It seems that BioWare, the studio behind such beloved titles as Baldur’s Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the more recent Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect, have been under a lot of fire as of late. One might think that they would factor these experiences into the release of the much-anticipated Mass Effect 3, but it would appear that BioWare might be getting themselves into an even deeper hole.
EA is laying off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios, IGN understands.
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When logic meets EA it generates anti-matter ..... so try not to apply it in any meaningful way. Entropy is what matters in there !!
cue the apologist saying that these are mostly just contractors hired for this specific project bla bla bla
The free-to-play reboot topped 15 million players in under three weeks, but EA now claims it needs to reshape the development team.
The community warned them this would happen but nope they knew better they continued with the live service push the made the art style cartoonish and this is the result
It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
The day-one DLC thing was EA all the freaking way. Anyone who can't see that needs to open their eyes to the way BioWare was run as a studio BEFORE they got under EA's wing.
This gen EA has proven to be anything but gamer friendly. Their main aim has been to publish some of the most fun games imaginable while milking gamers like the fat cows that they are.
Just to summarize, 75% of votes said bioware is doing a bad job in all 3 areas. DLC, Ending and False claims.
I already made up my mind not to purchase anything EA ever.
I own almost every bioware game minus Mass Effect 3 so it pains me to do this to Bioware but I refuse to support EA and their suits.
In a nutshell
Baldur's gate, KOTOR I, II, Mass Effect 1 Independent BIoware
Mass Effect 3, Dragon age 2 Bioware Under Ea's helm
nuff said, EA has not only ruined Bioware's reputation which before Dragon AGe 2 was for the most positive but they have pretty much turned once dedicated followers like me of Bioware against them. RIP BIOWARE
The reason that they gave for the Operation GOliath not being available for the PS3 was "technical difficulties" but here's the real reason.
EA is on a massive PR campaign to extinguish any fires and give away goodies for Mass Effect 3 to distract from what's going on right now. Therefore they were unable to get the PS3 version of the Operation Goliath form in time. I am willing to bed this Operation GOliath was suppose to come out not now but at a later date that's why the PS3 version wasn't ready but the PC and Xbox 360 version was.....shameful really
Bioware is garbage. Their only good game this gen is Dragon Age: Origins. Everything else from them sucked.