"BioWare has put Mass Effect on hiatus"

Wasn't there a recent article that said ea was happy with how andromeda turned out and sounded like they were looking foward to future games? And now im hearing that the series is in trouble so their putting it on hiatus.

Hm, that's interesting. I wonder what this means for Dragon Age too.

If they're moving people around, maybe some should be working on KOTOR 3 (kidding).

In business terms this means that they realized montreal didn't know what the fuck it was doing and are putting things on hold while they figure out who will be managing their cash cow. It means that we can color ourselves relieved that montreal will be relegated to minor tasks only given how massively they failed on MEA. It means that BW realized that they really did still need a solid team with solid experience to work on one of their former masterpiece titles and that they will quite likely be making sure that all future MEA endeavors are handled by people who know what they are doing. Of course, the downside is that they have to figure out who will be working on it and make appropriate changes. But I doubt they will stop it entirely, especially if they realize that giving it to a team that couldn't handle it was really one of the main issues. Montreal always was support IIRC. They just made the mistake of trusting them with ME.

I think they did this with DA2, as well.

I think some amount of DLC was probably completed already. I suspect most companies do have DLC  at least partially to mostly ready at  release of the game. They just won't admit to it because it would make  people mad that it wasn't in the game like Ashes DLC for ME3. I think they have avoided saying there is DLC because they don't want  people to get pissed like they did when Ashes came out. If you are already talking about DLC when you just release the game, it makes people twitchy, especially if it seems like you have a good amount of it done or planned because that indirectly makes people wonder why it could not have just been in the game. I'm sure there  will at the very least be quarian arc dlc. I think they probably will have a few DLC. Two or three I think because I don't think they want to piss off people who like the game now and  who  want dlc. They didn't have to do as much with ME3 but look what they did? They really went all out. Also,  DLC is fast and easy money. 3 DLC take less to complete than the game but can bring in the cost of another game. CASH COW.

The one thing you can count on is that ME is a staple title for them and the groundwork is laid for several future games. It's on a console system that won't be changing for many years, they have it done in frostbite which they will stick with for a while too. It would  be utterly insane to not make another game or a few more when the groundwork is done especially since it is likely cheaper to produce now that all the hard  work has been done. There will be MEA DLC and there will be more MEA games. It's solid revenue for them, almost guaranteed. And if they  can just give it to a solid team to develop it would  be easy money - like taking candy from a baby.  Problem is they thought it was enough of a sure thing that they trusted it to people who really were not able to handle it. And  it had such a big name that really I have to wonder how  they justified doing  that? Bizarre business choice really unless you are utterly convinced  that fans are fans no matter what.

This plus to find a cure for Ryder's mom. I really hope we will see at least one or two DLCs to answer some of those questions. Would be really disappointing if those questions would never be answered. i liked MEA for the most part, and would love at least some more content for the game.

Montreal still existing as a 'support studio' should mean they will work on patches and DLC's just not any new projects.
Atleast that is what support studio means at other companies. Hopefully EA feels the same way.

The difference between this and DA2 is the timeline, though. The DA2 DLCs had already been released and they were mulling over (maybe started?) working on a proper large expansion à la Awakening...then they opted instead to make DAI. (Which...ugh I like my Inquisitor well enough but the game would have had a lot more impact and made a bit more sense overall if Hawke had been the protagonist as intended.) My only worry is that they're in the "reshuffling/assessing" stage already when no DLCs have been announced.

But eh, I'm probably getting ahead of myself with all this. They just play things so close to the vest with content and release dates now...not that I blame them of course, ha.

Kotaku is notorious for clickbait. What proof do they have that this is really a hiatus and not normal post-release downsizing and IP cycling?

Truth is, that like all companies these days, that they are disgusting LIARS

Also: Is it any wounder that they are taking a hiatus? They know the franchise over all is great (even with two shitty games, simply because the other two were/are great!) and they need better writers etc. to get back to that greatness and expand on it (so IMHO it's a good decision!), they don't want to destroy their IP with the shitty team they shouldn't have had making ME:A in hindsight! Hell, it kind of looks like they wanted to take a break from it before (after ME3, which was worse than ME:A IMHO!), but their investors kind of didn't let them - otherwise I can't explain why they published this (I wouldn't have, I'd have taken a Blizzard approach to this: "When it's done" - hell, I'd have scrapped the whole thing if I thought it would hurt my company more in the long run if I released it because it couldn't even half way satisfy the fans!), it's kind of a "we fucked it up, so will you let us take a break with this IP now?" approach

greetings LAX

ther are no story DLC's planned


metro.co.uk/2017/05/11/mass-effect-franchise-on-hiatus-thanks-to-andromeda-claim-insiders-6630599/

I'll believe it from a source that doesn't cite Kotaku. Besides, Cora's actress has stated that she's doing more work on Andromeda.