BioWare Restructuring as a Core Team Focuses on the Next Mass Effect - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 29 January 2025 / 1,547 Views
BioWare announced it is undergoing a restructuring now that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been released and a core team works on the next Mass Effect game.
The studio has worked over the last few months to move employees to other teams at Electronic Arts that had open roles.
"Today, we are turning towards the future and preparing for the next chapter in BioWare’s story," said BioWare General Manager Gary McKay. "As we announced in August 2023, we are changing how we build games to meet the needs of our upcoming projects and hold ourselves to the highest quality standards.
"Now that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been released, a core team at BioWare is developing the next Mass Effect game under the leadership of veterans from the original trilogy, including Mike Gamble, Preston Watamaniuk, Derek Watts, Parrish Ley, and others.
"In keeping with our fierce commitment to innovating during the development and delivery of Mass Effect, we have challenged ourselves to think deeply about delivering the best experience to our fans. We are taking this opportunity between full development cycles to reimagine how we work at BioWare.
"Given this stage of development, we don’t require support from the full studio. We have incredible talent here at BioWare, and so we have worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit.
"Today’s news will see BioWare become a more agile, focused studio that produces unforgettable RPGs. We appreciate your support as we build a new future for BioWare."
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Gee, can't wait to see how EA screws this one up.
I think the worst they could do is rush it out the gate, in a state like Andromeda. However that might just be me being too optimistic. How vastly differnt Veilguard is compaired to rest of Dragon Age..... you can't even be sure, Mass Effect doesn't come out as a RPG anymore.
With any luck, someone at EA will hold up copies of Mass Effect 2 and 3 and say to the dev team "See these? Make a game exactly like them and we'll be fine. Hell, we'd have been fine if you idiots had done that with Andromeda, instead trying to produce a No Man's Sky clone with an FPS engine!"
Mass Effect 2. Yes.
Mass Effect 3. No.
If the rumors are true and they truly cut the woke baggage from the team, this game might have a chance.
Kinda knew this already, Bioware has seemingly gone from making 6 games in as many years to 1 every 5. 2 great teams to 1. I expect more redundancies from them over the coming year once they work out who they do and don't need.
So a smaller scale mass effect then.
I think it's time Mass Effect transitioned into a hero shooter.
To be fair, you kinda has that with the ME3 MP and oddly, if they created that again and just sold it to us for £10-15, I'd buy it instantly. Was very fun.
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