This so sad Mass Effect was fantastic such a shame Microsoft couldn't buy them with all the other studios they have they would dominate against the PS6 with the likes of Call of Duty, Doom, Elder Scrolls etc being exclusive to Xbox, Switch 2 and PC.

It’s such a shame what happened to them in the end. I’ve yet to play any of their games, but I definitely know BioWare was considered legendary for a reason in the 2000s. Hopefully everyone affected is able to find work elsewhere quickly.

I ought to at least play the Star Wars: KOTOR games, since they’re on the Switch.

"We impose order on the chaos of organic evolution. You exist because because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it" - Sovereign (also EA probably)

Look like now no longer Mass Effect Legendary Edition coming to Nintendo Switch 2 version 😭😭😭😭😭

@MrAnderson16 The people who made those games have left the company long time ago. The BioWare before its shutdown is only a shell of its past.

It's long dead before today.

Saudi takeover and Kushner.

I've dealt with people from BioWare IRL and if the company culture reflected them, it was rotten long, long before EA.

@puddinggirl Indeed. That’s what I meant to allude to in my first sentence, but I see in hindsight how I failed to convey it.

Awful. Saw this coming a mile away with Kushner and Saudi blood money takeover

@wizzgamer oh yeah such a shame Microsoft couldn’t buy them and then lay off all of them cancel the game and shut down the studio like they did in the last two years… have you been living under a rock?

With all the layoffs across the industry, cost cutting, prices rising on consoles and games….are we even going to have an industry 5….10 years from now? I just recently worked with EA on a fairly large endeavor in the past 6 months and everything seemed cupcakes and rainbows. Shocking how fast things change.

Ouch. Pour one out for the legends that were.

@PurpleG A port would likely have been handled by another studio anyway, thought I doubt EA is going to want to put Mass Effect in the spotlight again for a while. Extremely disappointing, the Mass Effect Trilogy is one of the biggest gaps in the Switch library. I'm going to hold out a small glimmer of hope based on Nintendo lobbying EA to make a port happen, but I am aware that's little more than copium at this point.

„There is nothing easy about writing those words. Our focus right now is on our incredibly talented team who put their hearts into these games, and supporting one another through this transition.“

Why are these press releases often so cynical? If it were an incredibly talented team, EA wouldn’t close it, but give it other tasks.

Instead, they just should write “We will help our former employees to find another task at EA or externally and to bridge the upcoming months.”

@Max_the_German You mean EA right?

@AgentJ Right, and I wanted to edit it the moment you wrote. Not only Microsoft is laying off, but now, they are the usual suspect.

They are laying off 50 people, which is resulting in a closure of the studio.

I think that's the bit that's kinda getting overlooked. 50 people were never going to make a new Mass Effect.

They studio was already gone, they are just taking it off life support. So while this is obviously awful news, at least we don't have to watch while those 50 people are forced to make a mobile gacha Mass Effect feathering characters from Raid Shadow Legends.

@Max_the_German Yeah totally understandable, Msoft and EA are duking it out for the worst behind the scenes reps in the industry.

Looks like the new name will be BioWere.

There goes any chance a Sonic Chronicles sequel or prequel had, unless SEGA pulls what Nintendo did with Mario & Luigi: Brothership and hire the company hosting most of the original devs.

With all sincerity, I hope those affected land a new job in another company, hopefully in one whose parent company values them.

@HammerGalladeBro There was never any chance of Sega touching Sonic Chronicles again to begin with, the game sold poorly in the first place and then they were repeatedly sued over it. The Sonic encyclopedia even outright says it's not canon.

@wizzgamer
Ah yeah Xbox home of 3,200 layoffs, multiple studio closures and an impending $1200-1800 console, the only thing they’re gonna dominate is the unemployment line so more IP is the last thing they need.
@BrokenCi
There’s an easy answer to this, the industry as it’s currently existed for decades will cease to exist in it’s current form, the factors at play will continue to accelerate this decline, Sony and MS champing at the bit to release new consoles no what matter no matter the cost couldn’t have happened at a worse time. Keep it mind it actually hasn’t been that healthy before this, the problems with the AAA industry became apparent early during 8th gen, what followed was actually predictable but the developments of the past few years have made it dangerously unpredictable and chaotic with everything pointing towards it accelerating the decline as I mentioned before.

"We realized that we can't infintely monetize single-player RPGs and that's bad for us."

Like others have said, Bioware has long been a thing of the past.
It's not an easy pill to swallow, but I'll take the moment to appreciate the games that came before. I loved their RPGs, I loved Dragon Age and enjoyed the Dragon Age books, I loved the multiplayer in Mass Effect 3 and Andromeda, and I loved Mass Effect.
They're dead. RIP. Eat socks, EA.

@MrAnderson16 let’s just hope that everyone who is affected lands on their feet, with a job outside of the gaming industry.