Petition Asking EA to Keep Mass Effect Going Passes 200,000 Signatures
The petition accepts the studio's closure and instead asks EA to fund, staff, and license the franchise outward, which frames the campaign as a fight over who holds the property rather than over the shutdown itself.
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A Change.org petition titled #SaveMassEffect has drawn 200,284 signatures calling on EA to continue developing the Mass Effect series. The petition follows EA's shutdown of subsidiary BioWare and the cancellation of a new project titled Mass Effect Universe. Organizer Joe Smith told Eurogamer the petition does not ask EA to reverse the BioWare decision, but to commit to continued development, or to license the intellectual property to another studio.
The petition text lays out two paths for EA: allocate funding, staffing, and time at the level the series has carried, or license the Mass Effect intellectual property to another studio. Organizer Joe Smith told Eurogamer the campaign is not an appeal to reopen BioWare. It asks for a decision on the property.
The canceled project was titled Mass Effect Universe, and an internal trailer for it had already been completed and posted on Reddit. IGN and Bloomberg's Jason Schreier confirmed the trailer is genuine after users questioned whether it was AI-generated.
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