"Something's really possible" - Mass Effect cast rally around efforts to save the franchise on the first N7 Day after BioWare's closure

"Something's really possible" - Mass Effect cast rally around efforts to save the franchise on the first N7 Day after BioWare's closure

I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favorite video on the internet.

This N7 Day was the first without developer BioWare around, but fans of the Mass Effect series didn't let 7th November go by quietly. The community managed to get several notable Mass Effect actors to lend their voice to the increasingly loud 'SaveMassEffect' movement.

In the weeks since BioWare's shock closure and Mass Effect Universe's cancellation, the community-organised We Are Mass Effect group have put up billboards in Times Square, a mobile billboard outside BioWare Edmonton's former office and much more while directing 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 original Mass Effect trilogy's voice cast to share a very important message with you. We need to #SaveMassEffect. https://t.co/FOp0qp4wBI

— We are Mass Effect - #SaveMassEffect (@WeAreMassEffect) November 7, 2026

And for the series' annual celebration, the group managed to get a sizable portion of the Mass Effect cast to join in. 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 many more all showed up in a two-minute video to help potentially salvage the series - sometimes in character.

"When we heard about the formal closing of Boware, I felt weirdly hopeful," Hale said in a separate interview with IGN. "I can't explain it. I just got so weirdly hopeful. My first thought, of course, was for the devs and all the people. And then I just closed my eyes and crossed my fingers and I said, 'I feel something's possible. You know, something's really possible.'"

The other half of Commander Shepard, Mark Meer, noted that "this didn't all just happen in the last 10 days." Near yearly layoffs at EA had slowly trimmed multiple BioWare teams down, sometimes even affecting studio veterans who had been at the company for decades.

"A lot of senior writers within the last year or two were let go. People who had been there from the very beginning. Again, people who had built that company from the ground up, who built the bones of it, who made those games that had captured people so much right back from the 1990s," Meer said.

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