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Less companies, more project-based games

The guy who ran 3DO, the company that owned New World Computing (makers of the Might and Magic games) before it collapsed due to ??? business practice, was also a former EA guy. Do they just not like RPGs there?

People keep making this all about EA, when it's also clear that Bioware has had an extremely noxious working culture, and terrible management for nearly 2 decades, even at their peak popularity in the early 2010s. EA exacerbated that. Go back and read Schreir's early bombshells: this was foretold.

BioWare was dead to me when they made Dragon Age 2. Absolutely criminal.

EA we make games suck, they destroyed every franchise they ever took over.

Genuinely, a full Liara 1 to 3 romance route is one of the best plotlines of any game series, especially if your Shep actually navigates through the Paragon/Renegade gradient rather than staying hardline either way. Gives both you and Liara full arcs and shows how how a relationship evolves overtime

Oh lol I just saw the formal closure announcement

Corpo pigs only want three things: (1) More money than god (2) Their own bigotries enforced (3) Even more money

BG2 is still the playbook for basically every crpg, in the same way ff7 was for 90s-00s jrpgs. Mass Effect has been ripped off a thousand times! How do you fuck that up???

faust does do that in some versions of the tale. kind of a classic move for a faust-type guy to make

the last decade or so felt like a restaurant taking swings with the menu after the new management lost the recipes

Playing Crusader No Remorse and trying not to think of the fact they were allowed to kill the studio behind a game like this with impunity

They should have both been making insane decisions on what is the next numbered sequel in their respective franchises while having a lot of other games under those IPs as spin-offs and it's cruel to everyone how it's panned out

They weren't even successful with the Origin launcher!

That is really the story of US culture, beloved things destroyed for short-term profits.

They got hollowed out with all the important devs replaced long before officially dying, yea

ME3 was kind of a mess due to the multiplayer integration and the committee design and the original ending being what it was, but it still had some of the highest highs of the trilogy

Darrah lays it out youtube.com/watch?v=fzH-...

Every day operating since anthem has been a pleasant shock for me

it's not hard to see why they too an approach with Andromeda that was "vibe out for a bit" but also oh my god please ship something for the love of god

I'm honestly surprised they lasted as long as they did under EA, I remember how everyone felt when the acquisition was announced.

Every time bioware has a new flop this past decade and every time the journalism comes out about what was happening bts, each time it's slightly different but the recurring theme was always "somebody higher up had no interest in this game going well/actively sabotaged it"

Yeah, gaze upon the state of Mass Effect Andromeda and fathom that Dragon Age Veilguard is of practically NON-EUCLIDEAN quality given all the surrounding factors.