Mass Effect SP DLC (timing and speculation) thread

Yep, Leviathan was delayed by nearly 2 months due to Extended Cut.

Indeed and if Leviathan dlc, who was smaller than jaws of hakon took them nearly 6 months to release, its probably because the extended took a lot of their ressources, delaying the dlc release. And that is exactly what happened here, BW had to put more ressources than ever into their patch which probably would have delayed any dlc production.

So if they intend to do a huge dlc, just like jaws of hakon, that took them 4 months of production. And I would add here that jaws of hakon only had to release at first on xbox one and pc, which means it look even less ressources to do to release this fast because they did not had to make all the version (ps3 ,ps4 and xbox 360) at the same time. 

but with DAI they did not had to put that much ressources into patching the game, so they could have easily started dlc production immediatly after the release. Delaying dlc would not have been surprising in the case of MEA considering the controversy at release. So not only the dlc might be bigger, but had been delayed by controversy.

It might be a combination of delaying the dlc because of the controversy AND of the size of what they are making.

The outcry led to the last patch with it's romance option. Same as the outcry led to the EC with ME3. In short, service for the main game. It won't lead to DLC if they haven't planned them anyway.

Except you forget that EA acquired BioWare after ME1 release on X360( PC port came under EA).

As well while most of DA:O development was done while BioWare was independent, they still released that game under EA and developed all DLC's under EA. In fact, BioWare had no plans for DLC's nor expansions until after EA acquired them and gave them funds.

So, really, all past comparison we provided about BioWare holds the same. They were a EA studio since after ME1 release on X360, just like they are today. Hell, real name of BioWare today is actually EA Canada. They just kept using BioWare due to name recognition, which is a normal practice throughout any industry.

Apples and Oranges. MP, as long as people are playing it, is a sure seller. In the UK alone people forked out more than 900 million pounds for microtransactions in the year 2014. MP mas are relatively easy to create as compared to SP story based content.

www.statista.com/statistics/529492/microtransaction-revnues-gaming-industry-statistic/

m.ca.ign.com/articles/2016/12/02/how-mass-effect-3s-ending-influenced-andromeda

This was from an older article in January, but it definitely sounds like Bioware planned for DLC and possibly a sequel:

"There's definitely a plan to continue Andromeda. We just didn't plan this to be a trilogy -- a three-part story over three games. Specifically, we have built in some of the key and big mysteries in Andromeda that you will discover are not resolved in Andromeda, in this game," he said. "We are already planning how we're going to reveal those and how we're going to deal with them in future installments."

Wonder if those reveals will now be limited to the books and comics, or if DLC will still happen.

You are a bit inconsistent my dude. In one thread, your bashing people for hashtag activism. In this, devoting to speculation about a possible DLC release timeline... I am confused.

If they start giving a lot away in the comics and novels, then DLC and sequels will be less likely.  Unfortunately, it would be a loooooong time to know that based on those mediums, because I'm sure "Mass Effect: Discovery (comics)" is basically all written currently, as are the novels they had planned (or at least close to done).  To change those to include wrapping up Andromeda's mysteries would take a while, so we'll assuredly know about DLC before the info would come through comics or novels, and probably about a sequel by then, too.  

But if Bioware comes out with a new comic series soonish, called "Mass Effect:  The Jaardan" or something, then that'll be an indication of probably no DLC or sequel.  

My main thought when they said it wasn't going to be a trilogy was that it would be more like Dragon Age where the stories loosely tie in to each other and there might be some reoccurring characters, but the protagonist would be different each time.  That way they could mostly avoid having to write so many different scenarios for the different choices people made in the first two games of a trilogy, a problem they ran in to in ME3.  Although having fewer and less galaxy-shaping decisions (like they did in Andromeda) also cuts down on that issue.

If you ignore the articles on the subject, since that appears to be what most people are doing, at what point with no DLC announcement can we reasonably expect one is not coming?

If 5 months is the norm and the announcement comes shortly before - offhand I want to say a couple of weeks before... 5 months from Andromeda's release will be August 21.

If we reach mid-September, I think we are approaching "definitely no DLC" territory. Probably getting there in October. After that, people will have moved on from the game and be looking at Christmas releases.

BW had to redo facial animation (which takes both times and ressources) call back voice actors and to do a lot of gameplay changes (like a skip button for space exploration, less expansive keys to bypass sudoku (and make them more available), bigger inventory, etc.).



MEA definetely had way more work to do on the patching, which mean it could have delaid any future projects they could have before relase like dlc. So it maybe more than 5 months, like 7 or 8, especially if they intend to do one as big as jaws of hakon.

Only doing all of that plus more didn't take 2 or 3 months. So why would it delay DLC by 2 or 3 months?

Animation and dialogue updates are the only ones on that list that took any real time. I mean, the decryption key price and inventory space are just changing a variable.

But OK, for you it is October or November before you lose faith. I was just wondering what people would say.