User blog comment:Rusty650/About the Idea of "Mass Effect 4"/@comment-186.90.42.218-20130703134625

"I do not call the game ME4 when I talk about it ever, [because] that makes people think of it more as 'what happens after 'Mass Effect 3' rather than 'what game happens next set in the 'Mass Effect' Universe." BioWare community manager, Chris Priestly.

"What Chris is saying is that thinking of the next 'Mass Effect' game as 'Mass Effect 4' would imply a certain linearity, a straight evolution of the gameplay and story of the first three games. Story-wise, the arc of the first trilogy has also been concluded, and what we will do is tell a new story set in the 'Mass Effect' universe. That doesn’t mean that events of the first three games and the choices you made won’t get recognized, but they likely won’t be what this new story will focus on." BioWare Edmonton chief Yanick Roy.

I wonder what does it actually "mean/represents/includes/encompass/embrace/comprises/reach/takes in/admits" the Mass Effect Universe for Bioware...?