Have you seen the last Elder Scrolls trailer?

It would most likely have been a cinematic trailer, created by a VFX company hired for the job. ME5 was in early production, likely no game to speak of at this point, just storylines and concept art mostly. Maybe a vertical slice demo, but I doubt it.

Yeah and they repeatedly said it was in "early stages" of production.

They started working on art assets, sound and animations at the very least for this WIP trailer but even then the ingame trailer isnt complete (lots of reused assets). My guess is its all paperwork with maybe a few blockouts to prototype new gameplay ideas while the art team worked on the trailer

From what everyone was able to cobble together with rumors and hearsay is that they had a core idea ready, but waited till after Veilguard to commit more resources to the project. I guess we can assume it got a bit further along before it was canned.

It looks like it was early production

EA needs resources for the next FIFA guys, try to understand, we need to make sacrifices for fifa.

Oh that actually looks good

I don't care if this was a trailer 5 years out from the game. I absolutely loved Mass Effect and this closure is pretty close to the top of the list of my most anticipated games that has been shuttered.

Thank you. I wouldn't have ever known about it

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It does mean the company behind the leveraged buyout can write off the canceled game as a loss, so they can walk away with boatloads more cash at the end of the day.

Being a successful business does not mean being beloved. Another example: Oracle

Launch gameplay wasn't exactly unplayable but the scene and lighting design of the introduction does still give me nightmares, and they somehow made the multiplayer mode less fun and more grindy so... I get it.

Then you having not been paying attention. No one not owned by EA would do shit as stupid as switching to the frostbite engine, putting loot boxes in ME3, or making Anthem.

ME: Andromeda.