One of the most historic studios is closing down. Unfortunately it was dead long ago. Fuck EA
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Civvie11 on the YouTubes often lists some of the fine Studios the EA has voraciously consumed only to spit out when their bones are dry. Raven Software (via Activision merger) comes to mind. Also Neversoft… and MAXIS…
BioWare died 11 October 2007. We’ve been holding an open-casket wake ever since.
See I believe in reincarnation I saw BioWare just the other day they go by Larian now. 😁
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Ew no.
Veilguaed made me really sad. Dragon age was my favorite franchise. I really wish I didn’t play veilguard, it was such trash.
DA:O and the Mass Effect trilogy are quite good games, both story and gameplay-wise.
Man I miss when the “pick your color” ending for ME3 was controversial because the trilogy was so beloved that anything but a momunental ending wouldn’t feel like enough.
The trilogy still was awesome and I still like the debates about the choices in that game!
Have thousands of employees, don’t make games, oh no we have to close down
May EA burn.
Ban corporate ownership of other companies. It has no positive effects on the economy or the world.
That would solve nothing.
For Bioware, no. It’s too late for them. For the future, it’d prevent companies like EA buying up every half-successful dev company and feeding their IP into the machine to milk our nostalgia for profit.
But it wouldn’t prevent them from buying the IP. The only thing that solves the problem is preventing ip from changing hands, but that would definitely cause problems
It would reduce it, at least. Part of what makes those deals appealing to devs is the idea that the umbrella corporation will handle the business so the devs can do the dev work they love. Many of them would be much more reluctant to sell off ownership of their concepts and work entirely, and the ubrella corps would find it harder to milk nostalgia when they’ve only bought the name and not any of the creative team that made it real. Not impossible, but harder.
If buying a company is illegal, there’s still no (practical) way to prevent the buying company say, “we’ll put you in your own separate Bioware team, no management changes for at least a year, we’ll hire anyone who wants to come over” etc. Basically, you’d have the exact same situation practically, just the legal bollocks would be different and it’d be slightly less convenient.
Good. So much of adjusting people’s behaviour is just making it more convenient to do the right thing and less convenient to do the wrong thing. It’s impossible to get people to behave perfectly all the time, but the more inconvenient you make it to do the wrong thing, the more the human tendency toward laziness will keep them passively on the right path. There are no desire paths in a hedge maze.
But it will also make legit things slightly less convenient.
We have to just vote soulless corposuits out with our wallets. Too many business majors telling devs what to do.
Memes from the Anthem days were prophetic.
This and microsoft bleeding ID Tech are the greatest insults than the Computer Video Game eccosystem have ever testified.
I fucking hate those big videogames comglomerates, i hope every single shareholders from those giant piles of shit die on the gutter drowning in their own piss
Also Sony buying Nixxes… then deciding they don’t want to do PC ports anymore. These companies are clueless.
Not clueless… the need to control the market is the determinator there :/
Was any developer who contributed to Baulders Gate 1 present for Anthem? I highly doubt it. The bioware I cared about stopped existing decades ago.
You know, maybe it’s not all that bad. Go indie and release directly on Steam. EA can burn in Saudi Arabia.
EA: Ruin everything!
Sad for the hundreds of people without a job, but seeing a company owned by blood money leaking it away is, unfortunately for everyone involved, a net good in the big scheme of things.
Isn’t it a shame that a tiny handful of rich old assholes get to make unilateral decisions that affect all of us?
Also Jade Empire! An under appreciated gem of a game. This is truly a shame, Bioware were one of the last big ones that actually gave a shit about making good games.
God, they listed Anthem and not Jade Empire - look how they massacred my boy.
Yeah I’m really not sure why they’ve decided to put anthem on the end of that list.
Yeah, exactly what we expected to happen when Saudis bought it.
Saudis are Islamic, there are no pride parades in Saudi Arabia. There will be no more “secular” games from Electronic Arts, so somehow EA has found a way to suck even more.
The Saudis are an embarrassing US ally, not even getting into the royal family. They’re no better than Iran in my opinion.
I can understand doing business with them, I think trade is the best way to open doors and find common ground. But an ally?
It’s against my religion.
I wish people would get less emotionally attached to these corporate game studios. Like, it’s not the same people. Not the same leadership. Not the same artists. And so on.
It’s just a collection of IP’s, that’s about it. Bioware from 2000 is not the same bioware from 2015 or 2026.
Same can be said for the vast majority of game studios except a handful of indie shops, but do they really count as indie if they’ve been nurturing one IP for 15 years?
Game companies really smarted up when they made gamers care more about the company behind the games than of the creative and technical people that actually create the games.
Why do you assume it the studios they’re attached to and not the IPs? I for one am devistated that a) people are losing their jobs and b) I’m losing beloved future games I was hoping for.
Maybe try a little empathy. Your comments constantly lack it.
Because the IPs fuckin suck under the studio. Nobody cares about Anthem. Andromeda was a mid cashout of Mass Effect. Lord knows wtf they were going to do with Dragon Age. Few, if any people, like these IPs as they are; you like the promise they once held, because you forgot the one rule to responsibly engage with fiction: Good stories get to end. The games still exist. They’ll always exist, or at least as long as you or I are alive. Thus the IP always exists. What goes away is the studio, which, OK, bye
The IPs were created in a specific environment, with a specific set of people coming together to make them. Sure, others can join and create things of the same quality if the same environment is still present. But after so many years the minds these the IPs spawned from have almost all long since moved on or fill other roles. So if the current owners of the IP have no respect for it, dont care, etc. There’s zero reason to still remain invested after its shown they cant live up to the quality and promise of the original creators.
Electronic Arts in the 1980s was amazing.
And most of these legendary devs worked so hard for so long for such a small paycheck and zero benefits just to get layed off when it conveniences the studio
