Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
EA employees are speaking out about mismanagement, GenAI push and BioWare’s closure🚀
✅Employees report that the "do less, better" mantra has simply resulted in handling the same workload with fewer staff.
✅Upper management is heavily promoting generative AI (specifically Claude), telling staff that adoption is mandatory for the future.
✅Workers believe the technology is being pushed to test how drastically EA can cut headcount while maintaining output.
BioWare’s Decline & Closure
✅BioWare was repeatedly forced to abandon its strengths (narrative choice, consequences, companions) to chase unprofitable live-service and multiplayer trends, wasting significant resources.
✅Studio leadership grew overly reliant on user experience research (UXR) and fear-driven decision-making, stifling creative risk-taking before the studio's closure.
Source: Vertical Slice
Disappointed, but definitely not surprised. So much of what’s said reflects very much how many of us felt, as it was quite obvious for the last 10-15 years.
Risk-averse development, “do less” mentality, cost-cutting..etc.
I feel really bad for the studios and talents that had to be suffocated under EA’s mentality. It’s obvious what kind of people they were ever since they tried to gaslight gamers into thinking single player gaming to be dead.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
#SaveMassEffect - A Message from the founder.
First, I want to say thank you.
When I started this petition and created #SaveMassEffect, I had no idea how quickly the community would come together. What began as one fan refusing to quietly accept the loss of something that meant so much to so many has grown into a movement supported by tens of thousands of people around the world.
And we’re only getting started.
Mass Effect has never been just another video game franchise. For many of us, it represents years of unforgettable stories, characters, friendships, and choices. It’s a universe that inspired us, brought us together, and reminded us that even against impossible odds, our actions matter.
That’s why this campaign exists.
Our goal is simple: Give Mass Effect a future.
We’re asking Electronic Arts to seriously consider two paths forward:
1. Commit to continuing Mass Effect’s development, with the resources, talent, and time necessary to deliver the experience this franchise deserves.
2. Explore licensing Mass Effect to a qualified development studio capable of carrying the franchise forward if EA no longer intends to develop it.
We’re not demanding rushed development, unrealistic promises, or an immediate announcement of a new game. We’re asking EA to recognize that this franchise still matters and that its community deserves to be heard.
I also want to make something very clear: This campaign is not against the developers, artists, writers, or employees of EA and BioWare. These are the people who helped create the universe we love. They deserve our respect and support.
Our campaign will remain respectful, organized, and focused on constructive solutions.
Where We Go From Here
As the founder of #SaveMassEffect, I’m working to turn the incredible support we’ve received into an organized effort.
Over the coming days, I’ll be focusing on expanding our outreach, connecting with gaming journalists and community creators, bringing volunteers into the campaign, and establishing a professional line of communication with EA.
With N7 Day approaching on November 7, we have an opportunity to show just how much this universe still means to people around the world.
Our next milestone is 100,000 signatures. But signatures alone aren’t the ultimate goal. Our goal is meaningful dialogue and a genuine opportunity to secure Mass Effect’s future.
How You Can Help
- Keep sharing the petition and using #SaveMassEffect.
- Encourage fellow fans to participate respectfully.
- Share what Mass Effect means to you and why you want to see its story continue.
- Help spread the campaign beyond our existing communities.
I’m currently organizing this effort independently, and I know I can’t do everything alone. As we grow, I’ll be looking for dedicated community members who want to help build something lasting.
Finally, I want everyone supporting this campaign to remember something:
We cannot guarantee that EA will change its plans. But we can make sure the community’s voice is impossible to overlook.
Every signature represents someone who believes this universe is worth preserving.
You have already shown me that I am far from alone in that belief.
Thank you for standing with me. Thank you for standing with the developers who gave us this incredible universe. And thank you for refusing to let Mass Effect’s future go unquestioned.
Our choices matter. Our voices matter.
#SaveMassEffect
— Joe Smith, #SaveMassEffect
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
I now have permission to share something I hoped would be revealed with much more fanfare.
I spent more than 3 years as one of the writers of #MassEffect4
It was one of the greatest privileges & GLORIOUS challenges of my life. I smiled every day. I worked HARD for the fans, every day.
So when I say I am devastated by the end of #MassEffect I REALLY mean it. I don’t know how to express how gutted I truly am.
People’s stupidity really shows when talking about BioWare closing and spamming woke everywhere.
Tell me you’ve never played the ME trilogy and the older Dragon Age games 🙃
Also didn’t BG3 sell a shit ton and win SO many awards???
Idiots and larpers everywhere
To help against misinformation:
This is the result of the Saudi Arabian buyout deal. The most ridiculous deal ever made where EA could barely cover the cost of the debt it accrued.
A lot of people will attach their personal feelings to the "why" but this is the real reason ^
All they're talking about is that Mateta is offside, fine, i accept that. Why are you ignoring the fact that Pino is fouled? @footballontnt @EuropaLeague
@CPFC #CPFC
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Bioware has been a massive part of CDPR history. We befriended them when localizing and selling Baldur’s Gate games in Poland, Czech, and Slovakia. And later they were great help when lending us their engine for Witcher 1, sharing their wisdom and even giving us a spot at their booth at E3. I had a pleasure to visit them a few times in Edmonton and also host them in our Warsaw office. Very sad for the people affected, but also sad to see a legendary brand go down. Not a great day in the games industry.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
The lead writer for dragon age veilguard is nonbinary. They also worked as a writer on every single other BioWare game since 2005 including the ones you love.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Think it’s worth posting the statement from Eagle Heights, who look after Phoenix (and Kayla before her)
Crystal Palace urged to retire bald eagle mascot bbc.in/3WCu36K
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
As someone who worked for EA and Bioware for 3 years before becoming a creative director of another studio. I am gutted to hear this news, but Bioware has been fighting for survival since 2016 and I can say that this random person has no idea what the fuck they're talking about.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Okay this post broke containment and blew up and I have nothing to plug.
Don't use AI, create actual art it's really a lot fun. I don't have a OF account, my current project is still under NDA and I don't have a new mixtape dropping anytime soon.
So buy physical media, don't buy digital. Don't pre order games early, and never let reviewers dictate what games you play. Embrace your inner geeks, love everyone and for fucksakes have fun.
Oh and if you really want to sub to an OF account just give @spaceghost your money, she'll use it for good.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
there are queer characters in origins. there are queer characters in da2. there are queer characters in inquisition. there are queer characters in mass effect. veilguard didnt kill this company. ea did. Fuck off.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
EA IN A NUTSHELL:
KILLED MASS EFFECT.
KILLED DRAGON AGE.
KILLED DEAD SPACE.
KILLED MEDAL OF HONOR.
KILLED NEED FOR SPEED.
KILLED BURNOUT.
KILLED TITANFALL.
KILLED MIRROR’S EDGE.
KILLED ANTHEM.
KILLED SPORE.
KILLED SSX.
KILLED ARMY OF TWO.
KILLED SIMCITY.
KILLED COMMAND & CONQUER.
Tony Left Side! 💙🧩🇺🇦🇵🇸 retweeted
Some chatbot AI slop company is using my art in their ads, just to clarify they did NOT have permission and I'm trying to get them taken down🥀































