r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 7h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/goliathfasa 6h ago

Anthem. It was truly timeless.

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u/TheGreatMrMagoo 5h ago

Anthem was fantastic just needed more content. And released better than so many other games. I'll die on that hill

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u/Savingseanbean 5h ago

Anthem was dogshit even if it had 10 times the content.

It was a fundamentally extremely flawed game, we just really really liked the visuals.

There was no saving its horrible mismatch of gameplay,loot,level,enemy design with more content. it needed entire system redesigns.

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u/punchedboa 3h ago

Don’t forget how worthless the loot was. Nothing you did mattered.

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u/goliathfasa 2h ago

It was a great concept of a game. A good skeleton to build an actual game on.

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_MAMMARIES 5h ago

Anthem is the type of game that unironically needed Bungie level commitment and could've reliably gone toe to toe with Destiny.

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u/Starkiller2442 1h ago

Would have beat destiny hands down had they stuck with it like bungie has stuck with destiny.

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u/Rump-Buffalo 5h ago

What a lonely hill to try to die on

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u/dicjones 2h ago

I’ll die on that hill with him. Lol.

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u/AlsoOtto 5h ago

Even if we accept that Anthem was good, that's still seven years ago.

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u/H8thinmints 3h ago

Fuuuuuuuck no that wasn't 7 years?!?! damn

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u/Vegasmarine88 4h ago

Going to be honeat that was all on EA. Profit first mindset doesn't make good games. It makes buggy unfinished product but since the devs take the hate they likely dont care. Just buy another studio and destroy what made them special.

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u/crookeddy 4h ago

Look up the story of Anthem. There are countless articles. Absolutely NOT on "all on EA".

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u/voidox 3h ago

nah, facts and history is bad for these "EA killed the studio for no reason" ppl, legit trying to act like EA shut down Bioware for no reason at all -_-

as you say, with Anthem we literally have information on it's development hell and how it was NOT EA at all that resulted in that shit game, it was bioware.

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u/crookeddy 3h ago

The studio had 3 HUGE financial flops in a row. They wouldn't have survived that as an indy either.

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u/voidox 3h ago

yup, apparently that information is nothing and Bioware had nothing to do with being shut down, just insane stuff with some ppl

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u/crookeddy 2h ago

The real issue, of course, is the cost of AAA games. Basically one bad flop can end a successful company. And the thing is games like Andromeda weren't even that bad, but "not that bad" isn't good enough with the budgets we're talking about.

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u/435rouhnj234_209u 20m ago

Anthem is the type of game that needs to be top 3 in its genre for it to be successful, with an interesting enough premise that draws players from other online shooters to play it in the first place. If I were a dev, I'd start job searching as soon as I'm put on a live service project like that because chances of failure are 99.99%.