MASS EFFECT ISN'T DEAD [BioFan Video]

As one of the disciples of Lord Jason "Cry Baby" Shreier, until now you've taken everything he's said as gospel. Why change that now? He was very, very specific about shelving a sequel. He called to verify his thoughts about DLC with those "in the know", and they told him there was no DLC incoming. Not that it was cancelled or shelved, just none. No DLC. So listen to your main man JS and accept the truth.

PR didn't say that, JS did. Why would they tell him that the sequel was shelved but just say there was no DLC? THAT makes no sense.

But whatever, continue on with your delusional narrative where JS speaks all truth except when it's convenient to you.

When you are right, you are right. Since there won't be any actual announcements of anything of value concerning these subjects or that of the OP, I'm bouncing out, yo.

Just for information: it is the other way around. "Lost Ark" was the working title we got from a catalog from Titan Books in 2016 before the official announcement. Since the announcement in December 2016 the book is titled "Mass Effect Annihilation" and will be released under that name. What you can still find - and why there is confusion - are Amazon pages with the working title still in place. We have gone over this already a lot of times.

Check here (and click on the image):
bsn.boards.net/thread/2894/effect-andromeda-books-comics-uprising?page=8&scrollTo=100186

And here (to see the text):
bsn.boards.net/post/100229/thread

What I take from this is a) the story of the Quarian Ark was always meant to be told through a book (remember the in-game sentence: "we have to trust THEIR pathfinder") and the reason for that is simply that you don't have Quarians in MEA, but want them in a possible sequel, so you gotta bridge that information gap.

This has nothing to do though with whether any DLC was planned or not. Just my personal opinion: bringing Quarians in via DLC wouldn't have been interesting, because we are in a new galaxy, so introducing new planets or new foes would've been much better (and much more in line with the DLCs we got for the other games). Whether they had any plans for that: who knows?

I'm also not sure what there could be to add now (though maybe Mac Walters is indeed currently writing something for the book), because the book won't tell anything out of the Pathfinder's point of view. So I doubt that any "Pathfinder content" will be put in the book and we surely won't get anything that was meant for a sequel (Kett empire, Jardaan, Benefactor).

There is absolutely no point in arguing with these die hard fans. Andromeda failed for the first time... it will fail for a second time. I already made a thread about this shit show way back in the original BSN Forums about the risks involved and people laughed at me... now they are laughing at me again despite Andromeda has been literally declared DEAD ON ARRIVAL by EA lol but whatever

If your post is directed at me, I think you misinterpreted my post, which was to clear up the confusion regarding the name of the novel (it changed from "Lost Ark" to "ME Annihilation" and not the other way around - so please don't use it for any conspiracy theory).

I believe that we would've gotten DLC if the game had been received/sold better and it is first and foremost a monetary decision that we don't get any DLC.

That argument has nothing to do with this novel though. I'm just saying that I don't believe there was a Quarian Ark DLC planned, because we knew for a long-time that a book would cover that story and the whole point of having no Quarians in the core game is that you don't have to build Quarian character models on the new engine for this game. So why would they focus on that for just a DLC, when in a new galaxy discovering new locations and maybe new aliens (so providing something fresh and new like they usually do with DLC) should have been their focus?

Again: to me the whole purpose for the Quarian Ark novel is to explain why they will be in a sequel (which was the plan) and how they got there, not to build up a DLC. BTW: no ME novel to date was there to build up a DLC. That's a pretty funny speculation going on right now.

Then in the end, I asked a question, because they can't wrap up anything regarding the Pathfinder (because he is not the protagonist of this book) and certainly won't bring any closure to the other open plot threads that screamed sequel (again: Kett, Jardaan, Benefactor). So my question is: what would they add now? Especially without knowing where they will go next.There is nowhere new to bridge to right now, so at the moment I don't see what they would have to change in that novel.

THIS... SO MUCH THIS The Milkway is already ESTABLISHED it could be further expanded even after the Reaper war whatever the FOK ending the writers chose or a whole new ending lol does not matter as long as the franchise gets sling shotted back to the Milkyway I am fine with that

But he did say that his sources said the bad reception to MEA caused EA to move people from Montreal to other projects. If that is thr case, that goes against your theory that EA moved people to Anthem because it was part of a planned move.

So which one is it? Was it always a planned move to shift everyone to Anthem and not give MEA no matter how popular/successful MEA was?

Or was it a move based on the fact that EA saw MEA as a lost cause and thus wanted to shift focus on other priorities that may be deemed more profitable?

So why the delay fron Summer 2017 to December 2017? Also it is worth noting that ONLY Lost Ark was delayed, Initiation os releasing as intended.

As far as I know, "The Lost Ark" release date is only given by Amazon. Titan Books or the author never gave a official release date.

That move was planned before MEA was even released, therefore the reception to MEA had nothing to do with it. Merging two developers takes months of planning, it is not decided over night. The reason Montreal was axed was that it had to take resources from both Edmonton and Austin to complete the games because of management problems. This without a doubt has affected their other projects, Anthem was delayed and despite it being 3 years since DAI, a new DA4 has not even been announced yet (it took them 3 years to make DAI even though it was hard for them as it was their first frostbyte game). I wouldn't be surprised that no DLC was planned because they just couldn't sacrifice any more resources from their other projects. The Mass Effect franchise hasn't been sacrificed for Anthem and Dragon Age, both those projects had to have resources diverted from them due to MEA

Look at the time Anthem has been delayed. It was when MEA was in the thick of the shitstorm. So, reason tells me it had been delayed because they suddenly realized they were about to push yet another half polished bugfest out. In the same year, no less.