Gaider went on to also talk about how the Mass Effect video game franchise also relied heavily on its secondary characters for storytelling purposes. Even so, the possibility (and likewise for Dragon Age) makes me cringe just a little, unlike many fans who appear. I'm relieved to see that the Mass Effect/Amazon deal is for a potential TV series and not a movie. Boom, right off the bat you've just alienated a whole bunch of the built-in fan base who had their hopes up," Gaider explained.
Meaning said TV show will need to pick whether said protagonist will be male or female. "For starters, Mass Effect and Dragon Age have a custom protagonist. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare would reveal its newest game, the plan had been to go with. However now the links to the DLC for BioWare titles - Dragon Age Origins, Dragon Age II, Mass Effect & Mass Effect 2 no longer work. When explaining more of why he feels this way, Gaider said that much of the story in both Dragon Age and Mass Effect is meant to center around a character that is informed by the decisions that players make over the course of the game. It wasn’t even supposed to be called Anthem. So a little while ago EA provided this download page which provided download links to various DLC for older 'classic' games (for those who dont use those games on Origin). In simplest terms, Gaider said that he dislikes the idea quite a bit to the point that it makes him "cringe just a little".
In an extensive thread on Twitter this week, David Gaider, who was a former lead writer at BioWare, primarily on the Dragon Age franchise, revealed his full thoughts on this proposed Mass Effect TV show.