EA /Bioware basically told us all to f*ck off

I personally would of felt better if it would of ended at the tease instead of being released in a DLC since Trespasser is more of the truer ending of DAI. It's actually like being forced to buy the last chapters of a book to get the Real ending.

me3 ended in disappointment and now mea too, im worried about the next ME game

My feelings exactly, ME:A has a lot of potential for SP DLC, add to the fact that there were a lot of hints and that a decent number of people liked the game and/or wanted DLC, and this results in LOT of people getting angry/disappointed.

Let's look at EA's and Bioware's record here over the last six years or so. I'm not talking about DA:I as i've only recently begun my very first playthrough. but look at the situations with the games i will mention.

SWTOR: it was supposed to be the WoW killer. after 2 million subs at a very buggy queue riddled launch and a variety pve and pvp balance issues, etc. numbers plunged down to around 500-700k subs. still the 2nd most subbed mmo by a huge margin at that time in spite of all the flaws, dev hubris, and so on. It wasn't even out a year, EA decided to go free-to-play. I don't have an hour to talk about the journey of that title, but i can say it's often so messed up people still get into heated arguments over what went *more* wrong.

ME:3: they actually thought that halfassed original ending was a good way to wrap it up. overall that game was EAWare's last shining moment, save for the aforementioned original dogshit ending.

ME:A: we all know this story. they launched junk. Justifiable backlash mingled with maladjusted social cripples losing their shit and even after the game, according to them was very profitable, they not only, just now say there will be no dlc, we can't even be sure they planned any now to begin with.

Anthem: Who knows what will happen if this game doesn't make 100 trillion dollars and score a 17/10 with all critics? How buggy will it be? I don't know if I want to even give it a chance now because if I like it, EA may bury it if the game doesn't get 5 billion subs or something. If it wasn't for DA4 on the books i'd be anticipating the bioware brand being shattered into a thousand pieces and completely disbanded.

I agree that this was a very poor and shortsighted decision regardless of whether it was Bioware or EA. I will continue to purchase DA games but will not invest any more into any other Bioware product in the foreseeable future. Anthem doesn't interest me as I am an SP only player.

An opportunity to support their fans as well as potentially get some new fans was lost. Who would purchase MEA now? The story is incomplete, there will be no DLC to tie up loose ends, and the next game, if there is one, will be at least 5 years away... they cannot sell a collectors edition obviously, so any chance od making further profit is lost. That says to me thar MEA2 is pretty much dead IMO.

I wish they would explain why they are doing this. At least I could potentially respect a decision if I knew why it was being made. Tell me it's because it got poor reviews, tell me it's because you don't have the resources at present, tell me it's because it didn't earn enough to justify a dlc. But to sell me an incomplete story, have me invest my time and energy into playing a game I truly enjoyed and then 5 months later just say ooopppossss never mind ... that is disrespectful and unworthy.

I don't need to read any further into this thread than this post on page one. The above post reflects reality. Some of us enjoyed MEA and would've bought DLC. EA would be happy to sell DLC, if their information indicated that it would turn a profit.

BioWare Montreal horrendously mismanaged the development of this game, if reports are to be believed. (I do believe them, as they seem to match what we've observed over the last couple of years.) MEA clearly didn't make as much money as they'd have preferred, and/or they feel that DLC would not sell well. EA has access to real data; not just the anecdotal evidence that we biased BSNers have. I'd love to have DLC for MEA. It was pretty clear fro early on, though, that it was not going to happen.

I would have presumed that this material would be covered in DA4, and I would have been right.

Sure, but tell a board member at EA who could lose their job after a bad quarter or two if the shareholders aren't happy that "hey, don't do this. It'll affect the next franchise 6 years from now"

Gamers have proven to be weak willed and keep coming back to lots of games after getting buttfucked. I have little doubt that after enough time eventually most people will come back for the next one to at least give it a swing, especially if the game is better. The lost hardcores will be replaced in number by new fans and the people that somehow loved Andromeda. A new game and a new direction could bring a lot of lapsed fans back for another try.

There would have been no way of knowing you were right until DA4 launched, and the fate of Andromeda's extended story would have indicated other outcomes were possible.

All the Madden fans came back after 06. NHL fans came back after 16 or whatever. Assassins Creed is still alive and well after some real dog shit like 3 and Unity or whatever the one where people didn't have faces was. Star Wars BF2 is looking like its already going to make its money easily. Battlefield fans came back in droves for Battlefield One after 4 and Hardline (?) was a mess. Call of Duty isn't the juggernaut it used to be, but it still makes crazy ass money after things like Ghosts came out. Resident Evil games still do really well. The list goes on and on.

Until more big name franchises die after a bad title there is no reason not to think things would change.