#itsgoodtobeming

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“Tom Paris would be pleased.”

Something that always bugged me about the Flyer's mechanical controls was how arbitrary their selection and placement was. No steering yoke or stick, just a bunch of toggle switches, a couple of dials, and maybe a couple of throttles, none of them facing forward.

He still does have panels right in front of him. Who knows what is used for what ;o)

Someone else mentioned this and I’m just laughing at the thought of making an OC named Biggus Dickus now. 

Even acknowledging the game's problems doesn't take away the fact that it's still weird that so many reviewers jumped on it with both feet and criticized it on spurious grounds at a time when a lot of other game franchises had installments coming out that weren't criticized anywhere near so stringently. I wonder about that.

Yeah. Like, it’s kinda conspiracy theory, but it honestly comes across to as EA deciding that they had no faith in the game, they didn’t care about it, and so they made the active choice not to intervene in regards to the bad press - “what we care about is Anthem, we don’t care about Andromeda, let that ship sink.” So they try and insulate the team working on Anthem, making this into ‘BioWare Montreal’s folly’ and put all the blame on the small studio that was given more than they alone could handle...

...And the fans effectively went right along with this. ‘Everyone already hates Andromeda? Welp, stick a fork in the game, it’s done before it drops.’ When the bad press came out, the fans were willing to overlook anything done right in order to harp on what was done wrong, and basically justify EA’s decision to ‘cut their losses’ with Andromeda and just end it here and now, rather than release any DLC - like they didn’t even put together an appearance pack or something to even test the waters, just cut support and DLC all at once. The bad press and bad word of mouth were almost CALCULATED to create a justification for this decision, and while the one led to the other, it’s hard for me not to see the one as intended to bring about the other, with the ‘fans’ going along with it blindly.

I mean, let’s be real, the franchise was NEVER in any danger. There was always going to be another Mass Effect game later on. The franchise is too valuable to drop entirely at this point. But EA basically decided to sacrifice Andromeda now for the sake of preserving Anthem, by not letting Edmonton step in and do anything to help out, by having Montreal suffer it all on their own. Like, they didn’t even put out any appearance packs or something to even test the waters if single-player DLC was viable, it was just ‘pack it in and put it to bed.’

And all of this for an MMO game, a knock off of Destiny or Overwatch or something else, that Mass Effect Andromeda was NEVER a direct competitor to! Like, yes, business-wise, I get the idea of MMOs are a micro-transactions goldmine to these businesses. But Mass Effect, as a franchise, has always been first and foremost about the SINGLE. PLAYER. EXPERIENCE. The most Anthem had to worry about from the Andromeda players was the fact that it was effectively getting the first-string talent from BioWare on the production level, leaving people who’d only worked on DLC to build a full game.

Like, this is why I’m willing to blame the fans on this subject - EA in this scenario used their reactions to justify cutting their losses, the fact that word of mouth, that EVERY. SINGLE. occasion of official news on social media had a flood of people who came to bury, not praise Andromeda... That’s how they ultimately come to decide that yeah, this is a sound business decision, this is justified, since the game did not go over well, just put an end to it here and now. They let the bad press go out without objection, fans decide that they have no faith in the game, fans decide to hold bugs and glitches that didn’t actually damage the game itself, just a handful of visuals, against the game, or condemn the game for following what are by this point BioWare trademark plot points...

I think that the point with the EMH is that he's developing hobbies and he doesn't necessarily need to be good at them, not that it's Star Trek the Musical. Plus, if someone doesn't like "Virtuoso", FIGHT ME

I loved “Virtuoso”!!!  highly enjoyable television, it made me want more episodes that were similar!

(although like any Voyager episode there were parts of the “dilemma” involved I found less than compelling...)

my point w this post was that maybe it SHOULD be Star Trek the Musical.... why doesn’t EVERYONE sing every episode... for ~~plot reasons~~ I’m easily swayed.  more musical numbers plz, especially w cast members that have musical talent!!!