Quarian Ark DLC speculation

Return of the Geth Juggernaut? Heck yeah.

At this point the Quarian's could come dressed as clowns and I'd be happy.

My money's on Reapers.

Geth Juggernaut Squadmate when?

I personally disliked the DLC. A lot.

Yeah, that's fine. I just, really hated how that DLC handled character development.

Massive tirade incoming:
It was how Liara's character development was handled. Where to begin with this one? I mean shy archaeologist becoming the best info broker in the galaxy in the span of two years. That's just ridiculous, I mean she had no interest in becoming an info broker in ME1, I also think it takes a little bit more than having skills as an archaeologist, so where did she suddenly get those skills? Plus how she was shown in the comics was like how she was shown in LoTSB, this was supposed to be BEFORE the events that changed her, granted she developed combat skills by the end of ME1, but the whole redemption character arc was an example of shoving Liara down your throat as a love interest, which is pretty bad for someone who didn't romance her or didn't even like her. I was also not fond of how she takes your old armor and enshrines it in your apartment (like that's not creepy at all), and how she's portrayed as a character who couldn't do anything wrong, morally or otherwise, as in you couldn't question her about her actions, like the aforementioned armor thing. I felt that her character development required speculation in order to make sense. It left me with a feeling that Mac Walters or whoever was manipulating the events in order to fit Liara into the plot, which is, from what I read, an example of bad character development. By the third game, it seems being the shadow broker meant nothing, despite being described as a "very good" info broker, she seemed unable to use those resources to help with stuff like tracking Kai Leng, that was apparently because the writers felt she had enough screen time so they had to reduce her importance in this regard, which begs the question: WHY MAKE HER AN INFO BROKER IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I mean just keeping her as an archaeologist would've been fine, I mean having her finding the crucible I didn't have a problem with, because she was built up in the first game as an archaeologist, but having her be an info broker just feels like something that was put into the story to make Liara look cool.
(Rant over)
Granted if you like the DLC, that's cool, I personally feel that it would've been a whole lot better if the character it revolved around wasn't Liara, I mean you could make a completely different character and it would've made much more sense. Coming from someone who liked Liara in the first game, yeah I would've wanted her to harden and grow as a character, but with the way she developed, it just wasn't handled well. Agreed on the male merc voices, why does an asari sound like a guy lol.

I think if we temper speculation with realistic expectations, we know we probably will not see an entirely new race. The Quarian DLC may be on the scale of the Asari ark story we had for Cora. As far as plot, it could be anything ranging from radical Quarians trying to hijack/destroy SAM to them in dire peril because they found something that gives our AI heroes vital clues into what set off the scourge.

The only way I would ever want Reapers seen again for any reason is if a derelict reaper scout or group from centuries ago was found dead--effortlessly destroyed by whatever made the Scourge. The foreshadowing of an enemy even more beyond the scope of the Milky Way races sets up great future possibilities. I just don't think we can expect a big, beefy dlc like we've seen in past games this time.

While I hope that we'll get a DLC, I just don't think we will - it's been 5 months now, and not a peep. :/

I'm still annoyed the hate train got so out of hand - for very facepalm inducing reasons too. But guess it just goes to show people generally are idiots, and hope BioWare/EA learned not to add more fuel than necessary.

I don't believe the "hate train" had anything to do with Montreal being closed down and the likelihood of any SP DLC scrapped. There are plenty of "bad" to mediocre EA titles that get DLC, even ones that sold poorly at release. No, I think the real reason is because Montreal took five years to develop a single game that was never a mega seller for EA in the first place. And, it was only after a large effort by teams in Austin and Edmonton helping out and Mac Walters having to step into the Creative Director chair that the game managed to ship. I'm pretty sure that regardless of MEA's reception they had planned to close that studio down, they simply weren't ready for the kind of responsibility given to them.

I think that would be something that's very contagious, or dangerous to SAM. So they don't want the other pathfinder's SAM to be infected. It could be an informatic virus that could propagate quickly between the Initiative systems.

Mmh perhaps the infection could be related to Scourge-corrupted Geth