EA/BW transparency/marketing

Who says the loose ends weren't leading up to a planned direct sequel instead of DLC.  Maybe no DLC was ever really planned and they decided to double down by planning to go directly into a second game quickly... but the game sales are giving them pause... or the voice actor's strike is preventing them from going into production on that second game.  The reality here is that the whole fan base is just pretending to know what's going on.  What they need to do is develop just even a little touch of some patience and wait until Bioware is able to tell us their plans... and they should also just stop trying to tell Bioware how to make a video game.  Bioware has done a pretty good job in the past... a better job without all this ridiculous level of "fan input" that they've endured since ME3.

LOL, "aren't very forgiving"--understatement of the century.  

I agree that this silence on DLC isn't working -- from here, it feels like they are making MEA fans worry that their game is dead, making general Mass Effect series fans worry that their favorite franchise is dead, and letting the game fall out of consumer memory fast; the news about DLC/ME's future from Kotaku and elsewhere has already caused people to move on and deinstall the game. HZD and BOTW have already confirmed DLC last month. I feel like they just need to get on with it already. Their continued silence after the articles makes me think the info was good and no DLC is coming. If the series is really "on ice" they need to tell people that soon, because the silence after all this bad news makes bad vibes between BW and its fans (ME fans, anyway, which maybe they don't care about keeping...).

I don't see an actual problem here. Can you elaborate?

if there's no DLC but there is a sequel, then either the fate of the Quarian ark will be backstory for the sequel, or it'll be a plot point in the sequel. Either way works.

I agree with you, but only IF there is a sequel (as you said). And so far there isn't any evidence of it. 

And my problem is that I've always hated unfinished stories. And this does not apply only to videogames.

Your response is a good example of how people "normalize" the gaming industries inept behaviour.

1/ If I cut content from a game,I would not draw people's attention to the fact.....why on earth would anyone end a game using "cliff hanger"content that you purposely removed from the game.????

2/The only reason Bioware would indicate the existence of "cut" content is because...... A/Bioware intends to release it as DLC.....or....B/Bioware thought it would be cool (it's not).......or....C/Bioware haven't got a clue what they are doing.

3/Bioware is under no obligation to respond to anything......correct.....the latest Resident Evil game ends with a blatant advert for free DLC,which fans are still waiting for..........so Capcom acknowledged the delay,released a video stating the DLC they produced was not good enough,so they scrapped it and started again "sorry for the delay,were on it"........that's bad news but great PR and great transparency........Bioware's PR on the other hand is....shit.......no one knows anything about anything.
  
4/Andromeda's patch process is not normal,no normal process includes overhauls of scenes......Andromeda isn't finish,it's subject to change,so any Andromeda DLC would be put on hold.......bug fixing/patching is not the same as bug fixing,patching and retooling/finishing the game.......it's a very different context.

5/Mark Darrah cleverly lists a bunch of reasons why Bioware (or any company) can't respond.......they are nothing but examples......again,Bioware avoids transparency via an answer that isn't really answering anything.

At the end of the day,people are supporting and defending poor business/PR practices,surrounding a game that has steered the Mass Effect franchise into the rocks,to the point where we speculate over,ever seeing another Mass Effect game.People are quick to forget the waves of staff leaving Bioware,the closure of their forums in the guise of better communication,the lead writer who came from Halo (and then left),the sales pitch of recapturing the same vibe as Mass Effect 1 (it's nothing like ME1) and I'm not even going to touch what Kotaku reported regarding Andromed's development..........sorry but none of this is deemed normal in my book.

I don't have issue with the reality of Bioware's business/creative processes.......it's none of my business.......but I don't like the lies,the PR bullshit,the Bio-drone blinkered way of seeing thing's,it just hinders real debate and understanding.

So here we all are,I speculate,you disagree and speculate with a response,some one else counters the point with more speculation and on and on..............so yeah,to keep the thread on point,Bioware and transparency would be very constructive.

Wait a minute.... what cut content are we talking about here? I don't think the Quarian ark was cut out any more than Omega was cut from ME3. They put a hook for future content in rather than take existing content out.

Such things have happened before. Javik and Shale were both cut from their games before returning as DLC. But I like that Bio was honest about Shale. (I don't know if they would have been honest about Javik, but the leak rendered that moot.) I thought you wanted transparency too.

He's responding to me saying that the Quarian Ark is likely cut content.

Yes indeed I know that in Middle Earth life goes on and stuff continues to happen.
But I would not have been happy if I couldn't know what happened to the people at Mordor's gate after Frodo destroyed the Ring.
Besides, I am not using the right example because Tolkien went too far with his closure, letting us know a lot of unnecessary stuff that I hated.
Closure =/= I want to know whatever happens later til the death of every single character.
But asking for a plot to close its loose ends, well that's another matter, and I don't see it as a greedy request.

Yes,this is why I show concern because EA is pretty much the embodiment of poor PR.

Ah, got it. Is there evidence of that? What I've seen makes the Quarian ark look like content that was always going to be DLC, same as Omega or LotSB.

I don't have any direct evidence; I was just going off of the urgency of the person who tells you about it, how the message is already in the base game, and the blog post the developer wrote a few years ago that's basically "this is why DLCs are a thing" and it's mostly because of cut content. So yeah, really just an assumption on my part.