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/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/sadacal 8h ago

People who think a studio's name means something is just stupid. It's always been about the developers working in those studios. When those people leave, how can the studio be the same?

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u/Slazor 7h ago

Ever heard of Theseus’ paradox ?

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u/sadacal 5h ago

This is a bit different than Theseus' paradox. The developers are more like the crew of the ship rather than the ship itself. People are expecting because one crew were able to pilot the ship to do heroic feats then that means another crew of completely different people would on the ship would be just as capable of doing those same heroic feats.

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u/Slazor 5h ago

Yet people also change, and a former bioware team wouldn't be a guarantee of success nowadays but I get your point.

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

I think that's the point. The studio is the ship, and developers are its parts.

If you replace all the parts (i.e. all the developers), it's functionally a new ship, even if it looks and feels like the old ship.