The Mass Effect ending support group

I'll join you. 

They said a lot of things that ended up not panning out. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of the internal issues that plagued the studio during Anthem’s production left a lasting impression on a lot of employees. Heck I would bet there’s a lot of people within BioWare that wanted nothing to do with the property at this point, considering all the shit they went through at the time, and why it ultimately got killed off. If the stories that have been published are true, I certainly wouldn’t blame them for wanting to avoid it. 

I still dislike the ending (extended cut)

I have accepted that BioWare won't try again to improve the endings

I would accept to play in a world state not created by my Shepard

I am still interested in future games (without a remake of the trilogy)

I usually always choose destroy

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The endings were unsatisfactory because there was only a compromise. If it is a no-win scenario, there needs to be a "blaze of glory" option, or "captain goes down with the ship". Instead we get three flavors of compromise, none of them very tasty if I am speaking my truth.

I would play a new game set in Andromeda, preferably ditching the jetpacks and focusing instead on better level design with verticality incorporated as a design element rather than being added as a homogenizer with jetpacks.

I would also play with jetpacks. I would play as Urz.

Speaking of homogenization, that's why Synthesis is unacceptable. You are making a personal choice for every individual life form in the galaxy without inform or consent. Control also makes a choice for everyone, but at a meta level, not a personal/physical one. It is simple logical implication - rape is bad.

People keep saying Andromeda was a failure but nothing really supports that other then claims from people on forums with nothing but opinions to back it up with.  Andromeda had problems but so did Mass Effect 1.  Nothing that couldn't be fixed by listening to player feedback and improving the game.

why wouldn't it be good enough? Sure some stuff was teased in the game so they were likely hoping to release something but at the end of the day DLC is very controversial with the common complaint of it being content cut from the game and re added. Now i like DLC, even if the above is technically true, but Andromeda didn't need DLC either and the official reason they gave for no DLC, not being supported or the direction the company wanted to go in makes sense.

The reason they didn’t make any DLC is obvious: the merger of Montreal with Motive. That was in the works before MEA even came out, guaranteed. That left BioWare with nobody to make the DLC, since Edmonton was working on Anthem/DA4 and Austin on SWTOR. It wasn’t a financial failure, since EA told their investors it was a significant percentage of that quarter’s profits, enough to mention it by name.

I love this whole “No DLC = Failure” argument, since it’s so easy to disprove. First off, it did get some DLC such as new MP characters including new races like Batarians. Second, guess that means games everyone knows were successes like Fallen Order were failures too since they didn’t get DLC, only patches and some free content like MEA.

I can accept a world that's not a continuation, I mean...MEA wasn't a continuation of Shepard's story (only their gender was chosen) and imo. it wasn't as bad

I'm also still interested in future games, again if they're done well

and in the Trilogy? I tend to pick the destroy ending, first time around I went with synthesis...I did the refusal ending once just because I was curious. But after that I've always done the destroy ending.

if the downloading didn't do so weirdly I'd play the entire trilogy again with the MEHEM mod installed...and that's only if all that the LE edition does is upgrading textures, which as some people have pointed out, modders have already done and in some cases even better
plus modders have fixed many of the bugs and such as well

But I'll reserve judgment until the LE is released

My argument wasn't about bioware not making DLC just the stubbourn insistence people have around here clinging onto the idea that Andromeda needed DLC therefore without it Andromeda= failure. Sure it can be argued with the Quarian arc tease maybe it needed it more then some Bioware properties. But even then all the main plotpoints were tied up in the game so DLC expansions wouldve been just a nice add on only.

Given recent news and recent trends I think there is a significant chance that DA 4 WON'T get any DLC regardless of how successful it is or not. Sure, you are probably right that it will if it is successful and given that I do not think so called game journalists have any idea what live service is either...but it is also such a distinct possibility that I am actually preparing for it, as I have already stated in multiple posts.



I am low key in love with you mentioning JFO.



The trouble is there is counter arguments to all of that. No DLC easily could've come down to them being right, it was not right for that game and not the direction they were wanting to take it in, calling the game a 'blip' (when Andromeda wasn't even mentioned by name) isn't really strong verbage, sure you can argue it is but I think if its just a blip then BioWare is in a very strong position. The most legitimate argument is the so called 'closure' of BioWare Montreal. But even then that studio was just rolled into Motive with many of its people staying on and remaining in leadership.

Did Andromeda do as well as EAs sales projections and was it less then it could have been? Everything I have seen and read and all the data out there tends to suggest it wasn't. But it is just as ridiclious to automatically enforce your own biases on that same data and come up with some blanket assertion.

There was no way the Quarian Ark was going to be DLC. The number of races on it alone made that far too big an endeavor for mere DLC. It was a sequel hook, not a DLC one.

This just me but I believe the reason there wasn't a DLC was because one wasn't needed going by the resent trailer for ME5  and as Hanako Ikezawa mentioned Bioware had its hands full. 

Why?

I don’t see why the book didn’t need to be made. It just helped set up for the game. Similar to the Quarian-Cerberus animosity in ME2 for example.