User atghunter provides great insight into the back-and-forth PR-mess that are the Mass Effect 3 endings.
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.
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.
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.
What am I missing. I loved the end of ME3, it meant so much to (my) Shepherd, and was one of the most emotional experiences I have had in any video game.
Yeah, there were not 16 different endings to choose from, but it did not matter. Yeah we don't know what going on in the rest of the galaxy, but again it doesn't matter.
What matters is the EPIC Journey Shepherd had, and I was very happy to be a part of that story.
Thanks Bioware.
Archangelmike selfish much??? So I guess we can just ignore the outcry from all the disgruntled Fans of the series over the ending, the hundreds of POSTS from disgruntled fans in the Bioware Social Forums, the submittal to the BBB from fans on the ending of Mass Effect 3, the horrible reviews on Metacritic and Amazon of Mass Effect just because YOU LIKED THE ENDING....wow...
I wish the evil corporations would all disappear and the srtists could just make the games. Then they could make all the decisions. Oh wait, they'd spend 99% of their time begging for money, pushing production into decades as a time cycle etc. It may b a faux olive branch, but it's still done to appease the fans.
And, maybe i did actually miss it, but did bioware promise us that we would have a choice in how it all ended? Or did they say that there would be multiple endings based on our choices?
Personally, i think it's philosophically brilliant to say that we have many choices that determine our own personal journey but that, ultimately, we have no say in how it ends, like many different paths will always lead to the same conclusion. It reminds me of the matrix, which i loved. The cycle continued over and over until someone sacrificed themselves. It's a reflection of the millions of journeys that occurred in previous cycles that always ended up the same. It actually gets quite deep.
Anyway, have we become so damned entitled that we are now pissed off at the company that gave us the game that allowed us to make choices that carried over? I know that there are theories that it isn't the original ending, but a quick hack job because of a leak. What if someone actually wanted it this way, wanted his game to end on his terms? What if this actually was an art winning over corporate for once? Well, we will fix that. We will guarantee by forcing a new ending that art never wins again, that corporate always gets the final word. U must assume that if corporate made the decision regarding the ending that it would have offered all endings pleasing as many people as possible. But, this isn't what happened. An obvious risk was taken. So let's slay them.
I returned my copy of Mass Effect 3 with so much anger, the game itself actually missed the sense of being lost in a galaxy. There was no real immersion and the cheesy dialogue did not add to it.
The ending really grinded my gears but at the same time I actually saw it coming when I found out that EA and Bioware had partnered and I know that people will say that they had a different relationship with EA and Bioware had a LOT of creative control but when you get partnered with a company like that, it's only natural that your thought process changes and you think for the "masses" rather than delivering an awesome sci-fi game with deeper gameplay mechanics and a more complex world. Hence the inclusion of multiplayer and a more streamlined action RPG gameplay style.
The game felt really backwards in terms of lore as well, there was only one main hub world and you would just go and do missions on planets, that really made a hole in their game, one of the things I loved about ME was the mako and how you could drive around a planet (despite the slap on textures), just the ability to do so and get out of the vehicle and just stare at the stars, that was true immersion.
And now the ending, after countless hours of playing through the first two, they missed the home run in this definitely. Could they not have made a tonne of different endings, they had the money and resources, they could of chucked the last 3-4 hours on a third disc so that everyone's ending could be different and based on the choices they made throughout the previous installments. I guess I'm just saying what's already been said.
I can't really complain, I finished and got my money back but it still saddens me to see what was one of my favorite game companies lose themselves to a greedy corporation like EA.
Great article.Great read. I completely and utterly hated all the endings, but I do not hate Bioware or EA. Everyone's human and everyone makes mistakes. In fact everyone hating on EA needs to think of all the great games they've published this generation like battlefield,Dead Space,and yes even Mass Effect 3. It was only the last 10 minutes that was horrible. Of course EA is only in it for the money their a publisher who makes money off videogames its quite simple, you have a company you make money off that company or there is no point in owning said company. I truly believe it was Bioware that dropped the ball this time,but as long as their willing to do the right thing by their consumers I will continue to buy their games in the future. HOLD THE LINE