EA: "Vi ser ingen anledning till att inte återvända till Mass Effect"

EA-höjdaren Patrick Söderlund fanns att prata med på Gamescom i Köln nyligen och vi kunde inte låta bli att haffa honom för ett par ord om allt mellan EA-himmel och EA-jord, vilket givetvis inkluderar Mass Effect: Andromeda. När vi frågade honom om hans egna tankar och funderingar om serien just nu, och i vilken riktning den behöver röra sig i i framtiden, hade han några intressanta saker att säga om det.

Han sade: "Well I think, my personal opinion is, I think that the game... I usually don't do this, but this is one of those places where I feel like the game got criticised a little bit more than it deserved. I think the game is actually a great game. Yes, we have to acknowledge the fact that there were some things that maybe we could have done better, absolutely, but as a whole, if you go in and you buy the game today with everything that's in it today, I believe that that's a game worth buying, personally."

"So that's the first thing I'll say. The [second] thing I'll say is, for Mass Effect as a franchise, that has such a big fanbase, and you know I've seen people saying 'Oh, EA's not making another Mass Effect'. I see no reason why we shouldn't come back to Mass Effect. Why not? It's a spectacular universe, it's a loved [series], it has a big fanbase, and it's a game that has done a lot for EA and for BioWare."

"What we need to be careful though of is, whenever we bring Mass Effect back again, we have to make sure that we bring it back in a really [relevant] way, and in a fresh, exciting place. That' my job, and that's Casey's [] job, and BioWare and the Mass Effect team's job, to figure out what that looks like, and that we don't know yet, but we will."

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