User blog comment:James12708/Possibility of a Mass Effect 4/@comment-124.148.135.192-20121031215824

Does no one have any common sense left? They will not make a direct sequel to ME3. The endings are too tight, too altering to the Galaxy. You can't make a sequel that takes place after Mass Effect 3 because there are too many variables in relation to control, synthesis and destroy. Destroy is the only plausible story route, maybe control, but not both, not synthesis and certainly NOT refuse! If anything it will be a game that takes place before ME1 or during the main series.

Bioware will not/can not invest enough money in one game to cater to all the endings properly, the dev time (If done right) would take far too long for a publisher like EA and the budget would be far bigger than any Bioware game before it.

I don't think it would be a sound investment either, considering the ME3 controversy.