I think a 5+ year Break for MEA2 is a good thing

There will be SP DLC...and ME:A 2 in a few years...some people will be happy, less people will be unhappy because ME didnt die like they really hoped it would

I've thought a good bit about whether or not I'm happy about Mass Effect being supposedly put on ice. It's obviously not official but it's easy to believe.

I honestly think it is a good thing and I hope whatever team picks it up continues the MEA story. Considering Mass Effect especially MEA is at its core about space exploration with an engaging story/plot, I think it would benefit the series to wait until the technology is better to provide a true space game that takes the training wheels off. By training wheels I mean the limitations of exploration and semi on rails experience.

I want the next game to fully allow me to control my space ship and fly between planets. I want to be able seemlessly travel between vast open alien wilderness to sprawling metropolises similar to how we can seemlessly do that in games like the Witcher 3 or Skyrim.

I also want the technology to evolve enough to allow for more quantity with the same pedigree of quality that people came to expect after ME2. So basically, I am ok with waiting until the generation of hardware is released before we get another Mass Effect.

And I think we'll get there in 5 or 6 years easily. I could be wrong but I think putting the series on ice is a goood thing

Yeah, but I'm of the opinion that the 'average' consumer doesn't care much for user reviews, forums or obscure youtube channels, the savvy consumer knows how to filter protest down-rating and franchise fans for the most part will buy the product anyway and review against how their own expectations were met.     When you look at the average to negative reviews, professional in magazines, or fan ones posted here and on youtube, they are pretty much all focused on the production values and problems with the story, not the two offending lines of dialogue that triggered the alt-right.  Same as Star Wars, the complaints are mostly centred around similarity to ANH or over-fan-servicing, with zero complaints about the female protagonist or the casting of John Boyega as a Stormtrooper that were all over the internet prior to release.    

I think some people are giving too much credit to the influence of politically motivated trolling.

At least the EA brass made it very clear that the had indecent dreams over catching at least some of the COD audience. Especially Riccitiello was pretty vocal about that before the release of ME3, when he wasn't busy giving interviews where he downgraded COD. I think they managed, in part. In the wrong part, I would say, since with tacking on simple horde mode MP to all their games, they've attracted a lot of casuals, only interested in shooting up everything that moves, who may be partly responsible for the shitstorms their games are facing. As I said before, I've never seen that much of social hatred and bigotry before DAII in the reviews. And it got worse from there. From game to game.

According to all informations they gave it a lot of resources and time for development. To assume EA would willingly sink a multi million dollar investment and countless hours of manpower, is absurd. I tend to believe the Kotaku article on what really happened. Obviously a chaotic situation but not intent.

I did that for DAI since the load times were so awful on my below-min-spec rig. My hours played total is ridiculous.

What's wrong with Origin? I find Steam more annoying since it updates more frequently.

For people who love traditional Bioware game's,it's easy to understand the ever growing bitterness of fans,Bioware games have slowly been devolving under EA's management to the point where Andromeda doesn't even feel like a Bioware game,the focus clearly being on shooting stuff and multi-player.

in some game franchises, the best games comes from it's 2nd iteration..... ME2, Uncharted 2, Resident Evil 2 ...Silent Hill 2.....