The ME:A 'Story DLC Cancelled' Sinclair Networks Facebook hoax

The hypocrisy on this board is amazing. All I've been hearing since ME:A was released is how the game was never given a fair shake, how fans mad about other things went out of their way to attack the game, and it wasn't judged on its merits. NOW, some of these same people are talking about doing the exact same thing to Anthem because they're mad that resources were taken away from ME:A to focus on it.

Just amazing.

3 months.

If Bioware nor EA say anything about this or don't release any Story SP DLC, then these rumours ME:A is shelved are true.

Why 3 months? Because it goes way beyond Bioware's DLC release schedule. If they make no announcement within next 3 months, then SP DLC's line up is truly canned.

Only hope there could be by that point is Bioware developing a major expansion instead of typical DLC's, but then we'd be truly grasping for straws if Bioware makes no announcement way ahead of time. With grasping straws, I give until 1 year anniversary of ME:A release. If no announcement by that point, then ME franchise is put on ice indefinitely.

BW/EA could just say they're working on DLC and make all the rumors and articles invalid.
But they prefer to keep Schrödinger DLC as long as they can to keep interest in MEAMP for the microtransactions, and of course not to make ME fans mad about gutting BW Montréal/MEA for the sake of Anthem/SWBF2/SW2018.

What? Sinclair Networks was referenced in previous articles going all the way back to the facial animation fiasco. Him saying he doesn't know of them isn't credible. He was probably banking on the public not knowing the connection, but he was wrong.

Also, your attempt to dictate people's opinions is really distasteful. Brown-nosing the devs and leveraging your mod status at the expense of your user base isn't a good strategy. Ian hasn't posted here in quite a while.

The post wasn't about how people should spend their money, it was about people being hypocrites.  If someone has said I don't see why a person would want a game or Bioware to fail, and then says I hope Anthem fails, they're a hypocrite plain and simple.  That's only one example.

They probably broke their Non Disclosure Agreement putting that out, and someone from EA/Bioware may have said take it down or else.  Or someone from their own legal department. 

Could be one of the reasons. Another one might be pressure from all their clients. And they are the biggest players in the game industry. Bethesda, Ubisoft, EA/Bioware, to name only a few of them.

If this was an unsolicited statement, they can be in legal troubles on the side. The poster, who isn't named, but obviously uses their official FB account, also spoke about their boss having argued for story DLCs, but couldn't get through with what they call Bioware "bigwigs". So, there's obviously someone higher up than the one making the original post.

If it turns out to be true (this whole thing turned out to be pretty bizarre, so I have my doubts!) then Anthem had nothing to do with it, Bioware did for it's mismanagement of the MEA development cycle. Then EA for pushing out a game that clearly wasn't ready to see the light of day, which surprise surprise rightly got slaughtered for being a mess. They actually thought the public would just be happy to see a new ME game and suck it all up regardless, that's how dumb & for granted they think we are. Then in another surprise, the game wasn't rated very highly and sales weren't as they had hoped, which is our fault apparently, for not wanting to buy their dross they called a full, fit for public release game.

Worth keeping in mind when you next see DLC (if it comes) or one of their games available to order.

I don't think solid time limits work in this industry. Age of Empires II received a DLC 17 years or so after its release, so never say never! ;p

OT: Although I'm personally not interested in any further DLC because I'm not immersed in the story at all I feel bad for the people here who waited all this time only to be extremely dissapointed by this news. Even though this is, of course, still not an 'official' source I get the feeling that it's, for the time being, over for Mass Effect Andromeda. I sincerely hope for you guys that Bioware/EA will change this stance in the near future, but I won't really hold my breath.

That's largely down to a failed PR stunt. A stunt aimed at pushing Origin Access. They released the first ten hours of buggy and unpatched game to the general public, while serious reviewers didn't get their copies. That resulted in a well deserved shitstorm on youtube before the game even was released, complete with the first patch. Well deserved, because it show how a cheap publicity stunt to push another product can backfire.