-For one, very few of the talented people that made the trilogy such a resounding success were on board for this, just Casey Hudson really as a token spearhead. the development team was reportedly miniscule from the start, and even smaller after DA:Veilguard bombed,

-Being stuck in "early development" for 6 years implies some cosmic degree of development hell that would make Andromeda and Veilguard look like blissful, smooth productions. we'd probably be pushing 10+ years by the time this thing actually came out,

-on that note, Andromeda and Veilguard were beset and beleaguered by poor management from the top that clearly hampered them to a massive extent, EA's complete inability to properly take advantage of a successful IP by actually crafting that IP with its fans in mind is at this point the stuff of legend, and no I'm not talking about some culture war bullshit about how Andromeda had too many female turians or whatever,

I mean why were these games (and Inquisition, which was still good in spite of it) these quasi-MMO-lite/gather/fetch-athons instead of structured experiences built around story-beats and designed, structured environments/missions which is what made DA:O, and the ME trilogy so resoundingly successful? the answer is simple enough, The games needed to be everything at once, and ended up as nothing.

I don't have even a modicum of faith that the same wouldn't have happened to The Next Mass Effect.

honestly the big surprise in this entire sequence of events is that "The Next Mass Effect" was even announced, not that it's been killed. I never got my hopes up until we started seeing more, and after 6 years, realised it was already basically dead in the water regardless of this announcement. so I can't find myself too disappointed.

They would do it justice. I don't care if its isometric. In fact making it isometric might make it better!

Their games have been on a steep downward spiral for years, and I believe if ME5 were made, it would have been on the level of Veilguard. Not to mention a game announced 6 years ago was still in early development...

I'm happy that the people who tarnished DA won't be able to do the same for ME.

With the Saudi's needing to recoup from their investment to fight the tide of debt that EA has taken on, I think it's very likely the non-sport IPs will be sold in the near future.

Hopefully a competent develop will take the reins and usher in a second golden age for Mass Effect. It doesn't need to follow in the footsteps of the trilogy either. Open up that world to an isometric RPG, or turn based tactical combat like X-Com. Mass Effects legacy lives in the world building and crew relationships, both of which can be explored and improved upon in a myriad genres.

I suppose it was a matter of time, but yeah, this sucks...

Still, it's been a good run

To the company that revolutionized modern RPGs:

Keelah se'lai...

i wanna cry

Comment, repost, use the hashtags, reach out to your favorite content creators and show you disagree with this decision. Perhaps EA will reverse their decision or if Bioware truly closes forever, perhaps the IPs can be saved by another large publisher.

Were the devs trying to make this a Dead Space or Bioshock copycat because that’s what was popular at the time? Because that’s what this feels like.

It’s not awful, but…it’s not the vibe Mass Effect is geared towards

Hey guys, absolutely wrecked by the closure of BioWare. More so by the fact that the new Mass Effect is scrapped. Or is it?

I mean, EA owns the rights to the game right? Can't they technically just award those right to some other studio they own, if the demand for a new Mass Effect was high enough at some point.

This is just wishful thinking i know, but I don't want to lose hope.

I was watching this guy on YouTube and he was deliberately failing thanes loyalty mission. Which grinded my gears so much which caused him to die in the suicide mission. Why not do that to Jacob he practically has a death wish when he volunteers to go into the vents and I’m sure no one would shed a tear

I really hate the concept and execution of the crucible. It’s an ass pull.

I just replayed Leviathan for the first time in years and that really should have been the main quest (in addition to tuchanka and rannoch). Shepard, Cerberus, and the reapers all racing to find leviathan, because Leviathan knows where the “intelligence” is. Then the galactic fleet would come together to attack that intelligence, rather than just to liberate earth.

Edit: since there’s discussion on how you kill so many sovereign class reapers, I think better potential Macguffin would be taking advantage of how Sovereign was killed - he was connected to Saren, and when Saren was killed by Shepard, sovereign was weakened.

So if they pursued a means to mimic that, it would be an effective weapon against the reapers. Kind of similar to Independence Day

BioWare has been shut down, but Mass Effect doesn't have to be. BioWare built the Normandy, the crew we loved, and choices that actually mattered to us.
EA still owns the franchise, and it has responded to fan pushback before. We don't want Mass Effect shelved to rot, so we're going to be loud about it.

Fans have moved companies before:
Mass Effect 3, 2012. After the backlash over the ending, BioWare released the free Extended Cut.
Star Wars Battlefront II, 2017. Fan outrage over loot boxes led EA to pull microtransactions right before launch.

What we're asking for, and how:
Make noise. Post with #SaveMassEffect on X, Reddit, and TikTok and tag @EA. Share your favorite moments, your Shepard, your fan art.
Tell EA what we want. Keep the franchise alive by funding a capable team for the next game, or license Mass Effect to a studio that will.
Sign the petition. [https://c.org/TdZVrhRhft] We'll share each milestone with the gaming press and tag EA.
Be kind. The people who lost their jobs didn't make this decision. Support them, and aim the anger at the decision, not at people.

Keelah se'lai. Share this, use the hashtag, and let's show EA that Shepard's story isn't finished.

I will defo be wearing my Biowear merch to work tomorrow as a sign of mourning. It's far from dress code but I'm doing it.

Anyone else doing this?

No way in hell we're done, I play the hell out of destiny and I was chanting in the livestreams for a destiny 3 along with so many others, now to bring the same energy for mass effect everyone. Bioware said mass effect will continue and it damn well will. These idiotic companies need to learn that without us they have NO money. Time to make EA learn that the hard way. Put their company in a strangle hold if we have to. We're N7 for a reason. We don't quit.

Yeah .. this sucks honestly I blame EA for just not caring enough

What actually has to happen for another developer to take on a potential game or series? Does someone just need to buy the IP off EA?

It could be amazing if a smaller studio bought the rights and did something interesting with it...

Yeah, so. I really liked playing ME, which is why I lurk here sometimes.

But well, creators have a different relationship with their creation than consumers do. Stakeholders, such as EA, have a different relationship with it yet again.

BioWare hasn't made a sequel for 14 years, and during that time some key people have departed, leadership has changed, and priorities have shifted as well.

If you are a designer, for instance, you probably prefer to write your own new stories and characters instead of dredging up the same old chestnuts over and over again. So getting more than three installments with the same characters is rather rare in the gaming industry.

So BioWare made Andromeda instead, and emotionally attached hardcore fans did not like it—not just because of the bugs, but because it wasn't really a sequel. It was a game set in the same universe, with similar mechanics, but with all the characters and the entire background story largely insulated from the original trilogy. People wanted Shepard et consortes, or at least some familiar faces and the next chapter of the story. They got something else and roared in outrage, despite the fact that they technically got "Mass Effect 4."

EA is an even bigger problem, because you could just as easily get a "battle royale online shooter with microtransactions," a No Man's Sky spinoff with mild RPG elements, Dark Souls in space, or whatever else sells these days.

EA had its own ideas about what it wanted, and it was also unclear whether BioWare's way of doing things (carefully polishing the story and a relatively small game world) would still sell in the late 2010s or early 2020s. So BioWare ended up fighting with the Frostbite engine, making underpopulated open-world games and an online shooter, none of which were particularly good. DAI sold well, but The Witcher 3 ran circles around DAI in nearly every respect, and DATV was just a mediocre flop with plenty of cringe.

So well, you could get another game called Mass Effect 5, but end up about as happy with it as you were with Andromeda.

Is there still a large enough player base/fan base left to try and push EA to do something with Mass Effect(and Bioware) or has too much time passed form the last game. I kind of think that Destiny still had a large active player base, which created a large and active push back to Bungie and Sony. Mass Effect has a large fan base, but since most are not actively playing Mass Effect will we see as large of a push.

Hi! I recently picked up this PS3 copy of Mass Effect 3 and noticed that the cover has several signatures on it.

I have no certificate or provenance, so I don’t want to claim they belong to any specific BioWare developers/voice actors without confirmation.

A few of the signatures look like they could potentially be from people involved in Mass Effect 3, but I haven’t been able to identify them with confidence.

I’ve attached clear photos of:

• the front cover
• the signatures on the back
• close-ups of individual signatures

Does anyone recognize any of them or have signed Mass Effect/BioWare items that I could compare them with?

I’d also appreciate any opinions on value. A normal PS3 copy is obviously inexpensive, but if these are genuine developer/actor signatures, would that add any meaningful collector value?

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: The signatures are directly on the original cover insert, not on the plastic case.

Honestly I don’t think the current BioWare could have delivered something really groundbreaking. Maybe another studio will get the rights and do something interesting in the future. Either way I’m not devastated by the news.

Given the sad news we received today I wanted to do something that maybe will cheer us up a bit.

Depending on which ending you got at the end of Mass Effect 3 where would your Shepard be after the fact?

Mine? She destroyed the reapers. She survived. Eventually got reunited with Kaidan and the rest of the crew and just lived her life in peace on some beach world where no one would bother her.

(I’d like to clarify I know BioWare died long before today and that it’s surprising they lasted as long as they did and that truly it was no longer the same studio. A sheep in wolf clothing if you will. But it’s still the end of a pretty influential studio. It’s thanks to them that we got a lot of the rpgs that have come since BioWare was created)

With AI coding on the rise and mad things happening in gaming space (full suite of PC ports to be precise) maybe someone with enough knowledge will use Claude or other agent to bypass EA App on Steam version of the game? Just dreaming out loud.