Confirmed: No Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster incoming

oh god, please no!
ME1 is available in the xbox live store for the xbox one,
but it's framerate drops are party even heavier than in the original version.
i looked up some comparison vids on youtube and it's close to unplayable and
definitely not worth the money.

back to topic, IMO, that's pretty bullshit. no one can tell me and/or convince me, they don't got the resources for a remaster,
be it financial or human resources. Heck, even M$ and their tiny 343i managed to make remaster and fit it in a freakin collection.
yeah well, alright, it was a broken mess when it came out, but at least they've tried.
and we're talking about EA, except for DA, ME and SW they're releasing every year the (almost) same BS with their sport themed games.
they could've make a proper remaster, if they would want to.

this is a serious bumper for me, personally. IDC what others think, i know for myself i'd love the possibility
of getting my favourite game trilogy on my XB1, since i sold my 360, as pointed out in another thread.
i had hoped i could get myself up in a ME-mood while replaying it before ME:a, well, this won't be the case anymore.

lastly, if they don't get some real big guns out on N7-Day, i might reconsider buying ME:A.
the closing of the forum, close to none intel about ME:A, now this - this all is getting fishy in my eyes.

Well...

This makes sense to me, my idea of a remaster was more like a remake and in my opinion it would be far cheaper to first develop Mass Effect Andromeda then recycle as many textures and models as possible in the remaking of the original trilogy,

It's just that ME1 is so different than ME2 and ME3 that it would be actually easier to recreate it from scratch than moving the code to a new engine.

I guess that a Mass Effect Trilogy remake wouldn't be far fetched to come on 2019 since they will likely focus on DA4 for release on 2018.

We truly live in a time of bullshit.

BioWare closes their forum because they care so much about interaction with their fans.
EA does not do remasters because they'd rather not make easy money.

*snort* Right.

But seriously, I don't get how people expected this to actually happen, regardless of what any EA marketing yo-yo might have said at some point. EA has never been in the remastering business before, and who would do the remaster for ME anyway? BioWare Montreal is busy with MEA, BioWare Austin does SWTOR, and BioWare Edmonton does... eh, secret IP something something I suppose. Remastering is for the most part an engineering job, something BioWare has never been really good with, so EA might have to outsource it, and that would mean extra costs. I would have been surprised if the remaster had turned out to be a thing.

That looks like a mess in marketing communication to me. I get why people grabbed these straws and hoped for a remaster to happen, but it was still a rather unrealistic expectation. It had practically no precedent and BioWare seems to have a hard enough time to deliver their regular projects in time without having a remaster to handle on the side.

Ea going the route they have been and not going after the "easy money" remake is like an oxymoron right?

Did you mean to quote the above post and not the one you quoted?

Do have a link to the characters you mentioned that say what you posted? I don't recall hearing Shepard say what you posted

EA should just have kept their mouth shut for a while, then deny a remaster. Why say they are thinking on it just to announce days later that it was never a possibility?

It makes me wonder - are there people who actually believe this bullshit? You know, if this works for them, I'm afraid I have to increase my misanthropy level.

Remaster it how?

Purist want ME1 with same gameplay and inventory, others want it like ME3.

ME2 for some was a concatenation of compagnion stories and little else, are they going to add more overarching accents? Not likely.

ME3 the problematic of all conundrums, the ending!

There is simply no way to satisfy a broad enough player base without controversy and controversy can make sales go thru the roof or down the drain for ME:A.
The safer bet is to wait far more longer years and establish a fanbase around the new ME franchise with more unison in vues.

EA does not turn it's back on money making and will do so at a more appropriate moment in time if remakes by then are still popular.

I was thinking more of an engine update, but okaay…

Regards to "enough money", or whatever he says – didn't feel the article was worth reading – seems to me EA doesn't want to take away from the MEA marketing strategy. This sorta makes sense since, if there was going to be a re-release of the trilogy onto the current generation of consoles, we'd have seen it already, me thinks.

Now, back to waiting for reports on PAX West.

Well, that deleted tweet was from Sanshee, who were seemingly trying to make a buck off the same knee-jerk buzz that got everyone else talking. Bioware had nothing to do with it.


At any rate, to me this whole thing seemed from the start like a classic case of turning one thing into something it wasn't. Sonderlund was asked--and answered--a general question that happened to be couched with an example; "Will EA consider remastering games, such as Mass Effect?" is not the same as "Will there be a Mass Effect remaster?" But GameSpot surely got plenty of clicks out of the story, and that's what really matters.   I'm personally glad for Bioware to keep their focus on new content.

I think its conception as a trilogy was kind of a mistake. It's such a big universe ripe with potential, but that got shut out largely by having one character determine way too much too quickly.