r/pcmasterrace • u/TheocraticAtheist • 7h ago

News/Article BioWare is closing down.

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u/NearPup Specs/Imgur Here 4h ago

My bet is we don’t see another new Dragon Age or Mass Effect game as long as EA is under its current management.

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u/Alt4816 4h ago edited 4h ago

Amazon is working on a Mass Effect show. If that show is a hit it would bring new interest to the franchise and I would expect another Mass Effect game. If that show is a dud then the IP could die or be put on hold for some time.

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u/Outside_Aside6223 3h ago

I think so too. There may be some sort of new Mass Effect at some point.

Dragon Age though, is dead in my opinion.

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u/C-SWhiskey 3h ago

I feel like I've been hearing about that show for as long as I've been hearing about the next ME game and details are equally sketchy. And now it's not clear if they would even have access to anybody to advise on anything about the ME universe. I'd be surprised if that show gets made and doubly surprised if it's any good.

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u/ZjY5MjFk 1h ago

Microsoft: Wow, this Fall Out show sure is a hit. How could we capitalize on that?

Todd Howard: oh jeez, we just released Starfield to great success. What more do you want?

Microsoft: uh, "great job" [rubs bridge of nose], but was thinking something fall out related? Like another game

Todd: We put a character in Fall out 76

Microsoft: Yea, but like to really give the audience something big that we could monetize. Like another Fallout game?

Todd: well, we're going to re-release Fall out 4 and break a bunch of shit

Microsoft: I feel we're not on the same page about capturing this demand.

Todd: We're going to release a new Elder Scrolls in like 6 years ... or whatever... and then after that, we'll focus on Fallout again.

Microsoft: I feel we're not aligned on urgency and time lines.

Todd: Only 1 fallout game and 1 elder's scroll per generation, those are the rules

Microsoft: What rules? Who rules?

Todd: welp, need to get back to crunch time on Elder Scrolls

Microsoft: again... we need to talk about timelines Todd. Todd? TODD?!

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u/PoliteDebater Phenom II X4 975 BE, GTX 560ti, Gskill 8GB RAM, Sabertooth 990X 3h ago

You'd ve surprised but leveraged buyout means big interest payments that they have to make so anything that doesn't make them money is useless.