Do you still believe we'll get a Sequel to Andromeda? Or a Reboot like Tomb Raider/Mirror's Edge?

Yes.

OT but i love the new Tomb Raiders.

Hoping for a reboot in Andromeda 600 years after colonization.

It will not be a direct sequel and they will not call it ME:A 2 as that would be commercial suicide. My guess would be Mass Effect (2027).

All the original species will have long since expanded beyond helios to find suitable homeworlds and built a new Mass Relay network to connect them. The council & citadel space will be newly re-established and the new setting will be as comparably storied and detailed (fleshed out) as the old one without necessarily repeating it while drawing significant inspiration from it. Ryder and the Initiative will be little more than pre-historical footnotes. You will play the first human spectre since Shepard.

Along their travels (mass relay expansion) in these 600 years the known species will have encountered significantly more of the (unknown) native species and made new alliances and enemies from within citadel space and beyond and as a human spectre your role will be to help resolve some of the conflicts between citadel species, the natives and each other. The new galaxy map I reckon will probably be 1/10th of Andromeda (NW) with the rest reserved for future instalments.

Ending cannon will never ever be acknowledged so you might as well assume that we are the last remaining survivors from the Milky Way until informed otherwise.

Won't touch Andromeda with a ten foot pole, it will be put on the shelf for many years but will eventually come back as a reboot.

We don't even know if there will be any dlc for Andromeda 

Yes, we will get a sequel.

All of the whiny psychopaths who want BioWare staff to die and the tabloid hacks selling their souls don't mean anything in comparison to actual sales and actual fans enjoying the game.

I think you'd need a much a longer timeline realistically to develop the setting/lore into a thriving vibrant new game world/setting comparable to the old one from what we have at year zero. The problem with Andromeda is that it has no history or culture, architecture and nothing to see but desert outposts and shanty towns which doesn't really engender exciting exploration in an exploration game. Nothing much will have changed significantly in 100 years as the population will still be tiny ( < 1m) and probably wouldn't have ventured beyond Helios by that time. A larger time jump will do wonders for this series. The Elder Scrolls never needed 500 year time-jumps because it's medieval fantasy, but the next Mass Effect games definitely does Imo.

100 years: < 1m - first cities
200 years: <10m - regional governments
300 years: <100m - first major conflicts, formation of national governments
500+ years: 1b+ - age of exploration... need more suitable homeworlds (resources) and living spaces (colonies) for population.

I think a sequel to Andromeda is the next step

I voted sequel. My guess is they'll do something a la mass effect 2 and start the game with a drastic change in status quo... like say you accidentally travel through a mass relay type device or phenomenon to a whole different cluster. Probably that giant black hole at the center of Heleus whose purpose hasn't been explained yet. Personally I hope we don't have a time skip at all, I'd still like to see more immediate consequences to my actions and choices in MEA.

Eh, what?

I'm pretty damn sure Andromeda Initiative brought in artists and architects from Milky Way. As well library of history of every species and nations histories and culture.
People of AI are not blank slate, without culture or past.

Also you are greatly underestimating potential baby boom explosion that happen. It is possible for Milky Way species for population to explode into millions after a century, with the exception of Krogan( there's only around 1,000 of them in Andromeda, plus Genophage) and Asari( 100 year old Asari are basically in their late-teens, so raising up Asari kids is long and difficult).

Also, age of exploration? That's... that's how AI started. And it's their entire goal to explore Andromeda galaxy in first place, along with reaping resources of the galaxy.



Oh and you pretty much ignored existence of Angara, who have two heavily urbanized planets( although Voeld seen better days) and population likely in billions. As well, Ryder twins are able to control the Remnant technology, at very least Remnant space navy. So whatever Council/Federation will be formed from AI soon, it will involve Angara and Remnant. Which accelerates things by huge lot.
And let's not forget, AI expects more waves of Arks from Milky Way. Due to Reaper War, either they will get new Arks much sooner then expected or none at all.

The way MEA was written does lend itself very easily to a direct sequel. If you listen to the dialog carefully, when people talk about your colonies during major plot points they only talk about Eos. Thats because Eos is the only outpost you have to create to advance the story. When you control Meridian it will activate the other vaults anyways. So this is just my theory, but this is how I look at the major plot points:

1. Ambassador choice - we know from previous ME games this choice is irrelevant

2. Vaults activated - Meridian will fully sync with and activate all vaults, so the choice of worlds to complete/settle in the game is not important in the long run. All will get settled and they only have minor dialog adjustments to make to reflect when they were settled, if they even go into that level of detail

3. Kadara: Sloane can die by Reyes can't. If you side with Sloane then the sequel can talk about the eventual triumph of Reyes. If you sided with Reyes he will be in charge anyways. If you side with neither and not settle Kadara, vault gets activated by Meridian anyway and sequel will talk of eventual triump of Reyes

4.Krogan colony. They can write whatever they want here. The sequel can say that Krogan's were eventually re-integrated into the AI or eventually went to war with it. It will be irrespective of your actions, your choices in MEA merely slowed it down or sped it up.

5. Loyalty missions: No one dies regardless of the outcome of loyalty missions or even if you skip them altogether. With no dead squad mates there is no need for writing extra material for 'subs' like Urdnot Wreav, Geth VI, or both Virmire choices.

So don't get me wrong, alot of these points are what I dislike about Andromeda. But it also means its really easy to write a direct sequel.

Andromeda itself was a soft reboot. I don't see a direct sequel to Ryder happening cause bioware already said that may be a possibility along with choices carrying over game to game with less impact (to avoid how ME3 went to big on the choices).

I imagine the next game will be set in Andromeda but with a new protagonist years later so we can see how the settlements grew. Hopefully playable Asari ends up as an option at some point, there are other pathfinders after all and there's still a whole galaxy to explore.