So no DLC for Andromeda?

We don't know yet everything written is just pure speculations. We shall see, I hope for normal DLC release but if not at least the Quarian Ark one.

My guess also. Based on that something was already in production when the game shipped.

To sound like Kotaku, I had several anonymous sources in Austin (and they're all gone. They all quit one by one. Not fired, just walked out.) and I have one through a relative that lives in Ottawa about Montreal. I haven't heard of anyone getting canned. I know Heir was released after his contract expired (he should've been ejected the day he first tweeted out that he is supported by Flynn for his racial comments. Flynn... was okay with it, I guess... if that's the case, F*** you Flynn.) , but that's it. Now, if you're given a choice to leave Montreal for Edmonton, you will quit. Edmonton is known for natural resource collection and I've been up there a few times. It's cold, pretty generic and you've got to love what you're doing to get by up there. Montreal, in my honest and humble opinion, is not much better, but way better than Edmonton as far as more opportunities for tech jobs. Austin is the place to be, but I didn't realize how crazy expensive it has gotten to live there. It's approaching San Francisco 2.0 levels and even towns outside of Austin, like Round Rock, are stupid expensive. For an hourly worker, you're going to have a crazy, long commute if you want to have a decent place and have money left in your pocket after paying all the bills.

So let me get this straight. You know people from BW Austin and they just quit their jobs? That's not good but MEA wasn't made there

Not necessarily.  Most companies like to keep internal matters, well, internal.

No, they worked on the MMO and I loved that group. At first, I was so ENVIOUS AND JEALOUS that they were given the opportunity to work for BioWare. Then after about five months, their enthusiasm turned to bitterness. Some of it was that "bro-culture" clique crap. Some of it was self-inflicted by showing up to work late (even though others showed up late and got covered) and having to sign performance reports. Some of it was financial viability because of how expensive Austin had become and hourly wages don't cut it for long-term planning. However, all of them, left angry. That's a failure on HR. 

There has been no word out of either bioware or EA about paid DLC. We'll just have to wait and see if it happens.

yeah they usually say this is the final bit of DLC and things like that when they're done they did this with Citadel on ME3 and again with Trespasser for DAI. I doubt we'll get many DLC's due to the games poor reception but I'm hoping we get at least 1 or 2. I'd expect we 'l hear news on this subject soon though possibly at EA play but I guess we're not going to know yet. Hopefully if they end up good it'll salvage some of MEA's reputation. After the way things have gone for the team and the condition the game was in at launch it needs it.

Very cool and you're right about Heir. That's the likely scenario. Even so, BioWare's PR screwed up. Doing nothing is doing nothing. 

Only hint so far is this tweet in May (might be for this patch though, but why have her voice extra romance stuff for Scott/Jaal only?).

Mass Effect is a huge deal, it's much harder building a new IP than building upon an existing one.

As the most significant revenue comes in the days and weeks after launch, that ship has sailed (or at least recouping higher sales that EA/BioWare might have hoped for), but the IP needs to be safeguarded and protected for the future.

That means a couple of solid DLCs that leaves the game is a good place with a good taste in the mouth and perhaps a popular GOTY Edition , er 'Complete edition' next year.

To see more Mass Effect seems inevitable, but they may take a little break so that they can come back better next time (heck, they came back after the shitstorms that were Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 2 3 (note to BioWare, maybe less shitstorms in future, please  ) ).