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i just think this still errs on the side of the game existing without its core visionaries. it shouldn't just exist "no matter what". having the original team jettisoned and replaced with randos is almost pointless

Spot on. It’s wild to watch thousands of people rally to save a corporate brand name while completely ignoring the developers who lost their livelihoods. Without those creators, the IP is just a hollow label anyway.

When the fuck did "gamers" become the name for gamergaters instead of just people who play games ?

As someone who loves the trilogy... Exodus and the new Expanse video game are RIGHT. THERE. Also, mass effect is just "What if reality worked like liberals thought it worked?" with a bit of white savior sprinkled here and there. You play as a zero accountability cop who can murder anyone they want

Yeah it's why I didn't sign it, Mass Effect is my all time favourite, but I want the Devs as well. All smells a bit of the "Bioware hasn't been Bioware for a long time" bs that I despise with all my heart.

Gamers are selfish children I say with my video game avatar

The text of the petition does state as much in either purposed solution, and the second outright suggest licensing out the IP. People should be yelling at EA, but so much of the conversation has basically no understanding of development realities.

Them doing ME/DA wouldn't play to their respective strengths as studios either. For instance Owlcat has made its name on adapting tabletop RPGs to the video games and neither ME nor DA are that kind of game.

Maybe a hot take but I hated Boring Story Empty World Gun Skyrim as a successor to the Fallout franchise. The moral I learned is that people just want their treats. Larian did a great job hitting the BG vibe and I'd still have loved Divinity and BG being their own things with their own teams.

I think most people signing are clear about what they want and why, Mass Effect is made by the BioWare team and it's about them for most of us. Maybe not all, but it's a good rallying cry and every bit helps I had the same concern originally for sure, save Mass Effect yes--but most of all the devs

Yeah- i was a twitter screenshot of Kala clarifying her group is pro devs, and the guy who made the petition saying the opposite. 💀

As much as I love Mass Effect, this is the reason why I'm not signing the petition. Feels desperate and misguided.

To me, asking EA to finish the game means bringing those who made it and were working on it back to do just that. I also signed the petition under that mindset.

Remember when gamers started a shitstorm to receive a better ending for Mass Effect 3? That's how they are. "We have money, we demand product".

It's because the entire Bioware team has long since splintered.

I didn't sign it, and now I'm extremely glad.

It's giving the same vibes as people asking George RR Martin to his face when he's gonna give A Song Of Ice And Fire to Brandon Sanderson or whoever to finish for him. Like, way to tell a human being they don't matter beyond their capacity to create for your consumption.

wdym??? the only reason the IP was as good as it was was because of the devs. why would they purposely exclude them? now I’m wondering if it’s one of those “go woke, go broke” people that made that petition…

That's literally what (one of the/the largest of the) petitions is for: to have EA either give the IP to a new studio or create a studio to give it to so they'll keep making the games, rather than just shelve it.

Idk, Andromeda got its own anti-woke dogpile too

It's obviously not just about the IP

that's like every single one of these dumbass petitions. how can you be surprised in 2026 that all people care about is the IP and not the people making the games

this has always been about more than just the game, its about the people behind it who have poured their blood, sweat and tears for us. This fight will always be about them

what?! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

"Including bringing back the talent", seems pretty clear the devs are included.

Shared, thank you for the context.

That's what I want too!!

But yeah, I was super confused seeing posts about how no one cares about the devs, but now I see why they said it. 🙃

WTF! I signed the petition like day one & sure af want the same people working on it! My hope was for a Telltale closure situation like what happened with the last two episodes of season 4 of their Walking Dead game. Skybound started a temp studio and hired as many of the TT devs back as possible

Most of us feel that way, I initially didn't sign on Friday because of the "two paths forward" bit, but with everyone putting their support behind it jumped in Sunday. It's a good rallying cry, for most of us it's about the devs first and getting them a chance to go forward