Mass Effect 5 and BioWare Reportedly Died So Star Wars Battlefront 3 Could Live

BioWare reportedly shut down because EA bosses chose to invest in the development of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5. Bloomberg reported that the main reason EA closed BioWare was because it had decided it could only afford to back one costly sci-fi action game, and Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was considered less of a risk than Mass Effect 5. EA is under new financial pressures as a result of the $18 billion in debt it was saddled with in the wake of Saudi Arabia’s $55 billion leveraged buyout of the company.