So Kotaku's Jason Schreier posted an article today in response to the now-discredited Facebook rumor about a 3rd party dev doing MEA DLC.

Yesterday, a widely shared Facebook post claimed that BioWare had canceled Mass Effect: Andromeda’s downloadable content. The good news: that Facebook post was a hoax. The bad news: they guessed correctly. Mass Effect: Andromeda will indeed not be receiving any single-player DLC, three people familiar with BioWare’s plans have told me.

This is an enormous bummer, because as those of you who have finished the game know, they left 3-4 major plot threads hanging at the ending, and had extremely blatant DLC bait when you load your save from after the credits. Whatever you think of Andromeda, I personally was at least hoping that I'd get closure on the story the were trying to tell, especially given all those assurances that this wasn't supposed to be the start of a new trilogy.

So long Mass Effect, it's been a good run.

So for those of you waiting on that Complete edition, don't bother. They are still supposedly not done with patches and multiplayer support, but at this point I wouldn't expect anything more than bugfixes and balance changes.

"So long Mass Effect, it's been a good run."

I highly doubt we've seen the last of Mass Effect. Of the Andromeda galaxy, sure. Of the Milky Way? No way in hell; they just won't entrust it to Bioware Montreal again.

They should just leave Mass Effect proper alone and make a spiritual successor.

@theht: Yeah I agree. I loved Mass Effect but there was quite a bit about it that was an evolution of the work they'd done in KOTOR and it would be nice to see that sort of evolution once again.

The whole handling of Andromeda was just terribly short-sighted. They had a great, popular, IP and they did enormous damage by releasing a cheap unfinished game. Now, instead of trying to repair that damage by going out on a high note, they're cutting their losses.

That's fine for something like ReCore (another game that had potential but was released buggy and never finished) where it's a new IP and will be forgotten*, but Mass Effect had a lot of value. Now the next time you try to sell an ME game you're going to get many fewer pre-orders and a lot more skepticism.

What they should have done was patch the thing up and put their best creative talent on a really strong DLC ending, wrap up the plot, and give it away for free. That would at least have left people eager for the next Mass Effect.

What a mismanaged project.

*Of course ReCore was supposed to be a big IP to move Xboxes, which is its own problem, but the point is that ReCore itself wasn't a particularly valuable product.

Mass Effect deserved better than this. What a bummer.

This isn't a great look for them, but I'm not convinced releasing any sort of DLC would've been a great look either. Even if whatever they had planned turned out okay it's still attached to a game that is more or less toxic on both a critical and word-of-mouth level.

EA "cut their losses" when they gave this game to the C team. It's obvious they don't care about this franchise anymore, they wanted to milk it just a little bit more before the end and focus Bioware on making that bland looking Destiny clone instead.

Sucks for the people who actually got to the ending. I may hop back on if they add stuff to the multiplayer, but i doubt i would pay for any dlc for it.

@arbitrarywater: They had two choices, either dig in and fix it all or cut out now

Does anyone care after number 2?

Probably the right move. I couldn't be bothered to finish the main game, let alone play more of it.

The ME universe is still so rich and full of potential. I don't think it has to be done forever. Let it rest for a while (like, 10 years), and then come back with a worthy successor.

I dunno, I got to the ending and I certainly don't want anymore ME:A.

They need to start over.

I was very much invested for a 2nd trilogy, disappointed to see what's become of it. I actually didn't mind Andromeda that much, it certainly wasn't as good as 1, 2 or 3 but I took it as an Assassin's Creed scenario where AC2 was a massive leap over the 1st game. I guess studios working for EA don't have that kind of luxury.

This was expected but still sad news for me. I enjoyed Andromeda despite it's flaws. There was room for some great DLC that could have developed some hype for a sequel and restore some goodwill for people who were disappointed. EA just hasn't cherished this franchise. It deserves much more consideration and support. Now they are setting up the franchise to fail, or disappear, abandoning this game so completely. Bummer.

At least we wont get all the usual people saying "But you have to play the payed DLC its the best part of the game" like all other Biowaregames.

Its a shame what happened to the franchise, but its not that surprising that EA treated it the way they did; passing it off to a support studio and forgetting about it. The combined sales of the trilogy were only around 14 million copies, which is solid, but not breathtakingly amazing. There are plenty of single AAA games that do better than that, and trilogies that do much better (The Witcher series is past 25 million copies). What it did do though was cement the reputation of Bioware Edmonton (the ending of 3 not withstanding), and it makes sense that EA would want that studio working on something likely to sell better.

As someone who honestly didn't care about (and eventually came to despise) the Kett / Yuuzhan Vong / Organic Borg, the Remnant / Forerunners / Protheans / Precursors / Clichés, the Scourge plot contrivance that was a comical excuse for everything wonky in the Heleus Cluster, and the poorly written characters, this doesn't phase me in the least. Good riddance.

My condolences though to those who did get emotionally invested in this game. I'm sure it sucks to be expecting a Dragon Age: Inquisition level of DLC support (3 very well done, decently lengthy mini-expansions) and get literally nothing. Maybe there'll be another Mass Effect game in five years that'll turn out better, or not. *shrug*

Eh it didn't get a lot of press buzz at the time but ME3's multiplayer actually had a pretty strong playerbase and ME:A's multiplayer seems to cater to that crowd as well and has it's own loot box system so I wouldn't say that monetization options were that slim.

It was already dead..

Now let's all board the Anthem train, and ride that into the ground.

Nah, I'll get back aboard the train when they make a single player RPG which has a half-decent story & isn't a broken mess. Until then I'll just clutch my copy of Dragon Age Origins close to my chest.

Soooo... Not worth picking up for $30 on CDKeys?

@facelessvixen: Isnt CDKeys sketch af?

I agree. Choo choo! See you guys in 2019

@boxxybae said:

That's G2A and Kinguin. CDKeys (along with GreenManGaming) has been a more upstanding site for buying, at best, divisive, at worst, sub-par and disappointing games over the two years I've been using it; such as Watch Dogs 1, The Crew, Dragon Age Inquisition, Batman Arkham Knight, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, and the season pass for Fallout 4. Kind of a bummer to have to group yet another highly anticipated, tripple-A/big budget game into the proverbial bargain bin, but it is what it is I guess. I've had time to make my peace with this whole Andromeda clusterfuck.

Also, thanks for reminding me of 2009.

Eh, no amount of DLC could solve the deep rooted issues of this game. Such a shame. Really, fuck EA. Mass Effect deserved to be the flagship game.

The real shame to me right now is the multiplayer isn't even getting content support. It has a player base but they are just going to let it sit there and then die off. I have played more than 100 hours but I have been squeezing the stone on that few maps, even really enjoying much of the rest.