Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 8 hours agoIf you think EA didn’t immediately infect and get their tendrils everywhere in Bioware after they were purchased.. you do not understand how these corporations work. At all.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 6 hours ago
Well… EA bought Bioware in 2007 which means ME2, Dragon Age Origins and ME3 all came out under EA. Seems like it wasn’t an immediate infection. And if you’ve ever looked into the internal workings of EA they’re actually relatively hands off. All they do is set unreasonable expectations and leave it up to the studio to match those expectations. Bioware clearly got a pass on those because Bioware got a decade to fail multiple times. If you want an example of EA actually killing a studio look at Visceral, one underperforming game and the studio got turned into a support studio before being killed off.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 6 hours ago
“under EA” is VERY DIFFERENT from, “produced by Bioware”. They eventually (EA has been buying up devs since loooong before Bioware) learned not to immediately tear apart the studios actually producing the games. Instead, they’d gut any heart management ever had, fire any dissenters, and then continue with a gutted crew under the same name.
If you actually understood the steps that history took, it’s blatantly obvious how evil and shitty EA has ALWAYS been.
Goodeye8@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Okay, I know nothing of the history or Bioware. Enlighten me.