Bioware has been dead to me since they got bought by EA anyway.
EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled
Submitted 3 hours ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to games@lemmy.world
https://www.respec.net/news/266-ea-shutting-down-bioware-next-mass-effect-has-been-canceled
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 38 minutes ago
mHtt@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
ill never forgive EA for destroying westwood studios and maxis,
FUCK EA
ummthatguy@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
feinstruktur@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Damn it. What’s the first one again? I instantly remember the feeling playing this game, but I can’t remember…
Soulphite@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
EA is exactly the republican party. Destroy everything they touch with loads of bigotry and sheer incompetence.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Are EA bigots? They have always been the epitome of amoral capitalism in the gaming world to me
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
Lmao I like how everyone was saying this was going to happen like a year ago. So predictable.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
A year ago? People called it eight years ago with the Anthem disaster that Dragon Age 4 would be the studio’s last chance. BioWare was already dead, this is just the merciful last bullet.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
Anyone that cared about RPGs was pushed out by greedy losers.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
I’m guessing those new owners don’t appreciate stories where gay characters are treated with respect.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
antianarchist@sopuli.xyz 26 minutes ago
Were they about yo unionize?
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 hours ago
good. It died years ago, should have killed the walking corpse way earlier.
spankysalmon@fedinsfw.app 1 hour ago
We should’ve never let the psychotic zombie making fucks at EA buy any of these studios in the first place.
Jiral@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
Is there another gambling company that has as hobby mass murdering game studios? Or is EA rather unique in that?
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
In other news, EA is alergic to money; explaining decades of canceled work, half baked releases, and other poor decisions.
csolisr@hub.azkware.net 1 hour ago
On one hand, hundreds of people without a job, but on the other hand, seeing one of the many companies I boycott on ethical principle bleeding money bolsters my resolveYoFrodo@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I guess Exodus and the Expanse game will have to fill that void
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 hour ago
I think good stories and corporations are at opposite ends. Corporations and the opposite of human, and thus can’t write good human relatable stories. They can’t make art. The more people in the room the more bland the outcome will be. Too much overhead - marking, advertisers, lawyers, HR, everyone. I think Bioware proves they can’t do it. I think smaller studios are the only ones really capable of it. The only outliers appear to be rockstar and CDPR, for the time being at least.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
What void? The void of casual role playing games with bad gameplay and worse writing?
I don’t think that void needs to be filled. The last BioWare game I enjoyed was Mass Effect 2 in 2010.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 40 minutes ago
Jade empire was really good
YoFrodo@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
ME2 is amazing and ME1 was great. 3 had good mechanics but worse writing, and Andromeda was terrible on many fronts but the ability to change your build on the fly was cool.
When I talk about Exodus and Expanse Im talking more about the style of third-person sci-fi RPGs with companions.
Hubi@feddit.org 1 hour ago
I really hope Exodus will live up to the expectations.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
And that after the success the last Mass Effect game was…
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 hours ago
They’ve had 3 flops in a row, and the worst part is that they did absolutely no learning from any of them. Each failed for the same reason. Bland boring story, no risks, souless worlds from the studio that was known for epic deep lore based worlds. As sad as I am, EA and Bioware did it to themselves.
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
Hey, I liked Andromeda! Maybe it just needed a few patches, I played it a few months after release and didn’t see any of the bugs I remember people posting about.
Jiral@lemmy.world 51 minutes ago
I played it a good while after launch. I couldn’t find any of the goofy bugs by then and I did actually like the beginning of the game. But I felt the story was the strongest at the beginning and then it became a bit formulaic. Overall though I didn’t think it was a bad as some made it out to be but also not stellar of course.
lazymoose@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They should make that failure of a game, Anthem, open source. No money to be made there. Make it so everyone knows just how bad. As an example of a terrible game and assuming terrible source code. Only 1 way to find out. I’m not still hopeful that it has huge potential. Nope nope nope.
DementedSociety@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They’ve lost me as customer. Didn’t buy the BF either.
trainsrkool@lemmy.ml 2 hours ago
not gud enough, ea needs to BURN
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The masses were uneffected!
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 minutes ago
Neverwinter Nights. Dragon Age Origins. Mass Effect. Knights of the Old Republic. It may all be considered unc slop now but man Bioware at its peak was some good times in gaming.