{"id":92361,"date":"2026-10-30T11:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92361"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T16:38:15","slug":"ea-reportedly-chose-an-unannounced-star-wars-game-over-biowares-next-mass-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92361","title":{"rendered":"EA Reportedly Chose An Unannounced Star Wars Game Over BioWare\u2019s Next Mass Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EA recently announced it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ea-shuts-down-dragon-age-mass-effect-studio-bioware\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ea-shuts-down-dragon-age-mass-effect-studio-bioware\/\">shutting down BioWare<\/a>, ending a studio responsible for multiple hit games over 30 years. According to a new report, EA&#8217;s decision was driven by economics, as it had to choose between funding a new\u00a0Mass Effect and backing the safer bet, Star Wars: Battlefront 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-10-30\/why-electronic-arts-shut-down-bioware-and-cancelled-mass-effect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg&#8217;s Jason Schreier<\/a> reported that EA had to choose between two costly projects, and with the added pressure of paying off $18 billion in leveraged debt after its sale to a business consortium and Saudi Arabia&#8217;s investment fund, Battlefront 3 made more financial sense. To add insult to injury, Battlefront 3 isn&#8217;t even in development yet, and it hasn&#8217;t been officially announced.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dx0b2Xbnnrc  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;They chose to invest in Star Wars and shut down BioWare as a result, said the people familiar, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to talk to the press,&#8221; Schreier wrote. &#8220;Star Wars: Battlefront\u00a03 has not even begun development yet, but EA executives saw it as a less risky, more predictable bet than a new Mass Effect&#8211;and the publisher behind Battlefield has always been more comfortable with shooters than RPGs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schreier added that &#8220;corporate politics&#8221; may have also influenced the decision, as one of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA recently announced it was shutting down BioWare, ending a studio responsible for multiple hit games over 30 years. According to a new report, EA&#8217;s decision was driven by economics, as it had to choose between funding a new\u00a0Mass Effect and backing the safer bet, Star Wars: Battlefront 3. Bloomberg&#8217;s Jason Schreier reported that EA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":92363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92364,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92361\/revisions\/92364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}