lots of shitty management coming down from EA. veilguard was delayed like five times and if they had just been like "you have four years" instead of "you have a year. oh wait you have another year. oh wait you have another year" then the work would've been a helluva lot smoother for everybody and the game would've been, i assume better,

idk i fell off dragon age because they fucked up turning a spinoff into dragon age 2 and ruined the gameplay.

Is there any evidence of stuff like this happening before? 400 jobs in Edmonton is a lot and I doubt most of them have the savings to individually spend 1-3 years making an indie game.

Grim Reaper moving from door to door of their acquired studios

For some reason I thought they were already shut down, I guess that's what happens when you have studios that release a game once a decade

Well they had to finalize all that Kushner Trump Saudi thing.

Probably best for whatever evolves from the fallout. Saudis are next to have negative public sentiment. The war and it's ties between them, Trump, , their role in 9/11.

They made fucking Baldur's Gate!

And Kotor and NWN.

kotor has more staying power than baldur's gate (which is for nerds)

Correct choice. I imagine most people would think about BG3 when they read baldurs gate in a headline.

Baldur's Gate

i just did a playthrough 20 years since i last played it. truly teenage me did not appreciate the game nearly enough, it's excellent.

Everything about it is incredibly global war on terror/post 9 11.

I played it for the first time recently. It was so absurd that I felt more nostalgic than mad and sort of laughed through the game. But I imagine I would have hated it back when it actually came out

it is a game about an unaccountable space cop.

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.

Ansarallah, steel your heart

mass 2 had a cohort of detractors because of the way it was de-rpged. idk i still liked it but it was steps in the wrong direction like everything else

I remember people liking Inquisition, it just had the misfortune to be competing against Witcher 3

People definitely liked Inquisition, but that was 12 years ago and it predates gamergate. Since then I'd say Veilguard was good, but the gamergaters decided that they hated that one, and then there was Anthem, the EA mandated live service flop.

The Protheans tried to warn us but all we did was allow the reapers to buy and merge all the companies. Gg no re.

It sucks for those 400 people. Especially because they've probably been dreading this happening for years (As a group if not necessarily individually) while probably being made to do work that was totally useless the last two years, and likely under shit conditions.