Seems hiring based on diversity/sjw agenda instead of merit does wonders for the quality of your product.
Good fucking riddance.
Good fucking riddance.
-
Welcome to rpgcodex.net, a site dedicated to discussing computer based role-playing games in a free and open fashion. We're less strict than other forums, but please refer to the rules.
"This message is awaiting moderator approval": All new users must pass through our moderation queue before they will be able to post normally. Until your account has "passed" your posts will only be visible to yourself (and moderators) until they are approved. Give us a week to get around to approving / deleting / ignoring your mundane opinion on crap before hassling us about it. Once you have passed the moderation period (think of it as a test), you will be able to post normally, just like all the other retards.
Mass Effect BioWare Montreal's Mass Effect: Andromeda - where element zero meets trisomy 21
- Thread starter Dexter
- Start date
Hobo Elf
Arcane
I guess having a degree in feminist theory doesn't automatically make you an amazing developer, and pandering to the SJW doesn't guarantee sales. Go figure.
This is probably sad for some people but I'm laughing my ass right here right now.
Sykar
Arcane
It's normal when a game is mostly finished, which is usually a few months before the release, and no more content is in the pipes. Thing is at the time of the MEA release most of the Montreal squad was probably hard at work on the DLCs and part of the rest was deep in the sequel pre-production work. It seems all of that was scrapped.
Latelistener
Arcane
- Joined
- May 25, 2016
- Messages
- 2,587
So, Austin is working on that Dolan online sci-fi project. I thought Edmonton might be working on Dragon Age.
Des
Educated
And it appears that their new ip wont even be a RPG. It will be some mmo fps like Destiny.
All bioware RPGs seem to be "on ice" right now.
I guess Bioware is fully transitioning from a RPG developer to a generic fps-adventure game developer.
Des
Educated
Edmonton is working on the new IP.
Austin is rumored to be working on the new KOTOR thing.
So Bioware, THE most creative and visionary AAA dev of yore, gradually declined into a mass product factory churning out Destiny-like shooters and endless Star Wars fodder.
Des
Educated
KyivAfter12am
Augur
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2013
- Messages
- 288
The only company that can jump on the bandwagon of a popular game type and actually succeed is Blizzard.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
only because of sheer number of retards blindly supporting it.
i haven't enjoyed a blizzard game since starcraft, which was just a reiteration of warcraft with a better background.
i haven't enjoyed a blizzard game since starcraft, which was just a reiteration of warcraft with a better background.
Ezeekiel
Liturgist
- Joined
- Dec 19, 2016
- Messages
- 1,783
I don't think of this as Bioware dying... They died a while back. It's more like the end of the mimic that killed Bioware and wore it's skin.
Not like they could have had a return to form, as they weren't the original studio in the first place.
Not like they could have had a return to form, as they weren't the original studio in the first place.
Because they either practice black magic or sold their soul to the Great One. They always take a popular game, make it worse and earn 10 times more. I still remember the day when I, as a gigantic fan of Dune 2, bought Warcraft and after an hour thought - wtf is this boring shit? W2 was better but also short, dumb and still couldn't compare to C&C. But it had SVGA graphix so it sold like drugs. Starcraft was great but also a hillariously obvious hodgepodge of Aliens, Predator and Warhammer. Diablo was amazingly innovative but it wasn't Blizzard's idea. WoW can't say, don't play MMOs, but people tell me it was pretty cashul compared to EQ. Starcraft 2 was little more than a fan service, we don't talk about Diablo 3, Hearthstone is one of the worst card games out there, HotS is Dota for retards and Overwatch an even dumber clone of the already dumb Team Fortress.
The only truly innovative game that opened a new horizons for the RTS genre was Warcraft 3. But it was just Warcraft with its retarded lore.
KyivAfter12am
Augur
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2013
- Messages
- 288
This is the definition of succeeding in media business.
KyivAfter12am
Augur
- Joined
- Jan 11, 2013
- Messages
- 288
They know the right way to make something worse. Bioware gradually made their games worse the wrong way, and look where it got them.
The Blizzard method is to make games that are simple to play, but as addictive as possible. If you achieve that, nobody's going to care about the dumb story or the hodgepodge of a setting.
RepHope
Savant
- Joined
- Apr 27, 2017
- Messages
- 400
Well I guess that's it for Mass Effect. EA said Medal of Honor and Dead Space were also going on "hiatus" and now those franchises are dead as dead can be. If this new IP bombs then Bioware will probably be taken out back and put down. I'm guessing that fear is why they delayed the new IP to 2019.
Don't really feel that sad, ME3 already pretty much killed the franchise, MEA just buried the corpse. A pity that there aren't really any other space opera RPGs out there.
Don't really feel that sad, ME3 already pretty much killed the franchise, MEA just buried the corpse. A pity that there aren't really any other space opera RPGs out there.
pippin
Guest
Is MEA the Ultima IX of this generation?
decaf
Learned
- Joined
- Apr 21, 2017
- Messages
- 351
Guess that explains Marvel becoming shittier over time.
big money safety net = higher possibility of funding decline
I liked DAO... until I realized that all the highly advertised edgy bloodsplatter was not dynamic.
pippin
Guest
The problem with Marvel is that Star Wars is practically the only franchise that's guaranteed to sell. Same happened to Bioware though. I do not think going to EA was unwise, trying to make their outsie image work for their inside workings was a real mistake otoh.
As an Amazon Associate, rpgcodex.net earns from qualifying purchases.