r/videogames • u/Dhenn004 • 9h ago

News / Trailers / Articles Bioware is dead

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u/iDizzeh 7h ago

How many more shots do they need? They been flopping for years.

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 7h ago

A lot of that was due to poor management with EA. Tons of bugs and issues with Andromeda much of which stem from EA's mandate of using the Frostbite engine for every game. An engine built for battlefield meant to scale for an RPG. EA wanted a live service title fast to jump on the bandwagon and we got Anthem. No, its not great I agree, but they were working on an entry to a beloved franchise that was damn near guaranteed to hit a certain portion of the market even if it wasn't the best.

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u/Rbespinosa13 6h ago

Veilguard also suffered by the initial push to live service. BioWare had issues before EA, but EA made things worse in every way

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u/OmeletteDuFromage95 5h ago

Veilguard was also initially built as a live service only to shift late in development. EA has owned Bioware since 2007 so all of this is under their purview.