What Veilguard tells me about Mass Effect 5

So, Bioware's dead then. Honestly, I don't think anyone is surprised that EA made the decision to shutter the company - I think it's more that we were robbed of any kind of catharsis. We've had this slow, stumbling collapse of a company that basically redefined and modernised two completely separate subgenres of RPG with Baldur's Gate (later Dragon Age) and Mass Effect. They should have crashed out in a blaze of glory caused by hubris and untenable targets, but instead they got chipped at by the management class until they were incapable of cohering a proper theme. Blamed for the making bad decisions by their bosses who mandated those decisions. Told to hit impossible targets while standing on unstable ground, all the while those driving the day-to-day work at the company saw the writing on the wall and bailed. The Bioware that closed down last week is just a different company, of different people, a holding-house for successful IP that could later have some developers shipped in from…