Mass Effect '5' speculation (Official Thread)

A very sad one. I hope it’s not the last we hear of Andromeda.

I’m not counting Andromeda dead till I hear it officially. I still believe/hope we’ll get a sequel.

Let's not put blame on entire team. Clearly most of BW Montreal was staffed with skilled people with love for the franchise. But the leadership and middle management was one that screwed up, with poor vision and decisions that caused BW Edmonton to intervene and get things back on track.


Now ME franchise has no team beyond a skeleton crew to maintain ME:A MP and non-game content like books and comics. And that is a huge problem. With Anthem being a decade long planned project for original ME team, BW Montreal gone, DA team not likely to ditch their DA franchise and BW Austin still running SW:TOR, who will take over? A new BW studio? Unlikely, they already did it with BW Montreal. Giving ME to other EA studio? Very unlikely, unlikely BW would just hand over their IP to other EA studio nor would EA do that while BW exists. Expanding BW Edmonton? Possible, but that might overstretched them and cause issues for Anthem and DA. Form a new team between BW Austin and BW Edmonton? Probably the cheapest option, but such move has no set precedent though.


This is a major logistical issue for ME to continue. While ME IP is profitable and popular, lack of manpower and infrastructure to continue the franchise is troubling. At least from what we know publically. We won't know for a long time will they pull the plug or continue with brand new team.

As long as they go back to the Milky Way, all sins are forgiven.

And all new, even more unforgivable sins, are created.

And had Bioware been given more time to do ME3 the way they originally had planned, the game would be different from what it currently is. Even the ending might be different.

You mean the Dark Energy plot? That was terrible I read the original outline.

No.

This.
https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/1wyz7e/some_interesting_facts_about_me3s_development/

It looks like a few things will be finished in the next book. At least in regards to the quarians? I wouldn't have a problem if they chose to do a sequel, but that's more about knowing who the benefactor is, the details behind Garson's murder and what the kett will do with Archon dead.
That depends on the story that Bioware wants to tell. You say it will fail while others would give it a pass.

I'm not a fan of having a prequel, but if that were to happen, I might purchase the game, if it interests me.

People will complain regardless of what Bioware chooses to do.

Bah much of that was changed or fixed and imo for the better. Yes some shouldn’t have been cut mainly Javik and Anderson’s scene. Everything else I prefer what we got.