Mass Effect News Thread

IKR? Intentional plague ship is so cliche, too. Color me disappointed.

There are so many other ways the Ark could have gone astray:

* PIRATES vs. Drell ninjas. I mean, that book just writes itself.

* Nav malfunction and the ark is stuck in the Big Dark, or better yet, in the Greater Magellenic Cloud, but they THINK they're in Andromeda! Ho boy, the astronomical hijinks that would have created: "You, sir, don't know a parsec from a megasecond!"

* Some hanar stowaway thinks he's Blasto and wrecks the ship's nav by accident and sends it down a wormhole, ending up in a galaxy-sized entity that demands entertainment to relieve it's gigayear long ennui. A mixed crew re-enacts some of Blasto's greatest adventures. (In Act 3, the enraged entity gets ready to destroy the ship, only to be destroyed instead by a recitation of elcor poetry.)

It's not that hard!

I am quoting what the author of Annihilation said on reddit...

"Hi guys, Catherynne Valente here. You may remember me from such things as that press release you just read.

I just wanted to say that while I'm as disappointed as you are, if not more, that DLC hasn't manifested, I will be doing my absolute best to bring to life every bit of the ME universe I can and tie it into a satisfying bow for you guys.

I am a huge fan of Mass Effect, and under my incognito account, an active member of this sub. I wanted to write this novel so badly. I sought out the contract and auditioned and campaigned for it. The day Bioware and I had our first meeting some 18 months ago was one of the happiest of my life as a writer. So rest assured that the Quarian ark is in the hands of a fan as obsessive as you are. I can't talk about plot or what is or isn't included beyond what Bioware has made public, but I was given permission to work with some of my favorite parts of the canon, and as I told them ages ago, if I had gotten to pick what story to write for ME, it would have been this one.

Please also understand that this actually isn't a cash grab or anything like that, no matter what I've heard people say. No one is trying to screw the fans. I was hired to write this almost two years ago, it was always planned, simply delayed for reasons I know you're all aware of, since, you know, I lurk here a lot. The amount of time and energy I have poured into this project is more than I can calculate. This is a labor of love, and while we all might wish that it was a labor of love with accompanying DLC, none of us have much control over that, and it doesn't change the nature of a book that was always my little-kid-crayon-hearts love letter to Mass Effect.

I got you, fam.

savethequarians"

She's referenced this before in the past but it still seems...odd.  Why reference something in-game that will only be resolved through media outside of the game?  Is there a precedence for this for BioWare in previous games?  I don't think so but I don't remember.  So, if this was planned prior to the game's release and controversial reception, why would it take almost two years to write and why was it initially positioned as the first book released?  

Some points are just not adding up...

The story would've set up the DLC, much like Nexus Uprising set up the game. I expect they've pushed it back to incorporate more chapters to give a more satisfying conclusion and return the Keelah Si'yah to the Nexus.

Every thing I see about the future of Mass Effect depresses me.

Just kill it already, it's suffered enough.

Ok, who thinks having meetings on a Friday afternoon is a good idea ever?

I've read it out of curiosity. Haven't spend 5 euro worse in a long time. Rushed story with no new info.

I replied to your post, here it is too: