I don't get these huge companies buying smaller ones and ruining them. If I was in a position to buy a small but successful studio, I'd buy it and leave it the fuck alone. Let them do things the way they want and just rake in the money.
The first Resident Evil came out over ten years before the first Mass Effect. Besides it's Japanese, they do things differently over there.
Like I said, I'm personally talking about the local team (Edmonton) that could be in trouble, not the entire company. The Alberta economy is the most unstable it's probably ever been, even without COVID. The American and Canadian governments both hate us and killed off a lot of the jobs.That is just nostalgia talking. Truth be told without EA there would not be a Mass Effect and Dragon Age franchise. They simply lacked the resources to do it.
I have been hearing this "Bioware is dead" doomsaying since the time of DA2 and yet here is Bioware having already made more than a billion in revenue with Star Wars The Old Republic, having sold more than 6M copies of Mass Effect 3 and having Dragon Age Inquisition being their number one in sales.
Even Mass Effect Andromeda that some people seem to enjoy gratuitous hating over was, according to EA finacial report, the solid revenue driver behind their 2017 first quarter.
Sure Anthem was a bust but support for SWTOR keeps going strong and there is a Mass Effect Trilogy Remaster about to be released, plus Dragon Age 4 (likely on 2022-2023) and Mass Effect 5 already in the works. Bioware must be the most alive zombie ever.
By the way it is not really feasible to expect studios that are decades old to keep the same people when most work under contracts with a expiration date. I also bet there is barely anyone from the first 4 Resident Evil games who worked on RE7 and now on RE8 at Capcom.
my stupid ass thought there was an update from 0.2 to ver 2 and i realized that wasnt the case when i was gonna download. so stupid
The release date for the next update was never announced.
#1 all your money has to be spend on recreations support.Can someone repost the rule again? I didn't quite catch it.
I'm already a Patron... what's next?#1 all your money has to be spend on recreations support.
That is my point. Why complain about something that is virtually the same reality for every studio who is already decades old? This just seems like nonsense hate over Bioware to me.
Where did you hear that? Lots of staff left after the game was released and their contracts ended since no big studio keeps the same numbers for post released support.
The point still stands, most staff change with frequency, specially on lower positions.
Now indeed Anthem suffered with bad oversight from some EA exec whose name i forgot now. That likely helped destroy the game. A shame because i played the game and Bioware made magic gameplay wise with that engine.
I'm not hating over Bioware, I'm just telling that it's not the Bioware everybody loved anymore.
When I'm talking about the staff, I'm talking about the guys that made the studio big, the high tiers, not the guys who got a contract to help finishing a game.
I'm talking about the story, the depth of it, character interactions, etc. What you call daddy issues I call character developement. Sure, they could've done better, but I much prefer such interactions over a ridiculous action-bombast-hollywood-style action-fest with with laughable forced drama like in ME3. ME2 did a lot wrong, but it also did a lot of good things, many people see the second game as the best of the series for a reason (I prefer the first one though).
Ea gave them a year or so to make a DLC into a game, then they had to cut all the cool features. Bioware's problem seems to be they need to be told when to stop and just finish things (Anthem)
That's normal for the industry though. Not everyone stays for years like Mike did.
It was EA execs who finally told Bioware "Hey stop screwing around and actually make a game" Bioware had 4 years in which they did nothing but muck around with Anthem.
What do you mean get back to bad memories?
Sure, back to BM.
). Let's get back to Bad Memories please.
EA is full of bad memories.....That's enough about EA (RIP Westwood and Pandemic
You! *snaps fingers*
