IF Mass Effect truly is dead, will/should EA/Bioware even announce this?

Yeah that's true, Disney gets the final veto on everything about it. Just meant that KOTOR keeps being referred to as dead throughout this thread when there's still a continuation of that IP being currently worked on.
Again, however I don't think ME is dead. From all reports MEA still made money and it's waaaaaaay too early to freak out about DLC not being announced considering Bioware's last game, DAI, which had the developer's most successful launch, didn't get DLC announced til 5 months after launch. And I would take the Kotaku article with a pinch of salt. The original article had to be reedited because of false information, and the idea that Bioware was planning to start producing the next game right away sounds absurd to me. Like, how can they take into consideration feedback from the previous game, if they've already ploughed straight ahead into the next one? It takes time for the majority of players to finish what is a 100 hour game and give their complaints/praise. It takes even longer to collect this and learn from it. They didn't rush in to making the next Dragon Age game right away, I don't know why they would do it with Mass Effect either.

Yeah I agree with that!

I joined back when DAI launched. Guess I missed a lot lol

i think we both missed a lot of fun times with me 3. Lol

Lol it was tame by then in comparison.  You should have see DA2 and ME 3 ending wars.  It was like the rachni wars and krogan rebellion of the bioware forums.

It got to the point where Chris Priestly was banning people left and right. Then he quit and joined CDPR.

Entire subforums were being shut down.  The virtual casualties were everywhere.

I'm just saying that it would change the narrative.  Like I said in my other post after the reception DA2 got they just put out a few screenshots, a couple of the new areas and one that hinted there may be Grey Warden involvement.  Then that's what people started talking about, instead of just reused areas, the game being rushed, etc.

I hated DA2, but because I still wanted to give it a chance, when I saw the screens I said, oh, Bioware is listening, they've added some new areas, maybe they'll fix this wave combat too.  I kept an ear to the forums just to get updates, and I actually bought Legacy.  It ultimately didn't inspire to play the game again, and I didn't get Assassin, but at the time, when there was a lot of negativity around the game, and just something as little as a few screen caps changed the narrative.  Had they not done that I would have uninstalled, just dropped the game completely and probably would not have come back when the DLC was actually released.

If they released some screens of a new planet, or even something on an existing planet as well.  People would start talking about it.  Is this the Quarians golden world, that looks like Kadara, are we going to get to resolve the Sloane/Reyes conflict.  People would have something else to talk about and really look forward too.  If they've actually been working on DLC they have something they can tease.

Well, to be even more detailed, KOTOR3 scenario and story-line was adopted for SWTOR, a massive game that is available for the last five years and delivers as much SW-themed BioWare experience as one could handle in TOR setting. One can talk about discontinuation of JE setting, but TOR one is still releasing content. It might be in a slightly different format of delivery, but it is in no way a discontinued IP. I wielded blasters and lightsabres to my heart's content for 3 years in TOR, getting way more out of it than I could ever had hoped to get from kotor3.

Good point. I even read where someone mentioned that half of the Bioware store is ME related stuff and if EA came out and said that MEA is dead, that could effect sales in a negative way.

Mass Effect is not dead, just put to rest for a while.