One of the most historic studios is closing down. Unfortunately it was dead long ago. Fuck EA

Bioware is closing down
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[–] 2 points 14 hours ago* (3 children)

It's still a developer management lack of decision making. They don't get off scot free because they don't want to make a decision that EA might not like. The result of that... was a piece of shit EA didn't like. That's still on the developer.

Unless EA is telling them to change something, decisions are still on them. Like EA saying the demo is terrible and developer management deciding to add flying back in to try and fix. That comes from an EA decision/request rather than the developer being indecisive.

Are you trying to separate the Bioware team between developers and management, and lumping Bioware mangement into the EA side? Because that's not the discussion here. Bioware management being indecisive is still a developer issue, not an EA issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (2 children)

    I mean... After the buyout, you BET YOUR FUCKING ASS "EA" made every dumbass inept call against them that's physically possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Bioware management doesn't get a pass for mismanagement of Anthem development just because EA is involved. EA bought Bioware in October 2007.

    In that time before Anthem they released:
    Mass Effect - 2007
    Dragon Age: Origins - 2009
    Mass Effect 2 - 2010
    Dragon Age II - 2011
    Star Wars: The Old Republic - 2011
    Mass Effect 3 - 2012
    Dragon Age: Inquisition - 2014
    Mass Effect: Andromeda - 2017

    Are you trying to claim that EA didn't interfere until we got to Anthem? Or even that it didn't interfere until the last few years before? Because that doesn't seem likely. If they were going to, they would have from the beginning.

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