How should BioWare move forward with Mass Effect?

I'll be waiting for it to go on sale regardless until BW proves it can ship a polished product again.

I will buy Andromeda 2 full price no matter what. Whom am I kidding (sigh) I will probably even buy Dragon Age 4 full price even after not liking Inquisition. There is just not anything else out there.

"no matter what".

That says it all.

You're not going to want to hear this, but ME is dead.

BSN might look like all the ME players but the majority will be casual or first time players who will not trust a sequel. They see the metacritic scores and decide to spend their money elsewhere. Without them to push up the dollar value, it will not be worth EA investing in another giant space opera.

If there is to be another ME, then I would like to see a soft reboot (like Star Wars TFA). The MEA story is too weak, and the enemies too dull to support a sequel.

Even better - Just forget Mass Effect and Let BW design a new space opera using the OT as inspiration. I still have faith in the creative talent, just not in their leadership.

they have never announced any bioware dlc at E3 no matter how sucessful the game was. Even dragon age 2 who did not had spectacular sales, it still managed to get 2 dlcs. and none of them were anounced at E 3.

By the way dlcs needs time to be made and if they show us something at E 3, it means those dlc would have been made in a short amount of time, in less than 3 months, which is not a good thing, and considering how much efforts they had to put into patches, we are probably going to have 5 months until the first story dlc.

That is totally normal since DAI release its first dlc was 4 months after the release and they did not had a controversy and had to put this much ressources into patch as andromeda needed, so its totally normal they are not going to announce dlc for MEA at E3, but that would not mean deaths for ME A, absolutely not.

Sure, a basic synopsis of setting with no actual story is fairly easy. Like I said, this isn't a real solution in and of itself. Like, what's the new enemy? Why couldn't it be introduced in, say, a direct sequel of the game before? It's not like continuing Ryder's story obligates the kett as the sole or even primary baddies in a new game. So other than the "many many" whoevers that have an issue with this game's storyline, what real problem is this angle aiming to solve? 

Just 3 hours left... i really hope they will at least mention MEA at some point. Silence will be just horrible.
Enough that no one from BW or EA doesn't wanna give us ANY info about series future.

It would solve a number of issues.   #1 Ryder's personality.  With a new protagonist, you can start fresh, have more variations from evil renegade to serious professional to goofy and snarky, without having to answer, "When did Ryder become so badass?".  You could do it, it would just seem inconsistent with MEA.  
#2.  At the end of MEA, the Kett and Remnant are still major players in Heleus cluster.   You either have to deal with that in game, or out.  If you jump forward, and write them out in a prologue, you can get on to the story without having to spend time dealing with it in-game.
#3.  New companions.  A new protagonist, new crew.  I think few people liked more than 2-3 of the companions, and those varied widely.  Some hated Peebee, some liked her.  Almost no one would miss Liam.  I have seen few comments from thise who LOVED Cora or Vetra.  Again, starting fresh means you dont have to explain how these chars personality shifted 180 degrees in a day, and there will be those who cannot bring themselves to like them, no matter what changes are made to them.

I guess the difference is...would you rather take what is given and totally re-write it, and hope you can change people's opinions, or, (the better option IMO), start fresh and give people something totally new.  I will use a food analogy.  If I give you brussel sprouts and you hate them, is it better to keep giving you brussel sprouts, but try to put cheese, or sauce, or something so you will like them? Or better to just give you pizza next time? (Nutritional value aside )

I can't tell if you're being snarky, but in my case: it's true. I built a new rig for Origins because my old rig just wasn't good enough. Dragon Age 2 I ended upgrading the CPU and GPU. Inquisition came about and this rig is handling it. I'm building a new rig to accommodate DA4 and DA5. At least that's the goal. 

Adding more options doesn't really require a new protagonist, and in a scenario where you skip, say, a few years, shifts in character can be done without seeming totally inconsistent. Like, I'm not exactly the same person I was a few years ago, and I didn't go through nearly as much as the Ryder character has. Just the same, things like "evil renegade", or whatever it is people really think this means, is probably dead and not coming back. A new protagonist is no more likely to provide that option than future iterations of Ryder. 

The Kett are, but the Remnant aren't. They're not even really enemies so much as they're part of an automated system, and you could potentially skip even just a year and they may no longer be hostile because of the control over Meridian. 200 years forward is in no way necessary to deal with that. In any case, I consider writing out a major faction in a prologue a terrible idea. 

New companions don't require a huge time jump, but really, new companions don't really require a new protagonist either, as Mass Effect 2 and even 3 are keen on proving to some extent. Garrus and Tali were very different from their ME1 counterparts. There will be those who can't bring themselves to like much of anything. I can't say that I really care about those people. 


Well, obviously my preference is to take what is already there and build upon it, of course without the flawed premise of hoping to "change people's opinions". Food analogies never really work for these arguments. 

Regardless, I don't consider this a real solution moving forward, not in the sense like leaving the Milky Way solves the problem of how to go forward without picking a canon ending to Mass Effect 3.