Who's accountable for the Mass Effect series being put on Hiatus?

Rhey made a game for SJWs.

It got panned and.....

Nobody bought it.

Sounds like their own fault Op.

*Sips Ryncol*

SJWs
I was ok with animations that could be fixed, i was ok with weak script, but when i saw female charactors, cmon??? where is my beauty queen to romance?
and final nail in the coffin was krogan female running the clan. Lore was destroyed, it was not Mass Effect.
So let the studio burn with all SJWs that are working there. I can bring some firewood.

Was it? Where does it specifically state that a krogan female can never be a clan leader? 

The Institute and those damn synths.

I also thought to redo all the Mass effect assets in Frostbite was what led to the time crunch. would have ben easier and much quicker to just upgrade to Unreal 4 and port assets from MA1-3. But that was brought on by EA's Mandate to have all game studios use Frostbite as they don't want to pay royalty fees to Epic and other game engine devs. Although they still use Hero Engine on SWTOR.  I would not be surprised if the conversion to Frostbyte took up most of the development cycle.    

I don't know between EA and Bioware but whoever it was that decided to take the ME out of an ME game. Had they packaged this game under a different IP, it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But when you say you're making an ME game, it comes with some built in expectations and if you don't meet them, it's gonna cost you.

Not being able to make the characters look the way you want. Realizing that your dialogue options make no difference in the story. Having a potentially good story but poorly delivered. Why call it ME? Why even give players a character creator and dialogue options? Just give it a different IP and a predefined character like Witcher 3 and let it go.

Its mostly on Bioware and EAs fault. I do agree that the vitriol hatred over the net was a bit too much, and childish tbh. But it would have faded if the final product was up to the par, which it wasnt, really. And them rushing it out the door unfinished and unpolished was just asking for a bloody nose, which oh boy did they get and then some. I have no idea who tought that was a good idea, probably some brainless execs at EA.

Pretty much. I'm not saying there aren't some valid complaints but some of these complaints are pure fan fiction.

there are enough lore errors without having to make up new ones

Salarian eyebrows are the big one for me since it is just so emblematic of the game overall.

I picked everyone as I believe that there were multiple factors involved in putting MEA on the shelf for a time. But I can't help but feel that some of the press, some of the criticisms, some of the negative reviews were a tad over-the-top, over stated, and bordered on unfair. Note I am indicating that it was some and not all..
I think the negativity probably played a reasonably significant role. I really hope that those of us who enjoyed the game and want to see more aren't forgotten.

It's EA/Ware, one in the same. Take your pick, it doesn't matter. That's assuming the rumors to be true. Even if the rumors are false, you get the same answer.

I think we're facing perpetual movement towards less enjoyment of games and other media, and greater emphasis on devaluing that media in mob style frenzy that is somehow feeding a sense of self importance amongst people who are rejecting the idea that they're merely passive consumers in an increasingly anti-consumer environment.

And it makes me incredibly discouraged and sad.

I don't think games are getting worse, I think the avenue for discussing their flaws is becoming more ubiquitous and the idea of status being attributed to someone who cleverly points out shortcomings is becoming more widespread. I think we've become more interested in a sense of being "right" about a widely visible piece of media being "wrong" on platforms of communication that are inherently meant to be spread information in a viral way, giving our "rightness" the ability to have the most visibility possible. I think that need, or the temptation, for people to feel as though they've uncovered a mistake - or better yet, something as sinister as deliberately harming consumers with products that are bad on purpose - is so great that we're all getting sucked up into a cycle of hating things that is actually making us less appreciative and joyful.

I think we're killing our own enjoyment by being in an environment where rewards in the form of Likes are handed out liberally for those that point out flaws, and chastisement is prescribed to those that gush praise for something, as a cure for their naiveté. And to what end? What has it accomplished?

EA's whitewashed interpretation of bad feedback online is to say, "Bioware has an incredibly passionate fanbase that love these games" - and they're right, because we keep buying all of them. The appropriate response to a game you didn't enjoy isn't to post about it on Reddit, or Twitter, or this message board - it's to stop playing it, and go do something else.