Does anyone know... Is there any chance someone else could get the rights to mass effect one day and take a shot at it? Kinda like what happened with baldurs gate 3
I imagine that EA owns the rights to Mass Effect. They could have a 5th game developed by a different studio or outsource it. If they think it would be worth the investment ME5 could definitely happen.
I don't think it's entirely unrealistic for that to happen really. CDPR has been expanding a lot since Cyberpunk released. And because they thrive on narrative RPGs, if EA decides to sell the mass effect IP(they just nuked BioWare, so they clearly have no plans to do anything with it themselves) I wouldn't be surprised if they're the ones who pick it up.
That would be really cool ngl but I think CDPR is too bogged down with their own production pipeline. Witcher IV, Witcher 1 remake, 2077 sequel and a new IP. But never say never I would love for them to take a Crack at it.
The odds actually aren’t that low. Studios ears should perk up when they hear this news. Gamers everywhere will be sad and alot of developers now grew up on mass effect so I think there’s plenty of studios that are still passionate about storytelling that would feel like it’s their duty to give it the mass effect universe the legs it should have. I’m pretty optimistic
Tbh I don’t think I would trust CDPR to do it well. Cyberpunk is great and all but they have never made that kind of straightforward narrative third person shooter game. They make open world games, and that’s not Mass Effect. They also have never implemented a conversation system with serious effects on in-game outcomes the way Paragon/Renegade was done before. Cyberpunk in particular had very few decisions which had any effect on the game other than what was effectively flavor text.
If we think a game company ran by Saudi Arabia, Jared kushner and American maga interests would be anywhere near the quality of mass effect and not just “Birth of a Nation.” IN SPAACCEEE we are lying to ourselves.
With the way people have been cracking and rebuilding games/PS5 lately, it’s never been easier for people to code games. It’s reasonable to think that a team of gamers could just build a their own and post it openly. This is just hypothetical but it’s interesting to think what the future of gaming is gonna look like now. People have been trying to work through Anthem but it’s been slow. Now, if they can work through all the encoding bs or whatever the issues are, then we can have Open Anthem, so to speak. Then a team of vibecoders could recreate ME3 so I can go back to blasting Geth and slingin biotics at Marauders with the squad. Maybe we get a solid team with writers to make a new ME altogether. I’m very hopeful.
Well, you're not wrong. Mass Effect also has a huge, very passionate fanbase. Still, this is a sore blow to those of us who wanted to be Paragons in Spaaaaace!
Or Bioware failed to meet expectations. Downsizing is the order of the day sadly. I dont love EA but as other people have been saying for a decade+ the modern Bioware was not anything resembling the old BG or ME teams.
Never say never though, EA isn't going to pass on a chance to make money
They wouldn't have cancelled the project if that was the case, they would have transferred the currently completed stuff over to a different studio, which they didn't do
After Andromeda, “worth the investment” is a tough guess. It really depends how many good, usable assets they had in their early development of the game.
Part of it might depend on how much early development got completed. They did announce the title in 2020. No doubt for a few years there was likely only small progress made. I don't recall hearing anything concrete about the progress that was made.
But the series is popular. If they see that there was decent progress and solid plans already laid out it might be worth it for them to not waste what's already done and give it to another internal team. We can hope at least.
EA ya ha dicho en que se va centrar y ninguna ip de BW estaba en la lista.
Nadie tocará las ips a no ser que se las compren y dudo que alguien aparte de Microsoft , que esta recortando gastos asi que no la comprará o Amazon tengan la pasta para ello.
I hope in the future smaller studios stop selling themselves to larger ones. It is the same result over and over again. I get that the influx of big money seems like a god send, but all it takes is one game not being a hit and then the downhill journey begins
Yeah-- hence not going public. That's the choice I'm saying not to do. Small studios should stay private and look for alternative funding. Easier said than done of course.
That's the difference, and why Mass Effect is almost surely dead now. BG was licensed not owned by BioWare, whereas Mass Effect is their IP. I would be shocked if EA sold ME. The only hope is another EA studio is handed ME to develop a new game, but if that was the plan, why shutter BW when they were (supposedly) actively working on it.
Theres a few reasons, one is they can go back to it in the future. Another is selling it is basically giving their competitors a developed ip. Owning the trademarks is technically an asset in their portfolio that's worth an amount of money and go towards company worth for shareholders etc.
The other reason is probably its a lot of legal effort to deal with for not very much reward. They dont sell for a lot of money in the grand scheme of AAA games
That's even if theres a buyer who really wants to buy it anyway and willing to spend an amount that's worth it. But the second EA hears someone else is interested suddenly the price will go up
They have a shit ton of debt so I imagine they'll offload it. The Amazon show will probably spur interest and if it's like the Fallout show, will help the IP.
Zero. BG3 rights never left anyone's hands, they were always owned by the original IP holders, Wizards of the Coast.
BG1 and 2 were licensed.
Mass Effect is gonna end up on the pile of private-equity owned IPs that are dead forever and illegal to produce any content for even for free. See what T2 did to Kerbals.
I expect EA to shut down all their studios and themselves, cause after the new Saudi owners acquired them they proceeded to shut down the money tap due to the current events.
make a new property called ‘Gas Eject’ about a Colander Shipyard, to make ends meet save money by hiring voice talent who mispronounce every proper noun in the story.
Best case scenario is EA gets I to financial trouble and needs to sell off IPs
BG3 was a different scenario because WotC owned the rights to them, Bioware was just the developer. Same goes for BG3, Larian made it but WotC owns it.
I could see a scenario where Amazon continues with the production of the Mass Effect Show, the Show is a massive success and people call for a new Game.
It’s possible, my money though is it won’t happen. We saw something similar with Dead Space a couple years back where the remake sold 5x the original yet it still wasn’t profitable enough despite the second game having the first part done and ready. For context once you reach this point you’ve got around 40% of the work done.
It’s not about the games being good or profitable, it’s about his much they need to spend to how much they can make. The only thing we’ve seen is the recent Battlefield crossover, which is funny in its own right.
I don’t see ME getting picked back up internally, largely because of how LGBT positive BioWare and its games are at their core. I see this as private equity doing its work and there being an aspect to this happen to be what I saw on Twitter being “the 911 for queer gamers” a positive side effect and less a core aspect here.
If anything the best we can see is a licensing agreement, but I also don’t know if it’s feasible because of how much money it might cost where for less you can just do a new thing inspired by Mass Effect or Dragon Age or whatever.
Very unlikely. If they were going to sell or lease out the IP they would have just sold Bioware,
IP's themselves have a lot of value, EA will probably just sit on it until they go out of business.
Honestly I’m so heartbroken, Mass Effect is my favourite series and I was following this for years I was actually was one of the people who wanted one more big adventure with the cast of the original trilogy including Shepard coming back as the main character one last time.
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u/FriendlyRhyme 8h ago
Does anyone know... Is there any chance someone else could get the rights to mass effect one day and take a shot at it? Kinda like what happened with baldurs gate 3