Oh, BioWare deserves its fair share of blame, too. The staff who made the magic happen in the original DA/ME series are long gone. And even those games had notoriously terrible, crunch heavy development cycles before EA was involved with ownership.
After the controversial mess that was DA Veilguard, ME was the last intellectual property left standing. Unfortunately the new ME project has been in development literally since Andromeda dropped, over 9 years ago, and they've never had anything meaningful to show for it on N7 day. 9 straight years of disappointment, then going out with a whimper.
Yeah.
Everyone who thinks Bioware didn't had any larger internal issues is just delusional. The people who made the good games already left as you said.
The mindset inside these studios and many of the newer generation of developers is vastly different from what it was 15 years ago.
Back then you had a bunch of gamers just wanting to make games. Now you have employees wanting to shit their political and cultural into the games.
Yeah, no. Don't even need to try telling me the garbage dialogues of Trashguard are some executives fault. This is just developers being shit at their job.
You know it’s easy to do your research on the development history on Dragon Age 4, right? It’s started as a single player game that got forced into a multiplayer live service game by EA and then eventually back to single player and they gave the studio 6 months to come up with a game to ship out. It’s idiotic to try and try culture war bs on this.
The game sold 1.5 million copies and overall had a decent enough user and critic score. But that’s not enough for EA and is pennies when put up against the amount of micro transactions they sell.
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u/Remotecube 6h ago
Oh, BioWare deserves its fair share of blame, too. The staff who made the magic happen in the original DA/ME series are long gone. And even those games had notoriously terrible, crunch heavy development cycles before EA was involved with ownership.
After the controversial mess that was DA Veilguard, ME was the last intellectual property left standing. Unfortunately the new ME project has been in development literally since Andromeda dropped, over 9 years ago, and they've never had anything meaningful to show for it on N7 day. 9 straight years of disappointment, then going out with a whimper.