Star Wars Battlefront 3 has just been added to the list of reasons why BioWare and Mass Effect are no longer with us, a new report says.

BioWare’s doom had been spelled out over the past decade after multiple failed releases ( Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age: The Veilguard ), but according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier , it was the development price tag that really sealed the deal…and a galaxy far, far away was involved in the decision-making process, too.

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“Financial pressures” mounting as part of the $55 billion purchase of EA led by Saudi Arabia’s investment fund that left the publisher $18 billion in debt meant that cuts were coming, and some cuts are easier to make than others, especially considering when it comes to two similar spacefaring sci-fi franchises: Star Wars and Mass Effect .

With both games set to cost “hundreds of millions of dollars,” EA and its executives chose the iconic film franchise over BioWare’s RPG series (this really kind of feels like a…