r/masseffect • u/Queasy_Section7 • 8h ago

NEWS It’s over

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Well, that’s that then

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u/Journey2thaeast 8h ago

The article said it was in early development too and I'm like what....wtf has been going on the past several years?

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u/mrbrownl0w 8h ago

Veilguard. No studio seems to be able to develop multiple games at once anymore

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u/Raxsus 8h ago

They were in development simultaneously. The DA team fucked it up so bad that the Mass Effect team had to takeover

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u/SonofaBeholder 7h ago

that's not entirely fair to the DA team, leadership dropped the ball hard by constantly pulling talent off the DA team to work on other games (anthem most notably) and then constantly shifting the demands and scope of the game while denying them resources only to then turn around and say yes to the Mass Effect team when they asked for the exact same things the DA team got a firm "no" too.

Not to mention, ME4 was still only in PRE-PRODUCTION when the team got called in to finish veilguard, which was only the last 18 months of development (reminder, they ANNOUNCED ME4 in December of 2020, so they spent almost 3 years actively NOT working on it before getting called in by BioWare management to aid the DA team due to problems caused by BioWare management themselves.