Title says it all. If the rumours are true, for the next Mass Effect do something like Mass Effect: Revelation, that introduced the Politics, Universe, settings, prequel stories for some of the characters and races. In short, a Prequel book for a whole new saga.
Thoughts?
At this point, probably not. The politics and universe settings of the MEU will be about the same without Shepard and Reapers.
I think the only way to have a MEU is to ignore the Shepard trilogy and pretend it never happened. After all it was just a story told by an old man to his great grandchild. That's how they get out of it. Control, Synthesis, and Destroy don't even matter that way. It becomes a complete reboot.
Next is making it that the Protheans really did make the mass relays and the Citadel, and make them still exist in a small section of the galaxy... kind of like Byzantium.
Don't think it'll happen, unless they go for reboot, like sH0tgUn jUliA mentioned. Right now they have to work off existing lore, to keep the feel of Mass Effect.
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I'd love a new book, but they pretty much pooped on their own floor.. The franchise is a mess. We're gonna need to scrub the whole house.
Or, what Julia said.
Nevermind new novels.... Whatever happened to that rewrite of Deception we were promised? Far as I know, its been years and we haven't heard word from it. Doesn't stop them from selling it though.
There probably will be another book tied to new ME game. All ME and DA games got book before release till now.
Only problem is that book will be most probably closely connected with ME4 so they can't start advertise it before officially showing some basic info about new ME.
or we could just write our own book. Come on.. give me your AO3 accounts
Nevermind new novels.... Whatever happened to that rewrite of Deception we were promised? Far as I know, its been years and we haven't heard word from it. Doesn't stop them from selling it though.
We never will see it. There simply isn't money to be made from a rewrite. The reputation of the novel is such that who would buy it?
We never will see it. There simply isn't money to be made from a rewrite. The reputation of the novel is such that who would buy it?
To be honest I sincerely believe the rewrite would have sold just as well. Why? Well, who was must upset about the problems in the first place? The die-hard fans. Lets face it, average Joe isn't the target audience for Mass Effect novels, its the dedicated fans. Who would appreciate a rewrite the most? The fans. Who did Bioware promise a rewrite to? The fans who love the series so much that they actually follow the news on this stuff rather to have heard of the announcement in the first place. Who is left out in the cold when Bioware fails to uphold that promise? Again its the loyal fans that get the shaft.
Sure, those who don't really care about the lore aren't going to care too much about the books problems... but those people are not the target audience who's purchasing the books in the first place. I have to imagine that the majority of people who actually purchase the novels are already invested, loyal fans to the series. Yet in the end all Bioware did was push out a horrible book seemingly written by someone who had no idea what subject matter he was writing about and then promise us a fix. Here we are, years later, with still no fix like they promised and the error-filled novel (that they openly admitted had problems, mind you) is still being sold.
I mean, I would feel different if they stopped milking the fans and took down their novel that, at this point, shouldn't be considered canon material. Yet they leave it out there. They play lip-service and make promises they don't keep and make no visible effort to actually back up. If they didn't want to rewrite the novel then maybe they shouldn't had lead the fans on by saying they would.
The fact that this is a novel based on the game, for me, removes any leeway excuse they had to weasel out of it. I understand if game sequels abandon some of their original flavor to make the game appeal to a larger crowd. Bioware has a bit of a history with this in Mass Effect and Dragon Age, imo. Though when it comes to the novel... what excuse is there? The Mass Effect novels are not trying to cater to a wider audience. They're novels only Mass Effect fans would care about in the first place. They're not trying to bring in newcomers to purchase the book. So when your target audience is still the fans why go and spit on them anyway? What do they achieve by doing that?
Lol, can you tell I'm bitter? 
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It's the only book I haven't read... so I don't even know how bad it is. Everyone just wards me off. 
I'd probably give it a chance if it was revised.
Nobody was going to buy that reprint
I would. I avoided buying Deception simply because I read up on all its mistakes and they promised to rewrite it. I've been waiting for the rewrite before purchasing it.
It's the only book I haven't read... so I don't even know how bad it is. Everyone just wards me off.
Same boat.
Nobody was going to buy that reprint, so Del Rey and BioWare are instead giving it the same treatment that countless lackluster Trek and Wars EU books received over the years. And I really don't blame them for the change in perspective.
This.
There is no money in a reprint, so Bioware has opted for pretending it never happened. I think that renders Deception non-canon at this point, except for any parts that end up referenced in the games.
(shrugs)
Guys, just think about the insignificant number of "fans" who would buy a reprint of that dreadfully-received book released several years back. Why on earth would Del Rey move forward with that now, drawing unnecessary attention to it? It's not a matter of whether they'd lose money, but exactly how much. And that's not even getting to whether the fiction's any good or not.
Perhaps they should had thought of that before promising the fans a reprint. Just saying.
Perhaps they should had thought of that before promising the fans a reprint. Just saying.
Well, in truth, they said that corrections would appear in "future editions of the novel", not that they promised to release a reprint (more like a rewrite, given the extensive issues). Whether they actually decide to release a new edition of a poorly-received novel with a niche of a niche readership, incurring all the costs that go along with that, is another matter.
I don't even care anymore re: Deception. It's over.
Anyway, NME will get a promotional tie-in novel a few months ahead of its release, IMO.
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