Fate of the Quarian Ark, through Comics and Novels??

I put the game down and paid attention to other things in an attempt to wait out the time itd take to make whatever kind of come back for the game, which is why i completely missed the news about this till just now when something reminded me about ME and i got curious about updates.

God this is such a gigantic disappointment. Had high hopes this would be a new trilogy experience.

And this is partly the Internets fault. You trolls just HAD to run amock with your memes and harsh remarks about the game's early stages instead of trying to give meaningful feedback to the devs. All the internet cares about is giving others shit for what they do. If the backlash wasnt so harsh the higherups probably wouldnt have completely killed the studio and moved all their work onto Anthem, of which im not even going to play cause its not even interesting. Id take a buggy Mass Effect over a good new random game any day.

I kinda disagree with that...if Bioware had released a solid product, no amount of criticism or memes would have hurt it. It's been stated a thousand times already, but Andromeda's issues go far beyond it's animation and glitching problems.

Indeed. Average game that got average support. And to think I used to defend most of the shit storm that was the pre-release, sighs.

Hello there fellow gamer, I'd like to introduce you to a concept known as "mutual respect"...

Respect
due regard for the feelings, wishes, or rights of others.
"young people's lack of respect for their parents"
synonyms: due regard, consideration, thoughtfulness, attentiveness, politeness, courtesy, civility, deference
"he speaks to the old lady with respect"

It is a very strange concept but I'm sure you can handle it.

He basically gave the player a massive lore dump that is otherwise unattainable. There real issue was he was already in the game files but they made you pay money for it (along with other pre order exclusive items). To this day I can get every pre order exclusive gun/item in ME3 with gibbed editor the only thing that wasn't "on disk" was the squadmate outfits for the collector edition. Just scummy 

And I'll tell you something that may seem strange to you, but it's true also: Not every opinion deserves respect. I respect people, not necessarily their opinions. You can't just say nonsense and expect not to be criticized for it. 

I agree with you... but be prepared to be piled on by a group of people here who hated this game and some who absolutely hate Bioware and are absolutely overly defensive about the internet's role in trashing it... metabombing it minutes after release, harassment of a Bioware staff member because they thought she was responsible for the animations, having "Why Mass Effect was Such a Disaster" autoplay after pretty much any video explaining vault secrets, and here - piling on anyone who likes the game... even going to far as to claim they are delusional, defending the actions of one media person who took screenshots of posts here and put them up on his twitter expressly to generate wider spread public ridicule of those posters without any concern for some of them who had private information displayed with their avatars... and then now having the audacity to say they respect people.  I'm not seeing real evidence of that... lots of evidence of lack of respect shown to the people who happen to disagree with them by merely liking this game and saying that it's more fun than it's reviews reflected.  Yes, the flaws added fuel to the internet fire and had it been a flawless game, it may have survived... but that does not excuse the internet fire being over the top and the actions of SOME of that internet crowd as being completely disrespectful (harassment of staff, for example).

Then you're not really reading their posts... most of them have acknowledged flaws and sales lower than EA wanted.  You're reading them with your complete bias... just as was done here... One guy says the internet is PARTLY to blame... and the responses are like he's saying the internet is totally to blame.  You guys continually throw up these extremist strawmen to support your own bias.  It's tiresome... a blind duck can read the posts for themselves and see that they are not saying what you are saying they are saying to the degree you say they are saying it.  Pretty much every member you've accused of saying this has basically come back to you and acknowledged flaws in the game in direct response to your accusations.  They may still like it in spite of recognizing flaws in it... and they are perfectly entitled to hold that opinion just as much as you are entitled to dislike it in spite of its strengths (and it does have some strengths as well as flaws - which you refuse to acknowledge).

Ok here is the triade:

If you are referring to story ME2 was ok -nothing fantastic.
If ME2 is the game to set standards then I am glad that not everyone believes as you.
How can a game where you face a giant skeleton that you take potshots at to kill be a game that set standards? -Ugh!
Not to mention Bioware did rush the whole Protheans were the Collectors thing -needed more a Revan style reveal.
Not to mention locking the game to only using 4 squadmates at horizon was dumb beyond compare.
Especially since Tali has lines on Horizon but she is locked unless you know how to get the later companions early.

However...

If you speak of game mechanics then ME2 was horrid mess that doomed the franchise to forever be labeled a TPS game:
ME1 was a RPG with a secondary focus on combat -a secondary focus that became primary by searching for ammo in ME2.
Furthermore the whole switch to the heat sink system and having to go around and get ammo was just plain stupid.
Heat sinks are just story and plot immersion breaking but that is what you get in FPS/TPS games...
Granted Bioware found a way to insert them into the game lore.
Still the abomination is that heat sinks still feel like an excuse to make Mass Effect more TPS instead of RPG.
They should have just killed the franchise for that debacle alone.

Mass Effect 2 also saw the introduction of the dreaded linear game maps that many FPS/TPS games are famous for.
RPG are NOT supposed to be linear -they are supposed to be open -ONE THING ME:A DID GET RIGHT.
ME1 -once on the game map you could go anywhere.
ME2 -each map was small and locked to the usual First/Third Person game perspective: move linear and move forward.
    -The worst example of which: The highly praised Suicide Run -not giving it the credit of being called a mission.
Remember the Thresher Maws on the Krogan Homeworld... shame could not go right up to it and launch a nuke.

Which brings to the front another inclusion ME2 added -the insolent "heavy weapons".
Weapons that basically make any fight a deus ex machina ready at any instance -nuke and be done.
Some people would gather them and never use them or sparingly.
Other complain about them not having enough ammo.
Still others -probably like you who don't see the issue either way.
Heavy Weapons if included in ME2 should have been handled like they were in ME3 if anything.

A side issue: the removal of the voluntary crouching system from ME1 also an issue of mechanics.
Not close enough to cover -like standing up like a monolith -even if button pushed to get in cover -bullet sponge.
Why must I be forced to be in cover if I want to crouch?
Though the crouch issue doesn't really matter one way or another since modding it back in is possible.

I play Mass Effect Series for the RPG & stories not to be a Third-Person-Shooter -I got Dead Space series for that.
In the inception of Mass Effect Series I believe it was supposed to be an RPG series not a TPS run and gun series -that the franchise became.

ME2 is so much the game that sets standards that is one of the games with highest scores on reviews ever (94-96 on Metacritic). Your arguments are laughable. 
"How can a game where you face a giant skeleton that you take potshots at to kill be a game that set standards?". Man, in most every game you kill the final boss but hitting him with a sword, even if he's a god. In ME:A, you can kill an Architect just by punching it, if you're skillful enough. 
Combat in ME2 was fun enough, in ME1 it felt a bit clumsy, but it was understandable at that time. ME3 has the best combat, though. 

Seriously, your whole post you mentioned VERY SMALL THINGS to say they "ruined the game". Saying that putting ammo on weapons that didn't have ammo "ruined the franchise" is just ABSURD. You just mention things like "You can't crouch" or "people don't have enough ammo" (Seriously, whoever says that is just not using their ammo right) to criticize a game because you know you can't criticize its' core: the characters and stories around there were awesome (best set of characters ever) and the Suicide Mission was the best mission on a Bioware game. Like I said, it sets standards: Now every game Bioware releases, people ask "Will there be a mission like the Suicide Mission on ME2?". 

But one thing that was SO dumb that you said I have to mention: "RPG are NOT supposed to be linear -they are supposed to be open". Seriously, who invented that rule? So Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age 2 are not RPGs as well, right? Because, you know, most of the maps on these games were also linear and "move forward", with the exception of cities. Ugh, I have to present you the BULLSHIT ALERT. 

Mass Effect 2 is the best game Bioware ever made. And the game that Mass Effect the Mass Effect we used to know. ME1 had potential, but it was ME2 that showed just how great this series was.