Honestly, I'm not sure how I feel about this. Sad, sure, for the employees, for the potential of new Mass Effect or Dragon Age but at the same time, Bioware's hayday, for whatever reason, is long gone. EA intervention to get them to make Anthem or restarting dev work on DAV twice had an effect. Andromeda wasn't up to par with the main trilogy and any new Mass Effect would have just been skating on nostalgia. As for Dragon Age, the overarching plot was going in the wrong direction from DA:I's DLC but it was obvious that's the only way they wanted to go and was intended from the off. So much for just stories for characters told in Thedas. DAV just wasn't the sequel DA:I deserved, different art direction, different gameplay, terrible plot, was Dragon Age in name only (similar how I think FF7 Remakes are really, "Shove action combat in, no one cares about strategy anymore".).
Bioware's strength was always characters with interpersonal relationships with their companions and other than some OK moments in MEA, none of their games since got anywhere close to the feeling ME Trilogy and DA Trilogy got.
DA is one of my favourite series ever an honestly, I'm fine with it ending. Time to move on and find something new. Larian has taken up Baldur's Gate mantle with good effect but while many wanted them to take DA, why would they? Larian riding high and no doubt Divinity will do numbers but DA is a risk. For Mass Effect we have Exodus and The Expanse coming to essentially fill a gap that has been absent for a lot time.
New era, no company can last forever.
Hmm, pie.
