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/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.