Think people are taking this "Hiatus" thing the wrong way

Oh, brave soul, I wish you luck on attempting to get anyone to understand. Between the fact that the end of the fiscal quarter hit projected targets, and MEA was the only big title released in the last quarter, I believe Kotaku jumped the proverbial gun. Throw in your logic and I'm not seeing "hiatus", I'm seeing winding down from a long term development cycle.
 

"Mass Effect Andromeda exceeded our every expectation and we are very much looking forward to the next chapter for the Ryder siblings, Drack, PeeBee and the rest of the Andromeda gang! Stay tuned!"

Is what you wanna hear as a fan or someone who worked on the team. "Hiatus" is not a word that is encouraging to anybody. Whatever helps you sleep at night but we certainly wouldn't be hearing words like "hiatus" if things were all sunny and optimistic

It's kinda like when you ask someone out and they say they're busy. Nah fool, if he or she was really into you there'd be a date set.

The big thing is I don't think will see much movement until Battlefront 2 has gone gold. As that's EA's main priority right now. However, Bioware's Dragon age producer has been sending little hints on twitter that the new dragon age game is in pre-production. The bottom line is the game made them a lot of cash so i don't see them killing MA in any way.     

Whoever these anonymous sources were, didn't know enough to speak on the matter. They're making assumptions. EA and Bioware have made very different statements and... EA's Marketing and PR departments are horrible. Straight up horrible. They have no clue of what Bioware does or stands for. They have no freakin' clue on how to communicate effectively. They're so unoriginal that they can't help but meddle in things to justify their well being. Am I on target here?

Well no, you're just a poster on some website so your bit doesn't have as much weight as a bona fide outlet in the gaming industry. Until someone relevant actually refutes the claim that mass effect is on hiatus then it is more likely true than it is untrue

“With that said, we believe Mass Effect Andromeda delivers a rich, deep experience which celebrates what makes the franchise great: wonderful, beautiful, deep rich worlds, amazing combat and engaging fast-paced, multiplayer. New multiplayer content is continuing to be released and new content kind of arriving overall more regularly so. We’re very happy with kind of how BioWare is doing, how BioWare is treating Mass Effect. And our expectations for Mass Effect are still strong for the future and the franchise overall.”


“And so we’re very happy with BioWare. BioWare has continued to support Mass Effect, and the new team is doing some amazing things, and you’ll hear more about that in the months to come.”

EA said this after the article had been released.  Does that sound like it's on ice?  And if you think it's just PR nonsense, well it could be a bit of spin, but it was in the most recent earnings call with investors, and it's actually illegal to lie to investors if you know something different.  So to say that you are going to continue to support Mass Effect as a franchise and brand, you can't also know that you are putting it on ice.  That would be super legally sketchy.  

It hurts the brand, long term. Consumers, especially rabid fans like Bioware, who are used to hearing from the source now only get snippets of stuff here and there. If you want to attract a larger fanbase, forget the plan that EA is using. It's utter garbage. I swear, Bioware has to be working with one armed tied behind their back when those suits show up. Again, what's wrong the picture?

Surely you see the irony here, right? I mean, you have to see the irony here.

Seriously, Kotaku has edited the article fucking twice. Twice! That's not bona fide, that's straight up speaking out of their ass at this point.

You need to "read between the lines". He is suit, he talks suit, if EA were impressed by MEA, everything said would be much more enthusiastic. From what I read here MEA is average.... it break even financialy, that is not good for companies like EA.

Right, the EA stockholders should have called you for your expert read on the situation.

Again, who runs their marketing and PR teams? They want to see Bioware fail from my perspective. 

Right so DAI released Nov 2014, two and a half years ago.  I guess we'll know towards 2020 whether MEA2 is in pre-production.