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[–] 15 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Why do they bother spending all that money acquiring them if they're just gonna let it fester? It's not to kill off competition because they didn't have competing franchises in those niches. And they weren't even exploiting the properties for a quick cash grab. Was it to fleece the talent? But even then, they aren't building games that would take advantage of those particular specialties.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    They were forced by a leveraged buyout. Private equity comes in with borrowed money (debt), swamps up all the shares, then saddles the company with all the debt used to buy the shares.

    Video explaining leveraged buyout

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  • [–] 16 points 22 hours ago*

    None of the "big names" at bioware ended up un other EA studios. They all basically quit one after one and ended uo either as indies, in other fields, or working for non ea studios. Although some came back for anthem (and then left permanently).

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