MASS EFFECT ISN'T DEAD [BioFan Video]

hey if the next ME game is my personal GOAT with or without Ryder I'll be happy to eat crow and enjoy the hell out of it. I will probably buy the next ME game no matter what. But without Ryder I'll be skeptical and adopt a wait and see attitude.

WITH Ryder? Instant pre order.

That's like saying they shouldn't canonize Shepard surviving the suicide mission just so they could make ME3.

Still waiting on smilesja to explain why would EA put time, money, and resources into MEA if they knew it would have the plug pulled in order to support Anthem with time, money, and resources. That logic doesnt make sense, but people here who cannot and will not accept that MEA was a failure, it is logic to them because it fits a narrative that MEA didnt fail but was actually a success.

So yeah, if EA knew that the endstate was to focus on Anthem....why the hell would EA publish MEA in the first place if they knew they wouldnt support it with SP DLC cause they needed the time, money, and resources for Anthem?

Especially considering that EVERY game since ME1 from Bioware got SP DLC.

Finally, EA has allowed Bioware to focus on Mass Effect before while working on bigger projects simultaneously. Remember SWTOR? That had a big budget of ~$200 million which was one of the most expensive videogames ever made at the time (including marketing cost). So why did ME and DA games at the time still recieved SP DLC even during SWTORs development but MEA couldnt during Anthem's?

You're a Miranda fan? Would you buy an ME3 sequel if Miranda was a squadmate especially if the story was average or better than average?

I see another ME game in 4-5 years.  I wouldn't be surprised if someone at Bioware already has an idea or ideas for the next game. Whether the next game takes place here, there or wherever, time will tell, but I do believe they won't put ME on ice.

Well I imagine a lot of people do that already. People who are interested would figure that out one way or another well within the first couple weeks of release and make their decision by then. 

I stopped preordering any game back in 2006 when I got served an unpolished turd of biblical proportions.

Yeah, companies hate hundreds of millions of dollars. 😉

Do you have any evidence they dropped DLC plans instead of just not having planned on it at all? Nope! And since the main game was still being fixed and barely held together before launch, your assertion that they were planning DLC or already working on it doesn't hold much weight.

It's likely the delays, known development issues, and assumed lower score (8-8.5) would have suggested a wait-and-see approach at most, rather than a "oh yeah yeah, DLC? We're doing that. Ooh, people don't like it? NVM." Type of deal.

But did they say they never intended to do SP DLC in the first place? That is what I am asking for proof of because that seems to be the argument a few people are throwing around.

I know as of now that is their plans, to tell post game content stories through MP and novels, but where did EA confirm that it was always their plans from the very beginning to do this? Even if MEA averaged in the 90s for review scores and sold 20+ million copies and was critically praised as being the best Bioware game ever made.

Did they ever say they actually intended to make DLC? WHERE'S YOUR PROOF, JAZZ? THERE IS NO GOD! THE CAKE IS A LIE! WUBBA LUBBA DUB-DUB!

That is my point exactly.

And STILL waiting on smilesja to explain the logic of why EA would go forward with MEA if they were going to pull the plug in order to support Anthem when in the past, they didnt pull the plug on ME/DA to support SWTOR.

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there's also what the author of the quarian ark book said (in response to someone complaining that they don't want the quarian plot to be solved in a book):