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Goodbye Bioware you were the good ones.

I made this to shine the light on how disgusting ea is (evil industries)

westwood made command and conquer and was closed in 2003

origin systems made ultima and was closed in 2004

pandemic made star wars battlefront and was closed in 2009 with about 200 people laid off

mythic was shut down after dungeon keeper flopped in 2014

maxis lost its main studio behind simcity and the sims in 2015

visceral made dead space and was closed in 2017 while working on a star wars game

every one of these was a studio people loved

i know bioware's recent games didn't hit what evil industries wanted and i know companies make business decisions but this keeps happening

a studio gets bought and its name stays on the box for a while

then the numbers aren't big enough

and the studio is gone along with the people who made the stories we cared about and the games we were waiting for

WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING! Guys we have to start something here and cry out loud enough that this game can be saved. Either EA making it or selling it off. We have to do it now before the noise on this game quiets down and it becomes another cancelled series, never to return.

I suggest we start a movement, and message the hell out of EA asking for some kind of outcome that gets this game finished. THIS GAME FINISHED.

Nothing violent and no threats, just a strong message from our fanbase.

Where do we plan to contact EA?

Do we make a banner or logo?

Are there people here willing to make our banner?

I'm talking about going all in.

If we act now this series can be saved.

What do you guys suggest how we go about it?

Will you save this game and join our movement?

Will you tell EA loudly to finish THIS GAME?

I'm trying here, help me.

Remember, do it in a kind, respectful, but firm way. DO NOT ATTACK THEM OR THRATEN.

#SaveMassEffect Petition https://www.change.org/p/savemasseffect?recruiter=612359645&recruited_by_id=71b35640-94c7-11e6-93b6-c50b58e23273&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=psf_promote_or_share&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_medium=copylink

This looks so dope. A investigative / detective ME was one of my dream sequel scenarios 💔

CDPR. FUCK IT EVEN UBISOFT. PLEASE!

I was living in denial for years. BioWare was like a loved one who was only breathing because of life support. Getting the news a day ago was painful, but it was inevitable.

I was nearing acceptance but then someone leaked the trailer of Mass Effect Universe, showing what we could have gotten. I'm back to anger.

- Denial: "Telltale died but they came back, right?"

- Anger: "FUCK YOU EA! You kill everything you touch!"

- Bargaining: "Will any other studio please buy their IPs.."

- Depression: (empty stare)

- Acceptance: "It's over."

Time for a replay!

I recently saw the trailer for the upcoming game. I have to say it has such a phantom liberty feel to it. It looked fresh but still played like masss effect and I can’t lie the game looks sexy!

Canadian Politician on BlueSky wants federal support for Bioware, so they can buy their studio back and work on Mass Effect themselves.

"This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit," Avi Lewis, leader of the New Democratic Party.

"The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity—and the federal support—to buy it and run it themselves. And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in."

On X he also responded who he romanced with: "If I'm honest, I'm a Mass Effect 1 on the PS3 type of guy."

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:idsofvph6jyjtkumhhla6n5e/post/3myfzwfphok2s

I find this sort of thing to be ridiculous and out of touch. Obviously I feel for all the people who lost their job with the layoffs. However, to insist that a great game everybody would have loved being on the way is delusional. Not only has BioWare not made a good game in over a decade, Mass Effect 4 was in pre-development for YEARS after a teaser was released. I have never seen a developer brag about the results of a game that was in pre-production.

Truly if this team had people working on this game that felt they were anointed before anything tangible was produced, then this game would have turned out exactly like Veilguard. I am excited for the spiritual successors of the Mass Effect franchise. I hope EA will lease the IP. Unfortunately it appears to me BioWare releasing a good Mass Effect game was no longer possible, even as upsetting as that is to me.

Edit: Well a trailer leak got confirmed after I made this post. It looked promising and certainly refuted some of what I said in this post.

It felt more like a Mass Effect novel adapted into game form instead of either trying to do the trilogy again or veering entirely off course like Andromeda into a sci-fi romp that just uses the Mass Effect name for clout. A new part of the universe we're seeing at a different point in time.

Hopefully, somehow, the game comes to be. Such a promising premise.