Today's announcement is being exaggerated.

Plz Biower hop!  :yara:

I think i already said that i'm done with You ?

And? 

But we do know.

Mass Effect is on ice, which is different than being dead.

Winter is here.
Just remember it was coming 7 years...

Sequels or no the reputation is dead to many and ruined for others. I myself don't even care for anything more out of the franchise, what's to say the same thing doesn't happen again?

Yeah, my trust is nil at this point. How did a five year wait end up with this mess? And for contrast, Hello Games is still updating No Man's Sky a year later. EA didn't even give us six months. Yeah, trust is gone, definitely.

I wouldn't say its clear, but I also wouldn't say it is unlikely.

If we do see ME again it is going to be a pretty long wait I think.  The Edmonton teams have been centered on DA4 and Anthem.  Throwing the studio a 3rd IP in the middle of that is going to take a pretty big change in plans, maybe even bringing in additional people and resources, and basically starting something from scratch.  At a minimum it would probably be another 5 years wait after Anthem is released.

I don't mean to offend anyone. But I do believe at this point it's unreasonable to still doubt Kotaku's articles. They have been 100% accurate. Even if someone didn't believe them back then, now I'd say it's more about pure denial or butthurt than proper skepticism or anything like that. 

I don't think the franchise is dead...one mediorce game out of the entire series does not spell doom for the franchise. That earnings statement can be a bit misleading only because we don't know the parameters around what EA told shareholders what they expected Andromeda to sell. Whereas with Square and their fiasco with the "Tomb Raider Reboot" i believe square told shareholders that game would sell 10 million copies, when i believe it sold 5 million and square considered the game a failure since it didn't meet their projected earnings number.


In reality 5 million copies for a newly reinvented reboot is amazingly impressive. It just means that all of this points to if Andromeda made EA a profit for them and it's hard for them not to commit to DLC when they stated Andromeda contributed to their fiscal numbers. So idk...i guess what people need to understand too is that these patches that Bioware have been doing are NOT cheap.


I guess they felt that the game couldn't recover from the initial backlash and when they re-released that free trial for the game, the numbers showed that people didn't care much for it or that the patches didn't have much impact on the game overall, which probably points to what was the major issue with this game anyway outside of it's animation issues....inspired story and characters. Ultimately they probably just cut their loses and figured creating a DLC would result in them losing more money than profiting from it.

I don't understand this sentiment. Bioware's not an independent company. EA shuttered Bioware Montreal and gave what was left of MEA to Edmonton, which is busy on two yet-unfinished games. They can't divert resources to make DLC for a game that is in MEA's position. It just isn't economical. Montreal made a Mass Effect game that did not live up to what EA wanted, and that spelled MEA's doom. They didn't betray you, they just failed. And they no longer exist due to that failure.

Dragon is a series, ME was a trilogy that ended.  

With Andromeda they were trying to reboot the franchise in an entirely new setting after the trilogy of a very popular character ended.  They couldn't afford a mediocre game, they needed one that was highly successful to re-establish traction for the franchise.  I don't know the exact sales numbers for this game, but if most of the sales were early off the popularity of the original series and then they just fell off the table once the games was out then releasing another game may not be the best decision.  Because the next game won't be selling off the popularity of the original trilogy it will be selling off the image of Andromeda.  EA may just say that players may not accept this game without Shepard.

This isn't like DA where all the games are built on the world and not the protagonist.  You can have a game that wasn't received well like DA:2 regroup with a new protagonist and keep going.