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

That's kind of how I'm playing it too tbh. Whilst I hope MEA gets DLC as I think it needs it to cover up it's loose ends and I'd be disappointed if it dosen't get it I'll move on. There are plenty of other games out there that I can enjoy playing and wiill I'm sure. We still have the main MEA game to continue to enjoy as well if we want if we choose to go through it again. If MEA gets DLC great I'll buy and play if it dosen't I'll move on to something else that interests me. Or go back to one of my old games no big deal

Where do you extend the idea that the source being a disgruntled former employee means that there must be "something bad" going on within Bioware.  There's no evidence of that even if it is a disgruntled employee.  From my business experience (which is pretty extensive at my age), people get "tossed" from their employee for a variety of reasons and a percentage of them react very strongly regardless of the reasons they are let go.  Some lash back at the business and some will even ignore NDAs to do so.

If the sources are true, then either some current employee is breaking an NDA or some former employee is breaking an NDA or else they are simply a guy like me who really doesn't know shit about what's going on in Bioware's board room.  Take your pick.

Sure are a lot of anonymous sources out there these days, that's all I got to say. Time will tell.

At least Eurogamer did a better job of breaking down the SN bit rather than glossing it over.

He/she wouldn't be breaking NDA if things were all fine and dandy at BioWare. I highly doubt BioWare would just let in rando's into their studio to be "in the know". That's to much of a risk for someone to leak something. 

Not true... as I said, some disgruntled employees get vocal just because they personally did not like being let go.  One Bioware employee in particular recently left the company to the applause of the fans... what makes you think that he wouldn't possibly be upset about it.  There is also a little matter of "severance pay"  - which can involve a sort of "gag order" for a period of time.

If the source is a person like me who doesn't know jack shit...then that just means the source being alluded to by the media is, in fact, not reliable.  That the information that source is providing is inaccurate and we can't trust the story.

You can certainly make your decision whether or not you want to believe this story or not.  It still doesn't change the fact that there is still an opportunity to convince Bioware/EA to produce DLC for this game.  They just need some assurance that enough people out here are willing to buy it that they'll be able to foresee a profit if they make it.

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You really think a support staff person would give a damn about this? Their just doing there jobs and what they get paid to do and nothing more. I highly doubt that. An animator or a dev that's not on Twitter; who was hired or part of this "empty computer desks" job, would be more likely cause trouble cause they don't have a job anymore or perhaps even cared about the project they were working on. I know I would be pissed if I got moved to some other job that I didn't care about, creatively speaking.  

And here's a thing.

As Jason from Kotaku says his sources are "familiar with BioWare", Tom from Eurogamer states his source is someone "close with BioWare".
So in both cases, source is not someone working for BioWare.

And it's not that difficult to say source is BioWare employee, as well you won't ruin their anonymity. In fact, that's what Jason did with his story about ME:A's troubled development. Not only he outright states it is a BioWare employees, but also he directly quotes that employee's statements, while keeping his/hers anonymity safe.
But with ME:A being put on ice and no more DLC's? Source is "familiar with BioWare", and in Tom's case "close with BioWare", but also no direct quotes either are revealed.

These sort of anonymous sources can be easily dismissed as unfounded rumours.

If they were paid for the story, of course. I find it far more likely that someone with access to Bioware real estate but who has no vested interest in the success of their work would choose to leak details then someone who does their job in large part because they're passionate about what they do. Not to mention it sounds far more plausible than a dev randomly deciding to break all their NDAs by handing over info to the very same people who've be pushing the whole 'MEA sucks/Montreal are the Z-team' bs. It doesn't make sense.

An added dimension to this is that the likelihood of the source being reliable actually goes down if they're bioware - because ultimately we have someone who's angry enough to disregard their NDA. In my experience, people who go that far can't be totally trusted to be rational or truthful, for many reasons.

Oh, oh, ooh! I know!

It was Manvieer Heir who leaked it!

He's on petty revenge for BioWare not extending his contract! As well for not enough white men killings in ME:A! It all makes sense now!!!




No it doesn't.

The most humorous part of this is the DLC story isn't the main point of the Eurogamer story, it just pops up in the last part of the article.

At least he actually tracked down someone who was involved with SN, even if that involvement was only tangentially.

You'd think names would be added if there were different people working on it. If not, it was done in Montreal or Edmonton. Melo said they do the DLC/Patches and he's in Edmonton, so it's one of the two most likely.