When Saudi Arabia PIF and Jared Kushner bought EA, I expected something like this to eventually happen. They would want to prop up consumable yearly microtransactioned garbage over games with more moral dilemmas than their respective regimes are willing to tolerate..
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Valve please acquire BioWare challenge (seriously, please acquire BioWare, Gaben)
Capitalism
safe to say we won't get controller support for dragon age origins anytime soon 😅
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.
Check out Owlcat's new Expanse game, Osiris Reborn. It's an obvious love letter to everything about the Mass Effect series, while also being the best looking video game adaptation of the Expanse yet.
This meme was a prophecy.
I can still remember that feeling of anticipation when "Westwood" came on the screen. I haven't felt that in decades 😔
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.
Wait for an upcoming patch where they don't change any of the actual content, but if you're in a gay romance it just continually spawns hostile units every time you enter an area.
I play games to escape reality, not relive it.
Give it another 5 years and a different, more inept developer
My theory is that EA is actually secretly ran by Hollywood in a bid to get people back to watching movies and TV.
Saudi Arabia bought it to diversify. They want success.
It's ran by Saudis, they don't like queer things.
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.
We'll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!
But unfortunately without the IP
Surely copyright doesn't last forever plus a day, and they will be released into the public domain in a timely manner.
Let's just use AI and say that it's fair use.
oh no… what a surprise… ea shuts down a studio they aquired…
Man, I remember being so fuckin stoked for the original release of Nevereinter Nights. You will be missed.
I remember being excited for the original Neverwinter Nights that was made by Stormfront and SSI
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Neverwinter_Nights_(AOL_game)
It may also have been the first graphical MMO.
Same. It was the first major title I recall with a native linux release. They famously didn't deliver it on release but got it out eventually. Met a lot of good linux gamers on those forums while we waited.
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
I'd love to see Microsoft buy EA, then close it
EA was bought by the Saudis along with Trump's son-in-law. This Bioware closure likely isn't the first we'll see.
They closed studios they acquired since they started acquiring game studios…
Yes, but the Saudi deal is a new wrinkle. It's VC bullshit at its worst. EA was bad before, but it's nothing compared to what's coming.
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ill never forgive EA for destroying westwood studios and maxis,
FUCK EA
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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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I remember saying this when they were acquired and Anthem wasn't even a sperm in Daddy EA yet.
Lmao I like how everyone was saying this was going to happen like a year ago. So predictable.
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