Complainers could always move to the USA am I right?
Or get your own gaming industry.
I hear you have two, CCP in what Iceland? (EvE) and Akama (Dofus) in France?
If it really T's you off, buy local! Support your EU made MMOs and don't buy American.
This is kind of one of those... THE FACTS OF LIFE kind of things...
Like complaining about the light from the sun being warm and making you sweat... or rain making you wet.
Off the top of my head - Dice and Mojang in Sweden, Funcom in Norway, Zenimax (Bethesda's online division, who are making some sort of MMO) in Ireland and probably tons of others, so BF3, Minecraft, TSW and potentially The Elder Scrolls Online or Fallout Online (who knows!) are all games you have Europe to thank for too.
Seriously though, BioWare have offices in Ireland, I doubt they are as anti-Euro as people are trying to make them out to be. For heaven's sake, the presentations at Pax Prime were essentially rehashes of stuff Europe got first (at Gamescom). So, the complaining is silly, and biased and comes from a place of "me!me!MEEEEEE!" entitlement that I thought we were joyfully exempt from here in Europe.
BioWare is a Canadian company. It just happens that the division of BioWare that is producing the game is in Texas.
They WERE a Canadian company. But now they are owned by EA, making them an American company.
I have no problem admitting I could be wrong, but last I knew BioWare Corporate HQ is in Canada as well as 3 of there 5 divisions, which means the company is in fact a Canadian company. It just so happens it is a subsudiary of EA which is an American company. According to a tax lawyer I talked to recently, this allows both companies to avoid the bulk of the taxes they would have to pay if everything was in one country or the other. That unfortunately was the most I could handle trying to understand of our conversation. Tax law is not a subject for staying awake even when you are interested in it. I do admit that we were not talking about this particular set of companies (it was in reference to NCSoft and Paragon Studios actually), but I highly doubt that changes the facts here.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
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This thread, good grief.
Someone even managed to sneak in a dig at socialism >_> as if the other options are doing stellar at the moment.
Random.
Complainers could always move to the USA am I right?
Or get your own gaming industry.
I hear you have two, CCP in what Iceland? (EvE) and Akama (Dofus) in France?
If it really T's you off, buy local! Support your EU made MMOs and don't buy American.
This is kind of one of those... THE FACTS OF LIFE kind of things...
Like complaining about the light from the sun being warm and making you sweat... or rain making you wet.
Off the top of my head - Dice and Mojang in Sweden, Funcom in Norway, Zenimax (Bethesda's online division, who are making some sort of MMO) in Ireland and probably tons of others, so BF3, Minecraft, TSW and potentially The Elder Scrolls Online or Fallout Online (who knows!) are all games you have Europe to thank for too.
Seriously though, BioWare have offices in Ireland, I doubt they are as anti-Euro as people are trying to make them out to be. For heaven's sake, the presentations at Pax Prime were essentially rehashes of stuff Europe got first (at Gamescom). So, the complaining is silly, and biased and comes from a place of "me!me!MEEEEEE!" entitlement that I thought we were joyfully exempt from here in Europe.
Bioware isnt even an American company.
No, but it is American owned.
US companies give preference to US, is it really that hard to accept?
BioWare is a Canadian company. It just happens that the division of BioWare that is producing the game is in Texas.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"
No, but it is American owned.
BioWare is a Canadian company. It just happens that the division of BioWare that is producing the game is in Texas.
They WERE a Canadian company. But now they are owned by EA, making them an American company.I have no problem admitting I could be wrong, but last I knew BioWare Corporate HQ is in Canada as well as 3 of there 5 divisions, which means the company is in fact a Canadian company. It just so happens it is a subsudiary of EA which is an American company. According to a tax lawyer I talked to recently, this allows both companies to avoid the bulk of the taxes they would have to pay if everything was in one country or the other. That unfortunately was the most I could handle trying to understand of our conversation. Tax law is not a subject for staying awake even when you are interested in it. I do admit that we were not talking about this particular set of companies (it was in reference to NCSoft and Paragon Studios actually), but I highly doubt that changes the facts here.
"If half of what you tell me is a lie, how can I believe any of it?"