Petition to Save Mass Effect Dev BioWare to Be Considered by Canada's Government

A petition to save BioWare is set to be presented before the Canadian government.

The country's law states that any public petition with at least 500 signatures must be added to the House's agenda — and this fan-driven effort has amassed over 2,300 at the time of writing.

It argues that the Mass Effect and Dragon Age developer is "one of Canada's most important cultural exports to the world in the 21st century, selling tens of millions of units of their video games globally". It's a fair point.

"BioWare has been shuttered by its American parent company Electronic Arts, now owned by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund and Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners, and BioWare's closure represents an immense loss to and possibly a targeted attack on Canada's cultural legacy," it rather pointedly continues.

Suggested solutions include providing the company with the "necessary" funding to secure its independence, while also, ideally, recovering IPs like Mass Effect and Dragon Age from EA.