EA doesnt kill compani-

>Ending of ME3
>Not 2
The absolutely retarded plot in ME2 was a red flag. The baby Terminator was the point of no return.

Nice bait

With EA YOU WIN

DA:O was the wake up call with the NPC in your camp trying to sell you DLC

>6(six) years is not enough time for a studio with 500 devs

if you believe for a second EA isn't lying their fucking asses off about "yeet no microtransaction no lootboxes yaaayy" then you got another thing coming

you could still make a case for ME2. I was blind to dragon age 2's abysmal presentation with the CLEARLY bought and paid for 9/10's, but mass effect 2 was overall a good experience. ME3 was the true red flag

Respawn shills.

Bioware's CEO

>ME3's ending was the wake up call
>not giving up on BioWare right after ME1
Big yikes and also oof and cringe.

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to be fair Respawn does enjoy a weirdly high level of autonomy with EA

>Apex made with Source
>Jedi:FO made with Unreal

I bet EA didnt even know Apex was a BR until it was almost done

The existence of Anthem just baffles me.
Like Bioware is known for their character driven story based rpgs, especially their romanceable npcs and shit. So why would EA make them the ones to make some shitty Destiny/Warframe clone that has none of what people like Bioware for?
Its like a purposely sabotaged game.

>not giving up on Bioware after Baldur's Gate
:)

A fair point, complete with the Violence trailer for it. That shit was straight up a cry for help from the actual BioWare.
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That said, it still had enough vestigial backbone to it that I prefer to point to its abortion of a sequel. Less of a wake up call, more a clear, but not glaring sign things aren't quite going right.

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they were counting on people being blinded by pure hype over essentially nothing. unfortunately people started wising up ever since battlefront 2 happened and this game fell flat on its fucking face. the only reason it isn't one of the worst games ever made is because fallout 76 already happened

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Maybe because Bioware wanted to make it? You're acting like EA came up with the idea and handed it to them when in reality it was, at least at first, a passion project that they were allowed to make while ME was given to a B team.

nigga, it's bioware in name only, there's nothing to be baffled by, and it has been for a long time

what it is is a diversity crew keeping the name alive because people still buy "bioware" game

christ that was pure cringe.

my god

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Bioware killed themselves via a changing staff and changing mandate.

Well, yeah. They had 8 fucking years to plan it out and knew how much EA wanted a multiplayer focused sci-fi shooter from them with microtranscations. Instead they gave so little shit about the project it came out a botched mess of lazily planned problems.

"bioware game"
I keep hearing this term getting thrown around and am amazed by the fact it doesn't mean anything at all yet people hold this mythical company that doesn't exist anymore in such high regard from games a different team put together nearly 2 decades ago that happen to have the same name.

are they all high af?

Still not dead yet, not even rebranded like what they did to Visceral or Westwood. Either too many females in the company to fire or someone in EA's board of directors really loves that deadweight studio to keep it afloat.

after the anthem disaster they are fucking finished. if they are not I will be very surprised its almost as if EA does indeed keep them around as a pet studio to make shitty ripoff bad games

>Gears of War """"combat""""
>redundant progression system
>inventory clusterfuck
>party full of whiny faggots with daddy issues all over again
>dialogue wheel with blue and red answers
>Star Trek tier cookie cutter setting with Mass Effect technology being it's only interesting gimmick
>barely any side quests outside of Citadel
>every key location is a short corrior attached to small room with talking exposition dumps
>""""exploration"""" of empty rocky desert with copypasted cave outpost in it
>«Just wait for the whole trilogy to come out lmao»
Plebs who tolerate garbage like that are the reason BioWare still exists.

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EA is at fault for not keeping the actually competent talent in the first place. If Bethesda could throw tons of money at Todd Howard to lie at E3 every year then EA could give a golden handshake to keep Drew Karpyshyn or Ray Muzyka in the company.

I keep hearing that but even after the layoffs it seems the company is still there and still working on projects. This is more than what EA LA (former westwood) got; that studio and STILL got rebranded and shut down the following 4 months after making 5 million with RA4.

>EA could give a golden handshake to keep Drew Karpyshyn or Ray Muzyka

i dont think they are exactly concerned with money

maybe they just dont wanna work for BW/EA anymore

And again, its the publisher at fault for not making changes to keep good talent in. If all this woke diversity enriching bullshit is what it takes to recruit and keep good writers and programmers in the company, then go for it and give them what they need to do quality work. We all know its for naught since good writers and programmers wont work for such a draconian slave driver EA has known to be when it comes to project schedules and budgets (with the exception of diversity and enrichment).

>EA is at fault for not keeping the actually competent talent in the first place. If Bethesda could throw tons of money at Todd Howard to lie at E3 every year then EA could give a golden handshake to keep Drew Karpyshyn or Ray Muzyka in the company.

>Drew Karpyshyn
>competent
Wasn't he responsible for writing garbage like Kotor 1 and Mass Effect?

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Anthem still made a fortune. Checkmate

it still made you feel like a badass, especially the final suicide run. even if it was a dumb hollywood flick full of cliches and nonsensical elements it still left me feeling good. mass effect 3 was just mean spirited and blatantly abusive towards anyone who was invested in the game, which is why it went down in history as one of the worst video game endings of all time

I'm glad anthem bombed because bioware and casey hudson fully deserve it after everything they've done. karma is a bitch

Did it make back its budget?
Did it make shareholders happy?
Was it enough to not cause a restructuring of future budgets?

You can look at money made in a vacuum and say it was a lot. But businesses dont work that way.

source? because I hear it sold half of what mass effect andromeda did

If there is one thing worse than biodrones, its their counterparts for Obsidian.
But to concede a point, Drew returned in 2017 to work on Anthem.

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bioware has had this issue with writers fighting amongst themselves it felt like half of them were decent writers and the others were just bad. this is especially apparent throughout ME3, particularly towards the end you could almost see them arguing amongst themselves on how to direct the damn thing it was so discombobulated

>pure cringe
>tyler the creator gif
i guess you'd be the expert

Bioware was always ass though

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They kill themselves, Bioware and Dice are SJW trash and nothing they did wrong was EA fault

well whatever. they're still making billions. and BILLIONS. of dollars off of you stupid asses so it doesn't matter what you think