Mass Effect sales?

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This doesn't really surprise me.

Keep in mind there was some serious backlash for selling out to EA. When that deal went through their boards were flooded with "I was going to buy mass effect on BioWare faith alone, but since I never give money to EA ..."

As good of a game as it is (I sat behind my friend and watched him play for hours), the EA stigma most definitely had a hand in sales. I got rid of my pre-order, my friend who was playing went the route of "meh, rent it a couple times and call it good".

As someone who has supported them since Baldur's Gate on PC and bought many of their games, I will never buy another BioWare game again. I'll buy it used in a heart beat, anything I can do to play the game and make sure EA never sees a penny of it.

It can be the best game ever made, but if EA has a hand in it you can expect it to take a hit in sales. Skate got the same fate. As cool as everyone thought it was, in the end the EA tag killed it.