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

Regardless of the market, if they don't think the studio is in a fit state to do it (which presumably they didn't ergo the merger) then it's a non-issue. 

EA's track record when it comes to DLC doesn't support the idea that they drop DLC on the basis of base game performance (at least not ones that were already in dev) - even Dead Space 3 got one, a game that was described as a financial disappointment, which apparently MEA was not. 

Bottom line is it is highly unusual for EA to not release DLC for a game, even a poorly sold and critically panned one. It's not unreasonable to suspect this merger and the lack of personnel might have had something to do with it.

That's absolutely right, I myself read Blake Jorgensen statement in the recent Financials to mean 'being brought into the same facility'

"And we brought our BioWare Montreal team into that same facility. So they now all sit in one new studio together." [Blake Jorgensen]

Now I'm not saying that Blake was misleading anyone, but the wording of that statement was at best poorly crafted.
It was only when Techraptor got an admission from an unnamed PR person and when BioWare employees said 'yep', that the truth was out.

In short, you're right, I was wrong, others were wrong, but given the statement in the financials, it was not an unreasonable conclusion to draw. 

Yikes. You know that feeling when you read a post, think 'hmm... I can't remember writing that' then you look at the screen name and realise someone has literally written what was on your mind? Yeah, that.

Needless to say, I 100% agree. Jason should stick to writing articles and do less of the Internet Personality thing.

Someone asked Ian S. Frazier about a patch for Andromeda, and he replied that they'd have to ask someone in Edmonton (I don't know how to embed Twitter posts).

Perhaps we get an expansion instead...or at least bioware branding it as an expansion.

I suppose-like one 'giant' expansion like DAO:Awakening, we haven't had one since then--maybe its time. Plus, I think it would be kinda weird having a 2-3 hr dlc. I don't think it would really fit with the overall goal of exploration that's within MEA. All the loose ends are post-ending related. However, the loose ends aren't really related to each other. So, doing an 'expansion' would be difficult to make sense.

It's not so much that it was critically panned, but critically ridiculed and the laughingstock of the internet. That kind of brand damage is not worth all the DLC in the world. They'd be basically losing money as people continue to connect Bioware = shitty games and they can't have that with Anthem coming from the same brand.

Interesting point, but if Bioware is so severely tarnished by ME:A (not saying it's their finest hour by any stretch) why doesn't EA just have anthem come from another division under their umbrella. "Bioware" developers can do the same thing under another imprint. All EA would have to do is either move them there or change the sign on the studio du jour.

We'll just have to wait for concrete evidence (i didn't go through the first 20- something pages) in terms of DLC and who's working on what for Andromeda...so far what i have seen is that support for Andromeda is currently running through it's MP system.

Secondly mergers can be good and bad...good in the fact that it's strengthens both entities, bad in the fact that it almost always guarantees layoffs....the merger cannot support keeping all the employees of both companies. They may be able to sustain them for a time, but eventually, they will start laying off folks or ask people to resign (just from my personal experience).


We've seen people leave Bioware left and right and part of was that people wanted to move on from game dev, and another aspect of it is that folks could have seen the writing on the wall...not that Bioware is shutting down, but that layoff are coming due to the merger.....which is why all of this drip-drying of speculatory information will drive you crazy....i mean sometimes it's fun to try and read between the lines, but these statements here....


Definitely Krogan‏ @kiryumachina

DiscoBabaloo Erm.. Can I ask some question? Are there any team in Edmonton that still working on MEA ?



Fernando Melo‏ DiscoBabaloo

Yep


#SaveTheQuarians‏ @kreflkmmer

DiscoBabaloo Hey Fernando! I know you can't say much, but is there any info about new single player content for Andromeda? We're worried



Fernando Melo‏ DiscoBabaloo

sorry, when we can talk about it we will



This just leads me to believe that support for Andromeda MP continues and as far as SP DLC?....nobody knows if EA is going to give them the green light or not and that might be deciding on how fans perceive the game now that it has the updated patches in relation to the company giving the game out as free trials again recently.....seems EA is just monitoring the situation at the same time keeping Anthem separated from anything Andromeda related since it received positive vibes at E3....

Of course i could be completely wrong, but just observing the various moving parts and looking at how EA might be looking at this entire scenario since Andromeda's launch....