BioWare: "We're Not Done" With Mass Effect

[Tradjus]

Bioware: "We're not done with Mass Effect"

Translation.

E.A: "We're not done milking this cow."

Fixed that for ya. ;D

 

[Goofguy]

Saw this coming from a mile away. It really sucks to see the co-founders go. Kind of an ominous sign...

 

[Gameguy20100]

The fact is Masseffect is to good to let die like this i know the orginal ending wasnt what i wanted but that doesnt remove from the fact that i still love masseffect its still my favorite scifi series

 

[Cid Silverwing]

NO.
NO.
I know this is you, EA. I know you're just hiding behind Bioware's name. Please, dont do this. Bioware still has juice in them, the Extended Cut proved that, but don't you dare misuse the strength they have left. Mass Effect is done. It's finished. The Reapers are gone. Apart from updating the multiplayer, an MMO set before the events of the main trilogy, and a base for some great fanfic, it has nothing left to offer. Don't you dare pull a George Lucas on it. Don't you dare use what's left of Bioware to milk this. Just leave Mass Effect be, and either let Bioware go, or mercy kill them now. Or you could just grow a brain, while pigs are breaking air speed records and Lucifer is ice skating his way to work.

I was going to type up another ultra-whiny post, but got ninja'd.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Welp, time to prepare for the forum flood again.

The series ended. Can we let those guys move onto new stories? Oh right, EA...

 

[gbemery]

The only way to beat ME3 is scale is to go smaller. Mae its a much more personal story rather than "hurdur now its the UNIVERSE!"

I have to agree with this. Maybe some kind of threat to the Citadel that a Spectre is sent to investigate. And only the Citadel. Smaller scale, but still serious enough to warrant a game around.

Soooo what you're saying is that you don't want to play "Mass Effect: The Red Line" In which you take on the roll of a volus trying to scour through the pitfalls and loopholes of intergalactic commerce, trade and accounting paperwork inorder to balance the Citidel's budget and form the galactic currency? If you order the collector's edition you get a free in game calculator.

Ooor say "Mass Effect 4 : The Brown Tide" Where you play as Alliance Serviceman Third Class Sanchez and are sent straight from boot camp to the 342nd Environmental Services Division Platoon B. You are put on latrine duty the week before the Reaper Invasion. Game features include an all new intuitive interface, Kinect ready, it truly feels like you are scrubbing the toilets and restocking the toilet paper. Take inventory of supplies, sweep and mop floors, sneak in naps on the clock. With ME4:TBT you control your experience every choice you make effects the outcome of the story. Earn renegade points by removing all the toilet paper from the bathrooms, waxing the shower floors, closing the bathroom for cleaning and never opening it back up. Earn Paragon points by going above and beyond the call of duty such as doing tasks off the clock, or offering to stay late and cover another shift. Serve humanity by making sure your fellow man can have a pleasant restroom experience. Collectors Edition comes with a limited edition mop, for when shit hits the fan...someone has to clean it up.

 

[Zeckt]

I will take ME the way bioware originally wanted me, with its stupid as fuck ending that forever ruined any possibility of continuing the franchise. That's what they originally wanted that's what they deserve from me.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

personally are not one of the studios i'll pre-order for day 1 release anymore, but i'll keep uptodate as possble news wise with where this may go

 

[Revolutionary]

Wow who saw that one coming apart from everyone ever.

Spoiler: MFW

 

[MrMan999]

Hey. I think I see a dead horse over there. And look. EA is still beating it.

 

[Lady Lucky]

I can't help but feel that EA is trying to get as much money out of this franchise as possible. I actually admired the fact that the ME series ended the way it did, lots of closure. The end of ME3 will be tough to follow, and I can't help but feel that the next installment won't go well, sorry for being a "Negetive Nancy".

 

[Uber Waddles]

This isn't news. BioWare said A LONG time ago that Mass Effect would still exist after the Reaper arc. Of course it wouldn't involve Shepard, but still.

And this was WAY before EA ever got their hands on the franchise.

The fact is, most of the people complaining about how its a cash grab will more than likely buy the game anyways. Because EA AND Bioware both have adequate PR departments that will make you see the 'new spin' to the Mass Effect Universe.

And despite the rage that loud forum goers pumped out, the ending of Mass Effect 3 wasn't badly received. It was something that exploded because a loud minority of people were very vocal about it - and the problems that did actually exist (the Mass Effect relays exploding, for one) were all fixed with the extended cut DLC.

Don't act surprised that one of their best selling franchises that garnished thousands of new fans in the uproar about its 'ending' is deciding to make good on its word that they are going to continue the story of Mass Effect, even after Sheppard.

 

[lapan]

I pretty much lost interest on ME by now. Didn't even buy or play ME3.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

NO.
NO.
I know this is you, EA. I know you're just hiding behind Bioware's name. Please, dont do this. Bioware still has juice in them, the Extended Cut proved that, but don't you dare misuse the strength they have left. Mass Effect is done. It's finished. The Reapers are gone. Apart from updating the multiplayer, an MMO set before the events of the main trilogy, and a base for some great fanfic, it has nothing left to offer. Don't you dare pull a George Lucas on it. Don't you dare use what's left of Bioware to milk this. Just leave Mass Effect be, and either let Bioware go, or mercy kill them now. Or you could just grow a brain, while pigs are breaking air speed records and Lucifer is ice skating his way to work.

This actually.

I don't trust EA enough to take this franchise in a "new direction" without doing something similar to their actions with Dead Space, (Read: kill it.) We all know EA has the say now.

Don't get me wrong, I think Mass Effect has an amazing universe and a huge array of possibilities for further stories, both in the original trilogy's past and future. But ME3 scraped through by the skin of it's teeth where the community is concerned. For some the Extended Cut just about saved Bioware from oblivion while others have abandoned all hope in light of the god-awful original ending.

Whichever way you cut it, EA's got their claws on a popular AAA franchise at a time of change and opportunity, they're going to be looking for the quickest way to print money which means catering to the lowest denominator. We already know ME3 started to go that way when it was announced that it would appeal to a "broader audience" my personally most hated PR line of all time.

Mass Effect: Black Ops anyone?

 

[Evil Smurf]

why all the negativity? It could be fantastic!

 

[Fudj]

Well lots of negative reactions I see....but then it is about Mass Effect 3 so its to be expected. For my part I'm looking forward to more DLC especially Omega, have been hoping its a liberate Omega DLC. So I have no problem with this at all, and am actually looking forward to more stuff to do.

 

[xochiquetzal]

Maybe if ME4 is about Shepard trying to find the friends that went missing on that planet at the end. but not being able to use any tech or the destroyed mass relays and having to build from scratch on earth and dealing with the fallout and leftovers of the war. and then after settling the dust and finding the friends, Shepard rides in to the sunset with Garrus to have that Turrian/human baby.

Then maybe that could work to make a good sequel...

but that won't happen and they will make some horrible MMORPG type thing that nobody will like and the franchise will sink in to the sea, George Lukas style. and prove that the reapers(EA) has drained all the minerals of the humans(Bioware) and turned them in to a mindless husk without feeling or emotion.

I weep for the future of Bioware.

 

[LongMuckDong]

Day One purchase - new game and Omega.

Fuck off all you cry baby 'EA..Wahh' a-wipes, jog on..

 

[Riff Moonraker]

oh dear god they are going to make the destruction ending canon, what with all the not mentioning of genocide post EC. or maybe the geth and edi had anti-magic cast on them by Irenicus and the spell travelled through time and space?

Or maybe it was a lie. Remember it even mentioned that Shepard would die from this, and he survived. There is absolutely no reason to trust the genocidal catalyst, and every reason to believe it would lie to get its desired result.

 

[Riff Moonraker]

why all the negativity? It could be fantastic!

I think most negativity has almost everything to do with EA.