While evergreen to say that Mass Effect fans are having a rough go, it’s hard to imagine a worse couple of weeks. Earlier in the month, EA announced that they were closing BioWare , extinguishing any hope for a new entry along with it. Its most impassioned players have been incensed, to say the least, as one Reddit user stumbled across incidents of vandalism at one of the publisher’s offices.

“I stumbled upon the EA offices in Madrid as I was leaving a movie theater,” posted Reddit user Ok_Link9625 , “saw this on the floor to the entrance and on the wall in front of the offices.”

Scrawled in spray paint in front of the Madrid office’s front gate and along one wall reads “SAVE MASS EFFECT.” It’s an escalation in efforts to salvage the beloved series from an unceremonious end. A few days earlier, a number of fans banded together to purchase a 15 second ad spot in Times Square .…