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Totally sucks. If I were a billionaire I’d do what I could to resurrect it, even burn money doing it just to keep it going and keep that team alive. Thats why I’m not a billionaire.

I'll miss the brand, but they brought it on themselves to a series of bad decisions. Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Dragon Age The Veil guard. Goodbye BioWare, I hope you actually talented people who work there find better jobs

Here. Might not be more than a snowball's chance on Eos, but it's still something. c.org/jmzVGdYqBH

Though, it is still sad that any opertunity for Mass Effect is gone... But also not much of a surprise given who purchased them.

What... What just hit me in the face! Gahh, Egg! Egg everywhere!

Yup, it's baffling near a decade later people still don't get it. Bioware Montreal was basically funded to make over Mass Effect after 3, and then got folded into Motive after the poor reactions to the game. We'd have had a sequel long ago otherwise.

I have been thinking of starting a new game of Dragon Age Origins for a few days. I think the time has come.

They could, but they probably won't.

Publishers and corpo shareholders are ruining the entire creative game community. Sick. Sad. Worrld. ☹️

My first job in games was for BioWare (on SWTOR, but still). Wonderful article, thank you.

Maddening.

The SR-1 doesn't get nearly enough love. The SR-2 filled the brief - bigger - but the original brought the juice.

As a game developer of 30 years, I’ve never experienced a more brutal time for our industry. Nothing is sacred, there are no safe harbors, and financial success does not ensure your continued employment. Every project is a series of miracles, now it will be a miracle if anyone is left standing

Bioware Montreal was supposed to take over ME but after the cold reception to Andromeda, it just killed the IP and they never really had a plan B to move it back to Bioware Edmonton.

Let's be honest. Probably.

I quoted Jason so 🤷‍♂️

I doubt anyone was working on any new Dragon Age after Veilguard sadly.

EA's new owner is a government that has the death penalty for gay people. I don't think this was a business decision.

The future is in smaller studios and retro-gaming. I've bought almost 100% of my games from Itch over the past few years.

Oh yeah, you're right. I was probably just confusing them with one of the other great software studios EA have consumed over the years.

I can't say this come as a surprise considering Bioware was running as a skeleton crew after the post Veilguard layoffs and EA had just sold to the Saudis and Jared Kushner. But this is still heartbreaking this is like Square Enix going away.

time to boycott EA and jared kushner

That’s sad 😞

EA making what they like the most : killing great IPs and the studios who made them

Honestly makes me glad my favorite game series is made by Egosoft who are too small to be corporate but established and solid enough that theyre still putting out great stuff

I hate it all so much

That's what Kushner and Mohammed Bone Saw wanted and that's all that matters. Not what WE want.

Hideous

It’s sickening to see

EA don't need ask those messy people with their messy people problems. All their games can be made faster and better by AI. Don't like it? Apparently you can go fuck yourself. Or you buy games from industry developers who still code the old fashioned way, and include good stories.

Like Konami, they'll run for a long time on cashgrab games and endless remakes of their loved IP despite having killed the studios who made them

Alas, this was ABSOLUTELY going to lead to massive layoffs. It's obvious they only bought EA for EAFC and all that soccer money.

Bioware's name was on the wall as soon as it allowed itself to be sold to EA, though. This is just the tail end of the EA Process™.

my grief for Mass Effect today hit me hard as shit so... yeah I'm internally crying too 🫂 but if anything, I'm more MAD than sad so GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

"EA CEOs walk in single file, to hide their numbers."

They did it. They did the meme.

Seriously, what is left now? Id got nuked, Bioware is gone, all the fallout from Embracer...

fuckin EA. They destroy everything

Mass Effect, Dragon Age and Knights of the Old Republic are beloved. RIP Bioware. I hope EA chokes to death.