They dont own the IPs though. EA could still theoretically make any Dragon Age or Mass Effect game in the future by any of their studios. Though it seems unlikely to happen at this point. This is why I simply think EA is just worse than a Square Enix for example who rid themselves of IOI in 2017 but let them have a lifeline in the form of the Hitman IP and we saw how that eventually worked out and saw the studio come out with a great hit this year.
That’s not what happened with IoI. Square Enix was fully ready to shut down the entire studio until IoI took on a lot of debt to buy themselves out. Square Enix didn’t give them Hitman as a lifeline IoI bought it back from them right as they were about to be cut from the company.
It’s why Hitman 2 came with a lot of graphical downgrades like the cutscenes being still images. IOI just couldn’t afford an in or out of house animation team and so they just posed some models and hit record.
•
u/Nickillaz 8h ago
So shutting it down is easier than selling it off? Surely some company would want Bioware even just for the name or the IP?