As expected, BioWare’s closure was received with a lot of sadness in and also outside of the video game industry and community. Surprisingly, there are now people outside video games who seem to want to save it.
The first unexpected candidate is the Mass Effect show. IGN confirmed through their sources that the program is still in development under Amazon MGM Studios, with all creatives still on board.
One of those creatives, writer Daniel Casey, went on his Bluesky to share a #SaveMassEffect petition.
Since BioWare had a studio in Edmonton, Alberta, Canadian politicians have also chimed in on the news.
Edmonton MP Eleanor OIszewski went on her Twitter to call the closure ‘disappointing,’ and promising to work to sustain Edmonton’s digital business sector. But that’s not all.
New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis has blamed this closure on private equity (which may or may not be factually accurate). He then said this:
The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity – and the federal support – to buy it and run it themselves.
