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• Aeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061

  April 2019

  Bioware hasn't released a competent game in 7 years. The absurdity of that speaks for itself and it is amazing that the studio hasn't been shuttered already.

  
• Ungood Member LegendaryPosts: 7,534

  April 2019

  Aeander said:

  Bioware hasn't released a competent game in 7 years. The absurdity of that speaks for itself and it is amazing that the studio hasn't been shuttered already.

  Not releasing a good game in years, and riding your previous successes to longevity are two totally different things.

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• alkarionlog Member EpicPosts: 3,584

  April 2019

  finally someone called then what they are

  

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• Scot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,427

  April 2019

  "Bioware's incompetence"?
  
  Tell you what why don't we advise the big gaming companies like EA to have a separate brand name team behind every release. That way it is never going to be down to EA's incompetence.
  

  
• Octagon7711 Member LegendaryPosts: 9,004

  April 2019

  I have to face the fact that the old Bioware is gone and I don't know this company. 
  

  

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• cmacq Member UncommonPosts: 331

  April 2019

  How about Blizzard? Don't pick on just one company when it comes to profit over quality folks. AFAIC pretty much the whole AAA industry is a shitshow ATM.
• Sovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,936

  April 2019

  
  

  parrotpholk said:

  
  

  Driving people as hard as possible in very lean environments is not just a gaming industry problem. It is everywhere in this day and age. My wife works stupid hours all in the name of a lean environment at a large company which rakes in money by the barrels. She is an accountant and we rarely see her before 8pm each night and even then gets constant texts and phone calls.
  
  
  
  Acting like this is a gaming industry only problem is false. That being said the game is in poor shape and BW days are numbered I believe because the bad press has been there for years and it is just not getting better. A mediocre MMO, under performing ME game, and a less than well received DA game later and this is what we have.

  
  

  
  
  I'd like to offer a friendly observation that your wife's predicament "might" just be choice? My girlfriend made easy into 6 figures at a major company where it wouldn't be beyond the pale to work until 11 pm or beyond.
  
  It was killing her. So she found a job making less money but she is MUCH more happy now and can essentially get out at 5 pm. just a thought.
  
  As far as Bioware is concerned, that is also a sort of choice. I think they fight with a bit of arrogance that they are "Bioware" and they have to come through with something great but then have to contend with bad management that then drives their employees to a horrible state and they just can't make it happen.
  
  I would say that it probably "mostly" stems from management/EA Management.
  
  

  

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• gunklacker Member UncommonPosts: 247

  April 2019

  Todays Anthem Patch joke !
  
  https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/patch-10401
  
  looks like 6 bug  fixes, 3 of which were caused by there last patch. kinda of looks like 1 days work to me. 

  
• ShadowStyleB Member UncommonPosts: 315

  April 2019

  So basically someone published another article to pile onto the original article. So this website published a post to pile onto that. Kinda like click here if you want to pile on too kinda article. I see all these articles and links to articles as simply click bait not really adding anything at all.
  
  One poster said that the overworking isn't just a game industry problem and that is the truth. One person said it is by choice but when you have to survive especially economically you go with the best choice and sometimes that choice has its very own problems.

  

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• Gdemami Member EpicPosts: 12,342

  April 2019

  ShadowStyleB said:

  So basically someone published another article to pile onto the original article. So this website published a post to pile onto that. Kinda like click here if you want to pile on too kinda article. I see all these articles and links to articles as simply click bait not really adding anything at all.
  

  ...yep, typical yellow press.

  
• MadFrenchie Member LegendaryPosts: 8,505

  April 2019

  Gdemami said:

  ShadowStyleB said:

  So basically someone published another article to pile onto the original article. So this website published a post to pile onto that. Kinda like click here if you want to pile on too kinda article. I see all these articles and links to articles as simply click bait not really adding anything at all.
  

  ...yep, typical yellow press.

  I am starting to think you see the world in yellow.

  
• Aeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,061

  April 2019

  MadFrenchie said:

  Gdemami said:

  ShadowStyleB said:

  So basically someone published another article to pile onto the original article. So this website published a post to pile onto that. Kinda like click here if you want to pile on too kinda article. I see all these articles and links to articles as simply click bait not really adding anything at all.
  

  ...yep, typical yellow press.

  I am starting to think you see the world in yellow.

  Actually, he just sees the floor. As is expected of Andrew Wilson's footstool. 

  
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

  April 2019

  Well, what did you think was going to happen when EA bought Bioware?  One of EA's major strategies is to buy a well-regarded studio, milk their reputation for having done good stuff in the past until they no longer have a positive reputation, and then shut them down.  Did you think this time was going to be any different?

  
• Quizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,499

  April 2019

  parrotpholk said:

  Quizzical said:

  Well, what did you think was going to happen when EA bought Bioware?  One of EA's major strategies is to buy a well-regarded studio, milk their reputation for having done good stuff in the past until they no longer have a positive reputation, and then shut them down.  Did you think this time was going to be any different?

  At some point I would hope they would want to be known for something other than FIFA and actually attempt to be a major player again but I suppose that is wishful thinking.  If they ever outlaw the ultimate team packs like loot boxes in parts of the world then FIFA would not be the major player it is either.

  
  

  If they had the same licensing I actually prefer Pro Evolution over FIFA anyway.
  

  That's the other major part of EA's business model:  buy exclusive licenses to popular IPs, so that if you want to play a game based on some particular IP, you have to buy it from EA.  That way, you'll buy games from EA without regard to whether they're any good.

  
• Cembrye Member UncommonPosts: 65

  April 2019

  It is so sad to see Bioware going out this way. They are like Norma Desmond coming down that staircase, thinking all those bright police lights are cameras.