Battlefield Studios is reportedly cancelling plans for a Mass Impact collaboration in Battlefield 6 within the wake of EA’s choice to shut BioWare and cancel the following recreation within the sci-fi collection.
Followers found varied Mass Impact-themed cosmetics in Battlefield 6’s information, with many speculating that they’d be launched in November, tied to the Mass Impact N7 Day vacation on November 7.
These cosmetics, which included Mass Impact-themed weapon charms and patches, have seemingly now been faraway from Battlefield 6’s in-game retailer previous to their normal availability (through Kotaku).
If these Mass Impact-themed cosmetics had been certainly actual, getting yanked solely is smart, contemplating the blowback EA and Battlefield Studios would have confronted for hawking new gadgets primarily based on a franchise that it simply killed off.
Whereas this Mass Impact collab won’t be going forward, Battlefield 6 is at present internet hosting a crossover occasion with Useless House.
It would make monetary sense to shut BioWare and cancel the Mass Impact collection, however followers are upset concerning the 30-year studio that blazed a path for queer illustration in video games closing up store.
The closure of BioWare comes after EA was taken personal by an investor consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Funding Fund. Because of the structuring of the deal as a leveraged buyout, EA is on the hook for lots of debt, and there’ll seemingly be extra layoffs and ache for the folks working at EA within the time forward.