I fucking despise Electronic Arts with every fiber of my being. I genuinely struggle to think of another publisher that has done as much damage to the gaming industry as EA has. The amount of talent they've wasted, the legendary studios they've shut down, the beloved franchises they've run into the ground, all while squeezing every last penny out of their customers, is genuinely fucking depressing.
These motherfuckers have bought some of the most talented studios in the industry, milked them for whatever they're worth, and then thrown them in the trash the moment they stopped being profitable enough. They took studios with actual passion, creativity, and talented people behind them and turned them into corporate zombies chasing trends, microtransactions, and quarterly profits. And when things inevitably went wrong, it was the developers who lost their jobs while the executives walked away just fine.
I swear to God, I genuinely hope EA goes bankrupt tomorrow. I want to see them lose everything they've spent decades building, not because I want the people working there to suffer, but because I'm so fucking tired of watching a company with that much money and influence repeatedly screw over the very industry that made it successful in the first place.
And the most depressing part? None of it fucking matters. FIFA will keep selling like crazy, people will keep throwing money at Ultimate Team, and EA will continue making billions regardless of how many studios they shut down or how many franchises they ruin. You could write a fucking essay about everything wrong with this company, and tomorrow millions of people would still happily hand them their money. It's honestly infuriating.
BioWare committed suicide... they haven't done anything really good in more than a decade, they've been little more than a corpse since then and honestly, it is far more surprising that EA kept just shoveling money into that hellhole.
Well... until now... my guess is that someone at EA asked them about the next Mass Effect and if they have anything to show... and BW just couldn't give them anything.
you do understand that it was EA policies, extreme budget cuts, forced outsourcing and general censorship that led any recent projects down the drain, right? The majority of the original developers left because of the unrealistic way EA treats its IP's. Being forced to outsource parts of a game to foreign studios that have 0 experience, because EA decided it's better for budget, doesn't get you a great game.
And the thing is, EA has done this time and time again with studios that have real potential. Now it's BioWare, after literal decades of sabotage by their owner. Yeah, they didn't produce what they could have, should have, would have.. but EA is to blame for that more than whatever was left of BioWare to begin with, and I wouldn't say suicide.. I'd say it's been slowly poisoned until there was enough reason to kill it completely. So.. fuck EA.
I don't think there's convincing evidence to support the theory that EA is the primary reason that BioWare has been releasing awful games.
I think BioWare simply lost the employees who made those great games many years ago and the newer employees who replaced them weren't capable of making good games.
You know, guys, there do exist bad game designers, bad project managers, etc. It's not like the only reason bad games get made is bad CEOs lol.
No, it has been downhill when the Founders left... after that BioWare became entirely chaotic and inattentive at best... flip-floping around as if the entire Studio caught ADHD.
This is just typical "Studio Good, Corpo Bad" Bullshit that enabled the three conescutive Major Failures in the first place...
Yes, and the constant friction of BioWare trying to maintain it's own identity while EA was trying to make them conform has been reportedly a big reason for leaving in the first place.
Who do you think is in control? Do you think being forced to run games on an engine that wasn't suitable for the type of game was the director's idea of a fun time?
A studio that is owned by a company is under constant pressure to adhere to the rules of the company.
I agree, leadership didn't have enough backbone or even interest to turn these games around. And I agree, the team was a mess with good employees constantly leaving and it having no direction.
Hell, I'll even concede that BioWare wasn't "studio good" anymore, for a good while.
But that is CAUSED by that type of mismanagement. And EA is very well known for using the "you either agree or there is no funding" method.
The three flops are symptoms of a studio already mostly killed in the first place. And that makes this just a belated epitaph.
And that's just a good reminder of what this absolutely bad corpo has done a good while ago.
It is totally valid to look at a picture of a thing you once loved, and even though it died years ago, still dislike the thing that killed it.
Yes, and the constant friction of BioWare trying to maintain it's own identity while EA was trying to make them conform has been reportedly a big reason for leaving in the first place.
What are you talking about? Both confounders left to become venture capitalists and angel investors in other companies. They literally wanted to be like EA themselves and decided they had enough money to start lol
There are literally videos made on how BioWare got screwed because of EA policies by talking to former employees of both sides. I am not saying BioWare didn't do stupid things on their own volition, but to say it's purely their own fault is farcical.
Explain Jedi Fallen Order, or Jedi Survivor, or It Takes Two, or Split Fiction, or Apex Legends. Uh-oh, turns out it's not EA that's the problem. And EA tried to bail them out over and over again.
While I don't know a lot about apex, Hazelight has full creative freedom and Respawn Entertainment has to pitch more towards Lucasfilm than EA, which was part of the whole deal of being allowed to make the games in the first place. The same degree of creative freedom or even budgetary and directional freedom have not been offered to BioWare since ME3, and was even under fire during the production of that. It is why people left, and why BioWare became an empty shell of what it once was to begin with, and why they have been left incapable of creating anything close to what back then made a real mark on the gaming industry as a whole.
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u/Sufficient_Bad_4160 8h ago
I fucking despise Electronic Arts with every fiber of my being. I genuinely struggle to think of another publisher that has done as much damage to the gaming industry as EA has. The amount of talent they've wasted, the legendary studios they've shut down, the beloved franchises they've run into the ground, all while squeezing every last penny out of their customers, is genuinely fucking depressing.
These motherfuckers have bought some of the most talented studios in the industry, milked them for whatever they're worth, and then thrown them in the trash the moment they stopped being profitable enough. They took studios with actual passion, creativity, and talented people behind them and turned them into corporate zombies chasing trends, microtransactions, and quarterly profits. And when things inevitably went wrong, it was the developers who lost their jobs while the executives walked away just fine.
I swear to God, I genuinely hope EA goes bankrupt tomorrow. I want to see them lose everything they've spent decades building, not because I want the people working there to suffer, but because I'm so fucking tired of watching a company with that much money and influence repeatedly screw over the very industry that made it successful in the first place.
And the most depressing part? None of it fucking matters. FIFA will keep selling like crazy, people will keep throwing money at Ultimate Team, and EA will continue making billions regardless of how many studios they shut down or how many franchises they ruin. You could write a fucking essay about everything wrong with this company, and tomorrow millions of people would still happily hand them their money. It's honestly infuriating.