r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 7h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/Quiet_Independence_1 7h ago

Figured it was gonna happen after the sell of EA but was hoping I’d be wrong cause I was hoping for a new mass effect.

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u/LuntiX 7h ago

I was hoping they'd be sold, not executed in the streets for profit.

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u/EloeOmoe 6h ago

I was hoping they'd be sold

There's really nothing to sell.

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u/NegativeEBTDA 6h ago

I'd buy the Dragon Age IP for a dollar. There's absolutely value to be had from these properties.

A wholesale reboot of the Dragon Age brand going back to the tone of DA:O would be so fun.

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u/EBtwopoint3 6h ago

EA owns the IP though.

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u/NegativeEBTDA 3h ago

Exactly. It is something they can sell.

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u/jerryb2161 16m ago

I think there point is Bioware doesn't have any leverage, ea owns all the rights so they just saw Bioware as a net negative.

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u/RommelMcDonald_ 5h ago

The IPs

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u/EloeOmoe 5h ago

EA is not going to sell the IP.

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u/UtkuOfficial 3h ago

They didn't shut down the ip. They can still make new games or sell the rights.

They only shut down a mess of a studio.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 3h ago

There's about a 0% chance they will make new games in the franchises.

And if they were looking to sell the rights they could have sold the studio with it instead of killing it. The saudis will bury the IP in the desert.

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u/UtkuOfficial 2h ago

Good?

Bioware tainted all their IPs unfortunately. It will take years for people to forget the failures and get nostalgia and hope for new games.

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u/money-for-nothing-tt 2h ago

It's already been years. And no it wouldn't matter at all. Nobody bought any of the bad games. That partly why we're here in the first place.

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u/LuntiX 6h ago

Staff and IPs still have value despite how EA has mismanaged it all

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u/EloeOmoe 5h ago

Staff really doesn't have value as the folks at Bioware that built their resume are gone and EA is not going to sell the IP.

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u/OdoTheBoobcat 6h ago

When the Saudis are involved summary execution is ALWAYS on the table

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u/Trrollmann 5h ago

We still crying about a single fucking journalist?? Just so we can blind ourselves to the starvation of thousands SA did in Yemen? How extremely progressive of you.

How many journalists were murdered over the panama papers? More than a hundred? How does that make you feel, you little baby?

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u/yesyoucantouchthat 6h ago

Really bummed about mass effect. They teased something years ago and I just realized I haven’t heard anything about it since

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u/A-Social-Ghost 4h ago

Yeah, i think it was 2023 that we saw a very brief snippet of the new playable character and nothing since. Just merch announcements.

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u/theflarpchampion 3h ago

Yeah I was super excited at the time. It's a shame nothing ever came of it.

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u/ExpeditionZero 6m ago

8th November 2021 was the teaser poster. Five years later and barely anything else.

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u/CIAntKidding 2h ago

Same here, this feels like karma for Batarian Genocide and doing a renegade playthrough once sabotaging Mordin’s cure.

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u/FlexoPXP 5h ago

Everyone that played an early playtest of Squadron 42 says that it has a lot of Mass Effect vibes. Plus it's got Mark Hamill.

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u/Quiet_Independence_1 5h ago

Isn’t that the game that’s been in early access on Steam for like eternity and looks like it will never come out of it?