This isn’t true in my opinion. If you handle an IP right and open it up to other creatives to try to tell the story you can get some gems. Look at XCOM handling Star Wars, Total War creating games for War Hammer, and maybe even Lord of the Rings across the decades. Game IPs don’t need to languish in one studios hands and other universes have managed to handle the risk and opportunities in both gaming media and in other media forms.
The corporations who own these amazing game IPs suck because they take down the franchises with them rather than find a way to license it to make interesting stories at different levels of investment. Not every game needs to be AAA.
Gosh you don't know how much I crave anything Mass Effect and how jealous I am that somebody at Disney turned their brain on with the latest Star Wars games. Zero Company was SO much fun and all the great banter gave me old BioWare nostalgia.
Imo Mass Effect is as great a universe as Star Wars. All EA ever had to do was allow other studios to make more Mass Effect games. Gimme a detective noir story on Omega, let me see the home worlds in all their glory, set these stories before the reaper invasion. Go smaller scale stories or local threads. I'd play a Telltale Mass Effect game. I'd play survival crafting game playing a Quarian whose pilgrimage went wrong. I'd play a walking simulator. Hell, even a city builder even though I can't think of how that would make sense right now. But whatever. The point is I LOVE this franchise.
But of course EA only cares about big money so they're not interested in doing anything with a RPG franchise that sold peanuts compared to their sports games. And now with the Saudis the chances are basically zero.
Please sell the IP to somebody who cares. Or license games like Disney does. I WILL buy these games.
Absolutely agree with you. They don’t even need to sell just let other studios in their umbrella take a stab.
Xbox games did this with Bethesda after the handling of the Fallout series recently.
In an ideal world we’d return back to the consumer friendly laws when television broadcasters couldn’t own the actual studios that made television series. They had to “buy” seasons. Movie theatres still operate this way after some companies tried integrate vertically to own the distribution of movies. The publishers shouldn’t have a hand in owning and operating game studios.
That’s true EA has some competent studios that can make games within the universe. Really just a matter of do they want to. ME IP has so much depth and content to explore.
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u/bonisaur 8h ago
This isn’t true in my opinion. If you handle an IP right and open it up to other creatives to try to tell the story you can get some gems. Look at XCOM handling Star Wars, Total War creating games for War Hammer, and maybe even Lord of the Rings across the decades. Game IPs don’t need to languish in one studios hands and other universes have managed to handle the risk and opportunities in both gaming media and in other media forms.
The corporations who own these amazing game IPs suck because they take down the franchises with them rather than find a way to license it to make interesting stories at different levels of investment. Not every game needs to be AAA.