MASS EFFECT ISN'T DEAD [BioFan Video]

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).

2 - take time to review your work ?

Note that if you respond 1, you just ask that EA does what he was criticized for some monthes ago..

Have you ever worked on a large project ?

If yes you should know that a planning is evolutive and it's not necessarily an indication of a bad project.

Dead Space 3 was considered a game that sunk the franchise, yet It got single player DLC. The fact it got DLC and ME: A a more profitible franchise did not seems to me that EA wanted to relocate its resources after the game was finished.

Agree, but I have already made peace with the idea that some people here will defend MEA no matter what. They will try ti divert any time of negative news for MEA as something neutral. More like the glass being half full instead of half empty. In their mind, they will not allow the narrative that MEA was a failure run unchallenged. So for them it is much easier to believe that MEA not getting DLC wasnt cause of its failure/review scores/reception, but rather something that EA planned well before MEA released. In the case of smilesja and company, it is a matter of continuously changing the narrative to something that is positive for MEA. First it wad MEA was a successful game and EA will not miss out on the profit to be made so there will be DLC and Jason S. is wrong and looking for clicks. Now it is MEA was successful, but EA just wants to focus on Anthem and this decision was made before release. So MEA could have crushed DAI in sales and review scores and could have been hailed as the best Bioware game ever made and a runaway candidate for GOTY.....and EA would still not do DLC cause....Anthem.

At least with people like us, our narrative remains the same today as it was back in April/May, which is that MEA was not the game it could have been and will not receive DLC anf most likely will not recieve a direct sequel.

I don't have to make peace with people who attack MEA, because, contrary to you, I was never at war.

Now, amen, rest in peace with your idea that you are right and those who don't think like you are wrong, at last it makes you happy and that's a good thing.

....First, you said BioWare would release DLC because the game was profitable, and now, you say they never intended in the first place...do you even realize how non-sensical you sound?

Dead Space 3 was considered a game that sunk the franchise, yet It got single player DLC. The fact it got DLC and ME: A a more profitible franchise did not seems to me that EA wanted to relocate its resources after the game was finished.

And it was only the endings. Not the whole game. And much of the toxicity has been taken out by them publishing the EC. In any case, they obviously had their data based on market research.

There were a vocal amount of people who dislike a lot of aspects of ME3 and consider it a bad RPG. It was just buried under the ending outrage.