Has Bioware Montreal been shut down? Thoughts?

I'm not sure whether the intention is to repeat Jason's ego trip/tantrum (as opposed to his relatively straight-laced original article) or to make out that a studio that isn't hiring as many people in the aftermath of a game release as it would while it was in development somehow means the sky is falling. But I'll give it a troll score of 4/10 for making old material go that much farther.

Whoa dude, easy on the hero-worship. As I said, his original article was good. But his follow-up - where he appears to spit the dummy over the very idea anyone would question his article, repeats the same stuff using the same anonymous sources he originally used, laces his claims with get out clauses ('there is no DLC coming but I'm not actually sure'), then finishes it off with some weird passive-aggressive point about the definition of clickbait then literally invites you to click on his story again directly below it is not the kind of thing that warrants respect.

It doesn't even matter whether he's right or wrong, or if he's just guessing. This isn't behaviour of a man who is content to stand by his article. I wasn't really sure what his angle was until I read he's got a book coming out.

But hey, he's feeding the bandwagon, who the hell am I to question him, amirite?

Bioware Montreal is still staffed and is still updating ME:A.

If studio is about to be closed, EA would have said so in advance like they always do.


In other words, no. Bioware Montreal is NOT shut down and is NOT getting shut down any time soon.
Also Bioware Edmonton never hired anyone during ME3 DLC development. They did hire during ME2 DLC development, but that was related to porting ME2 to PS3.

Suko, the horse is tender enough already. Stop beating it.

The amount of salty BioWare loyalists refusing to see any negative evidence in the first replies is amusing. But yeah, seems like Montreal took a hit. We shall know soon.

The thing is there is too much speculation on his part making conclusions which has always been my problem with his articles recently. There is little evidence one way or the other, for the way I read the quotes he has used all his comments are form low level employees that won't know what upper management is really planning. Is there a chance he is right, of course. The problem is with the information he has laid out his entire case with there is an equal chance he is wrong. Right now the one thing I would agree with his articles is that they didn't go into full production of a sequel right away and there were human issues surrounding the production of the game.

A funny thing about "empty computers" from my experiences when a location is closed permanently, there is no such thing as "empty computers" they send people in and box everything up and move the equipment elsewhere for protection or to be moved to a new location where it will be needed such as where they are moving the other employees too. I was under contract at a company that consolidated three locations into one larger one and the end of the final shift at each location they had people there packing up all the equipment and either moving some equipment into the new location, but a lot of it was just skidded up and sent to a secure warehouse for storage so the location could be turned over to the landlord as soon as possible.

There is just too little information to proclaim what is really happening and either side can still be wrong in this situation still.

See? We have another one of those people here.

there won't be any dlc for MEA, Montreal won't develop another ME game ever,

most probably ME will be delayed 10 years

in a few years we will be able to come back to this thread and quote all the users who don't believe this info and this evidence

and show them that there was no dlc and no new me by montreal

it's irrelevant if users believe the info or not, reality tells the truth

I don't think it's about refusing to see negative evidence. I think it's about not drawing the same negative conclusion from the "evidence" presented. When Jason's first article came out he had to edit it because people were getting the wrong impression that people had been fired. Then, in his Reddit piece he stated that there might be DLC incoming, he doesn't know. If he had such close sources that said Mass Effect was on ice for the foreseeable future, how could he not ask them about DLC? It's such an odd thing to be unsure about when he's so sure about everything else.

Bioware Montreal probably was unaware they would be downsized right away, but that could have more to do with there being a greater need on projects with closer deadlines (like Anthem) than that Mass Effect is shelved. However, with the continued patch support, weekly live-streams, and teasing of future DLC, there's less evidence to say EA and Bioware are done with Mass Effect than there is for it, especially because absolutely no one else has come forward with a similar story. Is Jason the only person in all of gaming "journalism" to have contacts within Bioware? I severely doubt it.

And where's your evidence? How reliable are you? Oh, yes. Exactly. You aren't. Just another problematic MEA lover who can't deal with any negative stuff about it, and since there's so many, you go nuts. Seen that before. Not anything new.

Sorry, but I don't see any evidence, just speculations and assumptions so far..