Mass Effect fans are using the game's annual day of celebration to send a message to BioWare after it laid off several employees last month.
As all Mass Effect fans will know, November 7 marks 'N7 Day', where fans of the long-running series come together to celebrate the game, its characters, and everything in between. Things don't feel quite as celebratory this year though, after BioWare laid off 50 developers, "shortchanged" those former employees with low severance pay, and laid off all unionized QA workers working on Dragon Age 4 (at outsourcing company Keywords Studio) last month.
As reported by Kotaku's Ethan Gach, seven of the 50 employees let go last month are in the process of suing BioWare and have released a statement (below), revealing that the company is going to court instead of negotiating a settlement. In the statement, the employees involved in the lawsuit mention N7 Day and ask fans to show their support by sharing memes and images relating to the layoffs using the #N7SeveranceDay hashtag.
