Eurogamer claiming a source has told them no DLC is coming out...

I meant the revenue recognition problem, not RR itself.

Absolutely. All the reporter said was that the farmer said it, and that never changes.

Doesn't make it true though. 

The "revenue recognition problem" is why EA's corporate policy is "we can't talk about future plans." BioWare is EA. They are inextricably linked. Attempting to say that revenue recognition doesn't apply to DLC released after the game is really misleading.

And it bothers me as a fan of journalism that you think that one anonymous source is enough to base an entire story around.

Good journalists use anonymous sources, but those sources give direct quotes that can be used, the stories can be backed up with other facts, and there's more often than not a secondary source who goes on the record - not necessarily to back up what the anonymous source is claiming, but to provide context or other details.

What whats-his-fuckface did was not journalism. It was a cover-your-ass piece that basically confirmed what this "Sinclair Networks" had said, while acknowledging the fact that... oops, it turns out that Sinclair Networks was an absolute hoax, but we should still believe the information that these hoaxers put out there, because... reasons. And at the same time, it walked back his anonymous source, from someone who worked at Bioware in his earlier stories, to someone who is "familiar with" Bioware now. There's no second source, there's no directly attributable quotes, there's nothing there other than "this dude told me this thing and so you should believe it".

I've played Bioware games since BG1. Am I "familiar with" Bioware? Can I send out messages to people so that they can use me as an anonymous source? 

Blind item: Person "familiar with Bioware" says that Mass Effect Andromeda has really been a hoax this whole time, and that everyone who claims they've played the game is really a sockpuppet that can be traced back to one Lord I.P. Freely who is holding the real Mass Effect Andromeda hostage for a total of one BILLION dollars.

Journalism is necessary and important. What Fuckface von Clownstick did, and is doing, is not journalism. Journalists don't go after members of a message board and take screenshots of what they say and post it on twitter for mockery and abuse because their feefees got hurt.

The fact remains that these DLC sources revealed the news to at least two reporters immediately after the SN hoax. No matter how you splice it it's far too convenient to be a coincidence. I mean, why now? If there was never any DLC planned, why not leak this info to the press closer to the game's release when all eyes were on Andromeda and its failings and the news would have had an even bigger impact? If there was DLC planned but it was only recently cancelled, does this mean Sinclair Network was telling the truth? The fake Sinclair Network that doesn't exist accidentally correctly guessed at the right time that EA just cancelled DLC and immediately after they were exposed at least three people contacted journalists telling them the fake company was correct? Is that what happened?

And what do the anonymous sources gain by revealing this? What is their end goal here? Damaging EA/Bioware's reputation? If the news is true they could have just waited a couple more months and when people saw no DLC coming the result would have been the same, and these sources would have never risked their jobs by violating NDAs to get to the same result.

I just don't understand why it's so important for these anonymous sources that we all be mad at Bioware now.

That's the part in contention.

I think there's a fair chance there'll be no DLC due to the original Kotaku article, but to suggest its overwhelmingly likely when the only evidence to suggest it depends on the word of a journalist who's since shown himself to be a bit questionable and a story that shares a lot of similarities with an established hoax doesn't make sense.

Eurogamer say the same thing now, but as before it's unverified. It's still all matched against the fact that apparently all is well with finances on a game that is still being actively supported with voice actors apparently working in the background. That doesn't all somehow cease to exist.

Whose bargaining? I know there is DLC. I'll be playing it one day, months from now. I don't need to bargain for what I know and believe. I just need to have patience and trust and ignore all the naysayers and negative thinkers that believe naysayers because they can't imagine different. Life is good.

Honest question - is english your first language? What definition of 'true' are you using?

Hey guys, Montreal Comic Con has a BW panel on July 8th.

Link to Comic Con schedule?