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[–] 3 points 3 hours ago

Aw man. Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and OG Dragon Age saw me through some of my formative gaming years and it’s been a shame to watch since. I didn’t even bother with Veilguard.

Larian is our big shining hope for this kind of game now, it seems.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 hours ago* (1 child)
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    Thank God. I was worried a Saudi Kushner Mass Effect would create some kind of paradoxal tear in reality, like the damn pocket universe in Superman.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    My theory is that EA is actually secretly ran by Hollywood in a bid to get people back to watching movies and TV.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago

    Game companies are reading the tea leaves.

    AI bought all the ram

    AI bought owns all the GPU

    Any Game can be decoded and rewritten in fresh code via AI for the tiniest fraction of a salary. It will eventually be able to do it with performance.

    New IP could maybe, possibly be generated by some designer/artist types for the cost of a couple salaries.

    The client is in the enemy's (our) hands.

    All games must go back to Gaming as a Service

    We won't pay for gaming as a service.

    No new affordable tech is coming to drive the industry, all games will need to shift to online only, AI may get good enough to make games for pennies.

    The only part of gaming that survives this is indie developers that push past making shovelware with AI. AAA is cooked.

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  • [–] 19 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    We'll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!

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  • [–] 18 points 14 hours ago

    oh no… what a surprise… ea shuts down a studio they aquired…

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  • [–] 9 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Man, I remember being so fuckin stoked for the original release of Nevereinter Nights. You will be missed.

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  • [–] 25 points 17 hours ago

    Good lord everything EA touches turns to shit. Mass Effect is one of my all time favorite series and I credit it with breaking me out of just playing JRPGs. I was really looking forward to the next entry in the series, but the trilogy (there is no Andromeda in Ba Sing Se) will always be in my top games of all time and has enough of a conclusion to leave me satisfied

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  • [–] 46 points 20 hours ago (7 children)

    I'd love to see Microsoft buy EA, then close it

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  • [–] 48 points 19 hours ago* (3 children)

    EA was bought by the Saudis along with Trump's son-in-law. This Bioware closure likely isn't the first we'll see.

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    [–] 171 points 1 day ago (21 children)

    ill never forgive EA for destroying westwood studios and maxis,

    FUCK EA

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  • [–] 114 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

    Fuck. Now I have to add Bioware to the pile.

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    [–] 50 points 21 hours ago (11 children)

    EA has bought so many good game studios and forced them to make shitty games and then closed those studios because the shit games that they forced them to make didn't turn a profit, i played Red Alert 2 so much and had so much fun and knowing we'll never get anything like that again makes me want to launch all these life sucking corporate ghouls into the void.

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    [–] 7 points 15 hours ago

    I remember saying this when they were acquired and Anthem wasn't even a sperm in Daddy EA yet.

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  • [–] 97 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Time to rename EA to Saudi TM Gaming

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    [–] 40 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

    Neverwinter Nights. Dragon Age Origins. Mass Effect. Knights of the Old Republic. It may all be considered unc slop now but man Bioware at its peak was some good times in gaming.

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    [–] 71 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Lmao I like how everyone was saying this was going to happen like a year ago. So predictable.

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  • [–] 15 points 19 hours ago

    I suspected this would happen after the Saudi take-over. I haven't played Veilguard, but i did see something about a non-binary character. I'd be very surprised if the saudi's funded something progressive like that, even if it was poorly executed from what i've seen.

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  • [–] 16 points 20 hours ago

    Bioware was already rotting in the mass grave where formerly successful studios they bought spend their last days being milked of any remaining collective goodwill in the gaming zeitgeist before being summarily executed.

    This was just them posting the obituary we all knew was coming.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I’m guessing those new owners don’t appreciate stories where gay characters are treated with respect.

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    [–] 24 points 22 hours ago* (1 child)

    Bioware has been dead to me since they got bought by EA anyway. All this means is that if they ever made a Jade Empire 2, it's gonna be bland and stupid.

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