r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 7h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/Safe_Masterpiece_995 7h ago

Fucking insane. Mass Effect and Dragon age will never get anothe rgame

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u/Funmachine 7h ago

That's not entirely the case. EA still owns the license to those, and there have been weirder revivals.

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u/Fun_Procedure946 7h ago

But they just straight up cancelled the upcoming mass effect game and didn't even attempt at transferring it to another studio to make it. Safe to say that both mass effect and dragon age are dead for the foreseeable future.

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u/CDHmajora 7h ago edited 7h ago

Yeah but they announced it SIX YEARS ago and still had nothing to show on it except a 10 second CGI of a manakin wearing an N7 trenchcoat.

It wasn’t gonna be coming out any time soon regardless. Odds are there wasn’t even anything WORTH transferring to another team considering BioWare are famous for doing fuck all for 5+ years and then cobbling a game up in the last year of development with BIOWARE MAGIC shitloads of crunch for the devs while management sits on its ass.

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u/SagittaryX 54m ago

Not to argue against the point, just to add that it may have been announced six years ago but any real work would not have started till early last year. Before that EA had the studio all hands on deck to get Veilguard shipped after that project was horribly mismanaged.

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u/allofdarknessin1 7h ago

Someone else pointed out that Mass Effect game was announced 6 years ago, so it was likely in development hell. It would be better for another studio to start fresh if possible.

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u/round-earth-theory 5h ago

I doubt it was in development hell. My wager is that it never left the proposal stage.

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u/UtkuOfficial 3h ago

It wasnt even in developement. In 6 years all they did was talk about ideas for a new game.

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u/EnamoredAlpaca 7h ago

They been dead for a long time, the last game in each franchise was utter trash.

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u/Funmachine 7h ago

I wasn't talking about this specific version of Mass Effect that was in development. I just mean the property.

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u/Original-League-6094 6h ago

Because it was probably absolute trash.

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u/syriansteel89 7h ago

It wont be before 20 years or something. Im still waiting for the command and conquer series revival since EA also killed Westwood

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u/Mad_For_Nothing 7h ago

In 20 years?

In 2 years you'll be able to tell AI to make you a brand new Dragon Age 5 in literally an afternoon.

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u/Baconfeet1 7h ago

Lmfao absolute dogshit

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u/CrabMasc 7h ago

Why the fuck would I want that

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u/LurkingElegy 7h ago

yeah i think we're good

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u/Supertron200 7h ago

Like shrek 2