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EA to close Bioware

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“A lot of you replied to my last post, so here are a few thoughts.

The majority of people on a team the size of Veilguard’s had little or no say in the things you disliked about it. Right up to the end, BioWare still had many people who worked on the games you loved. I also have my own issues with modern entertainment, especially when political messaging gets in the way of good storytelling.

I was the guy responsible for the broodmothers in Origins, but also the guy who wanted Zevran to be a same-sex romance. Years later, my son told me he was gay (he gave me permission to share this). I converted to Catholicism several years ago. My son and I love each other and enjoy arguing over politics and religion.

My favorite character is Conan the Barbarian, and I love the art of Frank Frazetta, Brom and Chris Achilleos.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s possible to hold views that don’t fit neatly into anyone’s political camp, and to love and respect people you disagree with. People are complicated. That includes the people who make the games you love or hate.”
 
Hope actual gameplay build of Mass Effect 5 gets leaked too. My guess is that that trailer was going to debut at this year Game Awards. Ouch.
 
Yrassinad said:
That's sad news, BioWare made some legendary games and pioneered some of the shit in RPGs we still see being copied today. But at the same time they've released multiple commercial flops back-to-back over a 10-year-period. The headline might read like EA killing BioWare but in all reality it was sort of dead for a while already.



Retarded post, BioWare never went woke because they've always been woke. And there are plenty of woke games that are huge commercial hits. BioWare just happened to make games that worked when budgets were in the double digit millions where getting 2-3m sales was enough of a success to secure a future title. But in the modern era after budgets skyrocketed those sales amounts no longer cut it and they couldn't find a way to make these franchises more mainstream. Competition in their genre also became much steeper.




This is an insanely ironic tweet coming from someone who is trying to make money by posting culture wars AI slop. A career at McDonalds would be infinitely more respectable.



BioWare has always been woke, you retards are just the ones that got brainwashed by right wing media networks to suddenly see it as a problem.

Literally every character in Mass Effect is bisexual by default. A character like Jack from ME2 would absolutely get demolished by Twitter right-wing rage farmers if they were part of a new game. I'm pretty sure BioWare introduced the first non-heterosexual character to the Star Wars IP (which was over 25 years old at that point) in the original KOTOR.

BioWare didn't die because of wokeness, it's because they've just been putting out commercial flops since the early 2010s. They wasted years in a delusional bet to clone Destiny with Anthem. Mass Effect Andromeda was a flop. Before that they tried to take on WoW with SWTOR which also didn't work out. And even their successful games always only sold a few million copies only, except for DA: Inquisition. DA: Veilguard sold in line with what their games usually sold, except this obviously no longer cuts it in the 2020s when budgets are now in the 9-digit range.



Or maybe they've just been supplanted by studios beating them at what once made them stand out. Why play Veilguard when BG3 does what BioWare games were known for but even better? Which also is full of "woke" stuff btw.



Nah, people who think "woke" killed BioWare are the dishonest ones. And fall into the typical "the stuff I liked back in the day wasn't actually woke" line of thinking instead of just waking up to the fact that they've become bitter insufferable cunts as they aged. Same people who probably loved the movie Aliens growing up but now are getting rage bait farmed by masked incels on YouTube about a Vasquez-like character in the new Gears of War. BioWare has always been woke.

The real thing that killed BioWare were a decade+ of commercial flops. And most of it was just due to budgets outpacing the sales they were getting on their games, plus a deluded venture into trying to make it big in the live service category, and of course the fact that many studios popped up that have long since beaten BioWare at what made them good. Making choices in RPGs and an interesting cast of characters is just standard fare now, and you don't need decisions carrying over between games when games these days are as big as 3 games from the 2000s and there's 5+ years between every new release. Just because their final game had some over-the-top woke shit in it and also failed to perform commercially doesn't mean that's the reason it died.



ME1-3, famously "not woke" games that have subplots heavily focused on the dangers of racism and let you fuck everyone regardless of their gender and has a bald butch woman tattooed from head to bottom as one of the party members in ME2 and 3.



You can literally make a woman with a dick. And mix and match voice and body types.



Hogwarts has a trans witch you have to interact with to progress the game. CP2077 let you pick genitals, body type and voice independent of each other. Baldur's Gate 3 does the same. BG3 also does the BioWare special aka "everyone is bisexual" shit.



Maybe spend 5 seconds questioning why "activists" would be so eager to work at BioWare. Could it be that their games were always massively popular with the "wokes" and they loved the idea of working at a video game company that makes inclusive games instead of a studio making dudebro military shooter #16?



They are absolutely right. Imagine thinking that supporting your child if they end up identifying as something that is heavily vilified and demonized by large groups in society is a bad thing and should disqualify someone from writing for a video game set in the distant future where space travel is invented.

You guys are genuinely retarded if you think you could time travel 300+ years into the future and land in some sort of right-wing hell hole utopia. Your brain would get absolutely 1-shot by how "woke" everything will be. Your ancestors from 300 years ago would burn you at the stake for the shit you do and believe in, even as a "conservative".



This is a more reasonable take than the people crying about woke. If you read Jason Schreier's book you can see there's definitely a level of delusion that was rampant in BioWare, they called it "BioWare magic". Basically because they got away with fucking around and wasting tons of time and resources in the past and got rewarded for it with great critical reception and sales (for its time) they stopped believing running the company properly was necessary. They just banked on their "magic" bailing them out at the end as always. Turns out their luck ran out.



Eastern European studios can be woke too. The only thing is that anti-woke retards are too stupid to spot wokeness unless a pronoun option or a woman with a short haircut and tough attitude is staring them in the face. Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Blood of Dawnwalker are all progressive games.



If you'd replace white people in his tweets with Black people the same people crying about that shit would be praising him for being "based" and would say the future of whatever studio they'd be working for would be in "good hands".



Wow, that tweet must hit hard if you are mentally challenged. Imagine thinking BioWare was part of "exclusionary racist, sexist, homophobic boys clubs". Or any other successful gaming studio for that matter.

And of course it was liked by a dude who has been ousted from his job for being a sex pest lol. It's always the perverts who get cancelled for being creeps that suddenly become super concerned about political correctness and inclusivity.
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Holy shit, love ya brother but I can’t imagine anyone here’s reading that much text. Most of these guys don’t even speak English as their first language.
 
Yobo said:
Mass Effect was always woke
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Nope

Like I said most of you don't even know what woke is. You think gay = woke.

First ME was released in golden years of gaming 2007

Woke virus started getting pushed in gaming around 2015, although it could be a bit earlier. I would need to go back to remind myself.

Up to 2010-2012 we were peaking. So many great games between 2001-2011
 
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QuantumCringe said:
Nope

Like I said most of you don't even know what woke is. You think gay = woke.

First ME was released in golden years of gaming 2007

Woke virus started getting pushed in gaming around 2015, although it could be a bit earlier. I would need to go back to remind myself.

Up to 2010-2012 we were peaking. So many great games between 2001-2011
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There is no woke virus, cause this is just american stupidity, gta 4 already parodied. We have become a bigger parody than what gta 4 predicted. listen to the talk shows in 4, it is insane how people talk like that now, with a straight face.
It will be hilarious, when gta 6 comes out and the radio bashes both sides, and both sides cry about it.
 
QuantumCringe said:
Nope

Like I said most of you don't even know what woke is. You think gay = woke.

First ME was released in golden years of gaming 2007

Woke virus started getting pushed in gaming around 2015, although it could be a bit earlier. I would need to go back to remind myself.

Up to 2010-2012 we were peaking. So many great games between 2001-2011
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You think woke is just thing you don't like

Mass Effect had conservative culture warriors crying about gay characters and sex in games back in 07
 
Vertigo said:


“A lot of you replied to my last post, so here are a few thoughts.

The majority of people on a team the size of Veilguard’s had little or no say in the things you disliked about it. Right up to the end, BioWare still had many people who worked on the games you loved. I also have my own issues with modern entertainment, especially when political messaging gets in the way of good storytelling.

I was the guy responsible for the broodmothers in Origins, but also the guy who wanted Zevran to be a same-sex romance. Years later, my son told me he was gay (he gave me permission to share this). I converted to Catholicism several years ago. My son and I love each other and enjoy arguing over politics and religion.

My favorite character is Conan the Barbarian, and I love the art of Frank Frazetta, Brom and Chris Achilleos.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s possible to hold views that don’t fit neatly into anyone’s political camp, and to love and respect people you disagree with. People are complicated. That includes the people who make the games you love or hate.”
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What sanctimonious drivel. 🤮
 
Bioware's dead?
Eh, it died a gradual death since the founder doctors left 14 years ago , and the company became the Ship Of Theseus.

My only wish was they'd remaster the complete DAO + Expansions to current gen graphics, like they did with the Mass Effect Trilogy.
Oh well 🤷‍♂️
 
and boom!

Seriously, get fucked. These fucking losers deserved this shit.

I loved mass effect. I ain’t mourning this. Totally fucking earned

 
Someone please tell me this is fake. No way it was this laughably fucking bad…



You can’t tell me BioWare was always like this. I experienced the great stuff. This is shit
 
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