#the best case scenario is that eventually EA farms the IPs out to a Larian eseque dev team but even then who freaking knows

[asha-mage]

Every gaming news site out here huffing the copium and desperately crowing about how 'this means Mass Effect 5 is the studio's last chance' and 'they'll be full locked in on the Mass Effect!' and I'm just sitting here like. Do you really think. Do you really think that the team who barely managed to make Veilguard is going to be able to turn out a new Mass Effect with a fraction of the personnel and budget? Do you really think that this is anything but EA soft shuttering the studio? Bioware had it's last chance and it was Veilguard, which missed sales targets by more the 50%!

EA will insist that Mass Effect 5 is in development whenever their asked for a few years then quietly lay off or shift the skeleton crew at Bioware when no one is looking and claim it's just been shifted around internally, until everyone stops asking.

The party is over. The chairs are going up onto the table. It's time to pay the caterer and move on.