Mass Effect SP DLC (timing and speculation) thread

Yes we will see DLC Around in August or September Of this year !!!

Panicking doesn't magically speed up the development process.

Yup.

A simple "we're working on it" would calm the fuck out of a lot of people, myself included.

The reason I brought up DA2 was because, at least according to the reporting out there, while MEA did have 5 years, 3.5 of those 5 was squandered chasing procedural generation. So the game we have now was constructed in a similar time frame. And I guess I have homer glasses on because I thought the story and characters in MEA were on Bioware level.

I must too in that case as I thought so as well. |Maybe not as good as their best games but certainly of a similar level

And historically thats what Bioware has always done. They may never actually say verbatim they are working in SP DLC, but they would say cryptic stuff like, "we have some surprises up our sleeves...." or "stay tuned...". Stuff like that would be enough to let it be known that more is to come.

The fact that Bioware has not done any of this yet 3 months after launch again, is very telling.

Their silence is not representative of a game that was a financial hit and which has a secure future.

In January I finished another playthrough of ME2.This time picked up ALL the DLC because I hadn't played them all before.
Wow 60 hours of pure ,raw and insane Infiltrator fun...

I like it. It has one of the best scenes in the trilogy. The conversation between Harbinger and Shepard. excellent

I enjoy your analysis of the situation and I agree.

That and DA2 was coming off the success of DAO with the hype, the critical acclaim, and fan favorite status. MEA is coming off the ME3 debacle with a dark cloud already looming over it. I remember those old days with the death threats, the sexual assault threats, and everything else thrown the devs and producer's ways during that whole ending crap storm. They had that massive baggage going right into Andromeda and with the growing negativity starting in February (oh yeah, I watched it closely as it kept growing and growing as a backlash to a certain dev that shall remain unnamed, until it took a life all its own), MEA itself didn't seem to have a chance.  I watched the early Youtube testers' facial expressions as they tried to hide their disappointment with their first impressions of the game. I also remember reading about the revolving door of devs and producers leaving the company and even the announcement of no beta testing for MP. The drama around MEA's development may not be wholly original but considering Bioware's track record and previous relationship with the fans, it's something for the gaming history books.

I kept abreast of MEA's development the past year or so seeing these articles:

www.polygon.com/2016/2/15/11010936/mass-effect-andromeda-lead-writer-bioware-bungie
(and if one doesn't trust Polygon, here's Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/02/16/lead-writer-of-mass-effect-andromeda-leaves-bioware-to-work-on-destiny/#5a7c871ac633)
www.polygon.com/2016/3/7/11174148/cameron-harris-mass-effect-andromeda-senior-editor-bioware-exit
www.ign.com/articles/2015/12/28/mass-effect-andromeda-director-chris-wynn-leaves-bioware
blog.bioware.com/2014/08/07/casey-hudsons-departure-from-biowareea/

Maybe that's why the docs' cut and left: www.nowgamer.com/mass-effect-fan-negativity-was-too-much-for-ray-greg-ex-bioware-dev/

Who knows.

I will say it is interesting that MEA's lead writer left BW to write for Destiny at Bungie before Bioware started working on their own Destiny-like game entry.

As for DLC and such, from a gaming fan end, sure it would be great to have it and one does hold out hope. From a business standpoint, looking over everything that happened which lead to the game's current massive discount everywhere, I can see why the company would put it on hold for now while they decide what to do with it. Fool me once and all that. It's also quite ingenious corporate-wise because you have gamers who will wait indefinitely for a DLC all the while devs work on other things and corporate focuses on stuff that makes immediate money until they want to risk cashing in on the ME name where the gamers will be waiting to hand over their wallets. Cruel, but smart business-wise and not unlike something EA would do.

You still can't compare the two. It's not as if the original business plan and projections of MEA was them having difficulties getting to grips with the new engine and their changing lead. developers. It's still apples and oranges because of a whole studio, funded with up to 40 million dollars was tied down for half a decade. That's not the case with DAII. So, entirely different expectations, entirely different projections.

I wouldn't go with amazing, but it was a very good one. But that's down to personal tastes.

I may be the odd one out, but personally I liked Kasumi and Zaeed (is that how he's spelled) the most, since they played to the particular characters. I've got all the DLCs for ME and the only one I didn't particularly like was Overlord.

Nah, you don't have homer glasses on. I felt the same way about the characters, the character development and the dialog. It was what I expected from BioWare and it was well done.