r/masseffect • u/No-Impact-9391 • 9h ago

NEWS Its over, BioWare is officially closing and stopping development on the next mass effect.

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I didn't expect to see this today. Truly a sad day.

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u/Street-Bar-9494 8h ago

"Bioware magic" was dead a while ago, and with the way they relied on it, we're lucky we even got as many good games as we did.

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u/AHorseNamedPhil 8h ago

This sucks and as someone who would still list the Mass Effect trilogy as my favorite games, I'm bummed that we'll never get a Mass Effect 4.

But the sad reality is that Bioware has been a bit of a mess for many years, and hadn't put out a good game in over a decade.

The writing was probably on the wall with that last Dragon Age game.

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u/RadioMessageFromHQ 8h ago

Yeah, I’m sympathetic to the people who’ve lost their jobs. But “stopping early development” of a game they announced about three and a half Reaper cycles ago. Whatever that was it was never coming out.

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u/rukh999 7h ago

Its kind of crazy. You look at the wiki and they had a big hit coming out basically every year or from 2000 - 2012 between the mass effect, dragon age, and BG/NWN games. The ME3 team put out 1, 2, 3 with only 3 years between each and they were huge successes. Andromeda was nearly 10 years ago and there's no sign ME4 was even coming out next year. Sure, I'd absolutely love another Mass Effect game with the quality of the first three, but I don't think they were capable of that anymore.

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u/ArmDouble9798 8h ago

U mean EA ruined it. If they had stop pushing their agendas into the games, it wouldn't be this way.

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u/Background_Dream_370 8h ago

It’s well documented that Anthem and Andromeda are entirely on BioWare.

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u/ItWasLikeWhite 8h ago

Feel that argument kinda falls flat with veilguard. You think MBAs went in an wrote the game?