https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/what-mass-effect-andromeda-is-doing-about-multiplayer-mods-and-dedicated-servers/
In this interview from late 2016 Mike Gamble told Kotaku that there are no plans for Mod Tools for ME:A, but it might be considered in the future due to the fact that the ME3 Modding Community is extremely strong.
If we really want something done right this time, we need to tell EA / BioWare that and the right place for this is here, EAs Answers HQ.
Everyone who cares about this should create a new topic or engage in the existing ones.
The support here at Answers HQ for modding is still pretty slim and in my opinion the Answers page should be flooded with requests for this, because when you go over to Nexusmods. The Demand is actually visible.
All the smaller changes people post around here could be easily done with modtools at hand.
A Mod Kit will come if EA and BioWare think it makes sense financially. We have to show them that there is more to gain when you provide such tools and if there is enough demand in their support channel, which is the official way of communicating change requests, it might catch on with the press as well.
I cannot enough draw the conclusion between Skyrim and ME:A. If we can sell them the idea that ME:A could become the Skyrim of Science Fiction.
Bethesda counts on the modding community, that is why the game still sells at a high price point even six years after it's initial release. EA sees that too AND people buy their DLCs because they are used as Resources for Mods. Hell, even the stupid horse armour mods for Oblivion sold like crazy.
If this goes through their thick heads they might listen because EA Execs look in fact over to Bethesda and envy their success. They can read sales tables.
The way the EA Answer HQ works, I believe, is that from time to time the moderators will present the Execs and Devs with a list of hot topics that are discussed in the Forum. There need to be modding as top priority in EVERY fu++++++ report they will get.
Let's be honest, telling them what you want in one or two sentences or just leaving a "thumbs up" here is literally the least thing we can do.
First, they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
.... and then you win.
