If you were obscenely rich and had obtained the rights to the Mass Effect franchise what would you d

I would keep the series in the milky way and explore the 99% not explored during the mass effect trilogy.

I used the word obscenely rich to make money not an issue. I am talking billionaire here.

Money not an issue?

Hard reboot of the franchise.

ME trilogy with more modern effects and an actual outline (needless to say, this would likely create very different ME2 and ME3 games, and probably significant changes to ME1 as well.). Endings to ME3 would be completely redone so that they don't rewrite the entire galaxy (and thus keep the Milky Way as a viable setting) and actually reflects player choice through the trilogy. Less emphasis on big sweeping changes and more on personal destiny.

MEA would be rewritten to be set in the Milky Way, beyond explored space and with a reason created to explain why they are cut off from the relay network (relay damaged/destroyed by the Scourge?)

Chris L'Etoile would be paid an obscene amount of money to return.

rewrite the trilogy
sequel to ME3 with Shepard returning
sequel to MEA with Cerberus having a role. They're building a relay that will link back to the Milky Way. Cora will become TID.

Gotcha. In that case I'll back kotoreffect3's idea of separate subfranchises.

I haven't done any of the theoretical work on the Andromeda subfranchise. I can see the arguments for either jumping ahead a couple of hundred years, or for coming back in a few years with Ryder & Co.

As for the MW subfranchise, we jump forward, say, 600 years, in a post-Destroy continuity. (The geth were destroyed at Rannoch, so CanonShep isn't responsible.) The relays are still nonfunctional, although scientists have finally figured out how to repair them. Some worlds have reverted to outright barbarism in the interim. Others have retained starflight and are expanding on their own. Gameplay begins in Sol system, since the local group has viable breeding populations of all established OT races thanks to the fleets . We can invent nearby worlds that proved suitable for races which couldn't live on Earth, Benning, Demeter, et al.; since non-Earthlike worlds wouldn't have been colonized by the Alliance we naturally wouldn't have heard of them in the OT. Liara's still around; she can be a sort of Kreia for this new team.

Exactly. What's the point, really? A somewhat different tale from a tale we already got? For all I care they could have pulled an Invisible War and made an indirect sequel to ME3 with a totally different storyline maybe in some other uncharted area of the MW, something along those lines, you know - go foward. Let Shepard have his/her peace, there's so much more to the universe than this character.

The trilogy wrecked the setting of the franchise.  Thus why it had to relocate to Andromeda.

This is seen as a mistake to a lot of people.

I would just buy BioWare and their IPs from EA (but not Anthem, fuck that shit. They can keep it.) and act as BW's new publisher. I would then treat them like CDProjekt is treated and give them the necessary time and resources needed to make amazing games without expecting gangbusters in return.

But not the end of the world, it's not so incredibly hard to go around the endings without picking a canon one if desired. Some of you just have to, you know, let 2012 go.

The franchise would go old school. All that action crap implemented since ME2? Gone. Multiplayer? Gone. After that, I'd get a team that knows how to do an old school RPG with the emphasis of no action and multiplayer. They can then make the games however they want so long as it stays old school.

I would:

- restructure the QA/QC department
-enshrine the rule that Perfection Respects Deadlines
- set a goal to produce a stand-alone 30 to 40 hours linear with hubs story in the verse every two years each with a new and small companion set based off the Andromeda engine build.
- severely curtail the romance creep. If it does not change the story, it should not be there. If it is there, everyone can romance it.
- the setting will be from any time period and ME-MW games can use any ending as its premise if needed using the parallel universe principle, as long as the story is good.
- each game would not feature the entire baggage of the series and will be structured to play either a Human or one other species on two different path
- build an MP game that integrates and updates the entire body of maps and species into a separate ME-HQ
- if there is no profit margin, I'd shut the franchise down & tell them to do a Jade Empire game instead

🤷🏻‍♀️ There's a market for it. Doesn't need to be a hit.

i already know it'd be an issue for you, I'd be glad I'm not actually in charge 👍