Mass Effect: Andromeda formåede hverken at score solide anmeldelser eller sælge som forventet, og alle de udvidelser der var planlagt efterfølgende blev kort efter udgivelsen lagt på is, og seriens fremtid er nu, trods udtalelser fra udviklere, lidt usikker.
Tilbage i starten af måneden deltog Bioware producer Mark Darrah i en video ovre hos Game Informer, og her sagde han, at han mente ikke at Mass Effect: Andromeda fik en chance, fordi det udkom i travlt udgivelsesvindue med mange andre stærke rollespil, deriblandt The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Naturligvis er dette ikke faldet i god jord hos mange fans sidenhen, der mener at det er at undgå at anerkende spillets fejl. Nu har Darrah fulgt op via Twitter, med en uddybende udtalelse.
I'm going to regret this in half an hour but let's talk "did MEA get a fair shake"
First off, the question was not "is MEA secretly a great game and did mean Nintendo make us fail?" MEA is a deeply flawed game. Especially at launch. But the review environment was crowded. Nier, Nioh, Horizon, and Zelda all launched in MEAs window. Each does something better than MEA (again, a flawed game). As a result, even systems that are pretty decent get scrutinized against superiorly implemented ones. Does launching in a different window turn 72% into 90) Certainly not. 72 into 77/78? Maybe. Does that affect sales? Some. But word of mouth matters so much these days. You launch the best game you can. MEA has a lot of problems and got lapped by genuinely better games."
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