Receipts? I'm fairly certain this is false, BW Montreal worked on the MP portion of ME3 completely independent of the campaign crew at Edmonton.
You are correct that different team made different part. I meant that they could have used bioware montreal to do SP DLC alongside the main studio
IMO that team instead of multiplayer they could have done more SP DLC. Obviously it might not have been as profitable as the multiplayer but as a costumer I'd have preferred the other way.
Why would they? "Everyone" decided it was the stupidest game ever based on some wonky animations and the game tanked both critically and per EA's expectations.
CA's rome 2 was also a disaster and CA suported the game for at least 5 years. Right now the game is completely different from release and stands as one of the best selling entries of the total war franchise.
Bioware and/or EA could have chosen to take the loss on this title and keep working on it for a few years to make it reach an "acceptable" state instead they chose to take the easy path and cut their losses.
They tried a new crew (see ME:A), didn't work. DA:I had quite a bit of expansions, pretty sure the story they wanted to tell was completed. It is unrealistic to expect them to continue to support a game indefinitely unless the game has an online component. What single player focused game has ever received support after ~2 years especially considering industry wide dlc generally doesn't sell well?!
DA:I had 3 DLC. I don't think that is that big of a number. DA:O had 8 DLC + an expansion.
Most of the games i play in the year 2018 have been suported for years with content. CK2,EUIV, HOI IV, stellaris, Rome 2, warhammer trilogy, Prison architect, dungeon of the endless, endless legend, transport fever, dungeons 3,Cook, Serve, Delicious!. Those games have at the very least 2 years of support.
I think you will point out that those aren't mainstream games. Bioware RPGs were one of the few mainstream titles that i enjoy. I'll pass most if not all mainstream titles because they aren't games i like.
Here is my steam profile in case you want to see my tastes
Personally I loved the combat/gameplay loop in the ME MP games, this looks to be an extension of that.
The part i hated most of ME2/3 was the combat becoming more of a shooter. I'd prefer more of roleplay mechanics specially if they are turn based like KOTOR. The faster a game is the harder it is for me to enjoy.
But the main problem was bioware in an interview saying that Anthem was a bioware game with a full story with choices, which got my hopes up. A game can have MP if the SP is good enough i don't really care about MP. The thing is the more they show the game the clearly it show that this is primarily a MP title with a few story bits here and there. The more they show the game the more it seems that playing the game all by myself will be incredibly boring.
It's fine to not want to play this game or to be cautious but it seems ridiculous to expect devs to act like short order cooks. Don't like it, don't buy it. Sure, I'd like another ME (hell, I was quite annoyed that we did not nor will not get any closure with ME:A- book doesn't count imo) but that doesn't automatically make this game crap. If someone doesn't like MP focused games I'm fairly certain there is a dev out there to cater to those particular tastes...
I never said that Anthem is a bad game. It just isn't fun to me (and i really like mechas). I won't be buying it like you said. The key to my thoughts is the bolded part. RIght now, to my knowledge, there isn't any video game company making "bioware like games". The closest one is obsidian with PoE and Tiranny; which while they are great don't really follow the style of bioware games even through they are the same genre.
With ME2 and ME3 adding MP and leaning more on shooter mechanics.
with DA2 leaning more on real time combat
With DA:I padding an open world with repetitive mmo like quests so that it inflates the time needed to see through the game's content.
With anthem being a mostly MP title.
Bioware hasn't done a traditional RPG SP for a decade. I don't think it is unfair to ask for a new one but I understand the appeal of anthem if you enjoyed ME3 multiplayer.