latest Andromeda news [ Edited ]

[VladVonCastein]

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.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5vaxl-SoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkc_tgBqh_M&t=79s

[mgdemian86]

I also found out about this this morning. But i have a feeling that they do have something in the works, just with baby steps. Would be nice to have closure for Andromeda. I guess only time will tell.

[lexandro_Albion]

Nice catch Vlad, good to hear the naysayers are wrong on this one.

[SofaJockeyUK]

The full story of how the hoax unravelled on BSN and Reddit is here:

http://bsn.boards.net/thread/11726/story-cancelled-sinclair-networks-facebook

[mgdemian86]

Just came across this https://gamerant.com/mass-effect-andromeda-no-dlc-rumor-false/

[VladVonCastein]

I really dont understand why some people spend effort to create a facebook page and posting hoax on MEA.  Seriously doubt it's a casual fan or troll...  Unhappy ex-employees of  EA perhaps?  Competition(doubtful as MEA isnt exactly the greatest hit ever)?  Also the way I see it, the fact that EA/Bioware who were so silent all these months would hear about this and responded so quickly, indicates that they were paying attention, they are watching and listening to feedback/outcry, but chose not to respond.

[Fred_vdp]

Jason Schreier from Kotaku posted a new article where he says he's almost certain no DLC is coming, based on conversations with three anonymous sources.

Opinions on Schreier are all over the place. Some say he's very reputable, some say he isn't. We'll have to wait and see to be certain. I was quite satisfied with the base game and I won't lose sleep over lack of DLC. Let's hope the planned books wrap up some loose ends so we get some closure on storylines.

[EgoMania]

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@VladVonCastein wrote:

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.youtube.com/watch?v=6n5vaxl-SoM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkc_tgBqh_M&t=79s

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Nice find indeed, though I see they're still harping on about Kotaku and making unsubstantiated claims about low sales.

So this thing was a hoax.

Kotaku has not given any real sources, so we can't know if they're telling the truth.

And as far as sales are concerned, well, I found this very interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/masseffect/comments/6b8vw1/no_spoilers_andromeda_sales_data_thread/

So when people say that they don't expect dlc because the game sales where terrible, maybe they are not on the ball with that.

Judge for yourself, but it seems that it's fair to estimate over 3 million copies have been sold and EA doesn't seem unhappy in spite of the bad reception in the media and of course the sales were hurt because of the release issues. Just saying it may not be quite as bad as people seem to want to think.

Just a shame it wasn't better.

[Skauron]

heh Kotaku.. 

When I was playing Watchdogs 2 and a group of us formed a team to solve the Shuffler Mystery (discord Team_Shuffler), i was approached by a reporter for Kotaku and asked about that mystery.  The questions and answers were all in text done by private messaging on Discord.. So you would think there is little chance to be misquoted right?

Wrong.

I couldn't believe how what i had typed had just been re-written and misquoted back then for the sake of them getting an early 'scoop' news report for what was considered 'breaking news' on Watchdogs 2'   (for clarity it was only minor detail, and was still a great article nontheless, I was just a bit miffed that they had misquoted something I actually said)

So when i see Kotaku articles now, i take all of them with a pinch of salt, just as you should any news site.

[angrybunnie]

@Skauron, I am not sure who you chatted with, but the new article is by Jason Schreier.  I found his previous article on the development troubles at BioWare to be quite plausible.

Time will only tell.