Quote Originally Posted by warty goblin View Post
I mean they'd only been working on the thing for five years at that point, it's not exactly crazy for EA to decide they weren't going to keep pouring money into that particular pit for another who knows how long. And while another couple of months probably would have ironed out a lot of the animation messiness etc, dealing with the deep mediocrity at the core of Andromeda would probably have required ditching a lot of what they had.
The problem they had is that they *did* ditch a lot of what they had, several times. The actual final game probably only got 12-18 months of development out of that five years.