EA, let me help you, here is how you save the Mass Effect franchise.

The MET was so amazing to me, I played ME1 over 50 times, 50 is when I stopped counting. The first 15 of which were back to back after release. ME2 I played over 35 times, again when I stopped counting. ME3 I played a grand total of 3 times, needless to say I find that game overall not very good, only still enjoyable for 3 things not relevant to this post. This game broke my heart utterly, and made me fall out of love with this franchise. I still played it 2 more times.

I bought every comic book, every novel, I bought the $120 hoodie, two pairs of the $90 shoes, a hat, a shirt, a belt buckle I don't even use, an N7 wallet, $50 worth of Lithographs that are still on my wall, framed in glass, and would have bought the $250 Spectre Watch had I the money at the time to make the deposit. I also would buy the Mass Relay necklace in the store for $150 had I that kind of free spending money anymore. After ME3 I had no desire to spend another penny on merch, and didn't. I STILL played ME3 two more times. I also want to note, no other game franchise, has ever been so amazing that I've wanted to buy merch for it, none. Not even my second love Elder Scrolls.

MEA? I played once, and got bored halfway through it, having to force myself to the finish just so I can claim I finished it. It is the first Bioware game I've ever played, that I have had zero desire to ever replay, and this game didn't even break my heart, or was anywhere near as disappointing to me, as ME3 was. I went into this game with very low, heartbroken expectations, and came away feeling absolutely nothing. No hate, no love, nothing at all. I even bought the first book, thinking that might salvage the experience. Once again, I got halfway through it, and then lost total interest. I've never before not finished a book halfway read, even books I actively didn't like. I felt nothing for Andromeda, absolutely nothing. To me, that is far more damming than hating it. I HATE ME3, I loath it with passions few would understand, but it still had enough for me to go back twice.

Maybe I cared too much, maybe I'm simply unreasonable, who knows. What I WANT for the future of ME, is to get back to the MW, somehow, and forget this whole ridiculous Andromeda mess. Sadly I know it will never happen, and MEs future is now stuck in this god awful Andromeda hell hole, which is of course a direct result of a ham-fisted crap ending ME3 used to nuke the entire setting for no real reason. I don't know what the answer is for ME going forward, I honestly cannot think of a way to fix this new half baked setting called Andromeda. All I know is, I want to love Mass Effect again, and I cannot at this time imagine a future where that happens...and it makes me very sad.

EA already said themselves, the removal of the loot boxes will not affect their income figures in the slightest. This whole "Games cost a hundred times more today than ever before" is absolute bogus, the proof is everywhere if people bothered to look. Games do NOT cost $120, that's just what they choose to charge because we idiot customers cough up the money on a regular basis.

Making the trilogy using frostbite would not be a remaster, it would be a remake, right? 

This is why we can't have nice things...

It's hard to work with.  Perhaps you're a console gamer, but I play on PC and modding doesn't work well with Frostbite.  Besides, Frostbite was never meant for RPGs.  It was meant for FPS.

*shrugs* The Unreal engine was also built for FPS games, and that didn't stop the MET.

And isn’t Dragon Age Origins and 2 built on this? 

Do people really not understand that the IP is dead? The one chance to revive it was Andromeda, and that failed spectacularly. The only RPG franchise left from Bioware is DA.

I agree with all the points you've made above, especially the long post about the OT and the Andromeda hell-hole, but companies lie to their shareholders all the time as a stopgap till they can actually find a way to fix whatever problem they're having. Saying that the removal of a certain quantity will not affect the total is just nonsense. Of course, the removal of lootboxes will affect their potential income. That's just math. EA is lying. This just happens to be such an obvious lie that people sometimes think, "They couldn't be THAT stupid. They must have an ace up their sleeve, or magic, or something." But no, they're just lying.

Origins it's build in Eclipse Engine and DA2 it's build in Lycium Engine. (an upgraded version of the Eclipse Engine) in other words, the DA series at first, used Bioware own engine, not a third party one like ME.

Bloody Witcher fans. Nilfgaard take you!