r/pcmasterrace • u/3Sayndre 7600 - 7800 XT Sapphire - 32GB DDR5 • 9h 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/Rukasu17 8h ago

Honestly the studio was just a shell of it's former self. I mean the latest dragon age shows it.

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u/brainsapper GTX 970 8h ago

Hard not to notice a Ship of Theseus that has happened with a lot of childhood game studios.

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u/NohFyoochur 8h ago

People made this comment about Bungie. I forget which Bungie guy it was, but he replied with a list of names of people around since the Halo days. The problem is even if there are like a dozen or so old guys, their last game had hundreds of other people on it. Halo Studios' last halo remake had over a thousand names. The original Halo was made by like 50 people.

This would be like having one single light fixture on a ship that's original and claiming it's the same ship.

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u/donjulioanejo m2 MBA | also 5800X, 64 GB, 3080Ti 5h ago

It probably doesn't help that all the old guard (who just want to make good games) just get told to get with the times, or be labeled as toxic male gamer bros.

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u/NohFyoochur 4h ago

It's clear the focus from the C suite is not on what video game players want to play in their video games.

It's all about live service recurring revenue and looking good in the media for people who don't even play the games.

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u/VagueSomething 3h ago

Yeah Bungie currently has something like 4% of their staff being OGs. At that point you're into Homeopathy dilution and you're basically trying to tell us Bungie bathwater is the same thing.