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u/Safe_Masterpiece_995 8h ago

Fucking insane. Mass Effect and Dragon age will never get anothe rgame

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u/umbrella_CO 8h ago

Oh those IPs will probably be sold or handed to another EA dev team

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u/xGiladPellaeon 8h ago

I think that won't happen, look at how they handelnd Command & Conquer as an IP.

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u/dobman01 7h ago

Command and conquer is where its at because EA thinks the rts genre is pretty much dead.

Biowares games probably won't be handed off or they would have said something in the meantime the IPs will sit in the basement for probably a decade or so before somebody thinks to trot them out again

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u/IHOOHI 7h ago

There isn't a market for RTS and not many games survive a genre jump.

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u/dobman01 7h ago

Not big enough for EA to bother with. I jeep seeing other studios try to make rts games and they always seem to focus on Esports over just making a fun strategy game

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u/Adalonzoio 5h ago

I feel like RTS is in a similar vein as the fighting genre at this point. There is an audence, it's niche it's just unlikely to grow.

As a fan myself, excited for the new dawn of war

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u/ProfessionalAir5435 3h ago

Excuse me, but a lot of us are still jumping up down on the corpse of AOE2 and it's 5000 DLC. That sounds sarcastic, but I'm being serious. I still love that game.

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u/ishmetot 3h ago

Everyone also thought that old school western RPGs were a stagnant market before BG3. I think a high-quality successor to Starcraft or Command and Conquer would succeed. The problem is that studios keep trying to devise ways to ensure that they turn a profit instead of focusing on making a game that's actually good enough to attract new players to the genre. Also, RTS game tend to be bottlenecked by things other than GPUs, so they will run on existing hardware.

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u/CaleanKnight RTS 6h ago

The Genre IS pretty much dead... that's not a conjecture or Corporate "It wouldn't make Big Bucks" talk...

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u/Richpur 6h ago

The genre peaked with Supreme Commander and nobody's been able to do bigger or better, everything keeps scaling back down to the x-com squad tactical level with RPG elements formula.

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u/NiiliumNyx 2h ago

If you liked SupCom, check out BEYOND ALL REASON. It's a free RTS (not even in game purchases) with an active community which ticks all the warm and fuzzy "I can have 2000 units in the field" boxes.

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u/UtkuOfficial 4h ago

The rts genre is dead.