Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'

The future of BioWare has never looked murkier.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard proved the latest highly divisive release from a studio that hasn't had a launch unmarred by controversy since Mass Effect 2 in 2010. Over which time a huge number of key developers have left or been unceremoniously laid-off .

Now BioWare, formerly always a multi-project studio, has focused all its efforts on only one: a new Mass Effect sequel, hoping to dispel the lasting shadow of Andromeda and forge a new path forward for the series.

But that new structure will make the project "less messy", according to Mark Darrah—a longstanding BioWare veteran who served as executive producer on Dragon Age until he left in 2020, and consulted on Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

In an interview with YouTuber MrMattyPlays , he desc