Yeah... and most of these reviews that has come out for MEA have only been on the first 10'ish or so hours of the game. We will probably have to wait atleast another week or maybe even 2 befor we will actually have some proper word on the game.
And in my mind you can not judge such a game, a roleplaying game, on the first 5-15 hours alone... you have barely started by that time. Most RPG's out there tend to run somewhere around atleast 40-50 hours, if not 90-100+ hours in some cases... or heck even a lot more then that if you try and do everything in them... some of the RPG's I have played over the years I have spent hundreds of hours in.
Also... there tends to be a huge amount of hyperbole going around from this "Internet mob"... you know the one... that internet mob which keeps moving around form thing to thing to be outraged about, who with pitchforks and tourches go around banging at what ever door they can find because they are sure there is some kind of monster behind it or something, and if noone opens the door they set the place on fire because how dare those people not respond to them... and for the most part it is from people who either knows nothing about the subject, or has not actually played the game, or are just going with the flow because everybody else is doing it. It is also pretty funny to see people complain about things in a game, which where also a thing in previous games where nobody gave it more thought then "this is not compleatly right" or something. Even the most loved games out there tends to have faults with them, sometimes even exactly the same as games which get's burned on the stake for the same thing.
I also don't feel that you can judge a game by listening to others... sure, you can get an idea, IF the person your listening to has identical thoughts and likes and ideas etc as you do... so in my mind the only sure way to actually know if something is good or not, is to actually play it your self... AND for long enough to get far enough into the game to get an actual good idea what is going on with the game, and what kind of game it actually is. If I had listend to most people about games, then I would probably never have played something like half of all the games I really like or love. Same thing with other things as well, be it tv-series, or books, or what ever.
Now... once I finally can get my hand on MEA... and if at such a time I then where to come back and say
"Yeah... it's crap...", then you can be sure that Bioware has totally screwed up... because I am an extreamly forgiving guy when it comes to things which are within my general wheelhouse. And it takes a lot for me to reach some kind of breaking point where I can no longer stand what ever it is. I have a hard time thinking that I will not like MEA though... just as I have a very hard time thinking that I will not like Cyberpunk 2077, no matter what kind of a game it ends up being in the end. I mean there is always a chance, but it seems pretty slim at this moment in time, and I tend to prefer to think positive with things like this.