Another studio joins the EA graveyard. EA is such an awful company. Bioware made Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, and Jade Empire. What a great studio it was. RIP o7

Bioware was dead shortly after EA bought them.

When I was in college there was a girl I knew who ranted and complained when BioWare was bought by EA. She was right.

That was my first exposure to understanding what EA is.

A lot of us predicted this would happen after Veilguard not meeting expectations. EA would eventually make BioWare take the fall for EA's bad management choices.

Honestly, the surprise was that it took them this long to do it.

Damn, sad to see people lose their jobs, but the Mass Effect cancellation is just an extra kick in the ass.

Canadian studio based out of my home town of Edmonton. Fuck you, EA.

To the surprise of nobody. Who thought Saudi's and Kushner bought EA because they you to 'ship a same sex NPC.

Pretty interesting that both Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka (the two remaining co-founders by the time of the EA acquisition) both bailed at the same time in 2012. After quite a number of lead developers and writers jumped ship.

So, it took 5 years of trying to tough it out under corporate ownership before they were like 'this is bullshit, let's go'.

And BioWare, who made so many great titles, didn't produce anything particularly noteworthy after that.

Worth remembering that most of that list predates EA. Baldur’s Gate, KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, Jade Empire and the first Mass Effect were all made before EA bought BioWare in the 2007 deal that also brought in Pandemic, which EA shut down about two years later. The EA years are mostly the later Dragon Age and Mass Effect games, Anthem and Veilguard.

Weird, given that there's also a Mass Effect TV show in the works. Unless that got axed in the last couple months

I've enjoyed a lot of their games, but KOTOR has a very special place in my heart.

I remember falling in love with Kotor and Jade Empire on my original Xbox.

Was super disappointed we didn’t get sequels on the Xbox 360. The first Mass Effect and Dragon Age: Origins made up for it though. Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 2 were a let down. More action then RPG.

I have so many memories about the hype for Dragon Age: Origins. Reading about it in high school, drooling over screenshots. All via Games for Windows magazine. I was probably the only person subscribed to it lol.

This one hits close to home. Bioware games were a big part of my youth. I can't remember how often I replayed bg2, but I still remember the joy when I actually properly beat it for the first time. I'll never forget the thrill when I explored the dwarven tunnels in Dragon Age or the magic of Mass Effect's masterful world building. It seriously feels like I just lost a friend.

Fuck EA.

It's E.A.!

EA making sure I boycott them by cancelling any games I am interested in and enshitifying the rest (Looking at you Skate 4 and the upcoming Fight Night game)

I feel like they need to drop the 'Arts' from their name.