Post

you can't judge when bioware was really killed because the mismanagement at the higher level under EA has been so constant and pervasive since the acquisition at every stage that every game shipped at all was a herculean miracle

headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

EA owned, in the mid-90s and the late 00s-early 2010s, the flagship blockbuster rpg developers of their time. origin and bioware were at their peak both squaresoft level cultural behemoths and EA pissed both away to nothing. what a waste.

21/10/26, 5:25 pm148 reposts858 likes

girl raised by flys

@nillysex.pics

you can make two of the most beloved crpgs of all time that still has modern relevance due to another sequel not made by you and go on to still define what a cinematic western rpg could be but your parent company has rocks for brains and decides that bleeding you out for years on end is better

ᔪ☆ᓕ

@juliette-alpha.bsky.social

Corpo pigs only want three things: (1) More money than god (2) Their own bigotries enforced (3) Even more money

Balderdash

@balderdashes.bsky.social

BG2 is still the playbook for basically every crpg, in the same way ff7 was for 90s-00s jrpgs. Mass Effect has been ripped off a thousand times! How do you fuck that up???

alglaz.bsky.social

@alglaz.bsky.social

I really don't know what the fuck Garriott was thinking making a deal with EA a second time after barely getting away. Like, what if Faust got his soul saved and then went back to check if Mephistopheles had another deal?

puppet-herder

@guardianexchange.bsky.social

faust does do that in some versions of the tale. kind of a classic move for a faust-type guy to make

formthehead

@formthehead.bsky.social

the last decade or so felt like a restaurant taking swings with the menu after the new management lost the recipes

User

@userplayer89.bsky.social

Playing Crusader No Remorse and trying not to think of the fact they were allowed to kill the studio behind a game like this with impunity

Gallant

@gallantandzeros.myatproto.social

They should have both been making insane decisions on what is the next numbered sequel in their respective franchises while having a lot of other games under those IPs as spin-offs and it's cruel to everyone how it's panned out

Eric

@eric.foxhold.net

They weren't even successful with the Origin launcher!

John Harris

@rodneylives.bsky.social

That is really the story of US culture, beloved things destroyed for short-term profits.