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

I mean I don't feel personally abandoned, that ship sailed with ME3.

But I can't help but feel that MEA was abandoned

That's the problem there people who saw the reviews and the gameplay videos bought it anyway regardless of the price drop. If you wanted to make a statement to ea then vote with your wallet. Then again if me a sold poorly it would've meant the end of the franchise which would please some people here I believe

Honestly I think most of us get that ME is nostalgic and kind of over because Shepard was such a huge part of it, and that reboots rarely live up to the originals, in movies or in games -- however, if Anthem had been revealed to be a whole new *story-driven action-RPG franchise* (with online co-op OPTIONAL at NO DETRIMENT to the story experience) that could attract the old ME base and more, then I don't think people would be feeling as disregarded (I do think that's a better word than abandoned). I think it's not just how much better Anthem looks, but also the kind of game it is -- one that some ME fans will like, but only because they ALSO like that very different kind of game, not because it offers a similar gaming experience. It's like they not only abandoned the Mass Effect IP to an inexperienced (if passionate) team, but then decided that they didn't even care about making a game friendly to the "Mass Effect player" at all -- the kind of player who really loves that unique style of gameplay -- and they were the only company even doing something like that. It's like we either get exploratory RPGs like Bethesda games with soulless stories or narrative-driven shooters, and ME was special in that it bridged those two worlds (better imho than DA does that -- at least for me -- I actually felt genuinely emotional playing some scenes in ME and I have never felt that way playing DA or any other RPG).

I don't feel abandoned, I just felt EA or Bioware should have put this team on Andromeda from the jump. What i'm seeing in Anthem could have easily been restructured as Andromeda for a fresh new start.

My only concern now is that it may be a looong time before we get another ME game being that the team that made Andromeda has been disbanded and the team that made the OT is working on Anthem and when Anthem is done, i'm sure the team is going to take a break.

If and when another ME game is created, i would like this team handling Anthem to take a crack at it tho..

To me, Mass Effect ended the moment Captain Anderson died on my shoulders atop the Citadel and the Reapers were destroyed -- in my mind, space-kid & Andromeda never happened.

So I'm actually ok with Bioware moving on to a new action, shooter IP.

My heart is with Dragon Age; as long as the next Dragon Age is on-par with the quality I saw in the Anthem trailer I will be satisfied.

If I don't get another Dragon Age or if the next one is made in the same vein as Andromeda...then, I will feel 'abandoned'.

No. Now if they drop(ped) DA before giving us Tevinter...

I imagine ME-related easter eggs in Anthem would go over pretty well. The fandom would engage in lively discussions, and some might take the initiative and send long letters of feedback to the developers made of magazine cutouts and obscene pictograms. 

More frustrated if ME has been put into the freezer whilst they spends their time on what seems to be a useless generic mmo.

Again I will say, if they wanted a Destiny/Division clone, why not set it in the ME universe?

There are no reasons why we can't have different types of games in the same IP.

I am not buying Anthem, or any other EA or Bioware game again, unless it's in the ME IP that I love.

Not "abandoned". I doubt the devs - who are awesome - intend to leave fans in the cold.

I do feel salty, though. Anthem stroke me as visually beautiful, but essentially soulless. My reaction was along the lines of "Andromeda could have looked like THAT, but instead they spent their time and resources and expertise in this MMOish bullshit that was clearly commisioned by EA because "ONLINE" and "DRM" and "NO BUDGET FOR VA OR WRITERS"?

Fuck this!"

So yeah, I'm kinda pissed.

Honestly, unless they -and by they I mean the Evil Overlords ofEA themselves - go public and spell it out "We're working on Andromeda DLC, the franchise is not on ice and you'llhear news about the follow up to Andromeda in the not too distant future", I'm pretty much done.

Andromeda radio-silence was crap, the so-called "marketing campaign" led people by their noses for at least 3 years "we can't wait to show you more in six months", yada, yada, yada, and the fans stuck around. The game shipped full of tired faces, and the fans stuck around. The reports of it being on ice disappointed a lot of us, but the fans are sticking around.

And the prize is "here, MMO BS no one asked for".

Yeh,I'm pretty salty.

I don't know about VA, but there are quite a few writers working on Anthem, some of them undisputedly from BioWare's A list like Mary Kirby.

I never feel abandoned by something as trivial as a game company. I'm a consumer and if the next product they publish isn't to my liking, I won't buy it. As simple as with any other product.

In this case, and as a journalist, this article, as opposed to the kotaku one, really is only built on anecdotal evidence. Taking random quotes from random posters isn't doing the job. It's an opinion piece, based only on opinion. Also the comparisons of the visuals between MEA and Anthem doesn't say anything. Many of us will remember the leaked footage from early 2016 where MEA seemed to be on the same level as Anthem. It has become one of the MEA memes. One of the better ones, since it really showed that visuals regressed. Who's to say, the same won't happen with Anthem? E3 is the place to show off. That's a presentation, not the game as it will hit the shelves in almost two years.