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Rumor: Bioware Austin becomes EA Austin, Docs leave

ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912
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GamersGlobal and RPGWatch posted the rumor that Zeschuck and Muzyka might be leaving BioWare and/or BioWare Austin might be coverted to EA Austin.

RPGWatch Source: http://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17734

GamersGlobal: http://www.gamersglobal.de/news/56545/verlassen-bioware-gruender-muzyka-zeschuk-bioware

 

DUM DUM DUM *drums of doom*

Well, it would be, what EA did to every other studio, innit?

 

 

 

*whistles Imperial March*

 

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EDIT:

Someone really made an interesting and enlighting comment about EA and Bioware, just a few months ago. Watch it:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6TmTv6deTI&feature=player_embedded

A Tale of Two Companies

People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert

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  • minime2minime2 Member Posts: 113
    who cares tbh if SWTOR is best they can do after all that money .  And 6+ years development good riddence .
  • spookytoothspookytooth Member Posts: 508
    to say the "evidence" is circumstantial is an understatement. Although I do fully expect this to happen for real at some point.
  • UkiahUkiah Member Posts: 273
    Anyone know the emote for "rubs white cat while laughing maniacally" ?
  • stragen001stragen001 Member UncommonPosts: 1,720

    Bioware is already EA in everything but the name. Thats why SWTOR was so crap. 

    Now that the Bioware name has been ruined, they may as well just get rid of the brand and convert it to EA

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  • Grotar89Grotar89 Member UncommonPosts: 347

    EA devils !!!!

    On seroius note i dont know how those two got to work on TOR after WAR disaster, Bioware is now just a name that EA is milking as much as they can.

    Bioware that made Baldurs Gate, Neverwinter nights and Kotor is long gone......

  • Creslin321Creslin321 Member Posts: 5,359
    Given that every other rumor about the whole SWTOR drama turned out to basically be true...I'm going to go ahead and think this will be the same.

    Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?

  • VelocinoxVelocinox Member UncommonPosts: 1,010

    I mourned the death of Bioware years ago.

    This is just a story about how the corpse is decomposing.

     

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  • clumsytoes44clumsytoes44 Member UncommonPosts: 463
    R.I.P.  Pre-EA Bioware.
  • Creslin321Creslin321 Member Posts: 5,359
    You know, I wonder if there is a single company that EA has purchased, which is hasn't destroyed.

    Are you team Azeroth, team Tyria, or team Jacob?

  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912
    Originally posted by Creslin321
    You know, I wonder if there is a single company that EA has purchased, which is hasn't destroyed.


    Nope. And all studios I can recall made REALLY cool games before. EA is truly the BANE of creativity. It was quite rightfully voted as Americas Worst Company.

    People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert

  • Ice-QueenIce-Queen Member UncommonPosts: 2,483

    Not really all that shocking. Remember Marc Jacobs was betrayed and gotten rid of after Warhammer's massive failure. Never liked Jacobs but he was done wrong...that's EA for ya.

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  • PyukPyuk Member UncommonPosts: 762
    It's probably true. If I were to guess, when they sold to EA I'm sure there was a clause in which the docs needed to stay on until SWTOR shipped, and maybe 6 months post launch. Now that the game has been out (and tanked in retaining folks), they can legally leave and get on with their lives.

    I make spreadsheets at work - I don't want to make them for the games I play.

  • GundricGundric Member UncommonPosts: 345
    Maybe this is for the better though?   Maybe they'll leave and start up a new company.  I'm sure they'd loose all of their IP's but I'm sure they'd take some talented writers/devs with them to come up with some new ones.  The future of my beloved Mass Effect franchise looks bleak though. 
  • Grotar89Grotar89 Member UncommonPosts: 347

     

    RIP Westwood, Maxis, Pandemic, Bullfrog, Bioware....

  • spookytoothspookytooth Member Posts: 508
    wow Grotar...that comic strip is heavy stuff. Its also missing Mythic and a few others I am sure.
  • jeremyjodesjeremyjodes Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 679
    Before the end of 2012 we will see allot more of this. EA going to start the garage sale and try to recoup some of that 400 million that vanished in swtor. I wonder if smed at SOE will swoop in and buy TOR off of them? He has done it a few times before.

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  • ZooceZooce Member Posts: 586
    Originally posted by Grotar89

    RIP Westwood, Maxis, Pandemic, Bullfrog, Bioware....

  • VladamyreVladamyre Member UncommonPosts: 223
    Originally posted by Tayah

    Not really all that shocking. Remember Marc Jacobs was betrayed and gotten rid of after Warhammer's massive failure. Never liked Jacobs but he was done wrong...that's EA for ya.

    You mean Mark "The piece of shit" Jacobs, the person who turned Dark Age of Camelot into a pve fest? He got what was coming to him. He shouldn't ever be allowed to work on or near games ever again.

    In a world of sharp knives, you would be a spoon.

  • nixiumnixium Member Posts: 21
    This game literally cost a fortune to make and a fortune to maintain with a legion of servers which are now cut down and perhaps the cuts won't stop there. If EA and co do not break even or make anything back like they put in, metaphorical bloodbath's and slaughter will be an understatement.
  • stragen001stragen001 Member UncommonPosts: 1,720
    Originally posted by cahenderson

    Anyone know the emote for "rubs white cat while laughing maniacally" ?

     

    If such an emote existed it would have to be :blofeld:

    Cluck Cluck, Gibber Gibber, My Old Mans A Mushroom

  • WicoaWicoa Member UncommonPosts: 1,637
    If true this is the most shocking thing so far in this mess.
  • ElikalElikal Member UncommonPosts: 7,912

    Someone really made an interesting and enlighting comment about EA and Bioware, just a few months ago. Watch it:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6TmTv6deTI&feature=player_embedded

    A Tale of Two Companies

    People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert

  • gasperkgasperk Member Posts: 84
    Originally posted by Elikal

    Someone really made an interesting and enlighting comment about EA and Bioware, just a few months ago. Watch it:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6TmTv6deTI&feature=player_embedded

    A Tale of Two Companies

     

    Good one tnx.

     

    But yeah its just crazy how the quality of BW products dropped after DAO and ME2.

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  • The_GekkoThe_Gekko Member UncommonPosts: 28
    Although this is still at "rumor" status, there's plenty to prove that EA has the opposite of the Midas Touch (whatever THAT may be called) when it comes to taking over ownership of studios and their games.
  • The_KorriganThe_Korrigan Member RarePosts: 3,460
    Now all the good developers betrayed by EA just have to get together and make the best MMORPG ever...
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