How BioWare Went Wrong With Mass Effect Andromeda

But “reasonably well” clearly wasn’t what EA was going for; the company originally expected to ship 3 million copies of Mass Effect Andromeda in its first week.

The original plan was for Mass Effect Andromeda to serve as a new launch point for a brand-new story, told over multiple games, but that seems much less likely now.

(or were, pre-patch) pretty interesting. Schreier’s article is well-written, comprehensive, and based on conversations with nearly a dozen current and former BioWare employees who worked on Mass Effect Andromeda.