You would not believe it but petition for DLC for MEA is still running!

Yeah, I can believe the petition's still going strong. I doubt we'll see any DLC for ME:A but it can't hurt to have the petition continue on and show that there is a customer base for future Andromeda stories.

Why?!

Exactly

Unless you move that timeline up roughly 25-years in Andromeda, with the initiative well entrenched in Heleus and the characters you love today now the leaders and mentors of a new generation of heroes.  The narrative can be written in such a way to filling the present gaps leading forward to the point that allows fluid transition.

The beauty of science fiction is it truly is a blank slate.   To me, as much as I enjoyed it, the Sheppard story is done and trying to resurrect it will never do the original creation justice.  But there is allot of room to build on Andromeda and still avoid some the areas that needed improvement in the first installment.  If we can't see beyond some of the MEA criticisms ourselves as the ME fans, it is pretty difficult to see why EA would allow Bioware to venture there again, as they will definitely not see the $$$$$ potential.  We just need hope, vision and bug EA to death until the surrender .... 

As long as that douchebag that runs EA is running EA he will never let bioware support their single player centric titles again. The last thing we will ever get resembling the bioware we knew will be one last DA game and that game will probably get the same treatment as MEA. From here on out it is going to be games like Anthem that is given a priority in and for the first time in over a decade is a bioware game I have no interest in.

Sadly BSN isn't really united on any elements, there are wildly varying opinions on all parts of ME:A. If Bioware came here to read the responses, then I imagine that they'd leave with more confusion than they had before.

I'd be more than happy to see another Andromeda game or two, just to get a full storyline, before returning to the Milky Way. But whatever they do, I think they need to look at the core strengths and lesser strengths of each game and use those as a template for a future game:

Mass Effect 1 Core Strengths = Expansive dialogue options, intriguing storyline
Mass Effect 1 Lesser Strengths = Many planets to explore even if they are barren
Mass Effect 2 Core Strengths = Interesting and diverse squad (diverse in terms of abilities and personalities, not political correctness), Suicide Mission
Mass Effect 2 Lesser Strengths = Clean, unbloated research and upgrade system, random N7 maps to land on for unique missions
Mass Effect 3 Core Strengths = Decisions have noticable consequences, high quality DLC, strong combat elements
Mass Effect 3 Lesser Strengths = Hub that gives reason to return to it (Armax Arena), certain story arcs are very well written
Mass Effect Trilogy Core Strength = Your decisions transfer to each game.
Mass Effect Andromeda Core Strengths = Physics system that works well with refined combat, Vehicular exploration, final mission, combat customisation
Mass Effect Andromeda Lesser Strengths = Loyalty missions were usually interesting, landable planets had enough quests to encourage you to return, beautiful galaxy map

So what we need is for the next Mass Effect to have expansive dialogue options, interesting squad and an intriguing storyline where your decisions have noticeable consequences. It needs to have an unbloated research and upgrade system but allow for player customisation elements when crafting, while retaining the strong combat gameplay and physics that benefit them. It needs a beautiful galaxy map where you can land on a large number of diverse planets to do side missions and explore while having interesting loyalty missions and a lot of focused missions for the main story arc.It needs a hub you want to return to and a final mission that takes into account your main choices and the allies you've built up to create something epic.

So... they're gonna need a big budget

I believe there's still a petition going on in getting MEA DLC. There's probably still one going on to get ME3's ending changed too, somewhere in the netherworld of internet discussion boards.

It's not going to change anything. Have fun with it though!

Well Cassandra Pentaghast is my favorite female character in all of fiction so...

I like Andromeda's writing far more. it makes more sense and the characters/stories are far less boring to me personally. it has far more in common with DA2/ME2 imo than DAI does, and the "terrible twoes" are the best

I find all DAI companions and their problems desperately boring save for Dorian, and, maybe Cassandra. Their missions also very light on content, and mostly talky/cut-sceny-gathering related. I really loved it that in MEA the companions each had a dedicated play section with a very strong, interesting and unusual game-play, i.e. climbing through the ship with Liam, or that volcano with PeeBee and the coolest gravity ever with Vetra. Basically, I loved having an actual adventure with each of them, just like in ME2.

I also liked how the companion cast was so small and focused, unlike the DAI, where when I recruited everyone I felt endlessly dragged down by the necessity to talk to the endless characters I did not really care about.

In Andromeda, I felt compelled to forge links with everyone, and there being only six of them, each with a fairly strong core motive/personality, it was way more fun for me than the DAI where I felt like I am watching a boring reality show on TV and most of their dialogues was sort of thinly veiled "modern" urban problems stuff like drug addiction. And when they tried to be like more Medieval, well, it got even more boring and out of sync with "that ex-Templar dude does drugs", like Blackwall talking about tournaments.

Somehow, DAI just lost the magic they build up in DA2 that made me really care to no end about the cast... maybe it is the size of the cast. Because DA2 cast is pretty much the same as Andromeda's.

On the whole, I think it was a big problem in both games that you could only char with the characters in the strongholds. It was easier to take imo in Andromeda since less people to talk to, b/c a full round of farming the mostly boring dialogues in Skyhold was basically the first time in my entire gaming when I felt that talking to the characters was just another boring chore before I can push that show on the road to for gods' sake finish the bloody game.

Andromeda definitely hit pay dirt when they added those banters in the Nomad, an excellent banter system, frequent, short, and extremely entertaining when exploring. Barely heard anything in DAI.

My comment was size-wise. I do also see a lot of equivalency in DA2 and MEA plot roles. One companion that is very main plot-significant and all the rest personifying/narrating/ commenting on a world important faction or lore POV.

Damn necromancers are at it again! 💀