New Mass Effect Teaser Trailer

I don't think we have to look at DA's next release to project when the next ME will come out. Anthem is now in Austin, so Edmonton is back to two franchises and two mostly independent teams. If they bring out the remaster early 21 it makes sense to target 23 as release year for ME next. Building up hype through the remaster, then bring out teasers/trailers at N7 day/game awards 21, EA play 22 and N7 day/game awards 22. Maybe announce the 23 release then or at EA play 23 for fall 23.

IMO you can't let too much time pass after the remaster.

Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if it's pushed to 24, I am just saying that I would assume 23 as their current goal if I had anything to do with it, and that DA will be on an independent timeline, because the Edmonton teams likely don't have to lend people to Anthem anymore or as often and because of that won't mix as much anymore.

Well, it's going to take people a considerable amount of time to finish the trilogy. So you can buy a year or two. But yeah, ideally, you'd want ME5 out by 2024. Which I find doubtful.

Totally.

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EA already said to not expect DA4 before March 2022 in 2019 to its investors and less or more insinuated it was aiming for 2023 with it. The next ME will release after that.

BioWare barely have the staff to make 2 games at the same time all studio included and they have 4 games (Anthem, DA4, ME5 and SWTOR). EA has put EA Motive devs on DA4 already actually.

Who are these two crowds? I for one don't count myself to any one particular crowd other than being a Mass Effect fan. If you talk about groups among those, there is certainly not just one group wanting a ME3 sequel directly after ME3 and another one wanting just a sequel after MEA. There is also not a group of Trilogy fans and another of MEA fans. Probably most of the MEA fans are/were also fans of the trilogy and there are also lots of fans that prefer the trilogy and still would rather return for MEA2 than returning to the Milky Way from what I gather around here.

There are people that don't want any new ME anymore whatsoever, there are people that only want a sequel to ME3 if it contains their Shepard's choices, there are people that only want to play Shepard, there are people that want the IT, there are people that are interested in anything after ME3 but only in the Milky Way, there are people that only want a prequel, there are people that want to play a different race, there are people that want to keep playing Ryder and the list goes on and on.

That's why I say it doesn't matter whether some are disappointed, but just that they bring out a great game, that is exciting for a lot of players, whether it's old ones or new ones and no matter what group anyone puts them into right now.

BTW: after ME1 we probably never got what we expected with ME2 shifting the story, ME3 having the ending debate at the forefront/the strange Cerberus angle and MEA not answering the questions about "what do we even want in Andromeda" and still ME2 and ME3 are considered two of the best games of all times and MEA was able to build/keep part of a fandom.

So I go into the next game not expecting anything in particular, instead plan to just go into it with an open mind. I for one am interested in anything that they'll come up with. I just want a solid premise at the start, then a focus on the story and a serious tone.

Yeah, but those are two extremes of a very differentiated group of Mass Effect fans overall and IMO these groups are far smaller than you make them look when talking about them as if they would make up the bulk of the fans. I think the bulk of the fans is interested in more Mass Effect and not just in one possibility of the many BioWare could go on with. BTW; you didn't answer, which groups exactly you mean. Milky Way/Andromeda?

Again, I am going to go with perception. What is good, what is bad, what would get more people on board, etc. One thing that companies usually do, after establishing a franchise with a cast that is well liked and then decide to retire it, they try it with a new cast and it either goes well or it doesn't. If the new title falls short of expectations, or worse bombs, then the studio brings back the established crew to promote the new one, or backpedal to the old one. Studios do that for a lot of reasons, but fan favourites are always a plus. It doesn't mean that Bioware needs to go down that route, they are free to go about it however they want.

However, Bioware has not been doing that well for a while now. Criticisms have started, largely, since DA2. Then ToR wasn't that well received and only became profitable in, what was it, 2018? 7 years after launch? Embarrassing. Especially for a Star Wars title. ME3 was largely divisive, DA:I was met with mixed reception from the audiences while Andromeda and Anthem got slammed, regardless of personal opinions. Interest in Bioware and its IPs from the public have been waning and while you could follow up Andromeda with Andromeda 2, it would go about as well as one would expect Terminator: Dark Fate 2 to go. Its studio has categorically denied it will make a sequel to that movie.

So what should Bioware do? Go back to Shepard and attract some good will? Double down on a very difficult endeavor to Andromeda 2? Apparently, Bioware decided to do neither. They're going back to the Milky Way, hundreds of years in the future, with a new protagonist and crew and, of course, Liara, who I thoroughly expect to see in every ME now, to the heat death of the universe. It's an unusual tactic. It might work. But I can't bring myself to care for it and, unless ME is Liara to you, I don't know if you'll care, either. I don't expect ME5 to be a great game. It will border on meh with some good ideas, terrible execution and the best gameplay of the series. It's a bargain bin title.

Unless you want to claim the game almost cost 1 billions to make, it can't have broken even after 8 years as EA announced TOR made more than 1 billions in revenue back in 2019...and it didn't make most of that money in 2018-2019. It's one of the top Western MMORPG when it comes to revenues since release actually.

Also, the game was well received, but a MMO needs constant new content to keep players and BioWare failed to deliver. When I see people saying the future Bio games are going to be live services, I can only laugh. BioWare can't do live services, they can't staff the post launch content teams.

People say shit all the time.  I have as much faith in Gambles statements as I have in the various youtubers who tell you they have the inside scoop.