Wesley Copeland of VGI writes ...
"What started out as a simple news article regarding The Mass Effect 3 DLC 'From Ashes,' has remodelled itself into something else. You see, the more I thought about day one DLC, the more I found myself thinking about gamers and our need for everything! We have this undying need for information and this unfounded level of entitlement.
So the question I pose today is: What do Bioware owe us? The answer is nothing. Especially when it comes to things like DLC."
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
Earlier this year, BioWare was hit with layoffs as part of a downsizing of parent company Electronic Arts, but fans have been reassured that the next Mass Effect game hasn’t been impacted. Likewise, Dragon Age: Dreadwolf’s development is still churning along, with BioWare putting it at the forefront of its focus and rumors suggesting that it could launch sometime later this year. Fans might be getting another look at the long-in-development Dragon Age: Dreadwolf at the Summer Game Fest in June.
If the recently posted job offering for a temporary development manager is any indication, BioWare could have yet another surprise up its sleeve for when Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age: Dreadwolf are nearing completion. This mystery BioWare video game could truly be anything, from another spin-off of its two major properties to something entirely new. All there is to go on at the moment is a vague mention in the job posting, and it might still be some time before BioWare is ready to confirm any new games in its pipeline.
So a studio that spent years on anthem then this dragon age thing is now also working on another ip along with mass effect,
You think they would be worried that there brand has been on 3 major screw ups
Dragon age 3 launched broken with the frostbite engine yes its a good game but you can see in the late game how rough it was
anthem......
Mass effect 4 well that dev team was fired so yeah.....
They should make sure this new dragon age is a goat instead of putting more work on the table
Bioware today is like 150 poeple i dont see how they are seemingly working on all these projects at the same time.
Inquisition wasn't broken, it just had some flaws and on the contrary it also had some strengths. If you call inquisition a major screw up then idk what to say.
That said with what happened to the study since then and now, I'm not really confident that their next game will be any good.
If you played it fully to get plat like me back in its novemeber launch window you had that castle with empty area's endgame missions not there or working and a mp that was made around loot box grind like the mass effect mp.
Its hard to explain to those that played it years later after they tossed out the dlc/patch's
entitled much? I played it at launch too. Why you even platted it if it was a "major screw up"?
It was good enough for you to sink 100 hours in but also a complete fuckup at the same time, make up your mind.
So either you like shitty games or you're just talking out of your ass.
Well just wanna say, Archetype Entertainment is the new BioWare, composed of mainly ex-BioWare vets.
And they're developing Exodus (starring Matthew McConaughey), a new sci-fi RPG (spiritual successor to Mass Effect, dare I say?)
They're owned by EA. What makes you think that they wouldn't publish for PS5? Shoot, if your fridge could connect to your bank account EA would try to release it for that if they could!
How about they focus on those games and not over extend themselves? We don't need another Anthem.
Bioware died after Inquisition (some would even argue after ME3). They are no longer the same company.
So, we make them successful, then they wait till we turn away and screw us where it hurts. They dont owe us anything, but we, and they know this is a bad business practice and will bite them in the ass, may it be now, or in later games.
Bioware owe us some explanations. Clarifying our concerns would be a great.
*looks at Bioware social forums*
"EA Sports: It's in the game" (while it honestly isn't).
They owe us everything that is already on the disc, that includes the prothean squad member. If they dont give that to everyone i will pirate it, so instead of losing out on 10$ they will lose out on 40-50$. EAware went too far that is all there is to it.
"What does BioWare owe us... Nothing?" Are you ****** kidding me??? Lots of people have been loyal fans through the years, only to have them slap us in the face because of their greed.
“The content in 'From Ashes' was developed by a separate team (after the core game was finished) and not completed until well after the main game went into certification” says ME3 Producer Michael Gamble. That is total bullsh*t from him, the game was just announced to have been 100% finalized like a week or two ago. The script and story about (at the time just rumors) were leaked back in November.
Its not a big "if" they're just covering their ass to try and convince the gullible fans like the writer of this article, into saying that it was made separately and after the game.
Are you trying to tell me that BioWare, who have been known to make great stories and plots and lore, are just going to add a shallow DLC story to the (as we know it)THE SOLE SURVIVING PROTHEAN?!?!? I think not. At least it would be foolish to think of it in that way.
"what right do customers have to tell developers what we want in the game?" Have you ever studied business??? The world has changed from production base to what do the customers want. We have every right to complain/give ideas/ criticize both good and bad points.
"the majority of us are not angry gamers, but rational gamers...." You don't care how EA/BioWare are taken advantage of you through your wallet. They CUT OUT/locked material in the CD to force you, to pay outside the CE. It's ridiculous business standpoint. Sure they might make a quick buck in the short term but in the long term, they'll keep doing things like this until people get fed up.
CE edition should be cosmetics and just things to give you an slight early advantage in the beginning of the game (Dragon armor in DA:O). Not a character that represent a huge and mysterious portion in the ME lore.