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“I think it was the last day we were working before the Christmas break.

“We have started working on it before Dragon Age: Awakening has even shipped.

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EA’s financial year ends in March, and that ended up being the deadline for BioWare.

All that work took its toll on the developers too.

In an older interview withEurogamer, designer Mike Laidlaw admitted that the studio worked under pretty brutal crunch conditions.

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Now, BioWare is being restructured in the lead-up toMass Effect 5, andlayoffs loom over the studio.

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