Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

Slopes be slippery, boyeh!

But seriously though, I can see why people would fear that. Patches I would say are kind of a thing that need to happen for the long-term benefit of the game if they have a strong incentive to make money on the product. DLC, well who knows. DA got a shit-ton of hate when it came out, but it has some of my favorite DLC in that franchise other than Trespasser, so we'll see. Frankly I don't really fear that the franchise will simply disappear, but I'd like the life of this particular game to be extended at least.

Honestly DA has probably been the flagship franchise since ME 3.  I think, again maybe slight reading between the lines, that EA was actually a little reluctant to make a new ME game given the ending.  So I would not be the least bit surprised if this news does end up being true eventually and EA/ BioWare decides to fold and move on from MEA to work on the 'new IP' and DA 4 especially...but there is nothing in the article to indicate that is happening now.  

The article is essentially being two faced nonsense. 

ME1 - 2007.  ME2 - 2010 (3 yrs later).  ME3 - 2012 (2 yrs later).

It sounds like more than a few years, which would be situation normal.  ME might be going into cryo sleep...

I don't see that. I could be wrong, but I'm fairly certain DA2 got a much worse response and even that game got DLC and patches.

I meant information, specifically.  I'm not expecting a new game yet.  I'm playing "wait-and-see".

It did, and DA2, for all its faults, actually did function quite normally out the gate compared to MEA. 

Although I'm critical of some of the creative and practical decisions made for Andromeda I do want Bioware to continue with Pathfinder Ryder and the Andromeda galaxy, for the narrative's sake a longer term commitment would ultimatly be best for Mass Effect. Even if this means little to no DLC for this game. Similiar to the transition from ME1 to ME2, some aspects of the universe could be silently reinvented to serve the narrative's needs, a lot for lore changed between those games, not always for the better, but it demonstrated that at least some creative freedom is permissable while staying mostly true to the backstory of the predecessor.

That said, I did just finished the Citadel Party in ME3 and it's quite frankly amazing what they accomplished just there. It did took three games and loads of DLC to work up to that moment though. MEA tried to emulate some of that stuff by making the crew all dynamic and talktive but it just didn't to well considering Neither the player nor the protaganist have know these characters for very long. The game would have benefited from more subdued characters and narratives. At least a straightforward goal at the beginning of the game would have been preferable.

The possibility of DA4 failing scares the shit out of me right now

Really? It is a fact that people cant have diverging opinions on a content's quality opposed to your own?

Hah. Right.