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When they got sold to ea, this was the only possible outcome anyway. Not sure if they sold out or ea did some corporate bullshit to force them to it, but they should have stayed away from ea if they wanted to keep making games.
The founders and original lead developers - Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk - created over a dozen games before they sold the company.
Idk what else you’d want. They did their thing and then they cashed out to live their lives doing other things.
Bioware wasn’t even supposed to be a video game company. It was originally founded to pioneer medical technology and only pivoted when their side project - Shattered Steel - outperformed expectations.
Sometime people need to stop being mad because one participate Treats Train has finally ended it’s run. Be glad for the games you got, not sad because it’s over
After all, you’ve still got Larian and Paradox and Owlcat and a thousand other indie studios making equivalent games.
The problem is that EA will still squat on the IP for the indefinite future, so nobody gets to do anything with it later.
I mean, the IP is pretty generic.
Mass Effect isn’t the first game to use space cops and robot aliens fighting over the fate of the galaxy. The Expanse did Mass Effect’s storyline much better.
That’s before you consider how played out the Mass Effect IP already is. Just like Halo, they peaked at game 3. That was the apex of the story.
Mass Effect is a wonderfully constructed world; I disagree on you there.
I’d also argue ME3 is not the peak. The best gameplay, sure, but a more questionable campaign IMO.
You are not wrong about the story trajectory though. They wrote themselves into a corner with the Reaper arc, and that is done now. But I do think “Shepard-free, smaller story spinoffs” were the correct move, rather than trying to pick up a story that should be done (like Halo did).
But I do think “Shepard-free, smaller story spinoffs” were the correct move
Sure. But then it’s just a generic scifi.
You don’t need to own IP to make Mass Effect minus the title characters
No it’s not. They can use the entire world they constructed, its history, and (for the players) all the nostalgia. And selectively bring back characters.
I mean, that immediately drew me into this trailer.
Halo is an entirely different beast. They could not let the MC/Cortana go like they are stuck to them with a chain, but side stories in that world would have been interesting too.
They can use the entire world they constructed, its history, and (for the players) all the nostalgia
Or they can write up something new, just like the Mass Effect guys did.
Paradox just added a expansion for your comment. To unlock please pay $12.99…
$12.99 for… another 200 hours of content? Wtf! In this economy?!
More like $12.99 for core functionality that should have been released with the game (cities skylines is the worst for this). I’m all for reasonable pricing to cover the costs of development, but chaining together a dozen expansions and making a $40 game cost an additional $160 is bonkers. Its deceptive pricing, and it shouldn’t be excused just because you like small studios making better games. It would be better to release games when they are fully ready and have a roadmap of full cost available.
Though it does look like they’ve now offered a subscription service to essentially rent the expansions for $8 a month, at least that provides choices.
They sold out to a private equity firm, who in turn sold them to EA.
Bioware also had a large number of employees in Edmonton. Maga goons (Jared Kushner and Lourenco Goncalves) are just laying off Canadians to hurt the economy.
In these lists of great things to remember Bioware for, people keep not including MDK2. It told an amazing story of a mad scientist, his janitor and robot dog, repelling an alien invasion and saving Earth. Deserves to be mentioned alongside their othet awesome games.
You think it’s popular enough that anyone knows what MDK2 even means? People after lazy and won’t search that to find out. Maybe you should stop being lazy too and just woke out the actually name instead of this game you seem to think it’s unforgettable will remain entirely entirely forgotten
‘‘woke out the actually name instead’’
You’re an idiot. Learn english if you’re going to preach to people in this language. FYI the name of the game actually is ‘‘MDK2’’.
Removed by mod
I knew the name you champion. MDK1 and 2 were my favorite games besides Army men 3DO
We found them! The person who had the 3DO!
Brother/Sister, you have no idea how much 3DO’s Army men series was a part of my life.
I wish someone would remake Army men land sea and air, like a Company of Heroes clone.
I use to have 5 small crates filled with plastic soldiers. They were my life.
Dude, why so abrasive?
Lol it’s the actual name of the game.
Apparently I wasn’t lazy enough to do some leg work to figure it out (I actually knew about this game and was able to identify it by the name but that’s beyond the point.)
You’re the reason why Netflix has to take into account people doom scrolling on their phones while they watch their media.
It probably took less time for me to search, upload and write this message than it took you to type up that rancid pile of shit.
So for everyone concerned: shut the fuck up.
How about you tell us the ‘actual name’, sucka? Because anyone who was a gamer in 1997-2000 knows of the mystery behind that name.
My Dick Knuckle 2
Murder Death Kill.
Maybe the ex BioWare Devs can found a new studio. Maybe OrganicWare.
Sounds like the GTA world offbrand
EA has form for turning buyouts into shit. Look at PopCap who produced joyous casual-but-fair games until EA sunk their claws into them.
It’s always the fucking suits.
bioware was dead somewhere in between getting taken over by ea, long before this.
people havnt forgiven them for destroying the CNC franchise, and they tried to money grab with CNC4, and tiberium alliance.
Gosh that pissed me off. And the shitty mobile game.
I did enjoy the C&C1 remaster though.
i play cnc 3 the tiberium one, and ra3 for a while but lost the “Free” game, only the 1st one not the 2nd expansion had custom maps.
Can’t spell death without ea
EA is a pox on humanity now.
EA = Enshittify All.
I had to write a buad report on them long time back. EA is basically the Martin Shkreli of the gaming industry.
As is capitalism, especially the unregulated sort, where executives worst ideas run the show
It’s just a shame they never made a 4th dragon age
Internal trailer for ME 5
it’s crazy that despite this happening a couple days ago, the official bioware website still says nothing about this closure. Like they didn’t even bother updating the site to say “hey btw we are closed” The optimistic side of me hopes that it’s because they want to try to go inde again and run on their own but… probably not.
Sims 2 for life!
Nothing easy about writing those words? Nobody can even read a mass effect game.
I read them, I enjoyed them. I had a long hiatus from gaming from like 2013-2022 and got to “discover” a lot of great games releatively recently. Happy to have played all the mass effect games and dragon age games before SA PIF bought EA.
Squeaky wheel gets the kick!
