While some of the people interviewed who worked on Mass Effect 3 shared criticisms of the game’s final scenes, others were adamant that it was creating bad precedent when it came to the creators’ ownership over their art vis-à-vis fans. One ex-BioWare developer People Make Games spoke with likened the decision to create a new ending to opening Pandora’s box. “I don’t normally attribute much of that to Mass Effect, but it is safe to say that like, around that time a lot of people were starting therapy.”īioWare has been criticised for a crunch-heavy culture as recently as 2019’s disastrous launch of Anthem, though that game didn’t spark a similar level of vitriol from longtime fans. “I remember us being pretty ok, but within two years once we got into Dragon Age: Inquisition … everybody was fried, everybody was completely destroyed, morale was incredibly low,” ME3 cinematic designer Zachariah Scott said. Instead of a longer respite, some of the developers were thrown right back into the deep end because of the backlash over the ending.
One thing that made the extra months especially difficult, former developers told People Make Games, was going from Mass Effect 3’s post-launch plans directly into the thick of Dragon Age: Inquisition’s messy development.
“A lot of people went through hard times to get through that.” “That live period was very hard, and I don’t know that anyone’s ever talked about that, but yea we crunched,” said then-systems programmer, Mark Jaskiewicz, who’s now at The Multiplayer Guys in England.
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