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

If Bioware's response is:


Then:



If their response is:
                                                     YES.............................................THEN:

I doubt very many people that know anything about art will agree with that. 

And yet... smears are being sold for milliions of whatever your curreny is, because the 'painter' is good at bullshitting people into thinking it means something deep.

That said, I do agree to a point. A verily skilled painter may use very difficult detailed techniques, at which point, indeed the value may rightfully rise.

Today's western journalism, flights of fancy and the more outlandish the better.

Yet "the world" did think some of those things, and turned out to be wrong.



Quality can really only be determined in relationship to underlying requirements and expected use.

If I find John Doe's painting a better fit for the decor and mood of my LR than a Picasso piece, then John Doe's painting would get a better rating on the quality scale for that application.

Despite the endless crowing about TW3, since I've zero interest in Geralt, his world, or his life, that series means nothing to me. I care about Ryder, her world, her cohorts, and her story, thus MEA better meets my personal requirements and is thus higher quality for my application.

MEA is just an unfinished lgbt sjw dating simulator with thousands of tedious fetch quests,

Anthem is the real mass effect game we were waiting for, even though it doesn't have the mass effect title on it,
Drew Karpyshyn is writing the game, the guy who wrote ME1 and 2, so, the good me games

OK derps how in the hell is MEA an "sjw dating simulator"? Try explaining it with out resorting to hyperbole if you are even capable of doing that.

My understanding is that EA has no intention to let Bioware create another Mass Effect any time soon, but that doesn't mean "never". Unless they sell the IP to anyone else (who knows, Disney already bought Star Wars, maybe they are interested in Mass Effect as well), they will eventually revive it, it's too valuable an asset to not use it, but I wouldn't expect another game within the next ten years.

Another possibility is that the new Anthem universe will make Mass Effect obsolete. That does not seem very likely, because Anthem does not really sound like anything I've never seen before... but then again, if I ever heard a description of Mass Effect universe before I played it, I might have thought of it as "yet another Star Trek". So, we'll see. It is possible that in ten years people will think of Mass Effect only as "some relatively they did before Anthem, back when AAA games sold only a few million copies, not hundreds of millions".

I am quite certain that Andromeda is dead, however. Even if they bring another Mass Effect game, it will rather be a continuation of the original trilogy, which implies choosing a canonical set of story choices and a canonical Shepard. (Gawd, I once dared to refer to Darth Revan as 'she' in an SW:TOR forum. Believe me, once there is a canonical way, the lore-mongers will burn you in flame and explain in detail how the way implied in the lore is right and every other way is wrong and only a moron would ever choose anything other than the way that is obviously "the truth"™.)

It's a good and somewhat surprising thing that Bioware is still releasing patches though. I am not sure whether that is so very economically seen a good choice - it's not likely they will sell a lot more copies of the game and the developers working on it could instead be helping with Anthem or whatnot - but I do still have a faint hope that we'll see an add on that brings closure on one of the minor story arks.

On what do you base this "certainty" that they will canonize a Trilogy ending and just drop the ME:A story... I think it's just wishful thinking pulled out of your arse because I've seen no such indication from them that they are planning such a thing.  They have repeatedly said no to making a Trilogy ending canon over the last 5 years, so without a firm indication from them that they've changed their mind on that front, you have absolutely nothing to be certain about.

... and they sell them for prices similar to what you can buy a lot of work done by the local artists around here.  Not Picasso rates... but who know what will happen after they've been dead a 60 years or so.

Nope, I think your view on it being objective is subjective.
Nor do strawman arguments change that.

However, you're welcome to your subjective opinion on your objectivity and so am I 

The closest I think we can get to objectivity on MEA is that it is a polarizing game;
some think it is good, some think it is bad and others that it is mediocre or flawed.