r/pcmasterrace • u/3Sayndre 7600 - 7800 XT Sapphire - 32GB DDR5 • 9h ago

News/Article EA shuts down BioWare

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/ea-layoffs-bioware-shutting-down-respawn-dice-star-wars-battlefront-3-1236918715/
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u/KulaanDoDinok 9850x3d | RX 6700 XT 12GB | 2x16 DDR5 8h ago

Holy shit! I didn’t know they cancelled the Mass Effect game. That’s unfortunate. Hopefully somebody buys the rights and does that series and Dragon Age justice.

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u/MasterArCtiK 8h ago

This is them cancelling the mass effect game

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u/KulaanDoDinok 9850x3d | RX 6700 XT 12GB | 2x16 DDR5 8h ago

Ah! The article makes it seem like that was something that happened before the closure.

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u/venom21685 9800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB DDR5 6000 8h ago

It was still in early development according to what I read. 5 years after the teaser and 3 years after having Bioware Austin jetison SWTOR to help them work on it. That shit was never coming out.

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u/MasterArCtiK 2h ago

Yeah seeing them say “early in development” somewhat made me feel better, that means it was stuck in dev hell and was either never coming out, or was going to one up andromeda with how bad it was