Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled

mHtt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Fuck. Now I have to add Bioware to the pile.

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  • mHtt@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    i mean are you TRYING TO HURT ME!?!

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    • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Didn’t the song out a bunch of people who went missing on purpose and ruin their lives?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        from the article:

        It wasn’t always plain sailing for the families afterwards – kids don’t run away from happy homes – but maybe things had changed when they went back or they were older and able to cope better.

        i don’t know the specifics, but that sounds like what they’re trying to say very gently. i wouldn’t go so far as to say it ruined their lives, but in our experiences (two of my cousins and one niece ran away when they were teenagers) if their lives were ruined it was the shit that caused them to run away that did it.

        i know, small sample size, but most people expect their lives to be ordinary. it makes it easy to fall into the logical trap that everyone has the same experiences

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Incredible what came from that campaign. The song still fit the tone I wanted for the meme.

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  • feinstruktur@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Damn it. What’s the first one again? I instantly remember the feeling playing this game, but I can’t remember…

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    • ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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      • feinstruktur@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the memories!

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      • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fantastic game. I think it ran on Amiga 500 and other OS I can’t remember. Now my night is ruined until I recall.

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• Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  EA is exactly the republican party. Destroy everything they touch with loads of bigotry and sheer incompetence.

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  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are EA bigots? They have always been the epitome of amoral capitalism in the gaming world to me

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    • sychthys@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Given their new owners, it wouldn’t be too far off to call them bigots now.

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      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Valid point

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    • cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Woke” was actually a problem with DA4 with how piss poorly the writers handled it, it was embarrassing. Absolutely not bigots

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Many game companies were bigots. shrugs. Another example is Ubisoft, founded by 5 brothers (no cooties eh), very toxic environment from my experience.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The bigotry is probably a new thing for them then because at least back in the day they didn’t give a fuck as long as it made money. Bioware games usually had LGB(perhaps not T, don’t remember any) characters, often as romance options and I recall racial justice being a theme in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age games.

    But I suspect the new owners don’t really want you to infect anyone with the gays™

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good news is that EA self-destructed in the Saudi deal so a few guys at the top could fill their pockets one more time. The debt they loaded EA with will be paid by selling everything. There is no other way. EA can no longer operate and their IPs will go to different studios. Let‘s hope one or two of them treat the franchises a tiny bit more carefully. Maybe. Or it will all be AI slop. Time will tell. But the way I see it EA is toast.

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• TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Generals 2 was in the make. There was a promo gameplay video. They fucking canceled it. I’ll never forgive them for it.

  Litteraly everything they touch, they kill. Either they cancel it or it becomes a pay to win gambling platform which lacks actual content. Enshitification Assholes.

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i am also never forgiving EA for killing Renderware

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