Kotaku - Sources: Mass Effect: Andromeda Will Not Get Single-Player DLC

Ugh. I hate politics in general and have no idea why should it be even mentioned on a video game forum...

I read that as " we really want to tell you and will as soon as we can."

How I read that is :

"I'm not sure if I still have a job or not, but here's how we've always done it in the past."

lol  Wild how we can see something and get totally different things from it. 

Oh, and not to sidetrack this off to Anthem, but...   They really did a great job at stemming the bleeding out of the company with SWTOR.  Let's see if Anthem can't bleed out the company completely this time.

Social media definitely played a big part in how MEA launched, that's for sure. I'm pretty certain that had the sales figures and reviews been exactly the same, but there hadn't been any of the memes and mockery online, things wouldn't seem so gloomy right now.

In Mike Laidlaw's recent podcast interview, when discussing the chances of a Jade Empire 2, he talked about how they basically have people who in very simple terms monitor 'buzz' about games and how people discuss them online - I think that sort of thing is playing a huge part in what's going on with MEA right now.

During the first month after launch, pretty much every single post from the official BioWare and Mass Effect twitter accounts was just bombarded with mockery, gifs of glitches and memes - that won't have gone unnoticed and I'm pretty sure right now they're more concerned with the franchise's prestige and standing in the eyes of gamers, rather than actual sales figures (which despite what certain youtubers like to claim, weren't abysmal)

That said, now pretty much every tweet  from the official BioWare and Mass Effect accounts is bombarded with single-player DLC questions, so who knows?

Yeah it's not that bad at all. As I've said before hate for Andromeda started the second it was announced. It could have been solid gold and people would still call it gold plated shit.

Oh and another thing to note is Ian's reaction to SN's claims of no story DLC:

Wait Kotaku was already attacking MEA pre-launch?

It was all over the net just 1 day before SN, and then when we stopped that, Kotaku showed up, so now I can't find it without serious digging.

I'm just wondering if tying up loose ends meant the novel.

Hmm. I doubt it. The books are meant to explain some of the stuff that happens when Ryder's not around, not tie up any loose plot threads in the game. Plus the books wouldn't bring in the same revenue as DLC.

That was uncalled for. I'm as entitled to my opinion as you are. So chill with the rudeness.