{"id":92859,"date":"2026-11-10T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92859"},"modified":"2026-11-10T11:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:41:39","slug":"the-witcher-3s-new-expansion-has-me-wondering-if-bioware-should-have-focused-on-dragon-age-and-mass-effect-dlc-rather-than-big-new-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92859","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 3\u2019s New Expansion Has Me Wondering if BioWare Should Have Focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Rather Than Big New Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><em><strong>This is an opinion piece from writer Jess Kinghorn. IGN&#8217;s opinion columns represent the personal viewpoints of the writer, drawing on their own experiences and research to explore the exciting world of video games.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"divider\">\n<p>Unless you\u2019ve been camping out on some far flung space rock, you\u2019ll have heard that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bioware-shutting-down-next-mass-effect-canceled\">EA shut down BioWare last month<\/a>. 50 developers lost their jobs, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/mass-effect-5-was-supposed-to-redeem-the-series-after-andromeda-and-now-well-never-get-that\">Mass Effect 5 was cancelled<\/a>. It\u2019s a disappointing end for the studio so foundational to the modern RPG.<\/p>\n<p>BioWare\u2019s final years were plagued by lengthy, troubled development cycles and messy final products. I\u2019m left wondering what could\u2019ve been \u2013 particularly when fellow genre titan CD Projekt Red continues to find success updating Cyberpunk 2077 and has even announced a new expansion to the decade-old The Witcher 3. Could BioWare have found a more secure future by developing expansions for its older, more beloved games rather than struggling on with Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Mass Effect 5?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/witcher-3-songs-of-the-past-dlc-details\">Songs of the Past<\/a> will be the third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and by the time it drops in 2027, the original will be 12 years old. I don\u2019t know about you but back in 2015 I was going out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an opinion piece from writer Jess Kinghorn. IGN&#8217;s opinion columns represent the personal viewpoints of the writer, drawing on their own experiences and research to explore the exciting world of video games. Unless you\u2019ve been camping out on some far flung space rock, you\u2019ll have heard that EA shut down BioWare last month&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":92861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92859","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\/92859"}],"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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92859"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92863,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92859\/revisions\/92863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}