EA Axes Mass Effect as BioWare Montreal Is Scaled Down

No surprise whatsoever, let's be honest.

no unexpected honestly, Andromeda was OK but that was it a Mass Effect should be fantastic

Please don't tell me this will effect future DLC plans?. Ive been itching to get back in since I finished it, but I'm not really one for going back over what I've already done so that rules out a second go of the campaign. I'd love some decent single player DLC.

@itshoggie Depends how far into development the DLC is and how big the remaining team is. Seems a lot more unlikely now, though.

On a side note, finally time to throw out a remastered Mass Effect trilogy, EA? Go on, you know you want to.

Looking at Biowares best games, none of them are open world but they're all based on D&D or at least the ruleset. They should stick to that.

Guess I'm officially done with EA now. They've "put on ice" every single franchise of theirs I was even remotely interested in.

Mass Effect isn't dead. It's just resting because it's face it tired.

@ShogunRok I was hoping it would get the same/if not better support than Inquisition got. its the reason i bought it digitally

This is what happens when you hire a Cosplayer with no experience in the video game field.

@get2sammyb Looking at what Bioware has put out over the last few years, maybe killing it is actually the most merciful thing to do at this point.

I guess we'll see how this Destiny-esque game turns out. I don't have high hopes.

@Ralizah I kind of feel like if EA is trying to go up against the likes of Destiny 2 with what ever this 'live service' game is then it's got an unwinnable battle on its hands. But yeah, I guess we'll wait and see how it turns out.

And another one gone, and another one gone. Another one bites the dust.
EA is gonna get you, too. Another one bites the dust.

What a shame. Hopefully EA will put the Trilogy on the PS4.

Posting because im really sick if the lame ass subtopic puns. They read very lazily and come across juvenile. Good day sir

@Worlock_ed I doubt it would make much of a difference, BioWare is a very different company now, with most of it's notable members from their golden years having moved on.

So it's on hiatus indeed - although it makes the title sound inexact to the point of somewhat click-baiting. On the upside, more time for me to catch up with the series. On the downside, nobody assigned to the franchise might mean no Switch ports for this archive binging... oh well, at least the trilogy IS announced for PS4.

Maybe EA wouldn't have made them rush the game out this wouldn't have happened.

I'm one of the few people that enjoyed ME:A but they clearly needed more time.

Next up Titanfall

Wow. Haven't played andromeda yet but this is still crazy news.

A bit crazy.

But maybe devs will look at this and say, "We should concentrate on gameplay and not character's extra facial details..."

LOL, I know, I'm crazy. Gameplay, who cares about that anymore...

Can't help but feel like maybe they should've moved on from Mass Effect after 3. The series ran its course and that to me was pretty evident while playing Andromeda. Not a bad game, but not up to the standard of the original trilogy (certainly not as good as the first two games) and after other games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon: Zero Dawn and The Witcher 3, Bioware and EA needed to show up to the party with something stronger. Granted very few could've predicted the job CD Projekt Red would do, even with its expansions or that Guerilla's first attempt at a non-FPS would end up going over so well.

@get2sammyb
I wouldn't rule DLC out. EA calls the shots after all and if some suit thinks there is even a slight chance to make a little extra $$$ they'll go for it. Probably wouldn't take a very large team inside Bioware Montreal to do a few quick expansions.

I'm getting a sense of deja vu here EA.
Haven't we been here before ?

@Mikethemosher
There's a tradition of subheading puns in game journalism, especially in UK games journalism, that goes back to the early days of print media.
It's almost a competition to be as lame as possible.
Chris Scullion recently had a great retrospective of some of his best and worst on Tired Old Hack.
I suggest trying one of the more asinine US sites such as US gamer or Polygon (both great at what they do, but take themselves too seriously) if it bothers you that much, mate.
Some of us quite enjoy it, but unfortunately we Brits aren't really known for our sense of humour, are we?

Isnt this exactly what happened with Medal of Honour?

Sad news and possible end for a fan favourite franchise. EA are clear that if a franchise doesn't perform, it gets put out to pasture. I think that kind of culture must be a remarkable strain on developers because I bet budgets and delivery deadlines are sacrosanct. There is no way that Bioware didnt go to EA and say we need more time or resources and EA said no, we have release window to make but then shut them down as soon as the game didnt perform.

@Mikethemosher you can disagree on the games, but don't you talk that way about the puns. KEEP THE PUNS.

Seeing as Andromeda was the Phantom Menace of Mass Effect, it seems only right to put a bomb under it and blow it's guts out. God forbid we end up with a sequel where Ryder gives opinions on sand or something.
Far as I'm concerned ME is a trilogy, and will stay that way. EA announced Andromeda too early, and there was obviously a huge disconnect behind the scenes between them and Bioware. Add to that the fact that most of the people who made the trilogy didn't work on Andromeda, and that it's pretty much a soft reboot, and it's easy to ignore in favour of the three originals.

@get2sammyb Next victim?

http://gematsu.com/2017/05/square-enix-withdraws-io-interactive-negotiating-potential-investors

EA is like the girlfriend who moans about your habits, railroading you into change. 2 years later she dumps you for not being the same person anymore.

@Bread-Not-Toast Nooo,Titanfall 2 is wonderful,i love it..Please no.Never cared about Mass Effect..Its always been a generic bore fest,while TF2 is in a league of its own imo.

Not happy with EA atm. My copy of Titanfall 2 refuses to load the first effing mission

Fed up with their studios buggy, faulty software releases.

Giving shoutouts to kotaku staff members now? I know he's a fellow journalist, but that site is cancer, and a lot of the problems stem from him. I'd rather see less content than 15 articles a week sourced from kotaku.

This news came after I bought the Mass Effect Trilogy on PS3. Great timing.

The most frightening thing about this is the potential impact it will have RPGs set in space. We need some good space operas, if not for the sake of variety. I mean, a few people saw this coming having seen the promos and given Bioware's current track record (and EA being EA), but I really hope it doesn't deter anyone who may be wanting to make a game set in space.

Reboot time listen to fans and adjust game. Tighter focus on SP, less fluff 😀