r/pcmasterrace • u/TheocraticAtheist • 9h ago

News/Article BioWare is closing down.

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u/GrimJimmy94 8h ago
  1. I’m sorry people are losing their jobs
  2. EA played a major part in the poor performance of their last 3 games
  3. Let’s not act like BioWare are entirely blameless, a lot of the staff that made their games iconic left and they’ve been making crap for 3 games straight.

As to my last point: dragon age origins for me is up there with BG3 in terms of great RPGs, I absolutely adored the art style, the way the characters interacted and the world created. I launched into dragon age veilguard when it came out as a huge fan of the series and it was honestly one of the most jarring games I’ve ever played, it was like the people at the studio hated everything the series had been and went out of their way to annoy old fans. There’s innovation and then there’s self mutilation. BioWare as we knew it was gone long before EA shut it down

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u/Jashmyne 7h ago

Anthem was purely Bioware screwing up tho. They sat for years doing nothing until EA got tired of them and demanded they give them the game they promised. Hell, that Anthem had flying in it was EA's idea since Bioware had removed it so the one good thing in that game, Bioware did not like.
You can kinda blame EA for Veilguard since they kept changing what they wanted with the game but the terrible story, the terrible characters, terrible combat and terrible artstyle and the removal of all things that made Dragon Age well Dragon Age is all on Bioware as well.

But yeah as others have said, the people that made Bioware famous left years ago. And while it is a bit sad that we didn't get Mass Effect 5, chances of it being good was very low so it's for the best that Mass Effect 3 was the end.