Im not incredibly upset... the talent who made the games they listed are already gone. But its just the sign of the times. American/western gaming is on life support
Bioware still had the talent, that's what's so tragic. It just got utterly squandered by EA's bone-headed live-service nonsense demands. That's half the reason DA:V and Anthem ended up the way that they did.
Actually, if open letters are to believed, ea might be the only reason anthem was as good as it managed to be. . . And that the entire clusterfuck around it was mostly biowares fault, or rather managements fault. Over reliance on "bioware magic" or last minute crunch to literally anybody else. Its said that half the staff didnt even know what they were making till the e3 "real gameplay footage" came out then had to scramble to make what was in the trailer.
The whole thing was a hot mess and a crystalized example of corpo beauracracy and too many managers
The EA execs forced Bioware to shove out mindless moneymakers in a competitive market instead of true sequels to ME and DA. They should've all been fired when BG3 became a smashing success within the traditional WRPG genre, which is what DA3 should've been. If they wanted to make a live-service, f2p style game, they could've spun off the already successful ME3 co-op mode. I see the same thing happening with Blizzard, where SC3 has been deprioritized despite all indications that it would sell extremely well in the current environment. The RTS market has been completely desaturated and internet speeds are great while GPUs prices have gone through the roof.
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u/Dhenn004 8h ago
Im not incredibly upset... the talent who made the games they listed are already gone. But its just the sign of the times. American/western gaming is on life support