Mass Effect Andromeda unfortunately never never reached the same level as the original trilogy. With critics and fans both panning the game, it looked like it was the end of the beloved series, until recently. While the game itself wasn't great, the question remains about who was to blame for the game being that way.
According to Tom Taylorson, who played the male voice of Ryder, both EA and toxic fans were the reason that the game wasn't received well. The publisher allegedly pushed the game out too early, resulting in a buggy and unfinished launch. Meanwhile, fans and content creators loved to hate on it for clicks.
In a conversation with fan site We Are Mass Effect (thanks IGN), Taylorson said, "I think, like many, the game got a bum rap. It was done dirty by a publisher expecting too much from it, not being fully cooked, forced out the door too early, forced to use corporate's shiny new engine when many of the team didn't know how to work with it and it was NOT suited to the storytelling part of the game."
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