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When they got sold to ea, this was the only possible outcome anyway. Not sure if they sold out or ea did some corporate bullshit to force them to it, but they should have stayed away from ea if they wanted to keep making games.
The founders and original lead developers - Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk - created over a dozen games before they sold the company.
Idk what else you’d want. They did their thing and then they cashed out to live their lives doing other things.
Bioware wasn’t even supposed to be a video game company. It was originally founded to pioneer medical technology and only pivoted when their side project - Shattered Steel - outperformed expectations.
Sometime people need to stop being mad because one participate Treats Train has finally ended it’s run. Be glad for the games you got, not sad because it’s over
After all, you’ve still got Larian and Paradox and Owlcat and a thousand other indie studios making equivalent games.
Paradox just added a expansion for your comment. To unlock please pay $12.99…
$12.99 for… another 200 hours of content? Wtf! In this economy?!
More like $12.99 for core functionality that should have been released with the game (cities skylines is the worst for this). I’m all for reasonable pricing to cover the costs of development, but chaining together a dozen expansions and making a $40 game cost an additional $160 is bonkers. Its deceptive pricing, and it shouldn’t be excused just because you like small studios making better games. It would be better to release games when they are fully ready and have a roadmap of full cost available.
Though it does look like they’ve now offered a subscription service to essentially rent the expansions for $8 a month, at least that provides choices.
They sold out to a private equity firm, who in turn sold them to EA.
Bioware also had a large number of employees in Edmonton. Maga goons (Jared Kushner and Lourenco Goncalves) are just laying off Canadians to hurt the economy.
Eh. Bioware died a long time ago.
Alternate headline:
“The reanimated corpse of your loved one is now at peace.”
Right. Sucks for the people working there, but the BioWare we miss was already gone, so it doesn’t hurt that much.
Yeah when EA purchased them.
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Yeah, but now we miss out on playing a rushed mass effect game and getting to complain about it not measuring up for a couple weeks. Now I have to find something new to do in August 2027
True, they have been on a trash slop run and this is the inevitable result.
It has been a long time since I bought an EA game, yeah. Bioware was their only developer that I cared for.
In these lists of great things to remember Bioware for, people keep not including MDK2. It told an amazing story of a mad scientist, his janitor and robot dog, repelling an alien invasion and saving Earth. Deserves to be mentioned alongside their othet awesome games.
You think it’s popular enough that anyone knows what MDK2 even means? People after lazy and won’t search that to find out. Maybe you should stop being lazy too and just woke out the actually name instead of this game you seem to think it’s unforgettable will remain entirely entirely forgotten
‘‘woke out the actually name instead’’
You’re an idiot. Learn english if you’re going to preach to people in this language. FYI the name of the game actually is ‘‘MDK2’’.
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I knew the name you champion. MDK1 and 2 were my favorite games besides Army men 3DO
We found them! The person who had the 3DO!
Brother/Sister, you have no idea how much 3DO’s Army men series was a part of my life.
I wish someone would remake Army men land sea and air, like a Company of Heroes clone.
I use to have 5 small crates filled with plastic soldiers. They were my life.
Lol it’s the actual name of the game.
Apparently I wasn’t lazy enough to do some leg work to figure it out (I actually knew about this game and was able to identify it by the name but that’s beyond the point.)
You’re the reason why Netflix has to take into account people doom scrolling on their phones while they watch their media.
It probably took less time for me to search, upload and write this message than it took you to type up that rancid pile of shit.
So for everyone concerned: shut the fuck up.
How about you tell us the ‘actual name’, sucka? Because anyone who was a gamer in 1997-2000 knows of the mystery behind that name.
My Dick Knuckle 2
Murder Death Kill.
EA has form for turning buyouts into shit. Look at PopCap who produced joyous casual-but-fair games until EA sunk their claws into them.
The Morons in Japan are trying to blame online piracy. Makes me wanna swallow some nails…
I gotta be honest, this is not unexpected at all.
BioWare released 4 games since 2017, one of which was just a remaster/collection of the older Mass Effect titles. The other three games were Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age Veilguard, all of which aren’t exactly considered the studio’s best work. These games did not sell well, obviously (and in some cases there are EA earning reports that confirm this), leading to studio closure. Honestly I am surprised this didn’t happen sooner. The talent that actually made BioWares reputation probably havent been at that studio for a while.
The talent that actually made BioWares reputation probably havent been at that studio for a while.
Exactly. A few key figures left not long after the EA buyout. The rest trickled out over time. The Wikipedia article for Dragon Age Veilguard has an entire section dedicated to the revolving door of key staff leaving or being laid off over the course of its almost 10 year development.
It’s far from everyone, but a few names from the old Bioware are currently working on this game set to release next year, which is billing itself as a sort of spiritual successor to Mass Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(2027_video_game)
Edit: And there is also a spiritual successor to KotOR in development with involvement of a few other key names from old Bioware.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Fate_of_the_Old_Republic
This is why I still consider it fair to blame EA for downstream effects like this. There’s no guarantee as independent studios that they would function better, but they at least would have original staff from star games. Like PopCap, and Reddit refuses to acknowledge EA had any part of the garbage PopCap releases now.
I’m a big fan of Bullfrog (own every game) and saw the writing on the wall when Bioware got bought.
They understand the cost of everything, the value of nothing
EA Games: Value Nothing
It’s always the fucking suits.
it’s crazy that despite this happening a couple days ago, the official bioware website still says nothing about this closure. Like they didn’t even bother updating the site to say “hey btw we are closed” The optimistic side of me hopes that it’s because they want to try to go inde again and run on their own but… probably not.
Note too the shit stains that now own EA.
Can’t spell death without ea
bioware was dead somewhere in between getting taken over by ea, long before this.
EA is a pox on humanity now.
EA = Enshittify All.
I had to write a buad report on them long time back. EA is basically the Martin Shkreli of the gaming industry.
As is capitalism, especially the unregulated sort, where executives worst ideas run the show
Electraudi Artsrabia strikes again.
I really wish we could get another great Mass Effect game, but I knew not to get my hopes up. I played Andromeda, after all.
Despite combat being better and more polished in Andromeda than it was in the trilogy Mass Effect, Andromeda felt like a fan-fiction adaptation of Mass Effect. It did not feel like it was made by the same people. I feel like tying that game into Mass Effect was a mistake.
