Mass Effect Annihilation now a June 2018 release

Actually they're teased more than once. They got more teases than Omega DLC for ME3 did.

So you're saying that from the beginning EA said no matter the demand, the market, the projected revenue we're not releasing any DLC for this game, we don't want the money.  That doesn't make sense on any level, especially for bottom line driven company like EA.  At some point the ran the numbers of what it would cost and how much it would likely bring in and made a business decision to not release DLC.    

The only indication I've seen for no DLC was them saying we always planned on continuing the story through books.  But all the ME games, as well as the DA games, had their story continued through books and comics, but had DLC as well.  That statement they put out doesn't mean books and other media were the only way they planned on extending the games story.  If anything they said that in an attempt to hide the fact that they had to cancel the DLC.

I always found that argument hilarious.

Those people now who claim that EA never planned for DLC were the same people whi swore up and down that there would be DLC cause it sold well, was a crucial part in the quarterly earnings, and EA was satisfied with it.

They will rely on any narrative that doesnt put MEA in a bad light and saying that DLC was never planned is easier to accept than DLC was plannes but cancelled cause the game was an internet running joke.

And just think, many of those same people were holding onto hope that DLC would be announced on N7 day. Lol....

According to MEA, the Batarians arrived in Andromeda on the Salarian ark (source: one of the Batarian profile descriptions in multiplayer, of all places). There were no Batarians on the Quarian Ark; just quarians, drell, hanar, elcor and volus. So BioWare is already messing with the lore.

As much as I like the ME games, I try not to think about the future of ME since I'm not sure there is going to be a future. I wish we'd gotten DLCs for MEA and I'm uncomfortable with the delays of the future books because I'm afraid to count on them ever coming out.

I'd rather play the game than read books about it but I enjoyed all the ME books and especially enjoyed reading about life on the fleet. I too am fascinated by the Quarian race. 

You would think that BioWare would learn from their mistakes but no they have to create another DLC that can further mess up the game than it already has. It's no wonder that people are leaving the company and go work somewhere else.

Can't see any point in this. Game is dead, there's no more support or DLC and a book just doesn't cut it for a lot of people. Imagining how stuff looks and sounds is not as immersive as controlling the protagonist and interacting with the universe yourself. Mass Effect doesn't need this novel, the franchise needs another game. Maybe a reboot that takes the ME universe in a different direction.

Perhaps Bioware could set the next game back in the Milky Way where Shepard refused to choose any of Star Kid's 3 options. The reapers win the war and are on clean-up duty getting rid of the last pockets of organic resistance fighters. Maybe they were using some organics as batteries (a la the matrix). Perhaps they were running the 'Andromeda Simulation' on those organics, keeping them comatosed while their bodies feed power to a reaper base. They could kick off at a point where some resistance fighters break into said reaper base and free a handful of people stuck in the simulation. The protagonist wakes up disorientated but conscious enough to walk and escape to safety with his/her rescuers.

Maybe Bioware could merge the Milky Way and Andromeda's residents in the next game. The initiative took 600 years to travel to Andromeda. Perhaps by then, the Milky Way people advanced their technology and built better mass effect relays that could jettison them straight over to Andromeda in mere minutes. Travelling between galaxies would become the norm. Who knows what weird races they'd find.

You know EA.  They're above such things as further monetizing their products.

I hope the MEA books Initiation (to be released on 11-28-17) and Annihilation (June '18) will complete the entire Andromeda plot, and let that be the end of ME:A - only because Andromeda's plot and characters do not hold my interest enough to replay ME:A, and, I'm not interested in a DLC at this point.

Then there's the audio story The Lost Ark, 'tentatively' to be released on Dec. 7th, authored by Catherynne M. Valente. It appears this will only be released as an audio cd ($30 on Amazon), or free (streaming?) with Amazon's Audible trial. I am NOT paying $30, and not pre-ordering either. I wonder if it will include voice acting. Perhaps Amazon's web page for this is only a placeholder for now. I haven't heard anything mentioned about The Lost Ark so far.

Yeah, I just do not see EA wasting money on the ME brand anymore. The brand was already damaged after ME3 and MEA was supposed to turn the page and be a breath of fresh air. Instead it bolo'd, became the lowesr reviewed Bioware game and an internet laughing stock. Anthem, DA, and possibly a new IP is Bioware's future now.

I feel sorry for those who are actually expecting a MEA2.

Man, I would have understood if the delay was something like a month or two. But 'til june 2018?!

Even a mad BioWare fan like me had probably forgotten its supposed release.
I already started to forgot the names and characters from Andromeda.

I liked her message to a reddit forum though.