Mass Effect Annihilation now a June 2018 release

I'd say not making a DLC damages their reputation and credibility even more, since all not making the DLC did is piss off everyone who liked or at least enjoyed the game and having them join those who didn't like the game in not supporting and bashing them and their upcoming products like Anthem. 
Also, sweeping something under the rug is not acknowledging your mistake. Acknowledging your mistake would be making a DLC that looks at all the biggest complaints and tries to address them, like what they did with the Extended Cut DLC for Mass Effect 3. 

Actually the people who like it are a majority. Plus if people did what you are advocating every time, none of the great games would exist.
Even if it can't 'fix' the game, it can build confidence that the next one will be better.
I hope they don't ditch Ryder and Co, they were my favorite Mass Effect bunch so far. Well, most of them anyway.

No, the people who like it are a minority. If people who liked it are a majority, why would they think a DLC wouldn't be profitable? 
And if people really stopped praising lazy work, we would have much more great games. Besides, most of the games we played in the past didn't have DLC and we were just fine without them, can't understand what's the big deal in this game not having a DLC. 

I know this aspect (the game's management) is getting off-topic because it's not related to ME: Annihilation, but I'd like to comment on these two posts.

I strongly agree that proper direction was lacking, and it is what is entirely needed to move forward. To say that the people who made ME:A were lazy, or that there were incompetent people on this project, is NOT true. I do think critical mistakes were made at the high-level leadership level, not with the team members grunting it out in the trenches.

I sincerely hope ME: Annihilation will be a very good story and keep the candle burning. The ME franchise IS recoverable. Story, story, story: plots, turns, and twists, character development, and great dialog (not an over abundance of cheesy dialog).

I'm just a giant meh about the entire thing. I haven't bought any of the books, as I said that I was gonna do. The entire thing wraps around the game. The entire thing is blown in the ass now.




Hahahahaha. Yeh, okay. Whatever. Say hi to Xenu for me and Alex Jones if you see him.

Except we know for a fact that many, many game developers plan out their DLC well in advance, because season passes exist. 

Of course it is most likely a leadership problem (former employee Heir said lead developers refused to listen when developing Andromeda), but still, Andromeda was a big investment and the fans were really hopeful about it, so it was a huge letdown. And those were the same guys that developed Omega DLC, the most criticized of all DLC in MET. So, in 4 years they developed the worst DLC in MET and a huge failure of a game fans were really expecting and hyping. You can't really blame them for downgrading the studio (after all, they didn't really close it) 

Get real! Just accept that DLC was planned but then pulled due to the failure of MEA.

Why would Bioware tease the Quarians in-game only for some future novel release 14 months later? And why would a novel scheduled for a summer 2017 release get delayed to summer 2018?

You just do not want to admit any failure on MEAs part.

People here swore up and down that MEA was a successful game...EA was happy with it....and that it would get dlc because of those factors. Then when it was announced it wouldnt happen, people who couldnt admit that the lack of dlc was cause of MEA failure came up with this theory that it was planned to not have dlc.....

No, MEA was a bomb and the lowest rated Bioware game EVER and an internet sidejoke.

MajesticJazz would just like to thank everyone for partcipating in this thread as he finally gets to talk shit about ME:A again. It was losing a bit of steam for a bit so this was a nice reprise.

The folks on the Dragon Age side would also like to thank you for participating as well as it means he's not over there annoying them.

Buddy, you don't know the first thing about me. I never liked the Mass Effect franchise in the first place.

I actually liked the Omega DLC...

I honestly don't understand the hate for it. And I always thought Arrival was considered the worst story DLC. I never bought that one, only watched a play through and agree that it was meh.

I actually can't believe that the same people who made the decent Omega DLC made crappy Andromeda.

So either the writers of MEA were different or it really was total lack of direction/vision. I believe there is a big difference between working within an established framework and established characters... and building an entire game in a different universe with new characters and lore.

I'm fascinated by the Quarian race, so Mass Effect Annihilation will be the first book from Bioware I read. I'm actually looking forward to it. It helps that it's being written by a quality author and not a game writer who dabbles.