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

Tbh it was inevitable, if all the stuff about troubled dev was true. No way that kind of situation would be allowed to persist by upper management.

But yeah, it's not even like Montreal is a cheap city to move people around. This would have been going on for months at least. Hence the NDA, tbh.

Just to again point out you've not played more than the ten hour gated preview in march so you don't know it if it is mediocre.

Maybe it's for another IP. I love baseball and MVP Baseball 2004 is still the best, complete franchise simulator ever made. It's still way better than 2K or the Show. There hasn't been a really good baseball simulator since 2012. The reason why I loved the MVP series is because the physics portion of the game was outstandingly accurate. It had glitches, but in franchise mode you can literally simulate a scheduled contest and get a really good prediction of the actual outcome. That's an annual money maker. The only thing each subsequent title would need are cosmetic changes and updated rosters at least five times in a season.

Shut up. You got what you wanted, so go away. 

He won't until we get notice on yea or nay on dlc.

That would be like Sega working on Mario weird.

I'm stuck on the old rig and after playing three runs of Andromeda (one post 1.09) all I can say is that the original trilogy looks dated, has seriously bad moments (don't worry, I'll mention the ending), no jump jets (this is the future) and that ending where all my war assets got me was a gasp. Yes, Andromeda is better since I've lost my rose colored glasses. Did the story-telling take a backseat in Andromeda? Yes and I see that, but was it bad enough to leave it for Fallout 4 or Far Cry 4? I tried and I'm missing Andromeda. I can't wait for this Frostbite rig to be finished. Going all in on Volta next year or a pair of 1080ti to run 60fps on Ultra for the next five years. This Unreal rig lasted almost six years using AMD parts. It just can't run Inquisition on more than medium at 30fps on a 20" CRT. Frostbite engine demands a Frostbite rig. I can't freaking wait.

This topic is contained by the 'Merger' thread, which is where these posts are going.

And the Edmonton thread is having the same discussions - merging the threads (ironically)

I don't see that happening. The IP is so closely tied to the developer in this case that handing it off to another studio would cause a different set of issues.

I think they'll leave ME with Edmonton. The question is, does Edmonton have the personnel to do anything with it? It's a studio chock full of ongoing projects.

Austin MEA DLC, Edmonton MEA2 after 2019 .