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Hope. It's in short supply at the moment. Regardless, I hope that something a Canadian politician's proposed in a post scoring easy likeability points at the expense of EA's recently installed owners comes to pass, no matter how unlikely it is to do so at this point. Rather than being unceremoniuously shuttered , leaving the world staring down the barrel of a future without new games from a storied studio, BioWare should be handed over to its staff with backing from the Canadian government.

Nationalise BioWare, basically. Well, sort of. "The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio," is what Avi Lewis, leader of Canada's New Democratic Party , wrote in a post following the closure. "They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves.…