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.
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/CaleanKnight RTS 6h ago
As much as it is fun to shit on EA...
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.