EA/BW transparency/marketing

LOL....give me a break,we are not talking about Fallout5 or Skyrim2 or Witcher4.......we are talking DLC for Andomeda......stop trying to justify EA/Bioware's rather pathetic PR.

Bioware themselves more or less put Quarian DLC on the Andromeda menu.......you can't end a game in that way and expect people not to ask questions.......and you certainly can't ignore those who ask the questions. 

why not?

No, they don't owe anything, but they need to be aware that fans don't like vague comments and in the end of the day it's their fans that spend money on their products thus deciding the fate of the game and not the investors and shareholders.
Examples: Bethesda - paid mods, GTA - banned mods getting negative reviews, Hitman and DEMD failed to reach sales mark, Square Enix/Paradox Interactive getting negative reviews for raising prices after game release and no proper localisation for the region they released the game.

Not me, anyone that believes there will be a DLC due to vague comments and will spend time and money on MEAMP in hopes there is a DLC.
Again this thread is about their transparency and not specifically the DLC, as it's not the only thing they're silent on.
They didn't comment on the downsizing of Montréal, did someone lose their job after MEA release?, was someone fired if they refused to join Motive Studios and preferred to stay on MEA?

Their PR stance is highly likely a legal one that people who do not understand business practices cannot or willfully will not comprehend. And yes, I will defend their practice all I want because I am wise enough to know that there are things that often cannot be discussed due  to legal implications be it a basic NDA or something like SEC regulations. Do I know what the reasons are? No. But I don't need  to know them to understand that if they could tell us they would because it really is not in their best interest to not tell us when the hype alone would very likely guarantee them far more money. 

So you give me a break and try to use your mind to comprehend something outside your current level of understanding.

You miss the point, fans don't care about legal stuff and PR bullshit.
If there are legal reasons they ain't talking about stuff, then all their forms of communications with fans are null, and nothing but pretending to "engage" while still not talking about stuff.
This duality of "we engage with our fans but we actually don't" is an issue.

There is no duality in this statement. It's a PR statement in itself. A quite basic one that's used by many companies. Not only in gaming.

Also, it's less the legal stuff dictating corporate communications. It's simply the basic rule of never to communicate a negative. Every message is geared at creating positivity. That's why you always read words like "exciting", "new approach", "we care for our customers/fans", stuff like that.

Exactly.

There have been multiple employees that have said "there are things we just cannot talk about" which means no matter how many angry forum posts or moronic clickbait articles/YouTube Videos are made they won't talk about it until they are able to.  EA is a lot more afraid of pissing off investors then players for investors cost them a lot more money and when it is dictated that you cannot talk about something rarely it is the PR department making that decision, its been made by people that can order your termination.

I really don't understand why people are demanding to know if DLC is in the works anyway.  Its not like you are being forced not to move on and play other games and if there is DLC come back when it is released.  If you have moved on and don't want to play anymore then BioWare is losing out on that sale, but frankly as posted above they are more nervous of multi-million dollar lawsuits from investors then the possibility of some fans being upset they weren't given a guarantee that DLC is on the way.

It really is all about the articles. If there were none, everyone would be chill right now I bet.

It is duality, fans are fans and investors are investors, they can't say the same bullshit they do to investors to their fans and pretend we will just accept it.
You're either open to talk about stuff or you don't, anything in between is pure shit.
If you say "we work on something" you should expect the following question "what are you working on?", and if the answer is "can't talk about it" then you shouldn't mention you work on something in the first place.
"Maybe's" are irrelevant, this isn't the quantum theory.
Let's just leave it as Schrödinger's DLC.

If we are to talk about legal stuff, here are some:
Negative GlassDoor reviews deleted - Why were they deleted?, what happened to those made the negative reviews?
No word about the downsizing and the 3 year troubled development - Did someone lose their job?, were people forced to move to Motive Studios or be fired?, what are the current working conditions at BW Montréal?, is HR even aware?

damn straight. You can make your point and then move on. There's a lot more than BioWare. Personally, Gearbox is a company that I want someone to expose. They've mastered the art of screwing over critics, fans and themselves. Of course, compared to EA, Gearbox are amateurs.

Fair enough... but to jump from the DLC is not produced yet to the DLC will never be produced is as real leap.  For all we know, they have some technical issues with it that they don't want to put a time limit on solving by announcing a DLC.  It could also be that they've temporarily stopped production because they're waiting on the VA strike to be resolved so they can finish recording for it... and not knowing when that strike might be settled, they don't want to commit to announcing it right now.  They could also have some unresolved contract disputes that their legal department are working on resolving... and they would almost certainly not talk about anything like that publicly.

There are a number of possible reasons for their not announcing it that are not "We don't want to announce that there will never be a DLC"... and that is what the "negative camp" is determined to not recognized... instead calling everyone else "delusional" for recognizing that, at this stage, a DLC is still possible (note:  not assured, but still possible).

They really love Twitter.  Perhaps @masseffect ...