A trilogy remaster could really benefit the Mass Effect IP.

What I want is simply an all DLC version for PC (with native controller support). The still ridiculously expensive DLC are the only reason I haven't bought the trilogy again for PC for the facelift.

The last thing I want is the trilogy remastered in Frostbite. I want nothing changed of the original art style. There is something very cartoon-y about Frostbite, a very particular look, that is awesome for some games but not Mass Effect.

Sure, I would like to have ME3's combat in all three games, but that will never happen.

As for how much sense a remaster makes... I believe quite a number of people would buy it. Not sure it helps Bioware in any way right now though. Besides, they better focus on Anthem and DA4. They cannot afford another shitstorm.

Yes, I know. The controller support is not that big a problem. The DLC ripoff situation is. I paid 70 euros (!) for not even all the DLC (skipped Bring down the Sky and Arrival) on Xbox years after release. Not buying Bioware Points to pay that much money once more. And replaying without DLC is stupid.

I bought ME3 on origin, and I don't condone piracy but having already bought all of the DLC already on Xbox, I found while the DLC prices are unreasonable, there's a popular ME3 torrent going around that contains all of the DLC, from story DLC to the Robot Dog. If you you were to copy-paste it over your Mass Effect 3 (origins) game directory you'd have everything.

I can still play multiplayer just fine with the latest patch(es) and extracted all of my favourite powers from multi-player DLC from Dark Sphere, to Poison Strike to Annihilation (Field), etc. using various guides to re-create multiplayer classes in single player. Console commands add so many amazing possibilities... I recently played Omega again and I changed Aria's powers giving her Annihilation Field instead of Flare because I've always suspected Annihilation would be amazing biotic power on a squamate with a detonator like lash, who you could direct all over the map, and it's been so much fun than I've ever had with MEA.

Well, crazy idea, but what if it's a "remake" but they just fix the ending or redo it?

I don't know, people immediately brought up the endings when Husdson took over as GM and what ME3 is five years old? So, yea gamers have a loonng memory.

Personally, I think you could use either Destroy or Control, but never Synthesis  #Never Synthesis.   I would work OK provided your theoretical ME4 plot arc isn't another galactic grand menace scenario as Reaper-Shep would be indifferent to it.  From there is it mostly flavour dialogue, changing the design of the Mass Relays might be a nice touch depending if they were Reaper-Shep built or Council built... or you could even have set before the Mass Relays have even been reconstructed or in a cluster yet to be reconnected.  

https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1wyz7e/some_interesting_facts_about_me3s_development/

Are there really players who just won't use Origin? It seems awfully silly and self-destructive.

There's no real need to address the Catalyst. Simply not playing Shepard again solves that problem since s/he is the only being in the galaxy to be aware of its existence, and reconstruction of the galaxy's infrastructure would be beyond their lifetime anyhow. 

The fix is to give players something that they can already have?

Yes, in certain contexts. Xbox One X will be backwards-compatible with 360 and OGbox games. We can already play those games in their own consoles but the streamlining makes the X1X more attractive to consumers. There's objective value added in this context (fewer purchases, fewer consoles, less headache)

A remaster of the trilogy makes little sense because it doesn't streamline much for consumers, the added value is mainly subjective, and would mostly provide graphical improvements. That's from the consumer POV (EA would offer a remaster if they can profit, of course). It would be more beneficial to consumers if the OT were to be fully repackaged (games + all DLC) at an attractive price then made available on current (or future) platforms (X1X above is a good example). That'd result in exactly one purchase for all available MET content.