I'm interested to see the fan response to this.
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"read the runes" ... people need to stopping believing that money is money. Money is money AND strings attached. It's totally different to get 1 EUR from a friend vs 1 EUR from a brank vs 1 EUR from VC vs 1 EUR of public subsidies. Money NEVER comes without string so one must be cautious they are not getting a noose around their neck while signing a contract.
PS: IMHO NLNet is an example of "good" money. Other examples welcomed. In software in the game "industry" specifically I don't know where one can find non "bad" money so please if you have examples, do share.
I really cant wait for this generation of kids to grow up and start dealing with bills and shit. The moment they learn the true value of money this whole trend of buying lootboxes and packing players will die on its arse so fast.
I just hope theres some fly on the wall footage of the boards faces when they realise.
You don't grow out of an addiction.
Yeah no... the fucked thing is they don't care ... everything is fucked... spending a bit of money on cheap plastic brings you a little bit of joy... why worry about money if you don't even have much? You can't get ahead so at least you can be happy... thats where we are...
You think? That generation will have kids who buy the same crap and won't listen to their parents, just like the kids now don't listen.
Im hoping so. We don't have the receipts to show them. Were just grandpa's who yearn for the good old days and we just dont get it.
I know adults who boost their ego with lootboxes. Beating the peasants by spending money that others use for groceries is how they feel superior.
Guns and football seem pretty gay to me..
I'm a MAN. I'm a MAN who likes to watch MEN play with OTHER MEN. I especially like it when those MEN TOUCH EACH OTHER. It makes me cheer! Sometimes they have to RAM THEIR HOT SWEATY BODIES INTO ONE ANOTHER. Yeah I love that!
I like it when they get rough with each other. So masculine.
Maybe BioWare can make a game featuring guns that shoot footballs...
how can football be in and gay stuff out? unless you mean european, like soccer.
Naw, still too gay. Its gotta be nothing but scenes from top gun from now on.
I actually had a sliver of hope for Mass Effect, you know? It’s all gone now.
Nah A.I will fix it.
Fret not, anything they aren’t going to actively milk will likely be sold off to try and pay back the $20 billion dollar loan they took to make this purchase.
As far as i understand this deal. No property will be sold. EA will be on the hook for the 20b just like ToysRus. EA is getting nuked and a new name and face but the ip is not going anywhere.
They'll just sit on some of those titles that were never developed any further. Like Command and Conquer.
The team behind the only good Mass Effect game was disbanded almost immediately after its release. I had no hope for the new one.
I had small hope for Andromeda but then they put so much behind either future dlc or sequels and canceled it completely.
I honestly hope they just cancel the next Mass Effect. There is a 0% chance it's not gonna be shit.
Sell the IP.
Telltale (a decade ago) could have made a great story-focused game in the ME universe, Bioware didn't even need to sell the IP for that
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favourite bigoted country in the Middle East!
"Bigoted" is putting it lightly and only seems to pander to a certain crowd.
To be fair, Bioware has been on the chopping block for some time. I imagine even without going private EA would've gutted Bioware if Mass Effect 4 wasn't a massive success. In my mind the possibility of Bioware getting shuttered has risen only marginally because that possibility was already high to begin with.
Uh...Mass Effect 4 wasn't a massive success, and they DID gut the studio.
This would have been ME5
As if I needed yet another reason to not purchase EA games.
BioWare needs to do what the Castlevania creator did. Konami wouldn't give up the rights to Castlevania (or sell it — the Netflix deal was lucrative, after all) and just make their own studio "with blackjack and hookers." Sure, the studio behind Bloodstained was problematic when it came to delivering on certain promises to Kickstarter backers, and sure, the mobile ports were abandoned and the Switch port was (apparently) never fixed... but on PC and Xbox at least, the game was fine. The best of Symphony of the Night and Aria of Sorrow, it's the best Castlevania game not called Castlevania, and it's among the best Castlevania games, too. I'm not sure there is even one that is actually better at everything. They really took all the good parts of Castlevania and, instead of a gimmick like an inverted anti-castle or entering paintings, they just made the castle stupidly huge, almost unreasonably so. The architecture doesn't make sense, but it never did.
It happened with the developers behind Fallout as well. They became Obsidian, and I think InXile got some of those developers. Obsidian went on to make Pillars of Eternity and The Outer Worlds. InXile made a bunch of RPGs too, but I can't name any without looking them up.
BioWare needs to take its talent and go indie.
BioWare has lost alot of it's talent in the last several years. There's almost no one left that played any hand in the Success of Dragonage or Mass Effect 1-3
InXile was most famously the Wasteland series, the spiritual successors to the original fallout designs (1 and 2). But they also did Tides of Numeria and Bards Tale (I think, but don't quote me)
It happened with the developers behind Fallout as well. They became Obsidian
Ok, well, let's not forget that the only reason Fallout achieved mainstream popularity is because Bethesda took it and applied their Elder Scrolls formula.
The Outer Worlds
Which although being more polished than Fallout, was nowhere near as good. They also had some bad writers with an agenda that made sure players couldn't have relationships.
BioWare needs to take its talent and go indie.
Bioware has no talent in 2025.
Dead Cells which eventually got Castlevania official support is very good
They kinda are.. Look up Exodus. Feels like that game will never come out though
That's the issue, isn't it?
I see this on the internet a lot. People posit things like "wouldn't it be awesome if these fired devs got together" or "Why don't they make good stuff anymore? Wouldn't it be great if somone made a thing like this old beloved thing..."
...Except it's already happening. Or happened.
And there's just so much noise on the internet, it's largely unknown to the folks who'd be interested.
To be clear, I'm not blaming OP, and I've done the exact same thing myself. But I still find it kind of... sad.
Anyway, thanks, I am bookmarking Exodus and Archetype Entertainment now.
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It's EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they're somehow escaping the taint?
It's like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country... but then they think they're still a normal artist.
Thanks for the representation I guess. Even though we had to collectively pay to make ME a popular franchise. I'm sure it was all about being true to your morals.
I mean, it's EA. They've been in full on corporate profit mode forever, and any good games that they've put out are in spite of that. I doubt that there are a ton of "artists trying to make art" left at the decision making level of EA.
Yeah a lot of the comments I have seen are outright bizarre, EA won’t change in any noticeable form. It’s maximum profit extraction now and it will remain maximum profit extraction after.
This makes me think of the Ellisons buying Star Trek and Avatar. Why wouldn't they shutter or castrate two notoriously ‘woke’, expensive, questionably profitable franchises?
Same here :(. Though to be fair, the Saudi's political leanings aren’t a perfect parallel.
The last Bioware game I genuinely enjoyed was Dragon Age: Origins, which was the last thing (mostly) developed before the EA buy-up. I'm sure it's scary for the employees, but I suspect this is good for Bioware in the long term.
I liked Inquisition alot though the behind the scenes scoop was that the development process was a dumpster fire that only came together into a good game cause they got lucky.
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That's kind of an upgrade, at this point.
Bioware has essentially existed to pander to a very small minority for the past decade. I don't think they're capable of making a good game anymore, but at least they won't get any support from anyone for their mediocrity.
BioWare created the first canonically gay character in Star Wars. Back in the early 2000's.
Take your bigoted shit out.
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