This question is retarded.

EA owns them, so they can't leave. Perhaps some Bioware employees should leave and form their own company, but the company known as Bioware is just another EA studio.

I dont think they could, they have proven now twice in a row making games are not their strength any more. Whats sad about that is one game was their flagship that flopped, and now a new ip that is flopping. So ea ruined bioware give it less than a year and they will most likely can bioware like the dev teams before.

I’m not sticking up for EA here but haven’t BioWare had like 5 years to make this game,it’s not as if it’s been rushed out for release ?

Is BioWare fault. they allow to be brought by ea.

Should the Atlantic sea leave earth?

Kinda hard to split from a company that out right owns you and the ip's you produced. If the original Bioware founders and the people who worked with Bioware left and fired up a new studio then technically that's a split. Or unless some company comes in offers EA a huge stack of cash to buy Bioware and the ip's. Pretty sure EA would jump on that and there is your second way to split from EA but I highly doubt that will happen. Bioware is screwed because they are owned by EA. Only other way for Bioware to split from EA is if EA closed the studio and swept everything under the rug like they did with other studios they closed.

I know they can't just simply leave EA. I just meant that splitting and going independent might be the right thing to do here. They are a talented group of people and deserves better than EA.

EA owns them, so it's impossible for Bioware to leave them.

I think their shutdown is inevitbale, given the reception Anthem has recieved.

Even if they could, only if they get to keep Mass Effect and Dragon Age. Very unlikely either way.

yes

why would they? just because anthem was off to a rough start? i have read so many comments these days where gamers stated that they will pick it up as soon as it‘s discounted „that‘ll show them“. actually the only thing these gamers are achieving is that this dud will make money eventually by buying it when it fits their wallet. this is completely the wrong signal. but i guess this train of thought is too difficult to grasp for most.

This isn't bungie with Activision. They aren't an independent studio with a contract. They ARE EA. If they leave, they close or are sold to someone else. The individuals can move and start a new studio but bioware itself can't.

Every studio should leave EA!

Would they be able to survive on their own?

Not every owned developer can just buy back their independence and leave their parent company like Bungie did

The dead can't leave.

When's the last time bioware made a decent game? Can't live on past glory forever. Some companies just can't make the leap into a new gen.

Bioware is dead, people make the studio not the name

I remember when Bioware went to EA... Everyone were saying their quality was going to drop.... well, it was the truth.

The bigger question is can they?

EA should leave EA

It would be nice, but the quality of what they've released lately has gone down hill.

Did I miss something. But, how is Anthem EA fault? Did they make Bioware change the game for the worst?

It seems like Bioware is on strike number two now and if you go back to Mass Effect 3 some would already say strike 3. The split will happen when EA closes the studio for putting out too many bad games. If the rumored Dragonage comes out and is yet another poor performer not sure EA or any other publisher for that matter would want to keep pouring money into bad products. Bioware of old is long gone and it looks like that bar they set so long ago is well past them in this iteration of the studio. I hope that its just a bad luck streak as nobody wants to see games fail, however, proof of success can only lie with Bioware themselves.

You can't "just leave" when EA owns the company.

Not another one of these articles. Is this going to be the new fade on N4G for the next while?

I'm just confused honestly. EA likes to make money, and Bioware makes amazing single player RPG's that MAKE MONEY and people lose their freaking minds on their amazing franchises... so why get them to do something that isn't what they're known for and is clearly upsetting gamers!? One look on the internet and anyone at EA should be able to see what gamers want, and what we want is a new mass effect game or a game with similar style. We gamers pay a lot with our wallets, just look at God of War and Spider-Man this year! AND THOSE WERE EXCLUSIVES!

Either Bioware has to leave EA (if they give a shit about their fanbase) or EA needs to let Bioware do what they do which is to make epic story driven experiences.

No game developer should work for EA or Activision at this point. Ubisoft is almost up there with them but their games haven't been completely ruined by greed just yet. Gettin there.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau