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Oof. I expected this day to come but the news has left me winded nonetheless; BioWare, the creator of so many beloved role-playing series and games - Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - has been closed. EA decided it had no place for it under its new Saudi and private investment ownership. So Mass Effect 5 has been canned, and a studio that helped shape an industry and popularise role-playing games over the course of 31 years is no more.
But it's a shock rather than a surprise. BioWare's days were numbered after the fizzle of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, although really, the studio was rocked long before then. The twin blows of Mass Effect: Andromeda in 2017 and Anthem in 2019 left it reeling, and even had Anthem been a success, BioWare would be irrevocably changed by it. We know all this. We've pored over BioWare's many shifts and misfires countless times over the years. Why? Because of how much BioWare has come to mean to so many of us.
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