ME:A --> DLC --> MEA:2

People keep saying EA will release DLC because it's money, but there's no guarantee here. EA obviously has data they're looking at which we're not privy too. But if it's me I'm looking at some basic things.

1) Sales post launch week. The preorders and first few days of sales were done off the popularity of the original trilogy. If the sales stayed steady in line with previous ME/Bioware games then yes, you would say DLC is viable. However, if the sales fell off the table and have been decreasing every week/month since then you have to look at the effect of word of mouth, reviews, etc on the long term viability of the game because there's no guarantee all those people who bought it early will come back for DLC.

2) Percentage of people who completed the game compared to previous titles, especially your more popular titles that had a lot of DLC.

3) Percentage of people who completed the game multiple times compared to previous titles, especially your more popular titles that had a lot of DLC.

4) If possible to see in Origin, the last time the game was played. If a lot of people are still playing the game then you would feel comfortable putting out DLC. If there is a large number of people who haven't played the game since April of May, then you're more leery about putting out DLC. Because if these people haven't even come back to check out the game post patches, they probably aren't going to come back for DLC.

If this data looks good, by all means you release DLC. If not, then you run the risk of not being successful releasing DLC. It's not as simple as we want money, so we'll put out this DLC and it's guaranteed to get us some.

The data you mention is important, but the other big thing is how much was already done for it, so what it would cost them to prep it for release.

This decision is not for us to make, our decision is more simple. To buy or not to buy the product when & if made available. That's the only thing within each individual player's control.

I don't think active player numbers necessarily dictate SP DLC. I imagine HZD active player numbers are way down from launch (that's just how SP games work), but they announced DLC based on sale numbers and gauged interest. Now if you said based on MEA sale numbers they might have changed plans, that might be truer (I still think MEA sold well), but I don't think SP DLC is based on active player numbers.

You're pulling a colfoley and presenting something as fact you have no knowledge about... and where is this player interest gauge? I'd like to see it in person.

Wrong. There is clearly interest on here, facebook, twitter, gamespot I could go on but you'll just insult me and claim I'm wrong.  Also it has been posted many times the sales were good. I'm not going to do what you can do for you.

Nope - there's a difference between player interest, and player interest being "high" as you originally stated.

It's been posted just as many times that sales were poor. You choose to believe what you want to believe - just don't presume to posit them as truths.

I think one of the problems is that everyone is cracking jokes - there's always that one, or handful, of people that are the wise-crackers in a group - only in Andromeda, almost everyone is - it's like they're trying to outdo each other.

I didn't mind when it was limited to Joker - for example - but now we've got a team full of Jokers.

There's those sweeping generalizations you make.  Fact is, you haven't played enough of the game to know.  You've been shown scenes here where no one is making jokes and yet you continually deny their existence.  There are a number of NPCs who are not cracking jokes and many instances where even NPCs who tend to crack jokes don't under those circumstances because the moment is sombre.  There are also ample opportunities where even Ryder is not cracking jokes and the NPCs respond to Ryder differently when different dialogue is selected.  Sticking to the professional dialogue choices will result in far fewer jokes than continually selecting the casual choices.

So stop with the crap about "everyone" and "always"  You've played 10% of the game... you just don't know... admit it already.

I have no doubt that it is. Some of the changes from the last patch were not really necessary. The fact that people are really fine tuning this game the way they have been at this point when the game is still dirt cheap tells me one thing. They have DLC and plan on releasing it and hope to grab more sales because of it. Because of that they are really working to make the game as stellar as they can for those sales so that people will ignore all previous criticisms. Smart play. 

Sorry but you are the one doing that. The sales weren't as good as ME 3 but they weren't poor. And now you are twisting things to suit your message.

There is absolutely no point in bothering to argue with someone who cannot accept that the game sold well. There is literally no metric of sales data that supports the conclusion that people like suidoken desperately want to convince themselves of.