Is ME:A Dead?

For a "dead" game and "dead" series, they're putting an awful lot of time, money, and effort into promoting it at SDCC...

Either option is entirely possible. There's evidence to support both sides since we don't know the context or reasons behind decisions.

The division of Bioware that was tasked with creating Andromeda has been downsized in favor of other projects. Whether that was planned to happen before Andromeda even had an ounce of negative reviews is unknown. For all we know, it could have been planned to shift more focus into working on Anthem. But it could have been a response to the negative reviews as bad reviews hurt sales.

The free trial could be to increase the pool of players to buy DLC. But it could also be EA seeing that most people who are going to buy it have and they may as well give it a free trial to try to get at least a few more sales out of it.

No one knows enough to be able to give any conclusive statement.

Because I haven't had to say this enough times in the past few months: THAT IS NOT UNUSUAL AT ALL. It is completely normal for development studios to assign staff to other projects after a game's release because supporting the game and creating post-launch content (DLC) does not require the full team that developed the game.

I'll be quite frank about it: You have been conned by people who sought to deceive you and others into believing that a completely-standard practice at BioWare is a sign of doom-and-gloom.

Except Bioware themselves of course but they aren' t telling

Exactly while they're still releasing patches and stuff to generally improve the game there's always the chance things can turn around. I'd like to think that it will but only time has the answer to that.

From the numerous patches, comic books/books and streaming. ME: A is far from dead.

"This article is deliberately trying to paint standard procedure as doom-and-gloom."

"But it sounds like doom-and-gloom!"

"..."

No Dr. McCoy it's dead Jim images yet? I'm shocked.

This is what all Mass Effect fans are probably wondering about. Especially with so many rumors out there. Bioware's silence certainly doesn't do anything to stop those rumors from spreading. I wish they would just say how it is, is there any future DLC's to be had or is MEA truly "dead" (as OP put it). Then we could all stop speculating and move on.

I agree, I think it would get an extremely negative reaction, maybe even worse then Andromeda.  I could see "this one thing would be easy to fix" or "why did you change this it was the best aspect of the game" happening a lot and if they just left it alone it would be ripped apart as well because "they needed to do something about his broken mechanic".  It really is a no-win situation for BioWare.

Funny, I don't seem to recall saying that it wasn't standard procedure for that to happen.

By itself it is not a sign of doom-and-gloom. But sometimes multiple things happen that paint doom-and-gloom.

And before you go assuming: there has not been enough concrete evidence to support EITHER side of the is ME:A dead debate. That's my opinion. Just a bunch of events that could be realistically used to support either claim.

So how about you stop assuming that I've been "conned", when it's clear that I believe that there is not enough evidence to state otherwise.

Giving a straight up answer would fix a lot of things. There simply isn't enough out there to confirm DLC or no DLC or is the franchise iced or not iced.

it really isn't cool how they're letting their own fanbase just nit pick each other.