Kotaku reporter has some extra bad news

After Anthem is DA4, so it would take us into the years 20/21/22 by the time we hear anything since a lot of them leave one project to move on to another. MEA had ME, DA and SWTOR teams working on it.

I agree with what some people have said here, that with the new IP Anthem EA will have Bioware on a three-year dev cycle with their three IP's. FY19 for Anthem, FY20 for DA4, FY21 for MEA2. FY21 technically starts October of 2020, which would be about three years cycle is they bring the team back after working on Anthem and Battlefront II, but based on the Anthem delay we might see MEA2 closer to the end of FY21, March 2021 or so.

Basically, gossip is anything people don't like. Like Global Warming! 

Anyone really thinks they will go back to Ryders in 2021-2022 ? Seriously ?
Heh. I bet it will be a new opening, maybe even some MET Remaster before that.

That's how you save Mass Effect.

Remaster the trilogy and then after a time release a new game with a development team that has both competence and a clear, defined vision. 

Fair point.

I used to hear interviews all the time in my mom's salon.

Mom: So how are things going on at your job?

Wanda: Not good.  It's like a graveyard over there since so many people have left to work on other things. I've never seen anything like it.  Times are really changing.

Mom:  Was there no warning at all that folks would be leaving like that?

Wanda:  No!  We were expecting to work o the next project.  No one expected it.

Mom:  Do you think the project will continue?

Wanda:  I don't get paid enough to know stuff like that! But it seems unlikely to me.


Now...it is OK for my mom to talk about what she heard and make inferences based of that. That is what folks do.  However, she has no primary source that has confirmed or denied that the the project will not go on (she did not talk to Wanda''s boss).  She also did not see the empty cubicles at Wanda's workplace.   However, she tells my dad all about it, who was looking forward to the project at Wanda's company, and he tells all his friends, and before you know it, it is considered truth by a bunch of folks in the community.  

I don't think it would help the franchise, only because people have such differentiating opinions on the games and what needs to be fixed, adjusted, and left alone.

Is there actually a market for a remaster?

Why are so many people in denial that EA may be done with MEA?

Either you are living under a rock and believe MEA to be a financial and critical hit worthy of a sequel, or you know that MEA wasnt so hot but out of sheer defiance, you still expect another ME game.

I dont knoe which is worse....

Right now I firmly believe there is going to be one DLC since it has money already invested in it since they probably started about the time the game shipped.  Now any future DLC after that one is going to be based on how well the first DLC will sell which is probably the exact same metric for the prior games as well.

As much as that article wants to push the agenda off the death of BioWare Montreal or how the game is on hiatus based on what employees were expecting (at least that is where the sources seem to be lower level developers).  It isn't unusual to have a studio to go into hiatus mode after a game is released and it might not be expected for BioWare Montreal by the employees, it doesn't indicate complete doom and gloom either.  

Being honest I get that people disliked Andromeda and there are some employees that are upset about what happened, at the same time things also happen in development that are a coincidence as well.  An example is that I am pretty sure they said somewhere they moved people to Motion studios which is also located in Montreal, so another theory could be that they were planning on going straight to full development but with the problems at launch and they need people at Motion it was decided by executives to move people to Motion for six months to help with crunch and then move back to Andromeda with some new rules about development after Battlefront 2 releases.  There is no evidence for what I am thinking, but it is a possibility of what might possibly could be happening as well.

Anything is possible, but I am not going to base everything on what one author on Kotaku is posting either.  If I believed that Mass Effect is dead I would no longer post here for there would be better uses of my time.

Edit: Spelling

From the numbers EA released about earnings from Deluxe editions of the game (which more than paid for the reported $40 million budget), as well as what we know about physical sales and their relation to digital sales, we can be reasonably certain that they hit their 3 million sales projections, or at least reasonably close, and then with multiplayer earnings and coming DLC, all data points to MEA being a financial success. Just not a runaway hit. If EA can be sure than given x amount of investment they can get y return, they will continue to do that with it in the black. Better a reasonable success you know than a flop that bankrupts the company.