From the Twitter Thread: Casey Hudson's Bioware Update, new post 5/10

Bioware didn't say DAI was the best selling Dragon Age. It probably was because DA:2 flopped harder than Floppy McFlop's biggest flop, the floppiest flop that ever flopped, and Origins was a niche title, but all Bioware said was Inquisition had the most successful launch and I still have no idea what that means (sales, or sales + play time etc, what time period etc)

This, somehow, makes me hopeful.

Man I hope they won't forget about Andromeda but apparantely they will.

The difference is that an Anthem failure will likely kill BioWare.

I mean, they have to produce good shit in order to stay in the market, that's why Anthem is what it is, they ain't doing their job recently.

Its my belief that BioWare can tell their story wherever they want to, just like its our choice to buy the game or not.

Now I didn't have a problem with going to Andromeda, but I wouldn't have cared if they stayed in the Milky Way either. Now with that said the story of Andromeda feels unfinished and rather not have a lot of handwaving done to try and appease groups of people that probably won't be happy with anything BioWare does anyway. I can just see it now "How did they get back, everything was destroyed. Therefore BioWare is destroying their lore and I hate them, they died the day they sold out to EA".

If BioWare makes plans to return to the Milky Way I won't object, but if they stay in Andromeda I won't care either. My expectations of Mass Effect is that its a story driven game. I might not like the story or I might have problems with the game, but I don't expect BioWare to make a game to suit my requirements. Otherwise they would have stopped with romances by now.

Same. What I read from it, correct or not:
-Anthem is coming and is the priority, so look at it!
-It will have 'live updates' for story in whatever form Anthem considers story and Bioware wants us to believe is their worldbuilding
-Mass Effect continues to be a thing Bioware is willing to talk about, which leaves open the possibility of another game after Anthem and Dragon Age... or at least Hudson is willing to string people along in order to not hurt Anthem sales

This is a 'series' of messages. I can believe this will be part of the effort to convince gamers that Bioware continues as storytellers, not just set to be multiplayer lootbox sellers. Notice how he never said the terms 'choice' and 'roleplaying' though. Its still very possible that Anthem is Destiny but with more involved lore and cutscenes. It still pretty possible that Dragon Age loses even more priority on roleplaying (not saying DAI severely lacked it, but I think I could tell their priorities).

'Updated studio mission', I'll go with so far, is just: live free updates which include story, selling microtransactions, and dialing back (or for Anthem potential elimination) of narrative character choice. If so, then yes, they have to do this series and much more to even start to convince Bioware fans (that don't buy games immediately) and even wider gamers to care enough to buy. Not saying what they're creating will suck - I'm just saying that it feels like Hudson is trying to 'redefine' what Bioware is, based on some sense of 'earlier spirit' instead of particulars.

I'll eat my words if Bioware releases Anthem footage of cutscenes with dialogue options that result in some substantial story and character differences.

This is the part I don't buy into. BioWare is clearly going in the directions of lootboxes. While MP existed as a side thing for ME3, DAI and MEA, things have changed. MP might become the focus so you can play with your "friends" and SP will be the side thing. All this is assuming Anthem is successful and BioWare doesn't shut down.

Funny that when the focus is taken off of BioWare's strength - it's RPG - doubt creeps in from BioWare fans. Yes, we know MEA didn't perform as expected but we also know why that happened. No offense, but I disliked the Omega DLC even more than anything to do with the Hammerhead or Pinnacle Station (which I've kind of gotten to like). So maybe the writing of MEA was never going to be what we expected. I don't hate MEA, like some others, but I do see where the dislike can come from. If BioWare put more focus on their strengths they could be the company so many of us love again. Seems to be working for The Witcher.

I actually came to like it over my many, many playthroughs.  You can get an apartment out of it (that was sadly missing from ME2 and ME3) and taking down that arrogant turian is worth it alone.  It's a challenge, though it can be somewhat tedious at times.  Besides, it's not really any worse than Armax Arsenal Arena.  It did come free for me when I bought the trilogy through Origin.  I doubt I would have paid for it.

I thought that import bug was 100% on release regardless of which DLC you had? Due to ME1 characters not actually having any face codes. And then they also took out some of the options like purple eyes and if you happened to be using any of those (like myself) you were screwed either way. I had to use a workaround to get it working. Took them an entire month to fix the import bug. Or do you mean it's still happening today when playing that DLC? Never bought ME1 DLC, can't comment.

Armax Arsenal Arena is entertaining until you've completed the 'storyline', then it gets a bit dull. I wish they had had a championship of some kind to fight in, that could've been fun.