You can't put it all on EA. Bioware was a highly mismanaged company and it was their own fault. Their development cycle was dick around for several years then try to churn out a game in one year.
Bullshit. Complete and utter bullshit. Every time this happens, every time, some people come out and say "Oh, it's actually not EA's fault! See, they bought a great studio, but the next few games from that studio flopped. What did you expect EA to do? They're a business, after all!"
At some point you people should realize that if EA buys a studio and that studio starts producing horrible games, then the fault is with EA. One or two times I could believe it. But how many studio died under EA by now, while releasing bangers before that?
IDK if it's copium or some EA damage control or what, but it's bullshit. It's EA's fault, full stop.
I see EA as more of a catalyst for Bioware's demise and not the sole reason. Bioware was a fundamentally disfuntional company with how they operated. They needed tons of time to fuck around to make a good game. They also had some brilliant people that had some great ideas, but they all ended jumping ship. EA put them under actual deadlines, Bioware still fucked around as usual, but had to publish the shit sandwiches they were making. Ultimately I was think Bioware would be a dead studio regardless of EA acquisition, EA just sped it up a tiny bit.
I think a better example of what you're saying is Dead Space. That was 100% a franchise that was killed off by EA being stupid and greedy.
I honestly think just about every franchise and studio that died under EA died because of them being stupid and greedy. Maybe there are exceptions, but those just prove the rule, IMO.
Even then, if (in this example) Bioware liked to experiment and fuck around, but produced some great (and profitable) games because of that, wouldn't it be wiser to just let them do that? Instead of whatever they did with Anthem, Veilguard, etc.?
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u/cornbread6767 8h ago
EA dooms every property that they purchase.