We knew this was bound to happen, so sad we might never see another ME game. But to be honest it’s probably for the best. They would never live up to the original trilogy. At least we got the LE for its final send off.
its weird to me because i swear i feel like mass effect could generate a lot of money if they took their time on it. but thats what i think is wrong with the gaming industry barely anyone wants to take the time to make a good game and rather make a quick buck.
While I think there's plenty to criticize EA for, if you read about the development of both Andromeda and Veilguard, time wasn't the issue.
They had lots of time. Mass Effect was 2007, Mass Effect 2 2010, and Mass Effect 3 in 2012. A banger all-timer trilogy in the span of five years.
They then took five years between ME3 and Andromeda. That was 2017. And it was the studio's first big failure. It's now been nine years since Andromeda. That is plenty of time to make a new Mass Effect had that been what they wanted to do. Hell, even if you measure from the announcement that they were exploring ME5. That was 2020. Six years ago.
Look at Dragon Age. A full decade between Inquisition - a game of the year game BTW - and Veilguard. Ten years, and we got Veilguard.
And yes, Anthem was mixed in there. But Anthem wasn't rushed either. Development in Anthem started in 2012 after ME3, and it was released in 2019. Seven years.
Compare to a series like Assassins Creed over at Ubisoft. They make the same game over and over and for awhile were doing yearly releases, now it's still every few years. Waaaaaay more games released in the same time period.
The story of Bioware is that over time the people who made the games special left. And the people who replaced them couldn't live up to what they had done. They were given plenty of time to make three games, and all of them were considered failures. I'm sorry but this isn't just a "quick buck" scenario. They had time to cook, they just didnt.
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u/paperclipboi 8h ago
We knew this was bound to happen, so sad we might never see another ME game. But to be honest it’s probably for the best. They would never live up to the original trilogy. At least we got the LE for its final send off.