r/pcmasterrace • u/3Sayndre 7600 - 7800 XT Sapphire - 32GB DDR5 • 8h ago

News/Article EA shuts down BioWare

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/ea-layoffs-bioware-shutting-down-respawn-dice-star-wars-battlefront-3-1236918715/
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u/dj_samuelitobx 8h ago

Literally my hatred for EA is bottomless

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u/hannes0000 R7 7700 l RX 7800 XT Nitro+ l 32 GB DDR5 6000mhz 30cl 8h ago

I'm not defending EA or something but it's not EA fault if you produce crap that wont sell.

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u/anitawasright Intel i9 9900k/RTX 4070 ti super /32gig ram 8h ago

EA is literally the ones that own Bioware and tell them what projects they can and can't do. So yes this is 100% EA's fault

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u/lakkuh 8h ago

So Anthem, Andromeda and Veilguard didn't have anything to do with. Three games in a row. EA told them to make games that didn't please people. Anthem shut down, Andromeda & Veilguard were horrible. New BioWare was bad, very few of the OGs who made ME, BG and DA were present. Bad devs, bad games.

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u/hannes0000 R7 7700 l RX 7800 XT Nitro+ l 32 GB DDR5 6000mhz 30cl 8h ago

They dont understand this sadly. EA owned the studio, they did not take over the actual game creation. BioWare's own teams of writers, designers, programmers, and artists continued to write the stories, build the worlds, and code the gameplay.

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u/anitawasright Intel i9 9900k/RTX 4070 ti super /32gig ram 8h ago

Anthem was 100% an EA decision that EA forced bioware to make

Andromeda 90% complete and EA forced them to complete switch to the Forstbite engine.

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u/Cold_Tradition_3638 8h ago

Anthem was a concept pitch that EA decided to show to the public as a full on in-development game, they didn't even know what anthem was going to be when it was revealed and given a deadline.

Consequently one of the main reasons why Andromeda development was such a mess was because EA decided to move staff to help with anthem's development as it as already going to hell.

Like do you people don't ever take your heads out of your asses for at least minute to research why things happen?

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u/Cold_Tradition_3638 8h ago

Oh yeah not like they keeped fucking with the development of veilguard until it turn out into the monstrosity they had to stitch together in less than 2 year.

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u/poppin-n-sailin 8h ago

How do you figure that? They purchased bioware and gutted them. Then they dictated what projects they worked on and controlled everything. Are you stupid?