Mass Effect and Dragon Age are gone
If you frequent the BioWare forums, you better sit down.
Over the weekend, the publisher explained that everything outside of theStar Wars: The Old Republicforums will be shut down. That includesMass Effect,Dragon Age— everything. The closure is expected to roll out on August 26, and will transition into read-only capabilities until October 25. So if you have some awesome enlightening post about the ending toMass Effect 3, back it up before that latter date.
The reason behind the closure? They can give you information by way of events, and social networks anyway. It’s an increasing trend — why encourage an open discussion in an area where people can disagree with it when you’re able to just completely control the messageon your own terms?
BioWare is such a weird company. It’s still capable of doing great things (just look atDragon Age III), but it is clearly under the thumb of EA and has streamlined its games so much that the studio barely resembles its original state.
