Article: Mass Effect fans feel abandoned by BIoWare after Anthem reveal

Having been a gamer for 30 years I can honestly say Mass Effect Trilogy was the most engaging (apart from DA:O) game I ever played and I played 1000's of hours - 3000 just on MP.

I was a bit hesitant on ME:A as it was starting a new storyline and introducing new characters. The original game was different and right for the time it launched but there have been many games released since along the same lines and personally, I was expecting a lot more from Bioware than what has actually been delivered.

It seems to be a lacklustre game without the engaging characters' and story arc's we saw in the Trilogy. The bugs are endless and each patch seems to introduce even more, now I have endless load times and jerky graphics on top of the existing problems but some of the quests are still bugged which I expected to be fixed by now.

I suppose it was always going to be this way with EA calling the shots; Anthem is going to be MMOG only so they can milk those micro-transactions. Well good luck on that one. Maybe I am finally getting too old to care what happens but dream of the good old days where games were temperamental to get working and the hardware even more so but when they did it was worth the wait. Visuals were not the main focus then and games had excellent narrative and gameplay - Half Life and Deus Ex to name a couple. That is why ME Trilogy captured me in a way that ME:A just hasn't managed to do.

I play one MMO, and thats Star Trek Online, which thankfully seems to mostly consist of adults. And I got further lucky in the fact I found a great fleet/guild thats full of mature and funny adults and ran by another woman. 

But on the flip side. I've also played survival mmos, like Reign of Kings or H1N1, where things like rape "jokes" and other acts do happen if other players realize you are woman, rather over the public chat, or over private message. And its not just the creepy sexist remarks that are the issue, its also the exclusion of lady gamers in mmo games, and over all treatment. Being accused of cheating or haxs if you are better. Being kicked from matches, and other such things.


Honestly, I'm not a big fan of shooters anyways. Mass Effects was basically my expection, because it was third person shooter, which I can do. And it is/was a rpg, and again, I'm here for the story, not for the killing of massive hords. (Though I cackle in twisted delight when I blow an enemy's head off.)  

Hard to imagine serious trolls on a Star Trek MMO.

Set phasers to your mom. Fuk u u dont know shit about batleths bitch. 

Lol public chats in mmos get go from funny to weird to uh um......🤐

I know the feeling. Back when I played SWTOR and there is this voice that can't be more than 10 and he's screaming about doing very unnatural things to people's avatars.....

I felt abandoned when I played ME:A

I don't know what this malarkey is about no closure. I've finished one run and the story has exactly what it should from a literary pov. A beginning, middle and end. The plot was resolved with an opportunity for more.

You beat me to it, lol. So many plot threads left hanging, and no real closure. MEA seems more like a sequel bait rather than an actual standalone game.

Because MEA supposed to be a new version of ME1 - a big opening to completely different story. Maybe not another trilogy, but at least 2 games with some DLC's.
Do you think anyone in BW or EA predicted that the whole thing will finish so badly ? Big world premiere, under the sign of "her face is tired" ? No, they haven't been prepared for that. No one was. Ok, at some point, after patch 1.10 or something MEA will become a game which supposed to be on 21 march, but it's already too late. Even if somehow /don't believe in that/ we will get any DLC, and if any kind of MEA 2 will ever happen, it will be many lightning years from now...

Yeah, but ME1 got ME2 and ME3.
ME2 was already on pre-production stage when ME1 been released.
Will MEA ever get MEA2 ? Will we ever get any answers ?
As far as we know BW is now focused on Anthem, and probably DA4. Even patches for MEA are done right now by external company...

I have.
MEA development takes 5 years /well, some sources says 18 months.../, MEA2 is not in development as far we know, so... 2021-2022 is the best scenario ? I'm sure thousands of people will be waiting so long for another game, especially if after 4 months most of the people lost interest on MEA completely.

Yeah, I remember people being annoyed about how the campaign ended.

To be fair, it was a pretty massive cliffhanger. I liked how they made Trespasser a proper epilogue DLC.