BioWare is closing. The next Mass Effect project, which was in early development, is ending with it. For the people losing their jobs, that is the immediate story, and it deserves more attention than another argument about what a studio’s catalogue means to the rest of us. But once we have acknowledged the people affected, there is a question the industry needs to sit with: how does a company that helped define the role-playing game become something its owner can no longer see a future for..?
