latest Andromeda news
In case you heard about the news about MEA canning the DLC, it's apparently a hoax. More info in the vid below... Good that Bioware brass finally said something. It's about time! https://www.yout...
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Looks like Schreier really tries hard to keep up with the news but, however credible it may seem, I'm still not convinced and won't be (even if he wrote thousand articles) unless I hear from EA or BW.
And the same goes for Yong and this
When it comes to the upcoming books, the 2nd one and it's weird codename / working title (The Lost Ark) or whatever that is really keeps me wondering. At least the 27th of June proved to be false release date (as expected) and now there's other date on Indigo Books stating that it's gonna be the 3rd of July but interestingly, this time it says it's audio version. But tbh, I don't see that happening either.
I guess we'll find out soon anyway... 🤞
EDIT:
I hadn't noticed this thread before (thanks @SofaJockeyUK for posting that) so now I'm really curious if that's true 🙂
This is turning out to be a ping pong game, i'm more inclined to believe that we'll have a story DLC but that's just my opinion.
However, now, it seems that everyone is telling that this rumor is fake:
Anyway, i'm giving up on this, it turned out that Andromeda was a big disappointment, after 5 years of development. I do enjoy the game but .... it doesn't have the same feeling the trilogy had. I'm going to leave this at that.
I would love to see a DLC, and hope that Bioware do have free reign to produce one without the parent company attaching an anvil to their legs as they do. I would also hope that they let them polish and tune the game to iron out the existing issues FIRST before putting even more code in that then furthers issues that have become rather ingrained.
I am more concerned at the moment with how communication occurs between the publisher/devs and the playerbase in an official news/here's whats coming sense, and that any attempts to break through that seem to be met with a stoney silence.
We know Anthem is coming, we know no mention was made of ME:A at E3 in any way.. but as fans of Mass Effect who have likely bought all or most of the titles in the mass effect series, it does make us repeat customers who have/had faith in the product line so we do in a way get a bit troubled when we see reviewers going off half-cok'd and roasting a game before its had chance to have some early issues fixed, and then toasting it the whole way just for reader views.
Could it have happened differently? of course it could, and many of us wish it could have been different, but hindsight is a truly wonderful thing and sometimes you just have to look at what you have have right now and just HOPE that things get resolved.. and thats why we need bioware and ea to do right by its fan base for those who have stood by them through thick.. and thin.
I know Anthem is coming but what am I to do for the next 15 months or so until it hits?
There is very little information coming out about Anthem at the moment, which is understandable but at the same time it can't be the only thing that they communicate about.
I wonder if they understand that gaming is a serious hobby for many that they put a lot of time into and that this is not the way to support that. Information is needed and going months between updates is just so....well, not of this time really.
They seem to want to go big on Anthem and make it a 10 year engagement with dlc and sequels like Destiny is doing. I think that's a good way to approach it but I wonder why they can make a plan like that for Anthem but not Mass Effect.
Or maybe they want to test Anthem and if it works set it up for other franchises as well. I get the feeling they want to get into the business of games that have a more long-term plan and decided on a new IP to do this with so it wouldn't destroy an existing IP if it backfired. I just get this feeling Anthem is a big deal for EAWare and they are hoping it's the platform for their games in the near future.
It is my view, that how Anthem will be received will be of key importance for how BioWare will do business in the future. Therefore we won't get any real news about other IP's like ME and DA until they have released Anthem next year. However, that makes it even more important that they do something now with ME:A in the meantime.
I also wonder how Destiny 2 is going to do. It will be a direct competitor for Anthem I would think but it will come out this year already and will be able to have a more solid game running. So Anthem will have to be pretty amazing all around to compete with that if Destiny 2 is successful.
At the same time Anthem might open up a much larger fanbase than they've had so far and then the ME and DA crowd will automatically become less important to them. It's all very hard to say at this time, but I can't help but feel that Anthem failing might be better for ME and DA fans than Anthem succeeding.
If I'm wrong about that feeling I invite BioWare to explain to me why I'd be wrong about this...but yeah, they'd have to communicate to do that.
@EgoMania wrote:
They seem to want to go big on Anthem and make it a 10 year engagement with dlc and sequels like Destiny is doing. I think that's a good way to approach it but I wonder why they can make a plan like that for Anthem but not Mass Effect.
A while back EA said that they wanted to increase the number of action adventure games because they noticed that they're very successful for Ubisoft (e.g. Assassin's Creed). I think Anthem will fill a void in EA's lineup, making it a smart investment. I don't think BioWare will quit RPGs anytime soon, though (Dragon Age 4 was pretty much confirmed), but it makes sense for them to step back from Mass Effect for a while so they can evaluate what to do with the series.
