Today's announcement is being exaggerated.

I guarantee you it's an EA decision and BioWare gets to take the lumps for it. BioWare very much has its hands tied as the EA "hug" gets tighter.

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.

Funny thing about going back to the MET, it's the PS3 controller in itself that keeps me back a little bit. Goddamn is that thing a cheap POS compared to the PS4's. 

I think single player RPGs in the cinematic ME style don't make financial sense for EA.

ME:A not only failed both financially and critically, but it also sunk the studio that developed it.

People aren't exaggerating the announcement, they are taking it to its logical conclusion.

Here's what we know, these are the facts unless EA is lying about the below points.

1. MEA was financially successful. They have said it multiple times.
2. However that success EA did not believe justified DLC for the game. For one reason or another. Maybe its an experiement, maybe they are just looking into their crystal ball and predict that a SP DLC...for whatever reason...would not be profitable. We will never know their exact reasoning, but here we are.
3. However there will be future stories. We do not know exactly what form this will take and what plot lines will be answered and what won't be, but...again there we are.

Everything else is speculation. Yes even I speculate that this it the death of the ME franchise. And yes I even speculate that this could become a trend for future BioWare games, I just do not know.

Does this suck? Yes, this does suck. And I understand the feelings of betrayal. But...this is what happens in modern day fiction, generally speaking. Your work is either popular enough to be profitable and it warants a sequel or expansion, or it does not. I am annoyed at BioWare but I have every intention to continue purchasing their products, as long as they continue to deliver quality entertainment which I can continue to play (so no online only please, that will annoy).