Sales?

I've heard from a fwe tha t saleshave been good whether they sta ytha twa yfor the nex tME game however is another question.

Their "discomfort" with single player games is that they can't milk money continuously from the player base like they can with a service game. They know single player games still sell and people are still willing to buy them. They are just greedy corporate jerkfaces.

EA has a "support" page they left in the shadows already, that is how much they care: answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/bd-p/mass-effect-legendary-edition-en

Fanfiction again.

It's true that not everyone needs to be romanceable. Only three people were romanceable in ME1 and Shepard, depending on gender, could only romance two of them. I'd obviously remove that aspect because I have my doubts BioWare would make a full-on gay squadmate. Sure DAI did, but MEA did not. They're different types of games. The only fully gay characters were Cortez, Gil Traynor and Suvi, which works for bi characters depending on the gender of the protagonist. They're also not squadmates.

Crafting I'd ditch entirely. I found it an annoyance more than anything else. It was one of thing things I really hated in DAI and MEA. It was workable in ME1, because you just slotted in something you bought or found. Same with ME2 and ME3 but you had to use the terminal and resources, which wasn't necessarily bad. Then you chose from those options when picking your loadout.

Fewer More squadmates are also difficult. Just think of the sheer volume of loyalty missions Shepard had to engage in while simultaneously trying to find a way to defeat the Collectors. It's too much. In contrast, the loyalty missions in ME1 were things you kind of ran across. I had no idea Tali wanted geth data or that Wrex wanted his grandfather's armor. Then I found them and handed them over. I was on board with Dr. Love but that two ten minutes and blowing that guy's brains out was a service to anyone. Meanwhile, Jack wants to blow up an uninhabited base just because she had a shitty childhood. I don't necessarily blame her for wanting to do it but the timing was terrible. It could have waited. Miranda's was necessary because Oriana was in trouble, so I'll grant that one. Same with Thane. The rest should have been able to wait. Reduce squadmates and you reduce time wasters like these things.

Remasters of games from a decade ago on new platforms and hardware?

Well we knew that sort of budgeting was going to be the thorn here. BioWare was never a billion dollar seller even at their high points,  but I do wonder if they plan on using the models for other titles as the sample size for interest. Ghosts of Tsushima and the like, which we knew was a reason for why the remaster was greenlit and why EA internally laxed on some of their multiplayer mandates. I suspect the long-term game here is to keep it going and slowly build back trust for folks who feel burned or bitter about the past while continuing for the future.

Dragon Age 4 is going to the watermark for that too as a whole. We discussed how that deck was stacked, the question now is will they win the hand with what they do have? I would argue this a step in the right direction. a small step, but a step nonetheless.