BioWare Puts Mass Effect Series on Hold While Developers Join Other Projects
BioWare Montreal places the Mass Effect series on an indefinite hiatus while developers put their efforts into other games. According to both IGN and Kotaku, the studio has transformed into somewhat of a “support studio,” with the employees working at the studio lending a hand to “help support BioWare’s other games.”
Although the team is moving away from the Mass Effect franchise for a bit, BioWare Montreal definitely isn’t throwing in the towel on the series. BioWare will still be cranking out patches and fixes for their most recent title, Mass Effect: Andromeda, continuously fixing errors such as those tragic animation bugs that made internet fame, but they’re certainly stashing a follow-up for Mass Effect: Andromeda for an undetermined amount of time.
An EA representative had the following to say about BioWare’s recent development plans – “Our teams at BioWare and across EA put in tremendous effort bringing Mass Effect Andromeda to players around the world. Even as BioWare continues to focus on the Mass Effect Andromeda community and live service, we are constantly looking at how we’re prepared for the next experiences we will create… With our BioWare and Motive teams sharing studio space in Montreal, we have BioWare team members joining Motive projects that are underway. We’re also ramping up teams on other BioWare projects in development.”
BioWare has also recently announced the release date for the new BioWare IP was being pushed back to the start of the 2019Â fiscal year in April of 2018. This could very likely be the “other BioWare projects in development” that the company is focusing on.
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