EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled | Respec
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  • TheArtfulLlama@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 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

  • stumu415@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Now you’ll get an Allah based RPG where you blow yourself up, so you can get to the 72 virgins.

    Thanks Jared Kushner.

  • Wataba@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    And the fans rejoiced over the closing of a game studio they didn’t interact with for decades anyway.

    Get fucked, all of you.

  • Ilandar@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Sounds like EA is doubling down on live service games, Star Wars and sports. Not surprising, the industry has been moving away from the big AAA single player game culture for a long time. That might end up being an era that was linited to Millennials.

    • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 hours ago

      So much better game experience, but nowhere near the cash cow of people blowing money on cosmetics in live service games and pay to win. Even super low effort mobile games will frequently milk out way more cash.

      Basically the good money is with low quality content, so good quality has to come out of enthusiasm for gaming, not from board rooms.

  • Patariki@feddit.nlEnglish
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    8 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.

  • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Mass Effect Citadel DLC was the final good product that Bioware made. It’s oddly prescient.

    Been a damn good ride.

    • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      That was my last experience with the Mass Effect setting and it felt like a very appropriate sendoff.

      I was initially looking forward to Andromeda, but I’m glad I waited for the reviews. I would have been disappointed if that was my last Mass Effect experience.

  • Furbag@pawb.socialEnglish
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    9 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.

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    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.

    • ElChinchilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I just replayed all of the mass effect games and dragonage games about a year or 2 ago, once Saudi Arabia bought EA I was like, welp, there goes that. (PIF can suck my DIF)

      Now with Bioware being closed, glimmer of hope a new powerhouse independent studio pops up.

      • Ashrakal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        I second that. Frank Klepacki delivered some very good tracks on that title too!

  • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    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.