SHINAN'S PROFILE

"You fools don't stand a chance. I am at the top of this food chain."

and then I go through the chain link fence.

1+5=6

Hmm... Actually. I had to google it so...
Andromeda HAS a demo https://www.masseffect.com/trial I don't think it did much either way.
(edit: Apparently the demo became free-for-all in July, a number of months after the release and patches. But before that it was part of an "EA Access" thing that... I odn't know... is a subscription service that might give access to betas and free games and stuff maybe)

The people who refunded after the kerfuffle I would say are... not very many in the grand scope of things. People who are loud on the internet are generally not a huge portion. It's over time that publishers might see the effects of their policies.

author=Liberty
(yes, even big name companies get fucking feedback from their fans. You can bet the Andromeda team wish they'd put out a demo so that fans would point out the ridiculous faces and say "yo, fix this shit and take your time please. we want a good game not some shite" instead of the backlash they got on release (which did not help sales at all)).

I'm pretty sure that's very incorrect. By not releasing a demo and making it all about "day 1 sales" (which is how AAA operates), they probably sold a lot better than if they had released a demo that was as shit as the game was. Some AAA games do limited-time demos (they call them 'open betas') these days. But there's no marketing point (I'm talking about the big games now) in releasing a demo so far in advance of the actual release date that they'd delay the game because of it. (Remember that a massive marketing push towards a certain date is really costly. So a last-minute delay is going to cost a lot of money for these giant publishers. They basically have to do the accounting "how much will we lose by delaying the game by a year after we've already spent 50 million on the marketing? Are the better sales later going to make up for that?" (and also factor in like pre-orders that started half a year ago with bonus bits and bobs people expect)

No. That's what QA and internal testing is for.

Doing a quick check there is a Roden that is banned, so that might be you.

I just want to say that Big Pig is the awesomest. I want to play a game where Big Pig is the main character.

So I hope someone makes a Big Pig character set.