I'm predicting Quarians are in ME:A. (Spoilers from the Gameplay Trailer)

Frankly, I have very little interest in the new races. If the original trilogy races didn't had a decent treatment, how can we hope the new ones will be good? We still haven't even a decent face model for the Quarian, nor a female version of Dreel. I'd rather have back all the Milky Way races than new ones, who will be almost surely treated in a very superficial way.

I don't know why people seem to think that.  Pretty simple I think.  Given the Geth are software how hard would it be for them to infiltrate miscellaneous systems and assume control of some VI assisted mechs.  Is it really necessary to include them or do they bring anything fresh from a storytelling perspective? Not really, that story has been told.  Plus I don't think the Geth would have any real interest in following organics to Andromeda as they are concerned with building their own future.

Quarians on the other hand, I see no reason to exclude them...though I wouldn't expect there to be a very big population...a few exiles and a handful of those who decided not to return to the Flotilla once on their Pilgrimage.

i loved Tali, but the rest of quarians were...expendable. After all, they are all dead now, at least according to my last playthrough, since i killed them all to add some Geth Primes to my crew heheh

I'd love to get know new alien species in Andromeda, and equally would love there to be at least a couple quarians (and geth).

Quarians to me are so intrinsic to Mass Effect and the franchise, not having them would leave very large... uh, suits to fill.

I disagree. Personally, I don't care at all about Andromeda and I'm accepting the new setting only as prerequisite to have another Mass Effect game, so I understand if people want to have in Andromeda the things they had in the MW, particularly a favourite race. I understand that, I'm not a fan of quarians but I'd miss a lot not having some salarians there  A purely "only-Andromeda stuff", "everything is new", game, could have been just a new IP

He/she wasn't saying that they need to have EVERYTHING be new in Andromeda, just that they don't need to bring EVERYTHING from the Milky Way into Andromeda. Otherwise, I agree... it would all feel too familiar. This is supposed to be about exploring a new galaxy and discovering things we haven't seen before in Mass Effect. This includes new species.

Except we already have the other four of the 'big five' Milky Way species represented: Salarian, Asari, and Turian of the Council species - plus the Krogan which were never a Council species but were included because they're a fan favorite (what other reason is there to have them, really? I'm not complaining - I know they're inclusion makes a lot of fans happy and that's great, even if I could personally take or leave them). I don't see how adding quarians (a former Council race who's story was a pretty big part of the universe - the reason why AIs were made illegal; the creation of the geth - a story beat closely tied to that of our cycle's Reaper war). If you're going by the logic that Milky Way races being a focus of the game somehow ruins Andromeda for you than the Initiative should have been human only to begin with. So that all the aliens could be new. But at that point is it even Mass Effect any more?

As Ianamus said above you, I don't see why the two must be mutually exclusive. It sound like there's a whole lot of story in Andromeda. And while the main aspect of that story is exploration and discovery, I imagine another part will be seeing how the major MW races we've come to know and love and care about (humans included) approach this uncharted galaxy and whatever issues arise.

And I mentioned this in another thread, but so far every other species has been confirmed. Quarians fans are the only ones still left hanging, and I think most of us are prepared to be disappointed even if we hope otherwise. Regardless, while fans of other things have been screaming all over the forum about how Bioware sucks or sold out or betrayed their fans because they (maybe) didn't include X, I think we've all been very polite in expressing that hope. Just something I want to point out for all the flack we seem to be getting every time we get excited over some sliver if possibility. As if the turian or asari fans wouldn't be doing the same if their favorite species looked like it might not be in the game. Except maybe they wouldn't be quite so nice about it.

That just me, or are we owed a Kal MOTHERFUCKING Reegar grade squadmate?

Come on, we all know how fucking pure badass Kal MOTHERFUCKING Reegar was.

I suppose it's all in the perspective of each player. I wouldn't care to have more story on the quarians, regardless of this being in a new galaxy or not. I think just having the council races (plus Krogan) is enough to make it still feel like mass effect and still relate it to the MW without going to overboard in that department. 

If they absolutely need to include the other races, I think them being just background NPCs is fine. 

So in other words you are just another closed minded gamer who believes that Mass Effect can only equate to the content we saw in the trilogy.

Again, people like you is why JJ Abrams made TFA the way he did.

Just like they planned on creating continuous DLC between ME1 that tells the story leading up to ME2?

Lets be honest, if it is fair to say that MEA exist only to ignore ME3's endings, it is also fair to say that Bioware may include Milkyway races cause they know the fan base is too closed minded to accept change.

Nostalgia kills creativity.

We're the close-minded ones?

Shame on all of us who would like to see Quarians, right.