EA buying Bioware Corp & Pandemic Studios

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Schadenfroh

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Well, I guess I can kiss Dragon Age goodbye, at least the dragon age that was to be a "spiritual successor" to Baldurs Gate 2, it will probably either be canceled or at best "re envisioned" as an action RPG like Icewind Dale or worse....... another diablo clone.


Damn EA, the scourge of gaming. Bioware will go the way of Origin Systems.




I guess the best RPG developer is now Obsidian..... but they have the handicap of being under the thumb of Atari (aka EA's minime).
 
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you2

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i see how this relates to nwn but how does it relate to bioshock ?
 
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jandrews

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dear lord no...oh no no no!!! good buy any hope of anything baldurs gate again, sigh, I suppose if it is ever made it will be some retarded ea game with no testing, short playability and overall suckage, damn them, damn them!!!
 
lozina

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EA the ruiner
 
Bateluer

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Originally posted by: Modelworks
Damn you EA!
Sigh, now bioware has succombed to the great evil :(
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Technically, Bioware didn't have a choice. Their parent company sold out to EA, Bioware and Pandemic just got raped in the deal.

I guess I'd better start learning to program because its becoming more and more likely that its going to be the only way I'll ever see a great RPG again.
 
shortylickens

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Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Damn you EA!
Sigh, now bioware has succombed to the great evil :(
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Technically, Bioware didn't have a choice. Their parent company sold out to EA, Bioware and Pandemic just got raped in the deal.

I guess I'd better start learning to program because its becoming more and more likely that its going to be the only way I'll ever see a great RPG again.
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Pretty much.
Nowadays a "good" RPG is one that the company releases full of bugs, costs 60 bucks, and sucks balls.
They have absolutely no concept of entertainment or customer satisfaction. Their only quest is for the almighty dollar.

We can forget about another KOTOR or anything similar, unless Lucas Arts finds ANOTHER small time company full of talented people and lets them aquire the Star Wars license for a game or two. And even if they did, the odds are pretty strong they would get swallowed up and digested before they could get a freaking game out the door.
 
Zenoth

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Electronic Arts ... gah.

I CAN remember a time, in the far past, when they were a GOOD company.

But since a couple of years (perhaps almost a decade) they've been producing fast-food gaming all across the PC platform. The game's concepts and ideas themselves went from original to very repetitive, all déjà-vue stuff, with often just more icing around the cake (I.E graphics). Why EA can last that long and can still buy companies left and right is BECAUSE most of the PC gamers of the recent years are CONTENT with their fast-food games and BUY them (they usually always end up complaining, but they forget about their issues a few months later and again blindly and mindlessly go buy another of their made/published game like pawns).

To me EA is only hurting PC gaming in terms of originality and quality, it's now all about quantity, and that's it. The rest it doesn't matter because quantity gives them money, and almost inexplicably gamers seem to be content with that, even though they always complain ... I don't get it.
 
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Originally posted by: Bateluer
Originally posted by: Modelworks
Damn you EA!
Sigh, now bioware has succombed to the great evil :(
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Technically, Bioware didn't have a choice. Their parent company sold out to EA, Bioware and Pandemic just got raped in the deal.

I guess I'd better start learning to program because its becoming more and more likely that its going to be the only way I'll ever see a great RPG again.
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Who was Bioware's parent company?

I want to go on record as saying business execs are not the ideal to aspire too. Why? Because they bail too quickly. They don't have the balls to stand against even minor adversity. They will mismanage a company and then run.

Case in point: my company suffered a 5% revenue loss in the last quarter. They immediately set about cutting jobs as priority one, all over 5% of revenue.

I consider corporate execs to be on par with housewives as far as the depth of their knowledge.

In closing, it's unfortunate. Perhaps Bioware can spin off or the top people can form a new company.

 
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Finnkc

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heh ... VG Holding Corp was BioWare / Pandemic parent company and it was owned by Elevation Partners.

As a big black hole of despair EA may have been 2 years ago ... things have changed. John Riccitiello has done a wonderful job at EA, and IMO has made it a much better place to work then it was even a year ago.

Anyway most of the guys in the office (Edmonton) are perfectly fine with the sale and think it will actually help BioWare become a better developer.

Its different looking from the inside out. I wouldn?t worry about the quality of BioWare and Pandemic games ? they are still going to be just as good if not better because of this.

 
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And they wonder why people don't buy games anymore.

I personally wouldn't have bought orange box if I knew valve was owned by EA.
 
Bateluer

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http://www.firingsquad.com/features/ea_buys_bioware/

Insider article from FS. Some interesting information, see the snip.

The BioWare-Pandemic buyout may be a bid to start EA on a new course, one already plotted by Activision: acquire a good developer, finance them, and permit them room to do their own thing, offer leadership and a kick in the ass only if necessary. Presumably the new EA CEO sees the disastrous long-term consequences of creative bankruptcy, and is seeking to remedy them by allowing BioWare and Pandemic the freedom and finances to do something spectacular on a regular basis. Specifically, during the conference John had stated that EA was impressed with BioWare?s Metacritic score, a rating in which EA has slipped in over the past few years, and a statistic which caused on analyst to say the EA brand has been tarnished
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n7

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One of my part time co-workers works full time @ Bioware...wonder what he'll be saying about this.

Can't say this sounds good to me though.

EA is still the spawn of hell as far as i'm concerned.
 
Bateluer

Bateluer

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An interesting comment from the DailyTech comment thread was that we can look forward to Jade Empire 2, 3, and 4; Mass Effect 2, 3, and 4; and possibly KOTOR 3, 4 and maybe even 5 now.
 
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Mem

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Originally posted by: Bateluer
An interesting comment from the DailyTech comment thread was that we can look forward to Jade Empire 2, 3, and 4; Mass Effect 2, 3, and 4; and possibly KOTOR 3, 4 and maybe even 5 now.
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How many bugs too?...EA seems to be trying to get them all,we still got a few good companies left and I hope Dragon Age lives up to its billing,was due for release next year I believe.
 
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zOMG. fscking EA again! People need to stop buying retarted FIFA, NHL, NBA, Maden, Nascar, NFS and many other POS wannabe-called "games" produced by EA to slow down their growth. At this pace real gaming is going to be history soon. We will be fed a bunch of BS 1 button manipulator games that show a lot of "BOOM" and "LIGHTS" that require somewhere from no to nill interaction or brain cell application. Let's not forget price fixing either... Oh, and you can surely forget about development of 3D technology or any kind of code optimizations. Once EA rules the ball, we will be witnessing technology of 2005 for many years to come (and somehow it's gonna run slower and slower with newer releases).
Screw this, where is that Linux distribution I downloaded last night?
 
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