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

No one's considering how much it would cost to remaster the OT in Frostbite, because that's the engine it would be remastered in. All new mocap, new assets, new...everything. The only thing they would have to reuse is the voice acting and sound effects. I suspect they'd rather roll the dice on a new MDK game before going down the road of a OT remaster.

Ummm, Bioware and EA are the ones walking all over us by releasing a mediocre game, and you that love this game just let them get away with it if it was up to you. More mediocrity! We don't care how bad it is, we'll buy it anyways! Take our money!"

Luckily the backlash has resulted in change.

Only in your narrow view.

Hey we both agree on something finally lol but I know they will do better. My faith remains strong for future games. This game helped me through a rough time in my life, so for now I am grateful for it even existing.

Really? Since my ems was below 1750, and I destroyed the base in ME2, the only choice my Shepard had, not counting the refuse, since I never choose it, is destroy. So it would be hard to have control as the canon ending since mine never chose it.

Even if the control thing was the canon, and Shepard was the sam thing, it would tell the rookie to have Dunn turn the ship around and go back to Earth since Hab 7 was a bust.

 Destroy wouldn't be the only option. It depends on what the player did with the base in ME2. Save it, control is the only option with ems that low. 

I've sped through ME3 many times and still got the breath scene.

Yeah, it was problematic the way it was handled from start to finish. LGBT community as a rule seems like a fair portion of people feel antagonized, marginalized, victimized and mistreated, and over the years they have been in RL as a group. So BW really failed  on that one. The blame does lay with them because frankly, the m/m relationship they had or perhaps the character left much to be desired. I'm straight and just talking to Gil in one game made me wonder how that would go over. It's not the shuttle pilot from ME3 who was a great character IMHO with in general an interesting story even if execution wasn't stellar. That whole situation was just screaming for blowback and frankly I don't blame them. It's a hot button topic and that BW  in their infinite wisdom failed to be prepared or heck, just make a better romance in the first place is on them. But once you have a group like that (and I don't mean LGBT but any group that feels marginalized in any way) dealing with a situation where they feel marginalized yet again and by someone or something they trusted not to do that, anyone who doesn't say exactly what they want to hear or agree with them 100% runs the risk of quite a bit of hostility. I know. I have seen it with my brother (who is gay). There were times and topics I felt just best to say nothing out of concern that if i didn't say exactly what he wanted to hear or say it exactly the way he wanted to hear it, it would be hurtful to him or he might not understand why I thought the way I did. Outside of those kinds of situations, we don't really have those issues, but once something triggers him (or triggered him as this was mostly a while ago), it was best to say nothing. 

I'm sorry people attacked you and took offense at your view of things. Probably also having a lot of younger people who are still dealing with these issues, having not really come into their own yet or not really felt secure about it or at least not marginalized made it much worse. Still no excuse for treating you that way. It's just that tightrope walk. Sometimes even damned  if you do, damned if you don't. I'm really sorry you had to deal with that. Maybe chill with the more relaxed folk here for a while and get that stuff off your mind. There are some really nice folks here in the general section. 

I never found it logical to spare the base. I have a couple of times just to have more ems in ME3 even if its only 10 points.
Really? From what I remember about MEA, Ryder was making the choices in MEA.

Yeah but if you thought like Shepard (I had just finished the trilogy, so my mindset was stuck lol), you end up with less good results. It's a very Paragon-like game.