>>716484585The live service thing was obviously an EA cope thing, to have something to say to the shareholders. Basically, the argument was like the same thing Guillemot of Ubisoft said the other day about live service games. It's corpo cope, to feed to the shareholders. "The game failed because we didn't give paypi-I mean customers enough ways to spend their money". Everyone knows this is gaslighting. EA especially knows this, because of Battlefront 2.
It's unlikely that the next ME will be a live service, at least in the broader sense. It may have a cosmetic store for real money, but it's not gonna be made with expansions and DLC in mind. It's unlikely it will even have an MP mode.
The most likely thing is that EA will starve the devs out, instead of canceling the game outright, and then use what's left of Bioware as a support studio for a while, and then close them altogether, because the studio won't be put to work on something else. The same thing they did with the Dead Space studio.