A trilogy remaster could really benefit the Mass Effect IP.

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. 

Mass Effect is one part action, one part story. Frostbite delivers so much more than the original trilogy. OH MY GOODNESS. Also, it would need to be Mass Effect 1.1 or something similar to fix all the story line issues and completely avoid the last weird 15 minutes with Starchild and replace it with an ending that doesn't use storyboards like Fallout does. I would love to see it re-mastered in Frostbite. All the old stuff (tactical pausing for single player, paragon-renegade, etc.) while seeing the Frostbite canvas. All the assets (all of them!) are then in place and allows for more flexibility in adding new content later. If I was EA's CEO, that's how I would do it. It would be Mass Effect 1.1 with each title including all the OLD DLC pertinent to each one for $75. If you spend $200 up front... all three titles with 50% coupon for NEW DLC. If I were EA's CEO, Montreal would have slave collars attached pumping out Mass Effect Andromeda DLC right now. That's me. I'm just kidding about the slave collars from Fallout. No... I'd just pay better and keep everyone at their desks because their eager to express their art instead of doing it because it's a job. I'm not idealistic either. Only a sociopath would disagree with me.

Conrad verner secretly snuck his way into the initiative, he'll be the new Shepard.

ignore his twin from the OT 👌

Beyond their lifetime? You see the reconstruction at the end of ME3. I'm sure it's not all unicorns and rainbows immediately but but it looked they're making a good start.
And I'd rather the Catalyst was annulled from existence. If Shep survives why wouldn't he/she talk about it? Just get rid of it, it was a terrible idea.

Sure, but "I wouldn't buy it" is an appropriate response to your topic. Who is this for, exactly? PS3 players who want to throw out their consoles, I guess. Who else?

Perhaps. Anyone here have real research data on the topic?

Perhaps. Anyone here have real research data on the topic?

It's amazing how much the Synthesis ending simply being an option has had an impact on the Mass Effect franchise as a whole.

Destroy/Control are easy to continue from with a few dialogue differences between them - getting away from dealing with Synthesis is why we went to Andromeda.

I said it in the thread on how to continue the franchise, but if MEA2 isn't an option, my first choice would definitely be handwave ME3's ending and just continue on in the Milky Way with a vague 'Shepard beat the Reapers 50 years ago' backstory. Is preserving the validity of the 'space magic turns everyone in the galaxy into some interconnected techno-organic potentially-hivemind singularity without their consent' really that important anymore?

Anyone thinking it would not sell extremely well is having a laugh, it would also bring back some credibility to the series and future installment after it was severely damaged by the disaster that was Andromeda.

Either way it is very weird that a company that is known to only care about the money, not to cash in on something that will give them that.