BioWare Montreal absorbed by EA Motive. Mass Effect IP returns to Edmonton

It's like deja vu. I feel like I've seen that Tweet before...a couple of times, actually.

Well, unless you count that one time Lead Warlord of Level Design Marlon Katsande decided to "remove" key staff, absolutely not. 

My thoughts exactly.

#SaveTheQuarians
And #soon.

Nothing has changed. History is still on our side. And our speculation is hot. Very hot. I'm ready to (I'm such a weak willed hypocrite) preorder it now if it was available. I want that victory dance. So freaking bad.

I hope that's not the case but we shall see.

What if they announced a dlc where you had to find secret footage of Addison streaking across the station? 😂

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I'll buy it. A reskinned black widow. Done.

If DLC is coming, this merger could be the reason it's taking so long. There is precedent for DLC being delayed because of some other issue. Leviathan for example was released later than intended because they had to do something about the ending fiasco.

Yeah 'Bioware Montreal' is donezo. The hope remains that some studio has been making stuff in the meantime, even as things phase into Motive/SW, Anthem, and building up DA.

This is the same company that had Austin do a DA DLC.

But we have nothing substantial to go with. By all direct *appearances*, sure, I don't blame people for thinking that the SP is done, and MP is a gradual drawdown.

But I surely damn well wish that Bioware'd want to make SP/MP money over the rest of this year and into next year, before Anthem. And I feel spurned as a customer for them putting so many plot hooks without giving us any information about how and when these hooks will be satisfied. Ouch. At least if there is 1-3 SP DLCs, I can go 'well, some stuff was addressed, and hopefully a sequel/future game can be announced sometime that'll deal with the rest in its own way'.

EDIT: I consider MEA MP, as a casual (Bronze/Silver, a bit Gold, never Platinum), to be a bit of a step up from ME3. But that's disappointing after this many years. I do appreciate some cool options and more mobility and some of the graphics. It just feels like something, technically and in design, that should have released say 2014-2015 instead of 2017. But I feel that way about so much of the game. Good, but launch issues and in the end, I can't consider it great. But I don't regret playing. I'd still be playing MEA MP and may return, but I've been busy playing Secret World Legends and may check out the new version of Path of Exile.

Why people equate this move as no dlc, I have no idea. When the word dlc has never been mentioned once in the report or by BioWare themselves. Like, BioWare didn't post a blog post stating: "As a result of the merger, single player downloadable content will not be coming to Mass Effect: Andromeda." All they've said officially is that people have been moved to EA Motive. There website is still up, by the way. Take that for what you will. 

You spelled my name wrong.

 What?