#SaveMassEffect

Following a leveraged buyout by the Saudi Arabian government, the publisher Electronic Arts has announced the closure of the studio BioWare and the cancellation of their next game, Mass Effect: Universe (previously known as Mass Effect 5). BioWare is a studio that specialized in creating rich worlds with characters that captivated gamers for over 30 years: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series. A lack of dedicated resources, crunch, trend-chasing, and shifting ambiguous plans from the leadership at Electronic Arts (EA) put the studio into a downward spiral from which they have yet to recover. Electronic Arts decision to close BioWare and cancel the next Mass Effect jeopardizes the studio's incredible legacy.

A leaked 2026 N7 Day trailer shows a promising chance for recovery if given the opportunity to continue. A petition by fans has gone up, urging Electronic Arts to commit to the continued development of Mass Effect: Universe with proper funding, adequate staffing, and time allocation. If these conditions cannot be met, then Electronic Arts is urged to license the Mass Effect intellectual property (IP) to another studio that can, or to sell the Mass Effect intellectual property outright rather than allow it to languish in the "EA Vault". A fate met by Dead Space, Alice, Titanfall, Mirror's Edge and many other incredible "dormant" IPs owned by the publisher.

A #SaveMassEffect petition is seeking your support.

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