Kotaku reporter has some extra bad news

I agree, the way I am reading a lot of posts a lot of people aren't completely dismissing Jason's articles, they are just having a hard believing that EA would go to the extreme of closing BioWare Montreal and putting the franchise on hiatus after what seems to be an average game.  Speaking for myself I wanted just to have another organization have a report that these actions were happening using their own sources to independently collaborate what was happening, but after this post I have more doubt about what he is saying.  If his articles were less extreme such as a delay prior to entering full production which the employees weren't expecting I would have no problem believing that either or that EA is shifting personnel to adjust for weaknesses at BioWare Montreal again I could believe that, its just when taken to what feels like extremes even for EA I just wanted collaboration.

Looking at past BioWare games they don't announce DLC unless its only a couple of weeks away from launch.  I think it was another thread, but I looked at the release date for Citadel for Mass Effect 3 and Trespasser for Dragon Age: Inquisition and BioWare officially announced those less then two weeks before release and those were the final DLCs for the games.

Sounds fair to me.

The only thing I'd add is that ME3 and DAI might not reliable comparisons.  ME3 had day 1 DLC, which might have pushed other dlc announcements/releases back a bit.  DAI was cross-generation for consoles so the JoH release was only a day after its announcement for PC and XBone, but two months later for PS3, PS4 and 360.

I just hope we hear something in the next couple of weeks.  Even something unofficial.

Now that Anthem was revealed (a new scifi/futuristic game) ME will very likely be put aside for a while. Maybe forever.
The new game will be Bioware's bet to restore some of its lost reputation after ME3 and Andromeda.

Far as I see it, the audiences of both games may overlap, but this is neither intended to be an RPG nor a single player game in the sense of the trilogy or MEA. For me there's nothing to be restored or ruined by the release of Anthem. It's simply not what I even consider buying. Not my cup of tea.

I'm starting to think this guy WANTS MEA to utterly fail.  I've done a little looking about the internet, as I live VERY far away from the epicenter of this debacle, but apparently (and this is rumor AND conjecture) Montreal got the short end of the stick.  Edmonton got the resources, the talent, and Montreal got screwed in every different direction.  YET, in 18 months they pulled together with a game engine that DIDN'T want to work well with them, was horrible about facial animation, and yet...they managed to get the game out without it being completely and utterly unplayable, though some screamed 'dumpster fire' (btw, X-Men Destiny LAUGHS at your comment and raises you 'pure sewage').  Anthem SCREWED over Andromeda, and yet the guys in charge of Bioware (looking at the VP here), didn't get the axe.  

Schreier, like any other WRITER, wants to sell.  He has a book coming out in...what, September?  And nothing sells like bad news.  A troubled production coupled with a rivalry between studios?  Gold.  So take it with a grain of salt.  What he put together has about as much truth to it as what I wrote...maybe a bit more, but again, NOTHING OFFICIAL.  So take it as it is.  We have the CEO giving the investors a good spiel about continuing to push the game for the foreseeable future, and an unofficial report stating that the game is done, and...

I think it's a bit funny strange sometimes to see how people react to this stuff.

I tend to think of Kotaku as being, um... historically "supportive" of BioWare, broadly speaking, even to a fault, at times. And I historically have taken Kotaku's journalism with more of a grain of salt than most people.

So it's weird to see (and I realize individuals are individuals) the community turn so thoroughly to the idea that this journalist made everything up (I counted at least 4 posts on the first page making that accusation quite directly, and many more implying it) on the basis that if he turns out to be right, they won't get what they want.

I can't relate. If someone is telling me something that I don't want to hear, I'm more likely to look into it to try and understand it, preferring to be forewarned and prepared.

Personally, I can't think of the last BioWare launch that went like this. I don't believe there has ever been one. And yet so many refuse to believe that this game may have experienced a different and more troubled kind of development. I guess everything in the last five years happened in a vacuum? Doesn't much matter, since all speculation is moot once EA/BioWare get around to announcing whether there will be DLC or not. If they do, I'm pretty sure it will be the farthest into development and post-development that BioWare has ever announced a game's first single-player DLC.

They aren't allowed to reply, that's all. If you're working at a large company, you are tied to secrecy unless the higher ups give you the green light to make a statement. But one of the reasons why the kotaku article quotes anonymous sources.

I understand both sides of the spectrum. Flynn and Gamble as well as the author of that article. Nothing about both examples is in any way outlandish.

Not allowed ? Why ? 1) 85% people in this topic are saying that this article is a one big lie, 2) we are not asking for any info about some secret incoming project like Dylan, 3) we are not asking for official statement about ME series future - the only thing people are asking is "will we get DLC ?". Go back to ME2-ME3 when voice actors been spreading twitts about being back in studio, about making some extra stuff, same was with BW guys. Suddenly such a secrecy about extension ?

I'm not sure how you interpreted my post as being directed at you, since I have no idea who you are or what you have said in the past.

See you in August with the first SP DLC. Looking forward to discuss it here.

Yes you restore reputation of your RPG writing skills by making a co-op always online shooter with MMO elements. Totally legit.

If Anthem is a big success I could see that happening.  If its not BW will either be put to rest alongside Mythic and Westwood (most likely) or maybe they'll return the team to working on ME.

Just have to wait and see now.