No. They just made bad games. There’s such a giant circlejerk with this “studio good corporate bad” even when studios such as Rocksteady tell you to your face “This is the game we wanted to make” with failures such as Suicide Squad.
It’s as if studios are completely incapable of making bad games.
They started Mass Effect 2 about the time EA bought them. Every game they made after that was worse than the last, every game they made before that was a masterpiece.
Usually it's not that clear cut, but this time it is. They started making bad games right after EA bought them.
We've had Respawn and Motive make great single player games under the EA banner. Bioware is washed. Respawn has managed to tell better stories in their Jedi games than whatever Bioware has churned out since Inquisition.
That was like 10 years after Bioware went to shit. And the Jedi games are simply good but no more than that, while any Bioware game up to ME2 is among the greatest of all time.
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u/TheyStillLive69 8h ago
They've made three big failures (both in revenue and reputation) in a row.