Mass Effect hiatus speculation and reactions (consolidated thread)

Companies move people all the time after a game is finished. You don't need a large team for patches and DLC. It's not just EA that does it I recall someone here saying that CDPR had some people pull out after TW3 was complete. Bioware also mentioned on twitter that they'll continue to patch the game and Coras voice actress says that she did still recording lines.

So where's your proof that Mass Effect is on hiatus based on the reception? Because all I've seen from EA suggests the opposite.

There were two studios working on ME3 after it was fished. And DAI only "lost" a significant part of its developement team for MEA after it was done with the DLCs.

Now I believe we will see at least one DLC. But thats about it. Andromeda is pretty much dead.

I understand the dislike.

But the reasoning is off, as it's not done to preach anything on a subject. All content in a BioWare game is more or less a-political. 

What makes it political is us precluding intent. Just like how a game like the Witcher gets flak for being sexist. It's not really sexist at all, but people presume intent based on the content involved. 

I remember playing GTA IV, and there was a whole mission about gays living in NY being bashed and the character of Niko Belic going on a tirade for a few minutes about "love who you want who gives a fuck" basically being the message. Good moral, but it was pretty much preaching to the audience in that instance. People talk about Krem as being preaching, what people forget is that there is an option to not even discuss Krem's gender in a conversation.

If BioWare was truly "preaching" I would argue they would force you to say something, or force a situation where Krem gets discriminated or distraught because of his gender. 

Here I think we also differ: BioWare has always been somewhat progressive in their content. Keep in mind, progressivism is also not a political ideology, it is social advocacy aimed to "reform" content. BioWare is one of the first to to include same-sex relationships, first to include romance, always attempting to subvert sexual and gender tropes....Krem as an example is a continuation of that. To say they are regressive then would to argue that their entire catalogue has been regressive since Baldur's Gate 2. Hell, he's not even the first transgendered character in the series, but he is the first with a personality though that elevates the character.

For all we know, BioWare wanted to include a character that was more dimensional who happened to be transgendered. That's not politics, that's a conscious choice by the writers. Politics would be using the character to preach something like you said, but what is really being preached here? As for the Qun, it still fits the lore regardless of retcon status, and since lore in any form of medium always changes, it's acceptable because it fits with established information, id argue.

Anytime folks argue politics in this form it feels disingenuous, as it self-injects personal feelings into what they perceive as an attack. I have to tell my students this all the time, liberal and conservative, that what you feel is irrelevant to what is presented, what is evidenced. 

Quite frankly, the evidence presented is not a justification to argue a political agenda. At least in Dragon Age in regards to the Qun. A better case can be made with Hainly Abrams, but that's been addressed of course...

ETA: Also a point of fact, I wasn't actually talking about gender studies, but rather social theory and psychology on gender roles. Some of that does overlap though, but it is not how I was addressing it.  

Kotoku news wise is as real as Fox News.

Don't look at me. I've been questioning this from the beginning.

Bioware have two upcoming ips their new one and Dragon Age. EA is still committed at least to the multiplayer part and like I said before you don't need a huge team for DLC

#AlternativeFacts

(sorry if this has happened already)

But they didn't respond to the article - that was just them doing some corporate legalese-speak. You don't "respond" to something before the fact. Series is most likely done for a long time - they'll need to wait for the stench to go away.

Mass Effect is the new Dead Space.

No, you're changing the context. You don't respond to something before it occurs. Now is when you respond. But then aagin, the damage is done.

EA and Bioware are just going to milk this husk of a game through multiplayer for as long as they can.

Faceman, Smilesja, its really unfair that you do all my good work for me. Keep it up.

And more specifically. MEA didn't damage ME. It was damaged long before it even came out. Its amazing how selective people's memories are.

Enjoy your multiplayer DLC and comicbooks - that's all you're getting.