Mass Effect Andromeda Single Player Story DLC
https://www.change.org/p/bioware-dlc-for-mass-effect-andromeda close to 11,000 signatures and growing. Still hoping for a big story DLC.
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11k signatures. Let me know when there's 11 million and a company like EA might take notice.
I arrived a little late to the Andromeda party, but after doing some research, watching interviews, reading umpteen player and critic reviews, after putting in over 400 hrs into the game myself, I can now say with all certainty that much of the criticism this game has gotten is or was warranted. As someone said above, a triple-A studio putting out what they purported to be a AAA title should have come up with something better than what we got.
Thankfully I avoided the pre-order blues with this one, got it on sale recently instead, patched to the latest and final 1.10.... and the game is, although playable, and somewhat enjoyable, still rife with problems.
But buried under the weight of the mass of ridicule and criticism over their mass gaff, what does EA decide to do? Oh that's right, pick up their toys and go home. Cancelling the series. (putting it "on hold" as they put it). How utterly childish of them. Fact is there are millions of loyal ME fans who are interested in a new sequel in this series, lots of money to be made for all companies involved, but only if they get their collective heads out of their collective butts and DO IT RIGHT.
I have trouble believing they can't find a team of top game devs who aren't familiar with Mass Effect enough to do a new sequel justice. Are today's developers, designers, writers, etc really that ignorant of their own craft? Say it ain't so.
EA is a publicly traded company, so I doubt they'll respond to petitions. If those 11k people were shareholders, that would be a different matter.
Right now BioWare are working on Anthem and Dragon Age 4. I think Dragon Age 4 will most likely be a big success. I'm curious what they'll do with Anthem because it seems like they intended to rely on loot boxes, which is a mistake I doubt they'll repeat after Battlefront II. I still expect there will be a new Mass Effect game after Dragon Age 4.
They officially cancelled the DLC for this game so I think petitions aren't going to help much.
I still have hopes that Mass Effect will return one day but I think by that time an Andromeda 2 might not be the way to go. I think it has too much of a negative connotation for most people.
Maybe by then a reboot would be more to the point but I'm not sure if continuing with Ryder is a good idea. The character concept is so weak that I don't see it support a trilogy or even a second part.
The whole Pathfinder idea just doesn't really work. A superhuman explorer because you have a dangerous AI implant with an otherwise forgettable character personality means that the only thing that makes you special is an AI that talks too much and revives you from the dead as a virtual jesus.
I put it very crudely but it's how I see the concept. Working for a company that goes exploring but actually is going colonising without a proper military approach is also just not realistic. "Yeah but it looked peaceful 600 years ago" is just a really naive approach. I could go on but you get my point. It was just a weak concept and it cannot carry a series in the future because of it in my view.
If they want to continue in Andromeda they need to find a different protagonist with a much stronger concept or reboot this one in a much improved way.
For me Andromeda is a one off game that doesn't need to be continued, in spite of it missing various story lines that it started. DLC would've been very welcome for that (the family secret, the kett, the remnant, the quarian ark). At this point I just don't really care about that and I guess at least the quarian ark will be dealt with in a book. So that's kind of a way to kill the DLC as well.
I think it's just best to let it go as BioWare did.
Bioware should bring Andromeda and Milky-way together in the next game. Make it 100/700 years in the future, with some flashbacks into the missing story from Andromeda game.
Build a giant mass-relay around a black hole to travel between galaxies??
@Ultimate-Dima wrote:Bioware should bring Andromeda and Milky-way together in the next game. Make it 100/700 years in the future, with some flashbacks into the missing story from Andromeda game.
Build a giant mass-relay around a black hole to travel between galaxies??
Just one slight issue. You may remember that Mass Effect 3 had multiple endings, so which version of the Milky Way should they connect to? I'm pretty sure that no matter which one they pick, there will be a crapstorm of complaints. I mean it does kinda make a difference if the races still exist individually or whether they got that shared DNA which is basically biotech in nature.
