Even as the consortium led by persecuted Donald Trump puppet Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund continue to leverage their massive $50 billion in leverage. acquisition of Electronic Arts, Mass Effect Executive Producer Mike Gamble would like everyone to know that you guys are okay.
Here at BioWare, a studio whose last few years have been… Great difficult original video game projects have fallen far short of commercial expectations as we look at the possibility of a buyout exiting our parent organization. $20 billion in debt and we are beholden to new owners who may not agree with everything we stand for and who supposedly want to pump up the nuts with generative AI. Happy N7 Day, bastards. Here's a nice coded message about the future of Mass Effect, 13 years after the last undeniably good message (sorry, Nick). Please ignore the tears streaming down my face.
Okay, this characterization is both mean-spirited and pretty stupid, but I can't read Gamble. smiling words without hearing someone move Kessler away from the gunshot. “Like you, we’ve been hearing these rumors lately,” he admits after some seasonal preamble. “You have made it clear that you care deeply about what happens next. So let's start by making things clear: the next Mass Effect game is in development, and EA and BioWare remain committed to telling more stories in this universe.”
For context, the next Mass Effect game was Looks like it was announced in 2020. Since then, snippets of information have emerged from time to time about possible return of the geth And definite return of senior developers from the original trilogybut nothing significant as BioWare's focus was firmly on finishing Dragon Age: Guardian of the Veil. The latter failed to meet EA's initial quarterly targets, leading to mass layoffs in a year in which EA employees earned less on average and CEO Andrew Wilson got a salary increase. All this was before the proposed $50 billion acquisition, which led to one former Age of the Dragon leader to assume that EA may sell BioWare or shut them down.
“The truth is that the last few years have been incredibly busy for BioWare,” Gamble continued. “But right now the team is focused solely on Mass Effect. There are many universes to cover, many features to create, and many love stories to figure out. We're excited about what we're creating and we promise you that when we're ready, it'll be a lot of fun to show.”
He also gave an update on upcoming Mass Effect TV showon which BioWare is collaborating with Amazon. Amazon, the disgusting business empire that turned Sauron into an office creep, although I admit they did a good job with Fallout.
“The writers' room is going from strength to strength, and we've already learned a lot about how it fits into the Mass Effect canon and where it fits in relation to the new game,” Gamble added. “The show will explore a completely new story in the universe's timeline and will take place after the original trilogy. This won't be a re-release of Commander Shepard's story – because at the end of the day… it's YOUR story, isn't it?” Yes, Mike, and I'll thank Jeff Bezos for keeping his stinking space colonization fantasies out of my precious Normandy.
If you're wondering why the blog post text looks weird, it's because, like past N7 Day newsletters, it contains a hidden message. Add up all the words in italics, including game names, and you get “Mass Effect krgan url” unless I missed a few words. Which I think points to a website of some sort, while also teasing that the krogan are here. Mass Effect 5. I've mixed up the letters a few times and can't find a way to get them to read: “Please Sony buy us.”
