The New Mass Effect is not Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect franchise will get a fourth game, but BioWare calls on players not to call it Mass Effect 4, because thus make bad favor of the original trilogy.

Although the third game in the Mass Effect franchise conceived as the last part of a trilogy about Shepard its far away from representing the end of the series. BioWare's community manager Chris Priestly explained to the fans on the official BioWare forums that a new game shouldn't be called Mass Effect 4.

“To call the next game Mass Effect 4 or ME4 is doing it a disservice and seems to cause a lot of confusion here," Priestly said. "We have already said that the Commander Shepard trilogy is over and that the next game will not feature him/her. I see people saying 'well, they'll have to pick a canon ending.' No, because the game does not have to come after. Or before. Or off to the side. Or with characters you know. Or yaddayaddayadda. Wherever, whenever, whoever, etc will all be revealed years down the road when we actually start talking about it."

Chris explained that the development team new game doesn't call Mass Effect 4 because they don't want to create unnecessary links to the original trilogy, but only Mass Effect world.

BioWare's new Mass Effect was announced last November, revealing that it will launch DICE's Frostbite 2 engine on which it is based and the upcoming Dragon Age III.