MASS EFFECT ISN'T DEAD [BioFan Video]

Here's the thing about Mass Effect "fans"... They love their canon. Both Bioware CANON and their own personal canon. That's part of the reason some were angry about Andromeda before we got our first trailer. The whole Andromeda Initiative being unmentioned in the OT upsets some of the most vocal detractors here, as well as the technology that allowed the journey, the ODSY drive. People still bicker about that because they don't see how it's possible/canon if it's not mentioned in the OT. So then you want to take something that IS canon, the Starchild and the three (four) choices and hand-wave them away and have people be fine with it? Lol.

Some will be fine with it. Some will be angry at changing canon. Some will be angry at abandoning Andromeda. It's a super shitty situation.

But anyone suggesting that many fans would not be upset about a chosen canon ending for the OT, especially after Casey and Bioware PROMISED they would not do that, is blind to the fanbase and has really just not paid attention to the last 5 years.

How many would choose the "lesser" evil of a canon ending over an Andromeda sequel? Hard to say. However, the problem is really that fans at this point care a little too much about their truth and what they want over what is good for the franchise.

. Hmmm? I might have missed that part of the discussion. Explain please?

What's to explain there? We played Shepard, Shepard had a choice which changes the galaxy. So from there on we have four parallel universes from which BioWare could choose from if they wanted to do another game in the Milky Way. All endings are equally valid, so a sequel based on one would just be a story in one of the parallel universes. Doesn't mean that the endings not used for that game are declared non-canon. The potential to also tell a story out of another parallel universe would always be there.

Ooh, sorry. Yes. The problem is that you are using actual logic, not "gamer" logic.

Gamers love canon and their choice, and if you say "yeah, but your choice isn't the right choice" by making the next game based on a different choice than yours, people get upset.

Most people won't see it as that, unless as I said each ending gets its own game thus cementing that ending as canon as well. 
Having the races not play a big role after you spend a trilogy trying to save them is a giant slap to the face for those players. And yes the choices are as big as they are made out to be since the choices involve a species being completely wiped out. 

Two things.

One i do not make that assumption. In fact the extreme reaction to Andromeda only proves that most likely any new ME game will be something i do not want. Or will actually wait to see if its good.

Two. While i enjoyed the game, many of the things that people didn't would also would be in any new ME game. If people complain about the story of MEA boring and not being as epic then the next ME game will have that same problem unless they give us a direct sequel to Andromeda.

So literally punish players for their choices? "Congratulations, you saved these people from extinction. But because some people didn't, you'll never see those people again."  Yeah, that will go over well.
Not true. There are also the quarians and the rachni. And depending on who leads the krogan they too can be wiped out. 

I wasn't aware that you had been named emissary of the fans who hate Andromeda. Congrats! Those meetings must be lots of fun. How do they choose the leader? Is it like a battle royal, vote, or who can bitch the longest on something they haven't experienced? I'm guessing it's a lot of white guys talking about how they have been discriminated against. 😂

Not all Quarians are directly involved in the Geth/Quarian war and the Geth surely won't search the whole Galaxy to kill every Quarian on sight. The Genophage controls birth rates and just because you decide to sabotage Mordin's cure doesn't mean that the Krogan will magically not be interested to find a cure anymore. Sigh, Shepard is just one human, don't take yourself too serious. A Rachni queen was cloned for ME3 even if you killed the Queen in ME1, so who am I to declare them extinct when we have in-game proof of the opposite?

Big choices leading to races not being central for the next plot is no punishment, it's a logical consequence.

But again: I don't even think that BioWare will go this route (and I want to continue in Andromeda for now). It's just a possibility they created, which apparently isn't as well regarded though by many including you.

See, here's the thing - there's no DLC.  The studio that made the game is no more.  The director for the game, is no more.  The GM that oversaw everything is gone.  Mac Walters has disappeared from the face of the earth. It's the first Bioware game, in probably forever (if we don't count Sonic) that is getting no DLC.  But it's getting books!  And a bunch of devs that worked on the game are no longer even with the company.

There's clearly way more people that hated Andromeda than were fans.

But there's a bunch of you on this forum that love the game! Although a lot of the regulars are starting to disappear - because they can read the writing on the wall, but some of you are illiterate to the mounting evidence that Andromeda will never, ever be revisited again (not counting the books!)

What evidence? Even Jason never said anything that Andromeda 2 will never happen. All he said was the franchise was on "ice" for now. No one has explicitly stated that were never going back to Andromeda-at least for now.