r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 9h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/Safe_Masterpiece_995 8h ago

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

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u/Funmachine 8h 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 8h 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 8h ago edited 8h 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 1h 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 8h 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 6h ago

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

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u/UtkuOfficial 4h 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 8h ago

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

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u/Funmachine 8h 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 7h ago

Because it was probably absolute trash.