No More Patches/Content for MEA (Single Player)

Expected, yes. I am sad regardless.

I, however, do not share the most agreed upon reason is "the overall buggy release" that tanked MEA and therefore no DLC's were produced.

The Western social structure is in flux, so much so it is a minefield to dabble in social affairs thru games. For the moment it is hard not to get someone's panties in a twist over something. So, until the dust settles, games will portray more superficial relations with focus on combat in different vast environments populated with exciting things of mostly the non-human variety. I wager the character creation will be very focused on and very adaptive to tweak to one's heart content. Romances, I doubt it.

I don't expect if ever, to see another ME game.
I have serious doubts about DA franchise frankly since it is also social context heavy. Until EA/Bioware releases an official statement I won't get my hopes up.

Anyway, that is my 2 cents.

If the Quarian ark is going to be wrapped up in comics and books, then surely that indicates that they're not keeping anything back for a new game?
Dammit this might be the end of ME altogether, especially with that final sentence.

LOL, you think that would go over well? "That's not how I played it! My Shepard would never have chosen that ending! This isn't Mass Effect, it's garbage!"

If you don't know that this is how it would play out, regardless of the ending chosen, you're an idiot. Bioware, or should I say EA-ware, have guaranteed that no matter what they do with Mass Effect now, they're going to piss off a significant portion of their fanbase. Not that they care about their fans anymore.

They have completely fucked this up. I don't see how any of their customers can expect future products to be treated any better than this now. Anthem will probably be abandoned less than 6 months after release because of the people, like me, who refuse to give it a chance for various reasons, including "Anthem killed Mass Effect." Dragon Age 4 will suffer fallout from this as well, since I don't think we can trust Bioware not to abandon that game prematurely. Bioware is dead, Mass Effect it dead, EA-ware has taken over.

I'm done with them.


MODS: Delete my account. Anytime it's convenient will work. It was several days before I was allowed to use it, so it can lie abandoned for several days before you delete it.

Disappointing.

But decisions have consequences. In this case, bad decisions with predictable bad results.

Hoping for a "good" DLC from the same that made the mediocre game is wishful thinking. It's possible it could have been good, but more likely it would have been more of the same.

Trace it all back to the decisions ending 3. Then compounding it by deciding to even go to Andromeda. Then compounding all this by more regretful decisions on who was going to write and develop Andromeda.

Not surprising, but still disappointing.

Oh, and the guys that made those fateful decisions, CH and MW, are still around and now in charge.

I'll admit to having somewhat mixed feelings about this but not particularly strong ones either way. So full disclosure after youtubing most of MEA I did end up buying it when it was 50% off during E3. Figured that was a fair price for a generally alright gaming experience.

I'm above all fairly surprised that Hudson oked this decision after taking over since ME is his brainchild. Also feel a tiny bit of vindication that Andromeda ended up failing after the whole ME3 thing. Some clarification here, I am a well documented ME3 grump, no I don't think ME3 is solely responsible for Andromeda troubles, I do however believe that ME3 killing the franchise's momentum did set certain expectations for Andromeda, ones it ended up falling short off, meaning that a game which was relatively average ended up with a somewhat disproportionate negative reaction due to relatively minor issues like poor animation.

I am also somewhat disappointed since part of my decision to purchase was based on the quarian DLC hook. I was looking forward to seeing how interaction with the species might change now that the geth had been take out of the equation.

Huge mistake, imho. While I can understand, that MEA was not as successful as expected by EA/BW (or not successful at all), there's still a thing called reputation. I never had problem with preordering BW games before, because I knew, that even if less than perfect on release, with patches and DLC's they'll turn out to be complete and rich experiences.

But now? Let's see - patch 1.10 is the last, and we still don't have quicksave or alternative armors/weapons for our companions - things, that people asked from the very beginning. Oh, and Scourge codex entry is still bugged. And all the plotholes (and there's many of them) they want to resolve with books instead of DLC's? Sorry, what? Guys, do you even remember what gaming is about? (Especially in a game with RPG elements?) It's about experiencing events by OURSELVES (not just reading about them), making decisions WE think are the right ones (and not what author think is right), about satisfaction of overcoming challenges by US (not characters that we can't control at all). I mean, I love books, I love reading, but this is just completely different experience. And while literature or comics can be great way to expanded game universe, to add something more - they can't be substitutes of actual gaming, like in this case.

Right now I know, that I won't preorder or even buy on release DA4 (I'm not interested in Atnhem anyway). Not because of boycott, or because I'm oh so angry - I'm not. It's just as I mentioned at the beginning of this post - BW had some reputation, and this announcement was able to destroy said reputation in my eyes. I probably would be more lenient about this whole mess, if MEA would be just some new game - but it's not. It's fourth installment of one of most recognizable game franchises. And they still abandoned it. So who can assure me, that they won't do the same to DA4, if it won't meet their expectations? Why should I invest my money in it? No, I think I'll just wait and see how it'll turn out. And honestly, I don't think I'm the only one who see things that way.

And to add insult to injury - to think, that Mafia 3 got 3(!) DLC's...

This is nothing but the doctor calling time of death long after the body is not only starting to smell, but up until recently, the orderlies were still bathing and clothing the poor soul.

A tragic end and a tragic beginning to something that had so much more potential than it was given. ME3s ending is worlds more defendable than this roll out and "support."

I wonder if it's possible to seed control of this multiplayer over to the community. I still say the people have an opportunity to make the game better than the devs were ever truly capable.

I'll say one more thing and then I think I'm done with this topic:




The author of the Quarian ark book wrote it a while ago, all the time knowing their story was going to be wrapped up in her novel, not DLC. This isn't a new development. And yet you still have the Quarian ark tease in the game, and numerous teases via APEX briefings. Because they plan on releasing multiplayer content with the quarians and every other missing race.

SP DLC for MEA was never planned. It was always going to be multiplayer. Add in Anthem, and it's pretty clear the direction Bioware is going in. I'd be very worried about DA4.

They should have at least tried to go out swinging, but having 1.10 be nothing, useless its leaving a bit of bad taste in my mouth. Especially considering that it was considered a "hot fix" and not planned. 

haolyn you might be onto something there. BW is scummy either way. They really strung a lot of fools along. :smh:

Agreed, they should never have strung everyone along like this, and I want to believe it's a decision made at EA level, not Bioware. I'm pretty sure EA is also responsible for making MEA MP focused.

In all honesty though I'll probably still try out Anthem.