The fact that they're not even too embarrassed to mention Anthem tells you a lot as well. This isn't EA doing EA things, it's a studio that has been lost to mismanagement for over a decade.
Yep, they were. Big budget, lots of leeway. Management sold the idea really hard but mismanaged and didn't deliver.
It seems like the only condition EA really put on it was for it to be online-only live service.
It's crazy how they fucked that game up. It was so cool concept wise and beautiful. And they had Warframe and Destiny to go by. They just had to mix those two with a cool world, story, and exosuits.
EA meddled in the beginning. That's how we got an NPC shilling DLC in your camp in DA:O and DA2 being forced out in less than two years.
But after that, EA backed off. ME3's ending was ruined by Casey Hudson, not EA. Anthem was entirely Bioware's idea. Andromeda was Bioware again. Veilguard was restarted development like three times and EA foolishly let them take all the time in the world.
You can blame a lot on EA, but not this. Bioware was left to flail about on their own like a Microsoft run studio, burning millions doing nothing for years and producing mediocrity when they finally finished something.
Yeah.. love their games and i’d hate to see another great studio close down but they have not made a good game since 2014.. im surprised it took this long for them to get shut down.
Damn let me fire up my pc and play Dragon Age as a tribute.
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u/Frooonti 6h ago
The fact that they're not even too embarrassed to mention Anthem tells you a lot as well. This isn't EA doing EA things, it's a studio that has been lost to mismanagement for over a decade.