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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/geileanus 5h ago

Why do they do this? Genuinely what is happening here?

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u/YeeYeeBeep 4h ago

So there is something called a Private Equity Firm. Now a lot of bullshit is needed to explain them in detail but ill keep it brief and as ELI5 as possible. A company, in this case EA, buys another company, Bioware, now owning this company and its legal rights and all that jazz, they make the dev company produce games that can range from bad to good. The quality dosent matter because since its Bioware who made the games, that company eats any losses, meanwhile EA will take any profits from the company and pay out the execs. Now once Bioware is too debt ridden to be profitable for EA, they will simply shut down the studio and the studio will take all debts with them to the grave, because the debt belongs to Bioware not EA. EA gets to keep the pofits while pushing the losses onto Bioware until Bioware is a blood-drained corpse and thrown into a shallow grave.

Yes, EA is not a private equity firm, but thats why they buy up dev studios, run them into the ground, and shut them down when its too much. Just rampant capitalism for ya, the green line must stay green and going up forever.

Cant post short links in this sub but go to google and search what i place below if you want to learn about PE firms and why they are a parasite.

The Dark Side of Private Equity | The University of Chicago Business Law Review

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u/N0va-Zer0 2h ago

I'm tired of people copping out with "capitalism" being why studios go under.

You don't think it has ANYTHING to do with the slop they were putting out? The complete 180 from the previous games direction and stlye?

No? Just "muh captiliasm"?

Great.

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u/YeeYeeBeep 2h ago

ok, dont care, literally explains why it is capitalism, mind i think capitalism can work but only with government regulation to stop shit like this from happening. good day

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u/rainstorm0T 5h ago

either they're trying to recapture the lightning in a bottle that was their purchase of Maxis back in the late '90s, or they're just pump and dumping studios to make as much profit as they can with them.