This N7 Day was the first without developer BioWare, but fans of the Mass Effect series did not let November 7 pass quietly. The community managed to convince several notable Mass Effect players to lend their voices to the increasingly vocal “SaveMassEffect” movement.
In the weeks since BioWare’s shock shutdown and Mass Effect Universe’s cancellation, community group We Are Mass Effect has set up billboards in Times Square, a mobile billboard outside the former BioWare Edmonton office and more, all while calling attention to an online petition.
Today is a very special day for Mass Effect fans. We’ve worked incredibly hard to bring together most of the voices from the original Mass Effect trilogy to share a very important message with you. We must #SaveMassEffect. https://t.co/FOp0qp4wBI
– We are Mass Effect – #SaveMassEffect (@WeAreMassEffect) November 7, 2026
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And for the annual celebration of the series, the group managed to involve a significant part of the Mass Effect cast. Commander Shepard actors Jennifer Hale and Mark Meer, original trilogy composer Sam Hulick, Garrus’ Brandon Keener, Jack’s Courtnay Taylor, Tali’Zorah’s Ash Sroka, Thane’s Keythe Farley and more all appeared in a two-minute video to potentially help save the series – sometimes in character.
“When we heard about Boware officially closing, I had a strange hope,” Hale said in a separate interview with IGN. “I can’t explain it. I just had a strange hope. My first thought, of course, was for the developers and everyone. And then I closed my eyes and crossed my fingers and said, ‘I feel like something is possible. You know, something is definitely possible.'”
Commander Shepard’s other half, Mark Meer, noted that “none of this has happened in the last 10 days.” Nearly annual layoffs at EA had slowly whittled down several teams at BioWare, sometimes even affecting studio veterans who had been with the company for decades.
“A lot of experienced writers over the last couple of years were let go. People who were there from the very beginning. Again, people who had built this company from the ground up, who built the backbone of it, who created these games that had so captivated people back in the 1990s,” Meer said.
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