EA/BW transparency/marketing

That's a relief! While my Consular was seriously neglected in KOTFE and KOTET, I did love the conclusion to that arc!

No, it would not be good public relations... It just fuels the badgering for the next round.  It's a slippery slope.  They answer to one trumped up/imaginary article to "pacify" fans who have been incited by this sort of slip-shod media, and they just immediately get hit with yet another article inciting a different riot over something else.  They'd be spending all their time putting out these internet fires... instead of making their games.  They'd be blowing all their budget on paying PR types to do that job instead of spending money on making their games. 

The impatient fans "won" when ME:A was not delayed a second time.  The fan "reaction" to the mere possibility of a further delay was very adamantly negative... and we all know the result of that, don't we?  The game was released in an unfinished state.

Fact is that developers love DLC.  It's easy money for them.  If they're rushed into it though, we will probably get a lesser quality DLC than we would if we just let them know we really want DLC, would likely buy it if they do it, and then just wait for them to make it.  Your copy of the game isn't a frog... it's not going to jump away in the meantime.

No, it wouldn't. Yes and no are commitments. With the No being a certain recipe for an avoidable shitstorm by not commenting. You have to keep in mind that you're not dealing with persons being up for a friendly chat here or the corner Deli that freely tells you what's on the menu. This are multi million dollar corporations answering to their shareholders. Everything that's said, apart from Gamble commenting on patch progress off and on, is filtered through their PR department. And one of the golden rules of PR is to never communicate a negative. If it can be avoided at all. And before anyone brings up the DA2 expansion again. They made a commitment by announcing a possible expansion. So in this case they had to comment, as opposed to MEA where they said nothing at all.

So, if there is a DLC, they will let you know. If there is none, they will let you know by not publishing one but not by communicating it's absence or the reasons. Same goes for the whole ME franchise for that matter.

Is the concept of not commiting themselves really so hard to understand? Is it so hard to understand that they can't comment, since they are not at liberty to comment?

What company do you work for? Would you be celebrated for taking to twitter to make a definite statement on what your company does or doesn't do? Or wouldn't you rather get the boot for saying something like that?

These aren't your buddies. These are leading employees of a major shareholder business.

Then they need to stop pretending they care about fan feedback, delete their forums, twitter and reddit and everything else.
Fans don't want PR talk, they can shove it to their investors in their fiscal reports.
The DLC either exists or not.

That is assuming there is a destination and the driver doesn't just go in circles pretending to reaching the destination.

Yeah you made an excellent point that when they catered to fans demanding the game out early, we got what we got. I am happy to wait for the next 2 months and just enjoy MEA as I always do in the meantime.

Wanting feedback on their products has got nothing to do with announcing products. They want feedback so that they can improve their products. That doesn't mean they have to announce their plans for a game after every article predicting doom. If they did that, it would show that they can be forced to change their schedule plans hence encouraging more of that behavior from both fans and journalists.

And there's a world of difference between giving fans every little detail of their plans and what they're doing and not interacting to their fans at all. Most reasonable people expect something in between.

Then just don't spend any of your money of MEAMP's microtransactions and stop caring whether or not anyone else does.  It's none of your business how they spend their money.

This is not about how anyone spends their money, this is about transparency.
Do people not care they give vague answers to keep interest in the game for possible profits through MEAMP's microtransactions?

To put it simply: there is no DLC, they are just using us for short-term profits through microtransactions, because they know the playerbase will decrease in MEAMP if they give a definitive "No" on the DLC.

Yeah they want a Warden/Hawke/Inquisitor thing, not a Shepard trilogy. However this was when people were shitting on Ryder for not being cool like Shepard (game wasn't even out yet), so that could change.

That's weird. The loose ends don't lead me to believe that they can all be tied up in a couple of DLC's.

good god, they are not "using" you for microtransactions. nobody is forcing you to spend money on their multiplayer.