F

>How much do these blunders cost EA? Are they still selling enough to break even or are they really losing a ton? This might finally be it for Bioware.

EA has a history of dumping studios who make no profit.
Money-wise? Probably not that much, they own Sims, sports games, etc. It's their primary source of income.

>he didn't play baldur's gate and nwn

you know in hindsight maybe hamburger helper & co's propensity for wanting to remove combat was a good idea, given how shit the gunplay in me was

still, S

Based.
The Bioware that made Kotor good has been gone for a long time user, same with the obsidian who made NV good.
>defending Bioware for Kotor
>After what they did to Revan in the TOR expansion

>How much do these blunders cost EA?
almost nothing. Notice how they put a new AAA title who costs 60 dollars under their Origin access premiere for $15.
They knew from the start, they knew that Anthem was gonna crash and burn with no content and bugs. Especially in a time frame where its main competitors (Destiny, Division) are about to come out or release new stuff.
There's is no way no one at BW noticed this and thought "hey, it's ok to release a 4th stronghold in may".

They all knew and they're about to throw the towel

S
Should've went under long ago

Your nostalgia is speaking out of you. Looking at both objectively shows that they were not as good as they are being praised for.

Thank god, Bioware has always been shit.

Poorly written and far outclassed by its successor in every way. Even before RCM.

Based "KOTOR 2 is better" poster.

It's just sports games now. Even sims fans are sick of their bullshit. Gutting out a normal expansion and selling it twice plus several dlcs. Go to snootysims, even the owner got sick of EA's shit.

>Your nostalgia is speaking out of you. Looking at both objectively shows that they were not as good as they are being praised for.
Nice try, zoomer.

>>>/rules/2

Based

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ship of theseus. just imagine that the central parts, that stayed the same , have started to rot years ago.

do you even know what they did to revan in swtor you mongoloid asswipe?

It's just not as fun to laugh at Bioware without him

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S. i will remember the good times but i will never forget the bad ones (which is plenty).

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RINE END HERE

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>F
-uck 'em, indeed.
bioware is long dead.

>same with the obsidian who made NV good
Really? How? are you trying to say we should expect nothing from outer worlds faggot? Not a chance

Based

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What you should expect from Outer Worlds is disappointment

Yes. Cain and Boyarsky can't make a great game by themselves, especially when those helping them make it are nuObsidian, who made shit like Tyranny and Deadfire. It'll be a miracle the game manages to be anything more then a 7/10

Bioware absortion into EA has been completed
There is no hope left, a quick death would be the ethical thing to do

Did something happen? Is bioware kill?

Or are we just speculating because anthem sank and we've done this every time bioware release a game since DA2?

DA2 was shit on, but made a profit because of how cheaply it was designed. Andromeda was such a failure that a studio was dissolved. This game was in development for 6 years and is not making any of it's returns back. Very soon they will be aggressively pushing cash shop items to try and recoup costs.

nobody knows what's next except for these 2 facts
-anthem is a nightmare and has been massacred on every bulletpoint
-there is a DA4 but it's far from anything concrete
While it's true that BW made bad games before, this is the first time they're truly facing the axe.

They are not dead yet, just agonizing

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S&P

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S.

S

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Anthem only sold half of Andromeda. EA shut down the studio that made Andromeda.

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BioWare died 10 years ago and its decaying skin has been worn by an impostor ever since. I say let it finally rest in peace because there is no reviving it anymore.

We warned you, "Don't sell your soul to them like all the others. NO GOOD WILL COME OF IT!", WHY DIDN'T YOU LISTEN!

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DARKNESS
IMPRISONING ME

He's a singer in a quintet acapella group now, got into stage and shit. IDK how his bands doing though their website hasn't updated since 2018, but he's active on twitter

Teenage me would F.

But today? S so fucking hard.

There's literally nothing to respect about them.

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR

LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR

LET THE BODIES HIT THE

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overrated. the sequel is much, much better.

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>YWN see Bioware resurrect the space sim genre by making a Mass Effect themed space combat/exploration sim set during the first contact war.

>prequels
>Prequels ever

its called Star Control and Bioware does not have writing and design skills to make it a good one

>three days after release German retailers are discounting Anthem to €39
>Amazon in the UK is basically offering £5 off Anthem coupons to anyone who ever bought video games on Amazon

Holy shit I expected an underperformer but this is a fucking travesty

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Andromeda had twice as many week one sales as Anthem and it resulted in Bioware Montreal shutting down.

Bioware Edmonton is responsible for this flop. EA is going to kill the studio for this.

Speaking of shitty EA games with incredibly fast price cuts, how's Diversity Field 5 doing?

Similar rumors are swirling about DICE being finished as well. Between the failure of Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Battlefield 5 on top the market shift to battle royale shooters they have to be in real rough shape.

>Did something happen? Is bioware kill?
Consistent bad releases under EA = kill.

S.
And not a single fuck was given.

WHAT DOES "S" MEAN

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>Six years to create a game
>During that 6 years, your Andromeda crew gets killed by EA
>Have to at least make something that sells more than Andromeda
>Even if it's shit, it has to make more than Andromeda
>AT LEAST

>Anthem barely makes half of Abndromeda's sales
>Only makes about 10% of Destiny's, the only game you were competing against other from Warframe
>Bioware's faces when

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The opposite of F

SPIT, YOU STUPID DEMON

Spit.

What happened?

What a time to be alive.

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S

get woke go fucking broke, bioware

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Nothing new, Yea Forums is just being a drama queen again

If EA kills Bioware, who will head their RPG division? I'm worried they will just buy some other company and the cycle will just continue.

That is hardly the reason it bombed, it's just a shit game

It's probably what is gonna happen though

what's this game?

>Not a single white person
It's Anthem

>You lived long enough to see the studio who Made Baldurs Gate and Kotor turn into some of the worst devs in the industry.
>You lived long enough for Zoomers to apply the Bioware hate retroactively and consider BG and Kotor to be shit titles by association with Bioware.
>You live long enough to watch EA core out and consume Bioware

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While that would have contributed somewhat, it was more due to the fact the game is fucking shit and clearly trying to compete with Destiny, when most people have lost interest in those types in favor of battle royales.

Why not? Every other good old studio has died.

EA doesnt need an rpg division, every third person open world game with a perk system is an "RPG" to the general masses now

Clearly any talent Bioware had left is long gone, its literally just a name now. And now that the name is garbage, why not just get rid of them? After two huge disappointments, ME:A and now Anthem, their name doesn't hold ground anymore and any future games are going to be met with skepticism instead of praise.

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>a game that is free on steam has better value t consumers than a paid EA product
IMAGINE THAT!

I choose to remember the Bioware that made good, immersive, well written games which made me care. Sadly, that company (of people) already died a long time ago...

F

user, I literally spent yesterday playing Kotor 1
It's still great

That being said the Bioware of old is fucking dead, EA killed it

>What happened?

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The Force Awakens of Star Wars Games. Get over your nostalgia, everything that Bioware added and changed was shit.

I agree, but I would say Kotor 1 is still enjoyable by itself
More for the power fantasy of reclaiming your title as dark lord desu

I know it's not the same Bioware but, it still sucks seeing the company that made Baldur's Gate, Kotor, ME, and Dragon Age burn like this. It's like reading a former great writer lose his touch in old age

You might be right, but honestly it gives another reason to shit on them AND it makes them angrier

>People somehow keep buying EA despite all of this
>Apex Legends literally bigger than Fortnite right now
>EA openly shitting on single player games and blaming them for not meeting share holder expectations
>After going to court in 2018 for the god given right to market gambling to your kids.

Gamers are the most retarded consumers on the entire planet.

rip in piss

>You lived long enough for Zoomers to apply the Bioware hate retroactively and consider BG and Kotor to be shit titles by association with Bioware.
Proofs? Most people in this thread still think Kotor is great, their only point being that the bioware that made them is long gone

How is that different from Bethesda, Activision, Ubisoft? They are all turning into dogshit lately.

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It is not posible. How a dev with such a huge team of females and minorities could've failed?

>westwood studios
I will never not be mad

Bigotry and Patriarchy are your answer, incel

Ayyy lmao they did it again
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

WTF sister, I was getting to that point. No need to call me an incel since I get fucked every weekend by a drunk nigger

I will never not be pissed about pandemic

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I'd call Activsion just as evil as EA, though for different reasons. Ubisoft just keeps making the same game over and over. I have no problem with them as none of their games are for me and Bethesda? They fucked up hard with 76 but I dont have a problem with anything else they've pulled. They don't make great RPGs but they dont have to. People who like Bethesda like them for their unique take on open world.

EA is the biggest developer murderer out there.

I DAB ON BIOWARES FUCKING GRAVE

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F to the original Bioware which is long dead
S for the current husk, go under and never come back, let the name rest

>DA2 and ME3 bombed because of homophobia.
>Andromeda and Anthem failed because of xenophobia.

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Only one of those games you mentioned was good, and it wasn't Kotor.

And how! boy do I love living in a corporate capitalist society! Well off to work for me, Mr. Shecklestein said if I dont pull a tripple shift today im as good as gone!

It would be a PR Nightmare if they killed off Bioware, Bioware is likely just going to suffer a slow death, being starved and then fading away when people are looking somewhere else.

Out of genuine curiosity, how do you think video games would have developed in a world where Hitler won?

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It would be a mercy killing by now. Just end it, EA.

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I dont see it being much different, only way he could have won is if America joined him and we'd be right back here.

I think KotoR 1 is much more enjoyable. No other game does being comically evil quite as well
>not forcing the wookie to kill mission
>not being a cool sith lord instead of a faggy neutral force fag

Where is visceral?

True, but I kind of wish I could have played manipulative lawful evil instead desu

Boys, clap your hands. GO. WOKE. GO. BROKE.

Kotor 2 is a better game but kotor 1 is a better starwars game

Pfff, who cares about them?

They literally consigned anthem to death by releasing it in the same month as apex and having those trash demos, Idk what EA was thinking. The only logical conclusion is that they wanted anthem to fail and get swept under the rug asap

Did destiny even become a thing other then okay? Warframe was just third person dungeon grinder that the ruskies obsessed over.

>people are only now realising Bioware is dead

What the fuck is wrong with you, it happened YEARS ago.

I wonder what EA will do with the licenses. I know they won't sell them off, but they might have other studios continue them. For example. with EA losing Star Wars in a few years, DICE might continue the Battlefront series with a Mass Effect shooter.

> any talent Bioware had left is long gone
Do we know the names of these people and what they are up to now?

No one knew apex was going to do well, everyone thought it was just another br flop

Anthem was going to flop obviously. EA didn't want a bad quarter, so they just pushed up Apex's releases to bring in some money.

yes but now they will literally die just like the guys who made dead space

Destiny's main saving grace was that it was mechanically a solid and fun shooter. It was properly good during TTK and RoI, then D2 seemed to regress and abandon all they'd learned (but now back to where it should be apparently.)

HAHAHAHAHAHA GO WOKE GET BROKE STUPID LEFTARD KEKS.

I am also glad because they died before making a better waifu than Tali, so it is alright.

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>tfw last time you saw this logo you had respect for them, wish they were bigger to make more fun games for you and at some point you wish they had a monopoly because they didn't let you down once
F

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I would be really happy if Mercenaries 1 got a remaster. Is it too late?

I can't even describe how this picture makes me literally sad.

>Tali and the homo
>bring anywhere above C

Steve was amazing shut up.

I would also like to know this.

Steve can fuck off just for being a fag.

whoever made this charts an idiot.
I fixed ur chart

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I hope for your sake you're posting from a kitchen, wench!

BLUE GIRLS GOOD
OTHER GIRLS BAD

Problem?

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>literal squarehead on top
lmao

t. asarifucker

It's just not the same without the music.

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I don't want it to be true, but it is. Good night sweet prince.

>Imagine having this generic taste

Bioware fan here since I bought Baulder's Gate back when it was released. AMA

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Back when it came on 5 discs.

rank the titles you've played.

>tfw there will never be a Jade Empire 2

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F.

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Baulder's Gate 2>Baulder's Gate 1>ME1>KOTOR>ME2>DA1=DA:O>ME3>SWTOR

Everything else is either a hazy memory or downright shit

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bitches that the guy has generic tastes.
>Literally picks fucking aliens. The most non generic thing on the list.

Dumbass

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nice list.

>Mass Effect isn't downright shit
ok budro

>Baulder's Gate
What the fuck dude

Solid. I'd rank ME3 higher than DAI and push BG1 back a little but that's about it.

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>"looter shooter" online grind game
>the most abysmal selection of weapons I've ever seen in a AAA game

Seriously, look at the "different" weapons. Every class of weapons has like one model and EVERYTHING else is just that one model reskinned. Everything. From Level 1 whites to level 30 legendaries all the guns in the game have like one model per category. It's really like the bare minimum you could do to call it a loot game.

How did this happen? Even Destiny had more day one, both destinys did actually. Division had more too. Warframe had more in beta. I just don't understand how Bioware thought they could compete with what they have in the game. Something must have went incredibly wrong.

shit I just noticed it. My bad

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>Jack anywhere but shit tier

spit

Revan was just an amnesic PC with little characterization.
Kotor 2 was what made Revan interesting.

Filled with "Game Design" majors which is really just another subset of liberal arts and sociology. I'm not being a /pol/-ite either. I met these fuckers years ago in the late 2000's in Los Angeles and they were just idea guys at that point. Now they're hipsters who thought it was neat and got particular free rides if they had a vajayjay between their legs.

Most of the people who do mobile stuff are amplified versions of these issues, including one guy who never played a vidya in his life and was legitly working on a Rampage! clone with all the microtransactions he could fit into it (had no idea what Rampage! was).

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Its lile Ol Yellar user
Sometimes you just gotta put what you love down with a shotgun

>Aria, Liara, Miranda and Allers being anywhere above B
Kys

>he fell for the blue Jews
Lmao enjoy raising your wife's kids cuck.

If only Sims 3 engine wasn't such a piece of shit, could've kept modding that infinitely.

haha if those racist, sexist nerds had any idea of what we have planned for this game, within three years we'll look back at this metascore and laugh!

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I guess the word I was looking for was indefinitely*.

>They made 1 good game, therefore they can't ever be criticized ever.
get a load of this guy.

Jack was actually hot once they gave her hair in 3.

I just want a new, well made, space opera game

Obsidian has your back

Why does everyone like Revan anyways?
He doesn't even really have any characterization.

Outer? Fuck that

>buying nubisidian games
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>he says in a bioware thread

>implying I'm not here to laugh at bioware
retard

Nice damage control. IP count didnt go up when you posted tho. I'd wager you were the guy felating mass effect a few posts ago

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are you braindamaged?

take a full step back and LITERALLY FUCK YOUR OWN FACE bioware

>No argument, defaults to adhominem

Its over user, get out of my thread and pick up your broken pride on the way out

Bioware might be saved due to the fact EA has shut down way too many studios & is know noticing their mistake, they shut down Visceral because "we can't monetise a single player game, even if this will make a large profit"

The sad thing is Bioware deserves to be axed, 2 mediocre games in a row

I'll admit she was more likeable in 3

>ea
>ever learning from a mistake
>not quadrupling down on it and blacklisting every dev from bioware from the industry forever

S. Go under before September.

We can hope

>Where is visceral?
Visceral was made by EA, not bought by EA.

>only well-dressed person is white
>they're also the secret power behind everything

maybe bioware isnt so bad after all

in our hearts

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obsididrone sòyboy is mentally ill, oh no

>N-

Good, their last decent game was Mass Effect 1

They originally wanted to do exactly this, but pollsters were adamant they go with a new galaxy.

/spit

KILL BIOWARE
KILL BLIZZARD
KILL BETHESDA

FUCK THE BIG BS YOU'RE ALL HOLLOW TALENTLESS SHELLS OF SOMETHING FORMERLY GREAT

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>yfw your company gets picked up by EA and you know you'll have to make a soulless shooter or two before ultimately being out of a job

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press S to shit on their grave

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Miranda... I lost my little play thing...

>FORMERLY
Chuck's.

based

>agree to be bought up by known vulture capitalist
>be surprised when drained of all of your talent, forced to included multiplayer for no reason other than to justify microtransactions, forced to make a horrible WoW clone that becomes a legendary failure that will never be replicated within our lifetimes, have your AAA IP ruined by some third tier 'Bioware Montreal' without your input, and then forced to make a Destiny clone despite the fact Destiny itself is a complete failure
>and to top it all off, Respawn Entertainment releases a joke spinoff to Titanfall that becomes an overnight hit during the same week that Anthem launches; funny that EA would allow that...
It's almost like some higher up wanted an excuse to shut down Bioware for good.

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I've been playing nothing, absolutely nothing, but BG and BG2 with SCS for about a year now. The usurpers that took the name of this once great company can't fucking die soon enough. Fuck them and fuck EA.

whatever

Did something substabtial actually happen to bioware today or are we just having fun?

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Just announced no bonuses, and several lower tier positions are being laid off with no replacement.

Good riddance. Never mix games and politics. Play to your base. 98.5% of gamers are males. Don't force your far-left ideology or you will go broke. Gamers want to be entertained. We don't want to be preached to or subjected to your marxist SJW propaganda.

nothing special, their new shitty game doesn't sell and they are in full PR salvage mode pretending everything is fine and the company is not going under and shit, all the while starting to fire people.

>he still thinks the same people are still working at nu-Bioware
based larping boomer

Bioware hasn't made anything good in a long ass time. Mass effect has aged like milk.

Well you sound like a racist sexist transphobe. Don't like our games, don't buy them, you bigot.

t. EA.

I'm going to say it, I have never played a Bioware game.
I have Dragon Age II because of GWG, but haven't touched it.

>Don't like our games, don't buy them, you bigot.

I don't, and neither do millions of people who agree with me that developers who insult their audience deserve to lose their audience and their business. To the dust bin of irrelevancy with you. Buh bye.

To be fair BG is polluted by Beamdog faggotry with god awfull EE. Zoomers didn't get to play the game unsullied by the retarded sjw gayfags trash characters.

S.

Should have happened a decade ago.

S

2 let you do shit like force thugs to give you all their money and jump off a cliff, then mug the man you saved from them.
That was absolutely classic.

> Disc 3 gets scratched

S

Is there actually not a single white male in the game? I see a few that are ambiguous but wow. I guess Bioware really doesn't like white people.

[S]
*dabs on grave*

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You know what? Good for him. I hope the performance sphere treats him well.
I guess that also explains his overly dramatic flair for ending threads

It's missing PopCap too.

Maybe I'm foolish
Maybe I'm blind

That seriously didn't fit the game.

dios mios

>pollsters were adamant they go with a new galaxy
fuck no, we wanted a sequel, not a fucking soft reboot in far away land

Damn he turned into Josh Sawyer.

In other news, Star Wars Fallen Order will be unveiled on April 13

>presses S
>steps away from grave

The game's just not for (You), Yea Forums. Ya know?

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Wasn't EA the first to deploy the gay shield as far as game publishers were concerned?
>The tallest tree catches the most wind.

>Curry Thunder

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It's that way because they care more about muh diversity and muh inclusion and muh npcs than making a good, fun game.

Whoa! You might want to take that AMA somewhere else buddy. This is a dangerous site full of criminals and pedophiles.

>physical sales.
I hate Bioware as must as anyone but this is some retarded cherrypicking. Physical sales have been decreasing steadily for years.

>calling yourself a legend in your bio
CRINGE

>Half of Physical buyers switched to digital in just under 2 years.
No.

S

>2014
>2 years
Regardless, I see your point about Anthem's sales doing poorly, but the comparison should be done on an equal basis, otherwise it's just fake news

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I was comparing it to Andromeda.
Apperently it only sold 10% of Destiny.