They remain unrivaled when it comes to this

[u/John-333]

[u/Euphoric-Practice-83]

I mean, yeah. But if this in response to Bioware, I disagree. They gave them many chances, and they are not the same studio as they were a decade ago

[u/john_mach → u/Euphoric-Practice-83]

BioWare’s death was completely due to their leadership. They just stopped shipping good games and instead invested in the wrong projects. Sad to see it happen :(

[u/Dyyrin]

Bioware deserved to be shutdown.

[u/Mist_Rising → u/Dyyrin]

The Mass effect IP should have been given to someone else. They have a mass effect TV series coming out damn it.

[u/Dyyrin → u/Mist_Rising]

I'm hoping Exodus next year hits that Mass Effect itch.

[u/PartialChicken_Wing → u/Dyyrin]

[u/Euphoric-Practice-83 → u/Dyyrin]

[u/GrittyKnight → u/Dyyrin]

Bro predicted the future right before EA pulled the plug. Are you an EA executive’s burner account by any chance?

[u/Symbiot3_Venom → u/Dyyrin]

Yup three straight disasters. ME:A, Anthem, DA : Veilguard

[u/Sir_Potato2000 → u/Symbiot3_Venom]

And the funny thing is, the developers of Dragon Age: Veilguard were given complete creative freedom. If that’s the limit of their creativity, then it’s just as well I won't see the release of the new Mass Effect.

[u/CloudZ1116 → u/Sir_Potato2000]

Pretty sure it was Anthem that went off the rails with "creative freedom". Veilguard suffered immensely from live service whiplash.

[u/H0vis]

Microsoft kind of went on a studio spree killing, after embarking on that equally insane buyout spree. EA meanwhile are more of a serial studio killer. They were at it since way back when. Two decades at least.

I think in recent years they had the common courtesy to pretend the studio was alive, but plenty of them are dead in all but name already.

EA don't give a fuck, there's always money in the sport franchise loot boxes.

[u/Sir_Potato2000 → u/H0vis]

Bioware were given three chances and on both occasions they had substantial budgets and a fair amount of creative freedom. The people running EA aren’t idiots, they don’t shut down studios like Xbox or Sony do. They had to close Bioware because it had been making nothing but only losses for nearly 10 years. Any director would have got rid of such a liability.

[u/Standard-Effort5681]

Are we talking about the recent closure of BioWare? I'm sorry but in this particular case I'm on EA's side.

You can blame corporate meddling all you want, but if the corpos really wanted BioWare closed down do you really think they would've allowed them to lose money and pump out flop after flop straight for a decade?

[u/Afraid_Ad_6046]

If all Bioware had left was its reputation from two decades ago, then they were a husk waiting for the end anyway. The real loss here is the IPs that died along with it. They are likely gone forever, and there is a certain sadness that comes with such a loss.

[u/stayndarsh]

[u/Everesthia]

the problem is that the devs who built the studio reputation was no longer there when they took over.

[u/theacp127]

Bioware was basically dead 10 years ago. If they weren't under EA, they probably would have gone bankrupt after Anthem as anyway.

[u/Beaubayou]

EA, in its developer aquisitions, has for a longtime felt similar to a private equity firm that buys a company, guts the staff and budgets, and just sells crap at a higher profit margin, riding on the company's reputation until it can't anymore and then closes it down.

[u/SnakeThruster]

I miss simcity, cities skylines just doesnt docit for me.

Also companies like Konami who has 1 billion IP they never use, like bloody roar 😭

[u/justtolearnsomething]

Sucked up and then spat away like that

[u/AaromALV]

Microsoft didn't close any of the studios they split, the real Bioware died a long time ago and deserved that shutdown

[u/Dip2pot4t0Ch1P]

Bioware had it coming really

[u/QuinSanguine]

And having enough dead IPs to launch a zombie apocalypse with.

[u/GrittyKnight]

Madara and Hashirama created a village, but these two only create graveyard shifts for talented developers.

[u/Trap_Party1224]

Nah fuck those studios. They had unlimited budget, unheard of creative freedoms and they still couldn't make game that people want to play. Rip bozo. Do better next time.

[u/GreatnessToTheMoon → u/Trap_Party1224]

Truth Nuke

[u/GetOffMyCaversons → u/Trap_Party1224]

Source?

[u/ss99838]

I thoght I read somewhere that rather than closing the studios, they were now under different management than Microsoft. Or did the article I read was just Microsoft corpo speak. Can someone confirm if they read the same thing

Edit: Aparently, the moved just a couple of studios and have closed much more of them.

[u/Nyktastik → u/ss99838]

For Halo, yea, they went to Activision. Xbox closed many other studios though

[u/lkl34 → u/ss99838]

M$ is the 2nd biggest owner of ip's out there tencent being the big dog they have closed a shitton of studios.

[u/SexySpaceNord]

If they dont make money why keep them open?

[u/InternetExploder87]

I just saw ea is closing down Bioware, killing Mass Effect. Bitches....

[u/FireDragon21976]

Capitalism. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[u/Choubidouu → u/FireDragon21976]

This is the most deserved shutdown ever, this has nothing to do with capitalism.

[u/Mantergeistmann → u/Choubidouu]

I mean, insofar as capitalism is people choosing how to spend their money...

[u/FireDragon21976 → u/Choubidouu]

It has everything to do with capitalism. The inertia of capitalist systems is towards a few players becoming monopolies over the entire market.

[u/Sir_Potato2000 → u/FireDragon21976]

Under communism, you’d be playing the Party’s ideological low quality games, promoting patriotism of civic duty and including censorship

[u/FireDragon21976 → u/Sir_Potato2000]

Which has exactly nothing to do with the point I was making: most people here are actively participating in a system that encourages monopoly behavior, and shouldn't act surprised when monopolies decide to cut off loose ends.