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

I liked Rise of Iron, but Lord Saladin was.....UGGGGH. When I think of dull and forgettable characters, he comes to mind. (Which is ironic if you think about what I just said.)

So Andromeda became a joke, isn't selling well and its lasting lagacy will be of a broken game. Not much you can do about that now, but the good news is there is hope for Mass Effect, EA. Hope inthe form of glorious remaster.

Pick the trilogy up, remaster it in 4k and 60fps (or even 30 depending on the console), release it with all DLCs and more important than that CHANGE THE ENDINGS.

Yes. That's the only way ME can come back from the grave. If it was up to me, there wouldn't have been a Extended Cut, I actually don't download it and my canon endings for ME3 are the original, but this isn't about me, well, it kinda is, it's about Mass Effect and how awesome it was and how it doesn't deserve to die like this.

Rework the whole of priority Earth, make it the Suicide Mission 2.0 it should have been, and make the ending more pleasant. Let people be happy. Talk with Casey Hudson, he is an extremely talented developer, I'm sure he will agree with this. Maybe you can even keep the Starchild and the Reaper nonsense, people would have forgiven it if the aftermath was brighter. They would have then it will still do now.

Best part is that this won't cost that much money and you even ask full price (just remember, ALL DLCs!). Do this very simple task right and ME will be back in strength. Then, you give Mass Effect to a very talented group of people and let them decide where to go from there.

Easy peasy.

It's actally quite relevant. You can see in first page posts of denial and/or shortsightness, but all the "hyperboles" I talked about Andromeda turned out to be a perfect assessment of that game.

The real question now is if EA even wants to save the franchise. Back then I thought the answer was an obviously yes, now I'm not sure.

Not with only that. But it would be a superb short term solution. It's a certain thing that if a remaster was announced yesterday the atmosphere surrounding the franchise would be totally different than the one we have now.

EA sells the brand to CDP and CDPR makes a Mass Effect game.

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cdpr has a different approach to writing characters to this wouldn't really be a good fit, no matter how good it is. Obsidian? Same situation.
BW was always more closer to JRPG's in that aspect. 
Only Harebrained Schemes/Shadowrun series, did something similar, and I'd say with better writing, less heavy exposition with much better flow of dialogue.

They disintegrated Shepard in a heavy-handed Space Jesus "The Shepard died for our sins" imagery and burned the galaxy in polychromatic "art" that we imply don't understand, even with "clarity and closure"

I doubt it.