Mass Effect SP DLC (timing and speculation) thread

Oh man, you are so wrong.
In the past they maybe never confirmed any DLC, but they been talking, discussing and answering questions about their plans, they been asking us what we would like to get etc.
About MEA - any question not related to already released patch or MP - NO ANSWER at all. Same with voice actors. During MET most of the VA been talking with the fans, answering their questions, discussing incoming projects, letting us know when they are back in the studio to make some extra recordings etc. With MEA - NOTHING. 2-3 months ago Cora VA mentioned she will go to do some extra VA for MEA - but since that time no update at all. Other actors the same. I asked 4 different MEA VA - no reply. This is not normal.
MEA is not some top secret project like Anthem. In my opinion the only reason for that sudden silence is that whatever was planned before been cancelled - and because they don't wanna kill MP and their microtransactions they stay quiet.
Other thing - it seems the only people still involved in MEA are people from Sinclair Networks - but this is just patching and balancing game; someone asked them last month about SP files, they said they didn't receive anything related.

but they are talking. And hell i remember during citadel my feeling was one of surprise it was 'oh here you go' and then we got dlc. Same with DA I. Sure we may have known they were working on something just like we know they are working on something now.

If DAII could justify DLCs, I doubt Andromeda won't.

It's very possible that the DLC cycle will be shorter than what was planned. But I doubt we see 0 additional content for this game. Based on what I know of development, DLC1 would probably have started very near launch, before decisions could be made regarding the game's future. It would take a catastrophe for EA to pull all resources from the DLC team, especially since the game has seen quite a few patches which in EA Land means it's not abandoned yet.

I have to admit I feel the motivations of starting this thread are more then a little odd: "OK, don't worry guys ME DLC doesen't release until 5 months after release. Lets wait and see."

*several posts later*

"Everyone who liked MEA panic! you won't get any DLC! We haven't heard anything yet even though we are still more then a full month away from my prediction of when it would drop!"

So review scores don't matter with Mass Effect 3 because they were too high, but now reviewers are giving Andromeda a low score so now it matters? Like all game companies EA cares about sales and potential sales and the risk versus reward of creating content.  If it was like any other BioWare game they were working on DLC the moment the game went for certification which means they are going to decide what will make them the most money or have the lowest loss.  

I am not going to rule anything out one way or another, but I think it is premature to declare the way it is going to be.

I freely admit to have hated DAII based on the gameplay displayed in the demo. But after finishing Andromeda and finally getting around to actually buy and play DAII, I am also the first to say, how wrong I was. Even for it's short development cycle, there's still this Bioware richness in storytelling and companions. There's still enigma surrounding most of the characters that only gets revealed once you get to know them better. It's now obvious to me what I really miss in MEA, having played both games within a very short time.

Come on please. The biggest controversy with the game was the "Bioware neglected their main demographic" post that David Gaider replied to. It was on every gaming site.

And yet it's not about THE GAY. You get rivalry points for refusing advances, period. A stupid mechanic that doesn't allow for not opening up the romance path by staying neutral or friendly with the character in question. It's only that a lot of blokes started to play in hopes of their red blooded male imgaginery doesn't suffer scratches, who made THE GAY an issue. If you play femhawke it's the exact same story with perfectly heterosexual LI options as well as the gay ones.

Again, stupid mechanic, but certainly not what people made of it back then. But it confirms what I said in other threads about reviews. DAII was the first game where this SJW bullshit first raised it's ugly head. Maybe because of a lot of casuals being drawn in because of fully voiced and the dynamic combat mechanics, who never played another Bioware game before.

It is a decent game, but not without its issues, which can't be fixed unfornately. Meredith and Orsino will always take stupid pills the last few hours of the game. Kirkwall will always be grey, and incredibly dull to explore and look at. Add to that the zones outside the games, caves etc are all the same for 25 - 30 hours, it gets old. The writing for pretty much everything else is solid. Just a shame that the game didn't have 12 more months of development, what could've been! 

Also the reason people didn't like Anders was because he killed a bunch of civilians, not that one flirt. 

If there is no DLC I would happy. It would mean all the content was put into the game, and that there is no need for a DLC. A welcome reversal of existing trends in the gaming industry.

Peculiar kind of logic since it's not a reversal of trends by any measure. It's obvious that not all the available story content has been put into the game. There are lose threads left, right and center.

That's all very cute, but EA doesn't give a rat's bum about any of that. To them ''the community'''s reaction is only important insofar as it impacts potential sales. The only questions that matter to them are ''how much does this cost us to develop?'' and ''will it sell?''. The thing is, work on the DLC was probably underway before the game even released; they don't just slap together that sort of thing in two months. As such, even if Andromeda didn't perform as expected, the sunk costs could already motivate EA to let this DLC release, at least, even if they canned DLC that was planned later down the line. And I doubt Andromeda did so terribly that they can't make buck out of a DLC that was already in the works, especially if it introduces popular races like Quarians. 

The patching support for the game also suggests that it's not abandoned. Maybe Rockstar patches its single-player game without supporting via single-player DLC (why do they need to, they make hundreds of millions out of milking GTA online), but EA doesn't allocate ressources to lost causes, usually. And the changes made by the patches are more than just bug fixes and gameplay tweaks, they revised animations, dialog, lighting, hair, and Jaal's romance scenes. That doesn't require a massive team, certainly, but it doesn't support the assertion that the game is left to die just yet.

I'm not saying the above is the gospel truth, but trying to judge everything on the basis of ''the community'''s reaction just flat out ignores how a business actually works.