r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 8h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/Informalwizards 8h ago

Anyone paying attention saw this coming for a long time now. Still sad to see it happen and I hope the best for those that lost their jobs.

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u/Dhenn004 8h ago

Im not incredibly upset... the talent who made the games they listed are already gone. But its just the sign of the times. American/western gaming is on life support

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u/The_Poop_Shooter 8h ago

The talent didn’t vanish, it moved. A lot of it went to smaller studios, and that’s where some of the best western games of the last few years came from: Baldur’s Gate 3, Hades II, Clair Obscur. The big publishers are struggling. Western gaming isn’t.

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u/coconutty_wireless4g 8h ago

This. Anybody in the working world, especially corporate, know that if the company holds back great talent, they will move elsewhere. EA, Sony, Xbox aren't the only publishers so devs have either gone to the other ones or self publish.

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u/poojinping 5h ago

Yup, especially after Covid. The big studios went bat shit crazy.

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u/After-Citron2505 7h ago

Only the good ones though right? I hope the shit talented game developers are flipping burgs.