BioWare Montreal is now a assist studio as Mass Effect is placed on maintain, say sources

Rather than placing BioWare Montreal straight onto an Andromeda sequel, EA have positioned them to assist EA Motive on Star Wars Battlefront 2, in addition to serving to the opposite BioWare studios on their upcoming video games, say Kotaku’s 4 sources. 

As for Mass Effect, BioWare Montreal are nonetheless engaged on updates. In reality, we posted about their newest just some hours in the past. Read about Mass Effect: Andromeda patch 1.06 at that hyperlink. 

“Our teams at BioWare and across EA put in tremendous effort bringing Mass Effect Andromeda to players around the world,” stated BioWare Montreal studio director Yanick Roy in a press release to Kotaku. “Even as BioWare continues to deal with the Mass Effect Andromeda neighborhood and dwell service, we’re always taking a look at how we’re ready for the following experiences we are going to create.

“The groups in EA Worldwide Studios are filled with expertise, and greater than ever, we’re driving collaboration between studios on key tasks. With our BioWare and Motive groups sharing studio area in Montreal, we’ve got BioWare workforce members becoming a member of Motive tasks which might be underway. We’re additionally ramping up groups on different BioWare tasks in improvement.

“There shall be far more to come back from BioWare within the years forward.”

In a latest earnings call, EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated the corporate’s religion in Mass Effect was nonetheless intact, they usually had a imaginative and prescient for the way forward for the franchise. With this being Montreal’s first Mass Effect, maybe one other BioWare studio will lead the cost on a brand new Mass Effect in a number of years, as soon as their present tasks wrap up. 

It’s additionally value noting that no person has been laid off, they’ve simply been reshuffled to assist out on different tasks.