Baldur's Gate is owned by WOTC which is an outsider company that doesn't develop its own games.
So they rent the IP to an interested party.
Similar to the Star Wars games. They're mostly published by EA but the owner of the IP is Disney.
Mass Effect is owned by BioWare which is (was) owned by EA. So in order for another Mass Effect game, EA would have to rent their IP to another studio or have another internal team to develop the game.
But historically EA has been very very very reluctant to do rent or sell their IPs even when they're not doing anything with them.
So the chances of us ever seeing another Mass Effect or another Dragon Age at this point are effectively 0.
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u/jkman61494 8h ago edited 8h ago
So I'm not a gamer expert.
But how was Larian able to procure and publish Baldur's Gate 3?
Is there any chance a smaller studio could get rights to Mass Effect to make it?
I'm guessing the answer is no, but I always found it weird BG3 was able to be produced. Was that a special deal with Hasbro?