VentureBeat claims we're going to get a MET Remaster "Legendary Edition"

First I will admit I don't follow any other developer as closely as BioWare, but it just seems a lot of vocal people want all BioWare games to turn out like Star Citizen where the kitchen sink and everything else has been thrown into the game

Which seems to be a common problem, even Jedi: Fallen Order and Ghost of Tsushima seem to have that problem as well where if you go beyond the wallpaper of the fidelity of the game and look under the hood there is almost nothing original there.  No longer games seem to have the "do what we do well and focus on that" its all about throwing all kinds of additional systems and features into the game to try and get more people to buy the game.

That is why I make the comments about BioWare giving people what they want and its not that those people don't want a good game, but the features they say should be added harm the development of the game

To me the biggest problem of Mass Effect 3 was all the cameos of the Mass Effect 2 team and how they were implemented.  I think the game would have been far better off if BioWare stuck to what I believe was their original choice of only have a few characters return from Mass Effect 2, but decided to give people what they were claiming they wanted to see with all their favorite characters returning to the game.  So now they have a bunch of extra characters to find room for in the game and also to find a spot to place them if they happened to die in Mass Effect 2 content isn't lost when given to them.  That then causes BioWare developers to create a temporary NPC to fill the role if the squad member died in Mass Effect 2 and making sure the role fits the returning characters too.  So that does take time and developers away from other areas of the game to give a result that I doubt many people liked and more then likely had a chain reaction down the entire development schedule.  So the people that wanted it weren't happy because they didn't get what they probably envisions and the people that didn't care weren't happy because other areas of Mass Effect 3 could have been negatively impacted.  Of course all guesswork on my part, but its just how I see BioWare making changes based on what is posted online can cause and the end result is nobody is happy.

This is why I like Dragon Age’s model. I don’t need to have the same roster dragged about for multiple games to be satisfied.

Hey, Normandy's helping Harbinger there. He wants people to run away from the beam; no sense discouraging it. I'm more bothered by why the uninjured squadmates on the SR-2 didn't join the fight.

(1) I have seen plenty of that with Andromeda for people are telling BioWare to go back to The Milky Way and make the games more like the Shepard Trilogy.  They might not be coming out and saying the game needs to have a specific system, but there are plenty of comments about changes they need to make to the game.

(2) Gameplay is important even if people aren't playing just for that.  Bad gameplay can hurt the story of a game just as much as a bad story because you aren't enjoying the time when you aren't part of the story.  I think we saw that with Mass Effect 1 and the amount of comments pointing out how bad the combat was or how people comments on how good the combat systems were in Mass Effect 3.  I know I wouldn't care how the story ends if the gameplay is a complete slog and it was hard for me to complete Mass Effect 1 the first time because of how the game played.

(3) Depends on what you want when you talk about having a bigger role for LIs.  Again it becomes about the time required to animate all that content and generally content such as conversations becomes a lot more work so when you have nine different romance options to cover it ties up the animators even more from making content that all player want to see.

I think that refers more to the feel and atmosphere of the games, not necessarily the gameplay. Stuff like the creepy emptiness of the uncharted worlds of ME1 etc.

Yeah throwing more money at a game doesn't automatically make it a better one.

Quite often it has the opposite effect.

That's more of a you problem than a Dragon Age problem

That emptiness didn't exactly win everyone's hearts, probably due in part to the massive amounts of asset flipping that went on, so once you raided one bunker or dank tunnel, you pretty much raided them all. Of course, BioWare's penchant for overcorrection led to the pathetically anemic Citadel in ME2.

If released today with with the same story and characters and MEA's combat, ME1 people would love the combat the story would bore the hell out of them. 

Those fighters only escorted them to the edge of the galaxy. After that the AI was on its own.

Saren’s treachery extends beyond the games, just look how mad he’s made you! Now that’s a villain.