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BioWare staff "loaned" to other EA studios may not be returning, new report suggests


A new report now suggests that some BioWare staff "loaned" to other EA studios will not be returning.

Now, however, Bloomberg is reporting that the "loans" made by BioWare to support EA teams elsewhere have now "morphed into permanent relocations". Watch on YouTube According to Bloomberg sources and "people familiar with what happened", staff are no longer BioWare employees "temporarily on assignment elsewhere" but, in fact, now work for whichever EA subsidiary had borrowed them. "This was an unwelcome development for some of the employees, who now find themselves on brand-new teams at studios they’d never planned to join.

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