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

because they naturally wanted to focus on the best selling and most well received games to wow the investors. they obviously weren't going to mention a game with mixed reception unless specifically asked. and mixed reception =/= a total disappointment. again, if it were so, he wouldn't have lied about it and said they have strong expectations for the future

ME3 did 6 million over 5 years, not in it's first week. In it's first week it did 3.5 million.

Since they don't "force" people to buy the game... how do they "force people" to pay top dollar for it.  They set a price and it's your option whether you want to buy it or not.  Their products also go on sale.  I bought ME:A on sale at about 50% off.  It was a new disc in the box from a reputable supplier in a sanctioned sale by EA.  I consider the game to be well worth the money I paid for it.  I was not charged anything for any of the patches nor do I expect to be charged for any future patches.  What you're alleging is just blatantly false.

That's what I said.  He expected the game to 30-50% of its lifetime sales in the first week, and said ME3 sold 6 million, which would mean that 50% of lifetime sales in the first week would be 3 million.  He based that week one total off doing at least as well as ME3 lifetime and having 50% of those sales week one.

But at the end of the day, the initial sales are irrelevant.  Let's say for argument's sake that it had 3 million sales week one.  Those pre-orders and day one sales would have been made off the popularity of the original trilogy.  Now let's say for argument's sake that the sales fell off the table and plummeted after the initial release and their forecasters are now predicting that the game will only do 4.5 million total or less lifetime.  The Andromeda name would not have gotten the traction they had hoped for, and they may not think it's viable going forward.  They could be looking at data showing that a less than expected amount of people finished the game, or finished it more than once.  There may be a large number of people who have not played it since recently.  There could be any number of reason why they wouldn't release future content even of the game did had strong initial sales.

I have an Anthem question along those lines too. Is there any indication that Anthem will be subscription-based, or are they relying on games like Battlefield to do that work for them? There is a lot of investor information about how much time and money players spend on subscriber-based games, which led me to wonder about Anthem.

You pretty much just ignored everything I wrote after initial sales are irrelevant lol.

I don't think it's going to be an MMO like SWTOR.  Those are the ones that would have subscriptions.  Micro transactions on the other hand, it will almost definitely have those. 

OMG I am laughing so hard. Every tweet to the devs is from a new person on Twiter, spamming them to death with threats and demands for DLC. Where did all the hate for the game go? :lmfao:

Yeah I think some have forgotten it's holiday haha... or that Canada even exists...

IIRC, they specifically mentioned MP content.  I'm sure the game will keep getting that because they can make money off of that.  Also, new content could be anything, from patches, the enhancing the character creator, to making Jaal a romance option for male Ryder.  You don't find it odd that they would specifically mention MP content and not SP content?