Think people are taking this "Hiatus" thing the wrong way

So... You didn't like Trespasser because you thought it was an underwhelming ending to the Inquisitor's story? How so?

To me, it appeared as the beginning of a new story which may not belong to them, but in which the Inquisitor will play a big role. Based on the Inquisitor's final statement, I doubt that they are done saving the world just yet.

There is literally no way to know what is going on unless Bioware release a statement or tweet or article or whatever. It's very easy to make assumptions based on rumour but it's not a good idea either way.

The lack of communication is the only thing we actually know at this point, and it could mean anything at all.

Actually not so. They said nothing until around 2013 or 2014 IIRC. I remember seeing people look for ME4 and for a long time they said nothing about if they were doing one and specifically said it might be this or that but they didn't know. They spent a LONG time deflecting or not giving any information at all. Then when they brought up possibilities some people would have fits over them. I don't think it was until maybe 2014 that we got anything even remotely concrete that they were looking at it. Maybe it was 2013 but ME3 came out in 2012 (march IIRC). And I think the last DLC was april 2013 just over a year later. During all that time they said nothing about a sequel other than maybe and bouncing some ideas. I'm sure they were not working on andromeda until at least late 2013. Bare minimum they were not working on it in 2011. They did not go straight from ME3 to MEA from all accounts in the news.

Srsly, dude. If I have to correct you, I'm just not going to. Plus, all the math is up there. [insult mod-redacted]

You'd be surprised how little the real world actually cares about what Youtube users and forumites think. 

Yep, Pete Hines' 'rule of one E3' has been a useful innovation, I think...

To be fair, I'm not really a Kotaku reader, but I think this particular journalist has a book coming out later in the year on game development and he has some scoop on DA2's cancelled expansion and DAI. Not suggesting this validates this particular article, but it would suggest he has had sources close to Bioware in the past. Plus at this point there's very little to verify. Anyone you quote from Bioware or EA before the company has made an official announcement risks jeopardizing their career. 

This guy's a journalist. Maybe he jumped the gun on a rumour in order to get clicks and satisfy deadlines. Or he couldn't come up with anything more concrete and ran the story before someone else could. 

MEA has done plenty well. If it made more than they invested (and this will not be assessed until after all DLC is sold) then it's a win. They are a corporation that is in it for money. If they walk away with money  they will make more. Development for MEA was not technically five years. That was simply how long it took since the last game. But they released DLC until april 2013. They did not begin working on it until at least that point. So four years at most. More likely 3-3.5 years which falls right in line with their time frame considering they had to come up with a new setting and story that could be feasible.

Also, MP is online focused. That is a money maker for them and it made them a nice amount of money for this game. When the game first came out, you know how many characters I saw in bronze and silver toting high level weapons? Bronze and silver don't get that much money for the run. These characters were low level too. So people were sinking  money into the MP to get better weapons. That's money that nobody has calculated that really didn't cost them a hell of a lot to put into. And more people will be using the MP. Nobody has factored in any of the profits they will get from MP which was a nice bit of cash for them. That MP will be going long after MEA is not even a thought in all this failure doomsaying but it's a fact nevertheless. Another fact, people were still playing and are still playing ME3. They might even be making money off ME3 which means they might be making money off of MEA long after everyone considers it done and dead.  It has a solid two years minimum where people will buy the game to play that part of it and then probably have a few microtransactions to get some weapons , some different kits, stuff to give them more variety right out of the gate. Right now they are tweaking their bugs and issues with it, but as time progresses more people will play it and more money will be made on that end. And here's the thing, they kind of need to make a new MEA to make a new MP. Or they at least go hand in hand because they need to make the factions you fight and the maps and after they are done with all that they might as well make the whole game to get more sales to support it. So even if MEA is not sufficient in sales, MEAMP will shore it up and make it worth while between more sales for that and lots of microtransactions.

Right not this isn't any different than how ME3 was received with its ending and in the end, they made another. The ending borked sales for that one too. And they still made another. Stop imagining you know the status of MEA and looking at it from a very limited perspective (your own of displeasure) and start seeing the reality that it did well enough to warrant continuation of the series because it is still making money. This group in this forum is a small part of it the player base. All the youtubers are another small part of it. Just because there are handful (seriously we aren't even talking hundreds) of naysayers shooting it down doesn't mean it did poorly. I've seen the comments and for every hate video right now that is talking trash about the death of MEA there are loads of commenters wanting more and upset that they might not get it. 

There is plenty of money to be made from MEA still and in the end, it will make more than enough to justify continuing to make more of them. 

Hell, most forumites and insiders like us don't care either.

It's why I abhor most youtube content, it's all the definition of clickbait in some instances with eye catching titles and proclaiming dominance and knowledge they barely understand.

Very few people in the gaming community communicate nuance and respectable positions on topics. It sucks, frankly. 

You know, either way, if nothing new is said about it until Battlefront II is done and released, Alot of people are just not going to care unless they have nothing else to play.