The next Mass Effect project is still growing in size and isn't ready for the bulk of BioWare staff to jump aboard, former studio veteran Mark Darrah has said.

Former BioWare lead Mark Darrah has said the next 'Mass Effect' game "isn't ready" for a sudden influx of new developers now 'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' has been released.

"Mass Effect isn't ready to suddenly have a team of 250, 300 people working on it," says Darrah (as transcribed by GamesRadar ). His reasoning is that the new Mass Effect wasn't "up and running" in parallel to The Veilguard, and so unlike past BioWare projects, it's not a case of simply having everyone jump from one game to another.

Mass Effect 5 is now the only major project in the pipeline at BioWare following the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, according to Mark Darrah, a veteran of the studio who departed after nearly 24 years back in 2021.

But the situation could eventually mean that BioWare can fully focus on "making the best Mass Effect it possibly can"

Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah explains how BioWare became a "single project studio", after previously working on multiple games at once.