EA/BW transparency/marketing

For EA?  Yea it is.  If they have decided that the ME series is either in hibernation or even dead they will never announce it.

That's a terrible analogy......asking "are we there yet" means the people asking know where they are going.

What we have,are people asking "where are we going?"..........Bioware,just remains silent and doesn't respond to anything you ask.......is that normal????

That's a terrible analogy......asking "are we there yet" means the people asking know where they are going.

What we have,are people asking "where are we going?"..........Bioware,just remains silent and doesn't respond to anything you ask.......is that normal????

Stop normalizing the fans' behavior towards Bioware.  Everything and anything that Bioware would say would be instantly scoffed, attacked, and memed over the entire internet.  The people now deriding Bioware for not producing a DLC within 3 months of the game releasing are the same ones who, not so long ago, were deriding the industry for producing day-one DLCs and not including everything in the vanilla game.  The same people who have been saying that DLCs are the bane of the industry... but now it's a sin for Bioware to not produce one within a very short time of the game releasing.

Even the best PR department cannot say what they themselves don't know yet.  If the Board of Directors of EA hasn't made a decision whether or not to do a DLC for Andromeda, the PR Department cannot, in good faith, tell the public anything either way.  If there are VAs that cannot be signed to work on the DLC because of the current VA strike, there is nothing Bioware can do about it... and no one knows when the strike will end.  It could end tomorrow or it could literally drag on for years.

It's that simple... Bioware are telling us that the CANNOT say anything about it at this time.  Why?  They may not know themselves yet whether or not there will be DLC.

Still, there are the fans blowing this all way over the top just like they did with the facial animations.  It's no conspiracy... but it is the mob "lemming" factor at work.   The reality is, it's not a "life and death" situation.   It makes no difference to any fan whether or not DLC is announced right now or later.  They have the game.  It's not going to decay on them.  They either like it now or they don't.  If they don't (and the most vocal fans complaining about this clearly don't like the game)... the DLC is not going to fix that for them.  They just want Bioware to "feed their trolling" and are so frustrated that Bioware isn't feeding them... that they have to make up hoax companies and fake news to drive their "anti-Bioware" hype trains and get clicks for themselves.

For gaming companies these days, it absolutely is normal.

This.

At this point I want there to be no DLC, just so it can put you all in your place for once.

... and I hope there is DLC... but not to put then negative nancies in their place (I think wishing for something expressly to "put someone else in there place" is a pretty petty thing to do).  I want DLC AND a sequel because I really want to find out more about this great story being woven in this game.  As I play more and more of this game... I'm finding that I don't just like it... I LOVE it.  It just has a ton of potential and has captured my imagination far and above any previous game I have ever played including the ME Trilogy.

Well, I mean, that's entirely up to you. If you refuse to buy games because you don't know if there will be any additional content, then that's your personal decision. As for me, I understand that businesses can only say so much. I also understand that Bioware does not have an obligation to its consumer beyond the released product (which they are continuing to support). If you simply didn't like the game and you didn't get the content you wanted, you can get your money back, and that's very different from Bioware abandoning a game. They are not doing that.

I worked as media assistant in a big company. Every single news about this company was carefully read every day and then it was discussed if they should take any action or make corrections / other towards the news.
Usually it was the best to remain silent. BioWare/EA's chosen strategy is silence. They aren't taking the steps to a more discussive and open media formula what other companies had took in recent years.

I think it is because they have so many different studios with their own agendas. With three (four? + EA's?) it would be ridiculously difficult to control the discussive style. The studios might be very independent and have different working cultures.

And the people of internet aren't very forgiving. Internet remembers every misinformation. More info = probably more drama / misunderstanding between the studios.

That being said I think EA and Bioware need to start to think a new strategy for their PR teams. This isn't working, they cannot get any lower and the mistrust is in there already. In this point, the silence is not making them look steady as my old company. Now the silence is a signal of worry.

Out of curiosity are they still planning to release the other two books? When will ME:Annihilation be released? Probably that could be a good measurement to see when and if a SP DLC will be released. It kind of make sense to sell those two quite close together.