DLC in parallel, *plus* Anthem at the same time, AND they said they moved a lot of crew to other studios to work on Star Wars or whatever game... i don't recall exactly.
But you never know.... they said they have reduced a lot of their crew after ME:A release, yet they have enough people to work on Anthem ? LOL 😕
Saw the teaser for Anthem. Surprised the sound didn't cut out half way through. Another game on my list along side battlefront 2 that i will be not pre-ordering.. nor will i buy until i've seen what the response is like from the people that did buy it first.
I've learned a lesson from this game.. and while i do love ME:A, some of the issues i've seen people having are beyond the level that should be getting experienced now after the patches thus far. There needs to be a far better critical patch mechanism for faults that overall cause game play issues or stop people progressing. Balance changes etc, new guns, new character classes, yes monthly for those by all means. If you get a ton of people however screaming ME TOO on a forum for a fault that is either stopping game play or making the game bad to play.. then some effort towards fixing those should get some priority.
Not something i expect to see any time soon, so for now, i'll just keep an eye on these new products and keep my money back until i'm convinced its released in a good state.
Yep, i do the same as well lately. Read reviews, watch gameplay on youtube before i buy. I didn't do it for ME:A just 'cause its Mass Effect, and it's my favorite game, so i had no hesitation at all in pre-ordering it 🙂
Yet, seeing you mention progression, balance etc, reminded me about how i got burned with Star Citizen. I know its in development but OMG it has a terrible game progression, balance, 50 thousand keybindings. I have never encountered such difficult game-play in my life ... ever. Only watched some youtube game play without reading forums... the environment-design is really cool but playing is unbearable.... ☹️ my fault, lesson learned.
