EA CEO Andrew Wilson and EA's Chief Financial Officer Stuart Canfield addressed investors following the release of their quarterly financial results and they hinted that they believe Dragon Age: The Veilguard would have sold better had it been live-service. What could this mean for Mass Effect?
If EA chooses the stupid route and BioWare doesn’t fight back…Yep, it could be and it would be a DOA game. Given that EA C-Suites don’t have more than 3 shared brain cells between them; they’ll fail to notice that Sony axed their live service game ambitions. They’ll pretend to not see the other struggling live service game companies, and think that Mass Effect as a franchise will have the drive behind it to win. It won’t give that Andromeda was such a flop which didn’t excite a lot of Mass Effect fans.
This is a game that cannot fail (lest the Mass Effect franchise fall into ruin), but will if too many bad decisions are made in the development process.