r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 8h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/TheSqueeman 8h ago

EA just made it very fucking easy to never buy one of their games again, no skin off of my nose, they ain’t gonna get a single penny from me again

Simplest gaming choice out there

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u/saxonturner 8h ago

BioWare enjoyed more freedom to make their games than any other EA studio, them closing is on BioWare, not EA. Just look at the last games they have released.

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u/Leroyp331 7h ago

I don't think there is an appreciation that when you try new things some of them will fail.

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u/Spokker 7h ago

You can't try too many new things when the development and marketing budget is $250 million.

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u/Leroyp331 7h ago

I am just saying I appreciate them not just doing the same thing over and over.

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u/Hot-Guard-9119 4h ago

Your appreciation led to this closure.

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u/Leroyp331 4h ago

Look up private equity and learn yourself something little boy

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u/Hot-Guard-9119 2h ago

Jedi FO and Survivor were released under the same private equity and were successful. Learn yourself something little boy

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u/Leroyp331 2h ago

So this is the problem. You don't understand what you are talking about. Bioware produced 1 game that actually lost money... Before private equity owned gaming... one game not making money was a normal thing for developers. It was accounted for. That sometimes led to big swings that created and defined genre.

Maybe it was a game like half life or even Nintendo with Zelda or any number of bites at the apple that also crashed and burned.

It was a part of the gaming industry. This is a great company that made great games that's folded because they one game lose money and 2 fail to meet corp expectations. They made money just not enough... so they fold the shop.

They don't stop making those games. They say the whole thing comes down. They strip it and sell for parts.

The next big job all those game developers get they shoot for solid remakes and basic concepts they believe will succeed.

And we get vanilla bullshit games