How many times do they get to fail before EA disposes of them?
>TORtanic
>ME3 Ending Controversy
>Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes - Canceled
>Command & Conquer: Generals 2 - Canceled
>Shadow Realms - Canceled
>Mass Effect: Andromeda - Bioware Montreal closed and all DLC plans canceled
>Anthem - Below 65 on metacritic and dropping, EA influencers and game critics are trashing it.
How many times do they get to fail before EA disposes of them?
Poor Bioware can't even blame the failure on sexist, racist, homophobic gamers this time.
EA would be forced to dispose of themselves if they kicked anyone out for fucking up. They'd have to invent a time machine and abort themselves.
Even their SJW audience abandoned them when they announced no companions and no romance.
ME3, ending controversy aside, still had the best sales and reviews in the series as well as a successful yearlong run of DLC.
Aside from DAI though, that's been their only unmitigated success of the 2010s (I'm not counting ME2 because it released in early January of 2010 after getting pushed back). I wonder how many strikes they have left. DA4 is already being made and has had money sunk into it, so presumably EA won't pull the plug on it yet. Everything after that is an open question; especially if EA deems Andromeda's comparatively mediocre reviews and sales to have done irreparable damage to the ME brand. Because with the failure of both MMOs, cancellation of SR and WH, and poaching of the Star Wars license, DA and possibly ME are all that Bioware has left. If the latter has been damaged too much that leaves a big studio with barely one franchise to subsist on.
>ME3, ending controversy aside, still had the best sales and reviews in the series as well as a successful yearlong run of DLC.
Also really fucking good multiplayer that's still active and great.
Realistically EA doesn’t need BioWare since they have their sports division and mobile division making them most of their money. Dice and Respawn are there for making their more technical titles. EA doesn’t need BioWare anymore, they don’t make enough money for them and they’re gonna kill them like they did with Visceral. Anthem was their last chance. DA4 teaser was just that, to get the drones excited and hope that they’ll buy Anthem so they wouldn’t close shop. Now that Anthem is getting rekt it will translate to poor sales. Fuck BioWare, I can’t believe how far they have fallen.
Forgot Dragon Age II being so poorly received and the DLC selling so badly they cancelled the 3rd planned one Exodus. It also never got a complete edition.
I don't get it either.
The explanation that EA is keeping them because Bioware is a valuable brand name worked the first three times, but not anymore.
Every single game they released in this decade was a fuckup, and that's not even counting unreleased stuff like Shadow Realms.
At this point, Bioware's only famous for churning out overhyped, expensive 6/10 games. That's not a brand name you want to preserve.
DA2 was still fun, I enjoyed it twice. DAI is soulless except for the based dragon boss fights.
DA2 DLC was fantastically awful, wasn't one of them written by that (now washed up) gamur girl who was being fucking diversity hired into everything? Christ now I can't even remember her name because she completely shat on all the dumb WoWfag stepping stones after she used them to get her feminist cable channel. She wrote Veronica in FO:NV too.
There's a faggot with whom I am in agreement. How do you feel about Carver as a Warden vs Templar?
Felicia Day
Felicia Day. Her character was also a super special qunari female elf assassin which if Bioware had any respect for the lore they created in the first game would have been retarded.
I wonder how much they made off of microtransactions in that mode. EA referred to it as a big success despite them paying for a team to add 7 maps, 40 characters (and with them dozens of new powers), 20 weapons, 12 new enemies, and tons of other shit to the game for free.
Veronica was fully developed and written by Eric Fenstermaker. Day was just the voice.
>I wonder how much they made off of microtransactions in that mode
Probably a lot. If you play on PC, you can use cheat engine to give yourself infinite credits to buy everything. I know this from experience, it's been months and still no ban.
>>TORtanic
>>ME3 Ending Controversy
which both made shitloads of money, you idiot
andromeda is the beginning of the end though
>Carver
I don’t play mage. Bethany is better.
Bioware is like the current western world, once great in the 80's/90's only to fall to ruin trying to appease liberal SJWs and instead of righting the ship and changing course they double down until there is nothing left embers of a memory of what once was.
they never bought games in the first place
Felicia Day
Mark of the Assassin (if that was the title) was where I finally gave up on Bioware.
It had the exact same premise as ME2's heist DLC that came out a few months before, but it was very poorly implemented by comparison.
The humor and the "witty" dialogue with Felicia Day was fucking cringeworthy. The writing made me realize that tumblr hambeasts are their primary audience now, not me.
There was some moral quandary at the end the I've mostly forgotten, I only remember that destroying a list of hostile sleeper agents was presented as the good guy choice and whatever you picked, Felicia Day survived and she got what she wanted.
I pirated and finished ME3 after that, but I went in expecting a shit game.
They're the reason DAI wasn't the sales trainwreck it deserved to be.
>everything that is wrong in society is because of liberals
>Not realizing corporate interest and greed is the bigger issue
>Bioware + EA as well as video games in general being a prime example
cringe
>Even their SJW fanbase
There is no such thing. They don't buy games. At least not in big numbers.
For whatever reason, Inquisition somehow mostly avoided getting shat on. Its only by the time andromeda even the normies realized just how shit they've become. Pretty sure anthem was their last chance and they blew it.
Ill be surprised if we ever see a new dragon age game, even more so if its good
sad what happened they had so much potential. mass effect and dragon age origins were amazing.
mass effect 2 and 3 were good imo with 3 being the worst. dragon age 2 was awful. that game really killed bioware for me. never played inquisition or andromeda and i probably wont ever.
>TORtanic
Turned a profit
>ME3 Ending Controversy
EA doesn't give a shit what reddit/Yea Forums gets mad over.
>Mass Effect: Andromeda - Bioware Montreal closed and all DLC plans canceled
Montreal is a side branch and may as well be a different company
>Anthem - Below 65 on metacritic and dropping, EA influencers and game critics are trashing it.
Anthem will likely be the first real failure they care about and even then given the absurd amount of dlc/microtransaction may still turn a profit
Corporate greed hires inept developers who care more about virtue signaling than quality work and pride in their product.
Let's make every female ugly because I can't relate to a beautiful female and they should accept my fat ugly ass.
Let's make stories that put down the customer and educate them on why the customer is a piece of shit.
Yes, all perfect examples of corporate greed
Oof
lol at anyone retarded enough to think EA was happy with how TOR turned out because it turned a profit. That game was supposed to be the golden goose printing never-ending money.
They're shifting the Austin team from TOR to Anthem's post launch support. That should tell you something.
>oof
get out zoomer
I'm seeing that everywhere now. Same with yikes and ya'll.
People still think they’ll release another BG2, or KotOR, or even another good ME or DA. But all the people who made those games great are gone. DAO was their last great game and coincidentally it was the last one to not have EA influence besides publishing.
I dont agree with you about DA:O being their last good game, but you're correct, pretty much anyone with talent is gone. Trespasser gave me a bit of hope, but it honestly wasnt worth going through 120 hours of shit for it
SJW audiences don't exist. They are a negative force not a positive one. That is they can destroy a product through bad PR (although this often backfires), but they can't carry a product to victory.
felicia day didn't write anything, she just voice acted the characters.
TORtanic is actually doing ridiculously well now
>lol at anyone retarded enough to think EA was happy with how TOR turned out because it turned a profit. That game was supposed to be the golden goose printing never-ending money.
no it wasnt
tor was a quick cash grab MMO, like many others that were being released at the time, and it worked very well for EA
their golden goose is FIFA and the player cards.
My friend spent around 300$ on those cards. What do they do?
America may be worse than it was years ago, but is still unironically the best country in the world