BioWare devs sent to other EA studios were reportedly ‘loaned out’ temporarily. Now, it’s permanent
A report from Jason Schreier at Bloomberg reveals that BioWare employees were shuffled around to various studios at their parent company EA following the failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, unaware that they wouldn’t be returning to their studio.
According to Schreier, by the end of 2024, dozens of BioWare employees were “loaned out” to various EA teams, taking on support roles for games such as Iron Man and Skate. These people shifted priorities under the impression they would return to BioWare when the next Mass Effect game’s production was in full swing. Per internal announcements this week, these were actually permanent relocations. In BioWare’s original statement regarding the restructuring of the studio, general manager Gary McKay said management had “worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues with other teams at EA that had open roles that were a strong fit.” Schreier’s report, on the other hand, makes the relocations sound more like a bait and switch as the loans “morphed” into permanent job changes—one that allowed some employees to remain employed, albeit not with the studio they had actually signed up to work for.
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