Naturally, BioWare and parent company EA feel they aren’t themselves responsible for the layoffs.
He argued that it creates a legal precedent for other Canadian remote workers launching similar protests.
Today’s protest is less about stopping work at BioWare than engaging BioWare employees in conversation, Russwurm added.

“That’s more of our focus than actual disruption.”
The second protest has been organised by a group of seven former full-time Dragon Age and Mass Effect developers.
They’d like Mass Effect fans to get involved by posting under the #N7SeveranceDay hashtag.