The next Mass Effect project is still growing in size and isn’t ready for the bulk of BioWare staff to jump aboard, former studio veteran Mark Darrah has said.
Darrah worked at BioWare for 23 years as a project director and executive producer on the Dragon Age series, and has tracked the studio’s changing project schedule in a newly-public video peering behind the scenes.
Some BioWare staff who worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard are now filtering over to Mass Effect 5, but others are being kept busy contributing to projects elsewhere within the wider EA organisation, Darrah said.
First announced in 2020, Mass Effect 5 (or whatever it ends up being called) has been worked on by a small team of original Mass Effect trilogy veterans within BioWare while the majority of the company has worked to get Dragon Age: The Veilguard out the door.