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

Even if it goes to Edmonton, it'll still be at least 6+ years or more before we see anything more.

They've Anthem coming, up and they've also all but confirmed that DA4 is happening next too.

And of course, there's a nonzero probability of EA cramming more ME down Edmonton's throat regardless of what the staff wants.

Like Anthem....

I guess that explains why there's no season pass then, right?





I'll see myself out.

I would have to agree, DLC for Andromeda (unfortunately) seems very unlikely to me know. I am sure if ME:A would have been better received by the general public and hadn't gotten the bad reputation right around release (no matter if you think it was justified or not, the memes and rather reserved critical reception did have an impact) they would have kept the Montreal team on DLC duty. Now, that team is gone (at least in terms of ME:A DLC) and the IP is back in Edmonton. But Edmonton is already knee deep in other stuff, most notably Anthem. Could Edmonton dispatch people to make ME:A DLC, maybe but why would they? If anyone in the upper management thought ME:A DLC was a good idea, why not keep the Montreal team out of Motive for a little longer? They are the ones who know that particular game code best, they are in the best position to go for it, not anyone in Edmonton who have their hands full with other stuff and who would have to first get a handle on the game as is.

It's all speculation and deduction at this point of course and I personally would love to see ME:A DLC, I've stated more than once that I believe ME:A has a lot of potential. But I don't think the signs are looking good at this point and it looks to me like it's gain some upper management (probably within EA) that made these decisions.

Fiend will be the new companion.



I will love him and pet him and squeeze him and hug him and call him George.

Mass Effect going back to Edmonton with DK, and Casey back on board with the company in project is GREAT news. Lets hope the tide can turn back to pre 2008 BioWare (not that ME3 and DAI were bad to me). I like Andromeda but it does lack in a few places that Bioware used to excel at and quite a few immersion breaking problems plague it (Asari clones and pyjak krogan).

Because Austin is too busy sitting on their hands with TOR

And they've stated that they are happy with ME: A. With all these big projects especially Anthem undergoing. If there were no DLC it was likely because there's no time to fit it considering the projects.

They also said that they wouldn't change anything in DA2 after it released

I believe both statements about as much as much as I believe that the Poles attacked that radio station

The ME:A defenders continuously claimed that BW Montreal was working on DLC, that they were behind schedule because of patching, that critical reception harmed ME:A, that there was no merger, that DLC was going to be announced at Montreal con no wait SD con no wait gamescon, etc etc etc.

Now we see the furious back pedaling and moving of goalposts. Now BW Austin is working on ME:A DLC, BW is hiring for DA because they assigned another team to DLC, EA Motive is going to deliver DLC, that the decision for no DLC was taken before release, etc etc etc.

Amazing.