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Newly Saudi-owned EA shuts down Bioware

Is that what they're saying?
Is what what who is saying?

I should say that there is considerable doubt on /r/masseffect whether Dantics knows what the hell he's talking about.
You should say that there is considerable doubt across the videogaming internet whether anyone involved with Bioware knows what the hell they're talking about, or have been talking about, for several years now.
 
Is what what who is saying?
This. Sorry for not being clearer:

@arthwollipot , if the folks who made ME1 and ME2 said, "sorry about Andromeda, it wasn't really what we had in mind, give us another chance", I'd give them another chance. But when it's the folks who made Veilguard, and they're saying, "Veilguard was some of our best work, and it's not our fault nobody liked it, and we would have made a great ME4 if we'd had the chance", well. Fool me once, as they say.
Is that what they're saying?
 
Gaming industry commentator Legendary Drops on the real reason Bioware got shut down:

tl;dr/yt;dw - It's been a dying shadow of its former self for almost a decade. Its demise was inevitable, and this was a mercy killing.

"I have been losing my mind watching everyone act like we are losing something of value here."
 
Eh, I liked Baldur's Gate, which was just medieval Star Wars. Then they made KOTOR, which was just, well, Star Wars. Then they made a Star Wars trilogy without lightsabers, and by that point I was kind of sick of it all.

My point is, when it comes to narrative-based gaming there are greater losses than a company that just wanted to rewrite Star Wars over and over again.
 
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Gaming industry commentator Legendary Drops on the real reason Bioware got shut down:

tl;dr/yt;dw - It's been a dying shadow of its former self for almost a decade. Its demise was inevitable, and this was a mercy killing.

"I have been losing my mind watching everyone act like we are losing something of value here."
From watching and participating in the posts on /r/masseffect for the whole of that decade, I truly believe that they were in the process of making a new Mass Effect game that was genuinely good. It could have revived the studio.

The Save Mass Effect petition now has 258,142 signatures.
 
Can they sell the game to another studio? Might not be as good, but somebody like CD Projekt Red I could see maintaining the legacy.
 
Eh, I liked Baldur's Gate, which was just medieval Star Wars. Then they made KOTOR, which was just, well, Star Wars. Then they made a Star Wars trilogy without lightsabers, and by that point I was kind of sick of it all.

My point is, when it comes to narrative-based gaming there are greater losses than a company that just wanted to rewrite Star Wars over and over again.
There's money in rewriting Star Wars. It's a good story. A tale as old as time, as they say. Bioware got shut down because they couldn't even do that anymore, at least not that anyone was willing to buy. Not for a decade.
 
From watching and participating in the posts on /r/masseffect for the whole of that decade, I truly believe that they were in the process of making a new Mass Effect game that was genuinely good. It could have revived the studio.

The Save Mass Effect petition now has 258,142 signatures.
"Revived" is the red flag in this post.

I got fired from a job once, in my callow youth. I actually asked for a second chance. Looking back on it now, I cringe and am amazed that the person firing me didn't just laugh in my face at my naivete.
 
Can they sell the game to another studio? Might not be as good, but somebody like CD Projekt Red I could see maintaining the legacy.
Who's "they"? Bioware doesn't own the Mass Effect IP. That would be EA (so now the Saudis). The owner probably has plans to hire some new game devs and maybe spin up a new studio to make a new game based on that IP.

Or they could still sell it, if they think it's worth more outside of their portfolio than in. But my guess is the Saudis bought EA for its IP, not for the game studios that somehow managed to ◊◊◊◊ that IP into a cocked hat over the past ten years.

Or they could even keep on the current ME4 team, pending some kind of reorganization, reestablishment of a dev studio, and then have them get back to work on the project they've already started. If they don't, it will be left as an exercise to the class, to decide if they dissolved the current team because there was no game there, or because they somehow hate making money.
 
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Who's "they"? Bioware doesn't own the Mass Effect IP. That would be EA (so now the Saudis). The owner probably has plans to hire some new game devs and maybe spin up a new studio to make a new game based on that IP.

Or they could still sell it, if they think it's worth more outside of their portfolio than in. But my guess is the Saudis bought EA for its IP, not for the game studios that somehow managed to ◊◊◊◊ that IP into a cocked hat over the past ten years.
Yeah I figured EA was implied. That makes sense.
 
The owner probably has plans to hire some new game devs and maybe spin up a new studio to make a new game based on that IP.
I have absolutely zero faith in this. It's possible that EA will just sell off Bioware assets for the cash, including the IP, but equally likely that they will just ignore them forever.
 
I have absolutely zero faith in this. It's possible that EA will just sell off Bioware assets for the cash, including the IP, but equally likely that they will just ignore them forever.
Very unlikely there is anything that could be sold apart from the IP and EA tends to be like Gollum about what it owns.

Come to think of it describing EA as Gollum works in lots of ways...
 

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