arthwollipot
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I should say that there is considerable doubt on /r/masseffect whether Dantics knows what the hell he's talking about.
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Newly Saudi-owned EA shuts down Bioware
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theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
Is what what who is saying?
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.
arthwollipot
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It is a very accurate summary.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
I see.
No, in this case it would be more accurate to say that you are saying I should give the folks who made Veilguard a second chance. And I'm saying, they made Veilguard, and showed no sign of changing course towards making a better game next time.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
I apologize.
Apparently the head of the studio announced in 2025 that the new ME game would be developed under the leadership of some of the original ME team. So it might actually have been good. Sadly we'll never know.
Apparently the head of the studio announced in 2025 that the new ME game would be developed under the leadership of some of the original ME team. So it might actually have been good. Sadly we'll never know.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
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."
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.
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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arthwollipot
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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.
arthwollipot
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I'm sure they could, but do they want to? Do they care?
Well if they're abandoning it anyway, it's income if nothing else.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
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.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
"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.
theprestige
Penultimate Amazing
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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Yeah I figured EA was implied. That makes sense.
TragicMonkey
Poisoned Waffles
And sometimes they bring them back from the dead. Konami finally remembered Suikoden after 20ish years then remastered two games and made an anime, and a new game is somewhere in production.
arthwollipot
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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...