Submitted 3 weeks ago by tpfm@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Nah, the real petition was the last game.
BioWare hasn’t shown that it has the talent to make quality AAA RPGs in almost 20 years.
Maybe they should have made some lower budget games to give their less experienced developers some much needed feedback and practice in their craft.
Also, their writing has been absolute trash for over 10 years. I’m not sure if their writers even know what good writing is.
They were dealt the live service and Frostbyte cards and had to play them.
They also worked under the belief of “Bioware magic” (literally what they internally called it) instead of actually having a plan on how to make a game. Their magic was always going to run out.
Frostbite was a bad card dealt to them.
They dealt the live-service card themselves - They swore over and over that Anthem being a live service was their choice.
That’s why I mention the writing.
That’s separate from gameplay and level design.
The glimmer of Hope was that they fired the writers and designers after veilguard
Oh sweetie, they don’t care one bit about a petition
Let Mass Effect rest. We had a great trilogy, and you can still play it. There’s an Expanse game and that game Exodus coming in the next year that will scratch that itch.
trilogy
Was Mass Effect: Andromeda that bad?
In a vacuum, it was middling in all aspects and with some terrible technical and artistic issues, but it was okay. But it didn’t exist in a vacuum. It didn’t live up to the relative success of Inquisition, and was an unworthy successor of the Shepard trilogy.
Gameplay wise? No, it was loads of fun to play.
However, the animations were terrible even after they “fixed” it.
The writing was terrible, with a generic plot, dialogue that consisted of quippy one-liners and little else, and characters that were shallow and one-dimensional.
And the game was buggy and unstable with multiple CTDs even years after release.
Personally, I just never played it. Plenty of folks liked it eventually.
For me, Andromeda couldn’t hold my attention. Multiplayer was more fun, but that’s only because I cheated a bunch and posted my “accomplishments” in the ME Coop subreddit until they gave me a permaban.
How about a ‘force the sale of the IP’ petition?
If the IP is sold then he’s not attached.
Kushner isn’t mass effect because he owns the rights at this moment in time.
Also all art is owned by rich pieces of shit who commit evil every day, not just kushner. Not just Harry Potter.
Go ahead and name any one of your favorite things, I’ll Google for 5 minutes and tell you what kind of criminal you’re supporting.
I think they could do a spiritual successor that would cost less.
Like, it wouldn’t be that hard to make something similar but legally distinct.
Also, there are 4(?) games that are currently in production by former BioWare or just straight up inspired by ME.
I loved the first three and if this made it to completion I would have checked it out. But ea crushed that studio long ago and the Saudis are looking to cut anything that doesn’t help them get their billions back. Instead of giving them any money for this, I’d rather they lose everything.
They would, they could and they are! Planned release date is next year! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(2027_video_game)
Is that an official link?
A more recognizable one that should end up at the same place:
The only way to save Mass Effect is releasing it on GOG.
I don’t actually care that the new mass effect was canceled.
It’s also kinda funny to me that a bunch of people are losing their jobs, and we’ve got a petition about the unfinished game they were working on.
I honestly felt like a lot of people here, until the other day my friend saw a dev leak a trailer for it and it looked kind of amazing. I would absolutely be down if the game shown was finished as long as it was the same team that was already working on it.
I_Jedi@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The Mass Effect Trilogy is a completed story. You gotta let it go.
slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tell that to Microslop with Halo.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No man. Cppitalism demands that you milk it with bullshit plots and gameplay until the market absolutely hates it. Like the Alien and Terminator franchises.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I mean, it clearly didn’t, people still somehow want more of it after Andromeda and the company went under.