Mass Effect: Initiation released 11-28-17

Forget DLC, these ancillary products ARE a money printer, relatively speaking. It won't take that many sales for these things to justify themselves and compared to creating DLC, it costs a pittance. So in case anyone is under the mistaken impression that these books should've been cancelled from a financial perspective. BW's novels and comics were never really my thing but they are plenty enough people buying them, "dead game" or no.

Ah, there's an audiobook version read by Fryda Wolff.

I enjoyed her reading of Nexus Uprising, so I think I'll indulge...

Sorry, man. I failed to see this reply for a long time. I might be able to dig up some unadjusted release schedule, if I took enough time. These were first announced about a year and a half ago. The best approach would maybe be for me to find some of those old threads. As a fan of the novels, I followed the info pretty closely.

This thread is a decent example. [EDIT: Nix that. It thought it was from 2016.] Initiation was going to be first. It was to outline what the Initiative is; how it developed; introduce Cora and Alec, etc... Next, Nexus Uprising would offer an account of the events shortly after the Nexus' arrival in Andromeda-- events BioWare chose to have happen off-screen. Lastly, The Lost Ark (eventually renamed Annihilation) would address events concerning some lost ark. We eventually learned that this was the quarian ark. I think this novel clearly indicates that BioWare was never lying about the plan to explain the quarian ark via a novel, rather than DLC. They intended to tie it up in print, and then have all of the species fully integrated in MEA2.

So, we are finally getting Initiation over a full year late? My enthusiasm has somewhat waned. It's a shame it didn't release on time. It wouldn't have fixed the game's issues, but it would've been fun information to have during those animated, speculative discussions we had throughout 2016.

Read the book. Pretty good read. You get a glimpse of what Cora could have been like as pathfinder with SAM. Also it gives another reason for why only the Ryder twins could become the human pathfinder.

It is hinted at that a "SAM" enhanced human could outlive Asari and Krogan.

The frustrating part of reading the book is seeing the potential missed with MEA and its story could have been so much better.

Now I really want a DLC to see who is the mysterious backer of AI, as well as the Quarian Ark. So much wasted potential.

Can’t get into details at the moment, but I listened to the audiobook.

It’s quite good. It handles Cora and Alec extremely well and provides depth to both. The universe is handled with great detail. I’d certainly recommend it to any ME fan.

They think their vocal minority of ultra fanboys that line up at their quarterly panels and conventions represents the overwhelming majority of their fans and support.

BioWare prefers to stick their head and turn off the light to facing the fact that they should work hard to impress the gaming audience to ever regain relevance again. At this point I have a feeling everyone at BioWare is just there to go down with the sinking ship.

Nah, we have been over this again and again. The info I posted is the actual info posted by Titan Books as first official announcement in December last year. Nothing was changed there. Just search the old threads. I'm not too interested in the books, but people keep posting wrong stuff about the releases, so as one who was following these things in 2016, just thought clearing this up would be a good idea. Again.

Sorry again. I'm talking about facts, not speculation.

See here: bsn.boards.net/thread/2894/effect-andromeda-books-comics-uprising?page=8&scrollTo=100229

And here: bsn.boards.net/thread/2894/effect-andromeda-books-comics-uprising?page=8&scrollTo=100186

But, whatever.

I started reading last night, so far i am liking all the references.

Oh, it's about Cora. How disappointing. Not going to bother with it, then.

My copy got delivered today, really looking forward to getting back from work to read it 😄