How has your relationship been working with EA?

Zamkoff: They've been great. They bring a lot of marketing and PR muscle behind th🍸e product and we've been self-funded to date, so we come with a lot of creative freedom. They're not in there trying to mess with it; they have a lot of faith in us as developers. I honestly have a lot of great thing🦂s to say about working with these guys.

And obviously Pandemic is now merged with BioWare. Has BioWare had any input on the game?

Zamkoff: We're friends with those guys and we send builds to each other, they talk about Mass Effect and we talk about Mercs. They don't have a right to actually force any changes but we certainly do meetings with them.

Greg and Ray are great advocates of Mercs, they showed up at E3 in Mercs t-shirts. It really does feel like a family with these guys and cer✤tainly we lis✱ten to their ideas, but we treat it like anyone else internally or externally. If the feedback is valid and it makes the game better we certainly listen to it.