Mass Effect being put to the shelf

On the flip side, this pretty much makes Dragon Age BioWare's 'flagship,' presumably. If I'm being naively optimistic, DA4 would pretty much end up being the last hope and they'd pour every fiber of their being into it.

If DA4 flops though, then, in the words of Varric...well...shit.

...I hadn't considered that.

That'd just be downright insulting, lol.

But they can still shelve DA4 in favor of the new IP. Because apperentally MP games are what people are into these days.

The way I interpret the recent tweets (about DA) is that real production of DA4 started after MEA was released once they got some of their devs back. Pre-production doesn't last 2 years, so DA was on hiatus for a while as far as I'm concerned.

As I've said elsewhere, Dragon Age is kind of the red-headed stepchild of the Bioware family, regardless of its successes. I think if Andromeda had done very well, we might never have seen another Dragon Age game again, as the priority would be an MEA sequel and this new IP.

But now ME has been put on the backburner. So it remains to be seen: pursue the new IP + a new DA game, or put all of Bioware's eggs in one basket and hope like hell the new IP will succeed? Given that there is a  fairly dedicated DA fanbase, I'm willing to bet on the former.

I hope they still make more DA, it's my favourite series.

As for the new IP, I am not really interested in multiplayer. Our internet connection is so slow it's laughable so I've never done them. And as for charging you more to play MP, no, just no. I want single player.

For me Dragon Age is like an interactive book, and I don't tend to have lots of people reading my book at the same time.

How so?
BioWare is busy Also with Secret IP. DA probably has already a worse reputation than Mass effect

Andromeda flopped that badly? Shit. So this means no DLC or anything? What was so bad about it? (I've never played Mass Effect.) Was this a directive straight from the EA higher ups?

At any rate, I hope it's good news for Dragon Age.

Oh EA will try. I don't really know if ANYTHING can save them anymore by this point though. I hope DA:4 is good, but idk by this point... 

Inquisition did to well for me to be worried. It also has the more experienced studio, is riding off inquisitions momentum of various GoTY awards, best selling bioware title on console, etc etc. i still can't believe mass effect is shelved due to poor reception and doing bad (I actually can "believe" it) until there's concrete info. Kotaku is the only source on that and everything is referencing that one and only source, I need more sources to take it seriously. I'd wager they're simply moving Montreal around to speed up production in the other games and then they'll be moved back once they want to start another ME game.

I don't see how ME being shelved would hurt DA. As I said, both have their own studios for it, DA getting the more experienced one that has momentum going for them from the previous game doing very well. DA also has the FB3 pretty much nailed down = less time working on it and more on the actual game itself, plus the inquisition delivered a good story if you ask me and the tresspasser really setup the next game perfectly (and I think the next DA game should break the trend of not reusing a protagonist, my inquisitor must come back).