The gaming public is still reeling from EA’s official closure of BioWare last week, alongside the cancellation of the long-awaited fifth mainline entry in the Mass Effect series. More information has gradually trickled out since then, with a list of the game’s prospective features in particular making the loss sting all the more.
In spite of how sudden the closure felt, though, confidence in BioWare’s work in recent years hasn’t exactly been stellar. Even putting aside the fact that it has literally been nearly a decade since the last new Mass Effect release, BioWare’s output has been inconsistent, and even when it did get a new game out like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, it just didn’t bring home the kind of bacon it or EA was looking for.
Those in the know have had a bit of a bad feeling about BioWare’s status and direction for a while now. Coincidentally, Insider Gaming spoke to a former executive producer at BioWare, Mark Darrah, about the health of the studio and Mass Effect in particular, exactly one day before the closure actually went down.
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