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

All I can say is Anthem better be a near perfect gameplay experience, because EA/Bioware essentially destroyed the little remaining goodwill it had with it's existing fan-base. This is why you don't let bean-counters run your company...because sometimes the bottom-line is not the bottom-line. Anthem will face an uphill battle with even more people ready to pounce and meme the sh*t out of any flaw at release. And no matter what they say about yada-yada...ten years of support, if Anthem has marginal sales and the internet collective shit-posting it to death, the same bean-counters will write it off just as quickly. And the gaming community understands this and therefore will only apprehensively invest themselves into any new Bioware (a wholly-owned subsidiary of EA) game.

Well, they DID patch the game. DLC is extra content that nobody has spent any money on yet. So they fixed the buggy product they sold as much as possible. THAT is something the customer can demand because they spent money expecting a functional polished product and MEA fell short.

Not offering any DLC is disappointing but it's not something anybody is entitled to who bought the main game. Not saying it isn't a slap in the face to those who liked the game and who assumed there would be DLC because that's how it was before. But nobody got shafted here.

Or we're just sitting at the desk of some boring shitty job writing here because there's nothing else to do

Good, but sad, point.

Hey I resemble that remark. 

I can take or leave Mass Effect, but by Andraste's Fiery Britches I can't allow them to take DA away from me. It's my hope that perhaps what went on here is mainly a lack of real vision and focus for most of the game's development. I think DA set a better roadmap so far, especially since it didn't have to deal with a torched setting to move away from.

I may have tried a 2nd playtrhough if there was some DLC. Now I'm sure I'm not gonna touch the SP again, probably not the MP either.
It's kind of like when a TV series gets cancelled, you immediately have that feeling of "I watched this whole thing for nothing" . As you said, even No Man's Sky is still trying, and I genuinely thought that game (and company) was done for.
The game is obviously considered by someone at the top to be a failure, EA or BW. Otherwise you'd have at least one DLC, which other "successful" franchise doesn't make at least one or two DLCs for the game before wrapping things up? Even Bethesda with FO4 did 2 story DLCs.
I say MP has some sort of support until December maybe, and then it's GG. The support is pretty crappy already as it is, so it could end next month and I wouldn't be surprised either.

I wont say this franchise is done, but they are in a worse position than they were after ME3, that's for sure. At this point, not sure who could save this franchise, the Bioware of today is certainly not suited to the task.

Guess we should have seen this coming once they are started adding multiplayer to both Dragon Age and Mass Effect. More and more companies are moving away from story driven games, simply because there is a chance to make more money with online only games, they push tons of microtransactions. Sad times for fans of story driven titles, because this seems to be the future of most AAA games.

And unfinished, with all the lose quest threads. Which is about the only thing annoying me.

Yes. That was unsatisfying. Though it sounded a lot like the real reason were the reapers. Which would make sense. Not sure if there was ever supposed to be some sort of jaw dropping revelation.

The entire game is one long prologue. They clearly planned to make several games set in Andromeda. That they fucked up so royally that EA doesn't want anything to do with this game anymore is unfortunate. But I don't see how a DLC would help all that much. Trespasser gave DAI a better ending but it still ended on a cliffhanger. And all we can do is hope DA4 gets made.

ME1 didn't resolve the reaper threat. Again they were planning more games. But if they actually get made, the devs don't know. That is the gamble when you aspire to expand a universe with an overarching theme.

Montréal wanted to do much more than they delivered. And now we don't know if there will be a MEA2.
But the same goes for Dragon Age.

No DLC isn't really the problem imo. MEA not getting a sequel makes the whole affair pointless. But we don't actually know yet if this was the end of Mass Effect.

I know this is no comfort. But I'm just trying to say that loose threads is not something new here.
MEA's immediate threat is gone. Finding a new home is a success. The game has more closure than DAI to me.
We got a super long we-made-it celebration. The benefactor stuff is annoying but not really a big deal to me personally.

Agreed. Ryder's done everything she set out to do. More kett are still out there, yep, but that's a problem for another day. The benefactor is a matter of historical interest, sure, but other than that?

and don't forget the Quarian ark. I think any further major stories involving the Kett sending more troops into the cluster to find out what the hell happened as well as insight into the species behind the scourge could be tabled until a sequel.  I think the benefactor could wait for a sequel as well (and I think he or she could already be a character we've met. no theory beyond that though.)