A GHOST OF ITSELF

The once-legendary BIOWARE has lost at least half its staff

- Ted Litchfield

Bloomberg reports that, following EA's layoffs and restructuring at BioWare, the studio now has fewer than 100 employees, down from more than 200 during the development of Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Meanwhile, at its peak, BioWare consisted of three studios and, conservatively, over 400 employees.

Interestingly, Bloomberg's sources say that the plan to "loan" BioWare developers to other EA studios while the next Mass Effect was in preproduction was put in place shortly after Veilguard launched, but before its sales failure came to light. Solid numbers are hard to come by, but even conservatively, I think we can estimate that peak BioWare was around 400-500 employees strong for much of the last decade, based on reporting from across that period.