The next Mass Effect game will be revealed next year, but the game will be released in the years to come.
Update: EA denies the existence of the interview regarding the release date of the game.
Update: Apparently, the “late 2014 to mid-2015″ date for Mass Effect 4 is “inaccurate,” according to an EA spokesperson. EA has told the website who released the interview with Gamble from Bioware that “at no time did EA or BioWare provide any answers to questions from Gamer Syndrome.” So don't take the release window to seriously. More information here.
Original: Mass Effect 3 producer Mike Gamble said an exact date couldn’t be provided because “full development on the game [only] started a month or two ago”. He revealed the current plan is to release the game in “late 2014 to mid-2015”.
Gamble also said: “We had actually wanted to do multiplayer in Mass Effect 2. We started working on it and found out that it was just going to be too much, so we had to take it out of Mass Effect 2 and put it into Mass Effect]. As far as the style it had, like I said we wanted it to be different from other games.”
“It needed to have something that drew people into playing multiplayer over and over again. It had to be something that looked and felt like playing a mission in Mass Effect, except you had 3 other players from around the world with you. This style of multiplayer was something we wanted to do since Mass Effect 2. Regardless on how people felt about the ending of Mass Effect 3, alot of people still play multiplayer.”
Gamble also said a mission idea for Mass Effect 3 which is not in the final version of the game saw players going to the Turian home world of Palaven. “One of the mission ideas that got scrapped was actually going onto Palaven, the Turian home world, and being able to see what their world was like.”
“We also scrapped the original ending for Mass Effect 3. We were gonna have it as a “boss battle”, where Commander Shepard would go up and fight The Illusive Man who has been transformed by The Reapers. We scrapped that idea because way too many [games] have that as their ending, some final boss fight. Ultimately, we are proud of the finished products in the Mass Effect series and stand by them”, he said.
