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Are you happy now?!
You killed BioWare because you refused to buy their games!!!!
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>>750122950
I didn't do anything though.
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They told me I wasn't the target audience anymore
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>>750122950
>refused
that implies that the thought of buying them ever crossed my mind in the first place
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Its like draging it behind the barn to put it out of its misery
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>actually listed Anthem
Kek
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>>750122950
Should've made a good game at some point in the last 13 years then.
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>>750122950
didn't even know bioware still existed
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>>750122950

>don't like it, don't buy i-CK!
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>>750122950
Bioware made like 1 game every 4-5 years.
And the last 2 games they made was Live service slop and Live service slop remade to be a SP game whit the most preachy progressive virtue signaling in its story telling that is basically just a DND campaign played by blue haired college students.
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>if you don't like it don't buy it chud
>okay
>bioware dies
>HOW COULD THOSE CHUDS DO THIS
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>>750122950
>stop making DEI bullshit
>no

>why did our business fail?
stop blaming your customers. fuck you.
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>>750122950
>No Jade Empire
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>>750122950
I did that? Neat.
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>put out 1-2 flops
>studio dies
is this normal? it can't be normal
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>>750122950
*kills your studio*
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>>750122950
may the unemployed troonies from biowaste never find a job ever again
even as shittank cleaners fuckem
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>>750122950
But I did buy BG2. One of my favourite games!
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>>750123392
That's right chud. Jade empire is offensive. So it's forgotten.

In favor of FUCKING ANTHEM
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I bet you CDPR will end up hiring most of the parasites.
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>>750122950
>through this transition
they just cant fucking help it can they.
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>>750122950
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>>750122950
no, Bioware refused to make games their audience want.
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>>750123445
It's been putting out flops for like 10 years straight.
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It’s DRUMPF’s fault!
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their last good game was BG2
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>>750122950
Never played a single one of those games. Did I miss out?
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>>750122950
Yes.
Fuck em.
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>>750122950
im extremely happy
feminist and faggots are fuming nobody is buying their wokeslop trash when it's front and center in the promotional material of the game
they have to hide this shit to seall it to people and have to switch and bait people mid game to trick them into lgbt media exposition
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
Very. Fuck Bioware.
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>>750122950
GOOD RIDDANCE
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>>750123654
>Muh drumpf
>mass effect was started under Biden and stuck in dev hell ever since
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>>750122950
yes
after the shit they put into the last game studio closure was completely warranted
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>>750123787
IT’S SOMETHING UNPREDICTABLE
BUT IN THE END IT’S RIGHT
I HOPE YOU HAD THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE
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LOOOOOOOOL RIP BOZO
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>>750122950
>You killed BioWare because you refused to buy their games!!!!
They're not owed my hard earned money, specially when they're selling literal 80 euros games, like nigga, that's literally a day and a half of work for me and I don't pay income taxes, if I did it would be like half a week of work for a single game, you need to provide a premium service if you're asking for premium prices.
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>could have just avoided being retarded and keep making bangers like DA:Origins
>chooses not to
Many such cases
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Why weren't there any threads when the news broke but now it's every other thread
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>>750122950
they made games?
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>>750123946
cuz the internet was on fire yesterday
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>>750123804
>>mass effect was started under Biden and stuck in dev hell ever since
It literally has been in early development for 7 fucking years, for God's fucking sake...
Like what did they even expect to happen?
That's literally a whole development cycle and they didn't even have a demo to show to the fans.
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>>750123719
Baldur's gate, neverwinter nights and the first dragon age were great
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>>750122950
Lolmao
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>>750122950
sorry for them
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>>750123946
Nigga we was DOWN when this happened. 4chan runs on php like most of the other places on the internet and php had their exploits published (when it wasn't supposed to be)
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>>750124106
why do these freaks always act like fictional IPs are their close friends?
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?
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>>750122950
More like buy no wares lmao
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>>750123392
No one working at bioware yesterday has any idea jade empire even exists
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>>750122950
>Refused
Bro I stopped caring about bioware when am entire selling point of mass effect 3 was how one crewman/ party member was gay romance only. Like entire ad spots and marketing promos highlighing that fact and that was what 2011 or 2012?
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They only lasted this long because EA funded them for 15 years to make homoerotic fanfiction for a few thousand pozzed west coast faggots.
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>Company experiences consequences by boycotting their bullshit
Good
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>>750123946
I bet this guy didn't even notice 4chan was on read only yesterday, probably too busy touching grass what a loser
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RIP BioMale
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>>750123445
A consequence of long dev times and bloated budgets. Having smaller teams create multiple smaller games in the same time frame would have given them plenty of room for error
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Daily reminder that ME2 ruined everything
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>No shattered steel
>no mdk 2
>>>>>>>anthem
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>>750122950
Their last decent game was Inquisition in 2014. How the fuck did they last 12 more years?
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Nope. I refused to buy an EA game.
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I bought:
BG1/2 EE
Dragon Age Origins
SWKOTOR
What else do you want from me?
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>>750123445
Mass Effect 3 was 14 years ago, and even that wasn't uncontroversial.
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>>750124190
All the "friends" they have come from online fandoms because they don't have personalities and are insufferable irl
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YOU PEOPER KEEP NOT BUYING GEIMU AND YOU BE DING DONG BANNU
BIOWARE MAKE QUARITY GEIMU AND YOU OBSESS OVER GEIMU FROM 20 YEAR AGO
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>>750124465
it's the same for people here too but no one here acts like that
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>>750124461
I'm still mad at the ending and I think I will still be as a senior
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>>750122950
>>750124108
Heh...
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END OF RINE
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>>750124535
why did they turn into conjoined twins
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But...i did nothing
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Just remember. Bioware was one of the very first companies to go woke and insult their fans. Before DEI, before blackrock. They did it for themselves. And now it's finally come back to haunt them
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>>750122950
Bungie next please!!
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>>750122950
Hah, they courted death by challenging the seven inactions heavenly chud sect.
Such foolishness can only have one outcome.
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How many companies have I killed for not buying their games when they don't want me as a customer?
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>>750124554
RINE ENDS HERE
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Honestly I never enjoyed a single Bioware game:
>Baldur's Gate
Way too talkative, plus D&D combat is a chore to play, you miss more often than you hit the enemy.
>KOTOR
Not into Star Wars. Dark Forces was okay though.
>Dragon Age
Pirated Origin back when it was released. Once again too talkative, poorly written, and abysmal combat. Magic was too OP.
>Mass Effect
There is a whole universe and nothing to do. Poorly written characters. Plus homosexual propaganda.
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>>750123472
>game is a suicide letter to the fans
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>>750122950
Yeah, I didn't buy any of their games because I didn't want any of them. I am not going to buy something I don't want.
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>>750124791
>>Baldur's Gate
>Way too talkative
play BG1
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>>750122950
THIS IS THE NEW SHIT
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>>750124830
show that to the faggots over at the bioware subyiddit and they instantly ban you lmao
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>>750122950
Good. This is what happens when you actively hate your fanbase.
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>>750124638
> And now it's finally come back to haunt them
No no, people were shitting on those things since ME3 came out and they’ve been pretty clear about if. It was haunting them for a long time they intentionally chose to misinterpret those signs. Just how now they’re trying to say it’s EA’s fault.
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>>750124830
What the hell is this?
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>>750124863
I was talking about BG1. Never touched the series after that.
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>>750124830
>Even in personal notes feels required to repeat the mantra
O am i laffin
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>>750124791
>Yes, I am a 14 y.o. edgy special snowflake

No one cares bitch.
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>>750122950
>>Meanwhile, the financially propped-up game companies are collapsing. Beginning, apparently, with Bioware. And yes, I do mean propped-up and I would know. The company I worked for funded Neverwinter Nights.

good riddance
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>>750122950
They pulled their final barv?
Rest in piss. I wasnt the audience anymore so I dont care
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>all of their greatest games released in the span of 8 years
>their 3 worst games released in the span of 15 years
literally what the hell is wrong with western studios? ME5 wasn't even in production, what the fuck where they doing? Imagine working at Biowere and you're there wasting away for 6 years on NOTHING!!!!
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>>750125185
I heard Jeffrey Epstein was the investors behind the 15 years deal.
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>>750123554
kek
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>>750124106
>Chinese Mythology and Stories are made for Chinese
>Japanese Mythology and Stories are made for Japanese
>African Mythology and Stories are made for Africans
>Europeans Mythology and Stories are for everyone and if you don't like it, you're a chud and WAIT WHY AM I GOING BROKE
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Biowaste.
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>>750122950
>development on the next Mass Effect project is ending
wonder how bad it would have been...
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>>750124108
I love this particular Chuddha.
More artistry in this one picture than modern Bioware's entire output.
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>>750122950
Yes
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>>750124236
Clever.
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>>750124106
Would
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>Karpyshyn moved to Austin, Texas to help with Star Wars: The Old Republic.[9] He left BioWare in February 2012 to focus more on his own projects.[10] He returned to BioWare in 2015 to focus on the post-release development of Star Wars: The Old Republic.[11] He later started working on Anthem in 2017.[12] In March 2018, he announced that he would once again leave BioWare to work on other things, including more original novels, co-creating a sci-fi graphic novel, and freelance gaming work.[13]

So basically TOR was so shit that he left, he then came back, he saw Anthem and left again? Based.
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>>750124830
I didn't even work on this game but I still feel second hand embarassment for anyone whose name appears in the credits knowing this kind of shit is in
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>>750122950
>https://x.com/Princess_Goose3/status/2113238398253318646
Hahahahahahaha
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>>750122950
nobody there made any of those good games, only the abject dogshit from the past 10 years that got them what they deserve

stolen valour scum, now serve me my coffee.
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>>750122950
Name 5 of theirs game that make me want to buy
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>>750123654
All of this, plus Elon Musk, Climate Change, the McRib, Goldman Sachs, White ppl, MY DAD!, microtransactions, captive drink caps, that little hole in my boxers right below my balls, all of these, are the reason you can't play Mass Effect.

Everything is at fault, except Bioware
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>>750124830
Is this supposed to sound like it was written by a retard who doesn't natively speak English?
>'Trans stuff'
>'Trans crap'
Ah, very fascinating and deep. Maybe it's a former Harvard student after all.

>"I like girls. Girls smell good."
We had decades of Deconstruction(tm) and critique over popular media because everything contains some form of uncounscious bias and bigotry and sexism, only for these creeps to come up with literal nonsense and have the subtlety of a fucking sledgehammer when it comes to their own depravity.

And you STILL have these willfully blind, "anti-anti-woke" morons claiming that such things never existed or were ever a problem while established franchises keep getting ruined for the same reasons.
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>>750122950
Yes
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Lol fat women
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So how would (you) have saved Bioware?
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>>750125185
>wasting away for 6 years
development became daycare, now llms replaced them
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Voting with your wallet will always work eventually. They will either learn or go broke.
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>>750123445
Not for a famous 30 year old company, no. For BioWare to have died like this would have required at least a decades or more worth of long term problems. Failed games by themselves aren't the problem, but could be symptomatic of other problems that led to them failing. This could include piss poor management, terrible quality control, ballooning budgets, diminishing returns, loss of talent, projects getting nowhere, and missed deadlines. Warning signs that the company was failing has arguably been present since the shoddy release of Mass Effect: Andromeda
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>>750125962
>Lol fat women
It does make you think, when looking at Microsoft's offers for selling the Xbox division, doesn't it.
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>>750123445
But those 2 flops were the only thing released during 10 years also Veilguard not only was very bad, it also looked very shitty, the "we had to slash the budget a lot" shitty, thats never a good symptom.
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>>750122950
IN THIS HOOOOOLE
THAT IS MEEE
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>>750122950
They should have kept making good games but instead they started making trash. Can't blame anyone but themselves and EA.
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>>750122950
well they told me i shouldn't buy it because im some unwashed chud or something,what are they upset at me for?
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>>750122950
Yes.
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>>750122950
i never bought a bioware game not even their “classics”, dogshit company dogshit games good riddance
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>>750123016
Based and same.
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>>750123445
>1-2 flops
>Bioware
L O L
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>>750122950
>You killed BioWare because you refused to buy their games
isn't that how the market is supposed to work?
if you keep making products no one wants, you're eventually going to go under
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
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RIP to Bioware that I remember
shrug for the shambling corpse finally put out of misery
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>>750123654
>we love brown people and respect their culture until they cause us to lose our jobs
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>>750126095
Andrea would get it.
The wedding ring, of course
Then my fat cock
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>>750123171
I could fix her
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>>750125185
This. You go to work every day for 6 years, getting paid your full salary, and you have made literally nothing by the end of it. No wonder you were shut down. People didn't buy your games? You didn't make any!
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>>750123445
My man they had 1-2 flops in each of their flagship franchises. It's been 15 years at least since they had anything remotely like a hit.
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Bioware last good game was Dragon Age Inquisition which was in 2014. If after 12 years you can't make a hit, it's time to pack it up.
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>>750122950
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>>750123445
>Andromeda
>Anthem
>Veilguard
and that's over the last decade
a decade without profitability
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>>750126472
Kek
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>>750126472
truly poetic justice
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>>750122950
>we've had some great adventures over the years
>all of our beloved games from 15+ years ago that maybe two people currently at the company worked on
>plus anthem
The closure is unfortunate, but what's more unfortunate is the state of the studio for the past 15 years.
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>>750126472
Holy fucking kek xDd
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>>750126472
>6
>6 fucking years
>And all they could say was that the next Mass Effect was in Early development despite being announced in 2020
Maybe if they didn't waste 6 years on doing nothing and had a game that was ready to go in a year or so then EA would have kept the lights on, but that would just be delaying the inevitable.
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>>750122950
>don't like it don't buy it chuddie
>uh, okay
>wtf
????
can someone explain this
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fuck bioware. they got what they deserved.
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>>750126272
This shit was so fucking good
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>>750126472
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>>750123654
fascism sounds cool, we should have more of it
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im going to assume bioware had absolutely nothing done for mass effect and EA just told them to fuck off cause they didn't want to put up with that shit again after dragon age
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>>750126472
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>>750126472
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>>750126757
they probably went full tr00n feminist lgbt in the story where every character represents one of the mental illnesses
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>>750123445
Anthem was a huge project anon. It was supposed to be the Destiny killer. Not only its release/sales, but also its development, did irreparable damage to the studio.
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>>750123654
>says it's trump's fault
>BioWare has been in decline since 2014
>mass effect and veilguard were even already under work when biden was the big chair
Do these people even THINK
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>>750126634
they legitimately believed everyone thought like them because everyone they lived around and interacted with did think like them
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>>750126837
no
>be game dev
>dont even have to deal with oil or gas industries because all your income is from entertainment products you sell to people
>still go down under
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>>750123654
>woke Narnia lion
What did he mean by this?
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>>750126634
if i ran a studio and someone who worked under me said some shit like this and the game tanked i would fire them on the spot
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>>750122950
How much of the original BioWare was left anyway post NWN2? Because from DA:O it just became the most blatant LGBTQ propaganda slop while the quality of the games just kept steadily declining.
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>>750126052
Pivoted hard away from relationship slop when DA:2 flopped. Instead they doubled down on chasing the overweight female and faggot audience with all their games; leading to poor sales each and every time.
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>>750122950
>listing Anthem
>not listing SWTOR and Jade Empire
Even in their last message they continue to fuck up.
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>>750126472
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>>750126852
utterly shocked when i found out writers and devs unironically believed in the "bioware magic"
they bought into their own propaganda
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>>750122950
I couldn't even sleep last night thinking about all those jobless devs
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>>750122950
Owned the chuds a little bit too hard.
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>>750126472
Kek saved
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>>750126996
Well, EA is doing that now
With the whole Bioware lmao
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>>750122950
What an early Christmas gift. Took EA long enough, my favorite studios kept getting closed after 1 bad game while this pos studio was left to make failure after failure for well over a decade
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>>750124504
Yeah because we call each other retards and fags all the time.
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After spending 6 years on a bare-bones Mass Effect game, how much do you think they will seethe if The Expanse and Exodus turn out to be actually great games?
Just knowing they could have been up there with them or even taken their place had they not slept for 6 years
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Tf u want from me
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>>750126472
>>750126543
>>750126550
>>750126584
>>750126653
>>750126776
>>750126794
>>750127110
>>750127205
I dont get it
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>>750123303
>Bioware made like 1 game every 4-5 years
This is the kicker. Reminder that the entirety of the Mass Effect trilogy came out in the span of five years
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
very happy
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>>750123518
I hope CDPR is next
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>>750126757
The LGBTBBQ garbage was 100% Bioware, but the logistical nonsense of Dragon Age was not.
The game went through four iterations because of corporate demands. Each shift resulted in the project lead at the time and multiple veterans ditching the studio because of the bullshit
>First iteration was a smaller scale RPG game, suits come in and scrap three years of work to chase live service
>Second iteration with its multiple years of work gets scrapped because suits see how the live service games are bombing across the industry
>Third iteration, which includes the time you see that troon being appointed as project director because all the other ones left the company, suits demand they start hard-chasing the Whedon GoW audience and rebrand to Veilguard
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>>750123445
its everyones fault except the ceo
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>>750127353
I will spoonfeed you because it is highly likely you are a low IQ brownoid.

The original Mass Effect trilogy was billed as a series where your choices greatly affected the story. It culminated in Mass Effect 3 where the endings were functionally identical and the only primary difference between the 3 were the colour, Blue for Paragon, Red for Renegade and Green for Neutral.

The picture is making a statement that it was always going to end this way, regardless of what they picked in reference to how the concluded one of; if not their primary franchise.
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>>750127353
had to be there I guess
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>>750122950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLJ48xtD1gs
even more relevant
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>>750126472
Holy kek
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>>750123654
>woke Narnia lion
Do I want to know?
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>>750122950
Yes.
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>>750127353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPelM2hwhJA
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>>750123512
Offensive how?
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Anthem was Bioware's own decision, and its fumble justified heavier corporate meddling from then on because they couldn't be trusted to make money being left alone
Same situation with Phil giving blank checks on time, resources and direction to Xbox devs only for them to shit out things like Starfield and Avowed; now a jeeta is pruning them
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>>750128117
Straight content.
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>>750127353
I'll let the absolute madlad explain it
read the whole thing or tl;dr in ignorance
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>>750127914
they got a woman to voice him in new movie but swears it sounds like a man.
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>>750126318
You wouldn't, trust me.

Unless you can make her uncle unfuck her when she was 12.
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>>750128092
>30yo boomers sharted and farted all over the place for this
I will never understand the ME hype
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>>750126593
why didn't they just ask claude to make a sequel with no mistakes?
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>>750122950
And I'd do it again
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>>750122950
Shits been going downhill at Bioware since ME3, not gonna dance on their grave cause EA will likely just sit on the brands and do nothing but mobile trash with them Bioware are not getting any tears or regret either
Most of the folks who made the company famous and successful left long ago
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>>750123639
1 games every 4-5 years means they made 2 flops.
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>>750128436
>andromeda
>anthem
>failguard
that's 3
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>>750123654
these people still can't explain why this stuff doesn't matter when we're complaining about it but does matter enough for them to aggressively infiltrate places and change it
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>>750128210
poor little feller
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>>750127126
i was so angry i fapped three times in a row to shota doujins. God bless Ikaruga and her wonderful chest.
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people will act like this some injustice when any rational CEO would have shut them down after anthem, why they were allowed to keep going after that I will never understand
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>>750128384
based
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>>750128436
Anthem, Andromeda, Veilshit, yeah it checks out. ME remaster was ok in comparison and earned them some goodwill and cash. But then they likely started going down the same road story wise like veilshit and got fucked because of that.
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Be glad mass effect got cancelled lads, they hired a feminist writer for the next ME game. We dodged a fucking bullet.
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>bioware shutting down didn't even get a sticky
grim
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>>750125185
>their 3 worst games released in the span of 15 years
Damn near everyone from original Bioware left after ME2 was finished. It's not about development times, it was just not the same company anymore
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>>750122950

EA killed them, not the consumer. Although the consumer was absolutely a contributing factor... in that the consumer didn't want to buy shitty incomplete woke products.

They also only had 50 people left working at the studio. It was a skeleton crew of staff, EA had more than enough power to either support them or shut them down forever. This was the outcome.

EA is absolutely responsible.
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>>750128165
Thousands of XB devs now wish they had listened to Phil's weak guidance, instead of insisting that they know better.
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>>750126757
it was this exact situation at halo studio
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Everyone involved is gonna fail upwards again isn't it
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>>750124106
she's not wrong per se, if you're black and you're happy if you see black people in games then that's all fine and good, what people don't like is 36 years old calitranny faggots preaching to you about their retarded worthless life experiences, if your biggest problem in life is talking to your accepting but slightlly confused mom about being non binari then that's your story is just shit and no one wants to hear it
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>>750128995
50 people could make ME4 in 3 years with current technology. Those people spent 6 years and didn't even make it past concept art.
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>>750128995
This. BW went through a bunch of layoffs right aftet DAV, then EA pulled all job adverts for BW, then the Texas studio was put on support roles, then the last studio in Canada was told to work from home. The shutdown was signalled more than 6 months in advance, that's half a year to polish resumes and do interviews. With full pay. Generous imo
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>>750122950
I'll buy nothing and be happy.
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wholl get the IPs
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>>750130579
EA's graveyard. They'll join Space Quest and Sim City and Earthsiege.
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>>750122950
Well, at least they suicided without shooting up an elementary school. Which is more than you can say for the people who supported them.
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>>750123654
>BioWare is one of the millions of victims of fascism
Well, that's true. But not in the way they're thinking.
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>>750122950
S
This has been such a longtime coming, cannot fucking believe it took EA this long to finally put these clowns out of their misery, how they didn't get smoked after Andromeda is beyond me.

Good fucking riddance.
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>>750123654
>Trump is the reason we don't have to see Mass Effect get raped again
Literally the only good thing he's done this term.
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>>750123654
>victims of fascism 1945
6 million jews
>victims of fascism 2026
video game developer
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>>750122950
Well, they could've just made good games. Remove all the woke shit and they would've been fine. It was that easy. But instead they hired a bunch of women and gay men to make their games and those people don't know what the fuck they're doing. They don't know how to make anything cool or edgy. They don't know how to make anything a young straight man would like. You know, their core fucking audience. They needed to hire some middle aged chuds like they used to do. The people that made BioWare great to begin with. The whole western gaming market has the same problem. They've hired a bunch of women to make games for men and that's why they're failing
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>>750123654
Looks like all that brown worship didn't pay off kek white libs are the biggest retards. Thank god they exist or life would be harder
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>>750122950
but me and 3 of my hardcore skinhead alt right nazi friends did boughtened it after an avid dragon age fan explained to our simple minds how actually cool and radical it was
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>>750133708
>Out there in the world, right now, there are people retarded enough to believe this story
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>>750134145
Do you think he was masturbating when he wrote it?
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>>750127819
Thank you for the explanation, oh mighty notnigger sama. Faggot nonetheless.
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>>750123654
>It’s DRUMPF’s fault!
hmm, yes? #fuckwhitemales approach.
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>>750125810
>locked the replies
>the first reply is "You're fucking retarded"
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>>750134216
Doubtful. Troons can't jack off due to mutilation and/or HRT.
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>>750134476
Thank God Elon bought Twitter so people can do that
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>>750133708
100% true story, I was one of these four.
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>>750134365
Redfall must have failed because that black girl wasn't quite as ugly as usual
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>>750123654
His unhinged rage made my smile.
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>>750128210
>For what? Tell me for what? I thought this was America!
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>>750133708
This happened though
I was the barista in the Starbucks, and I clapped the whole time
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Ommmmmmmmmm
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>>750129259
>she's not wrong per se, if you're black and you're happy if you see black people in games then that's all fine and good
It's fine unless you're depicting a utopia for obvious reasons.
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didnt read any of your posts. Has anyone posted the new trailer yet? I saw it on reddit.
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>>750126472
nice nice
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>>750129259
My favorite part of Taash is how accepting everyone is about it and she's still a gigantic bitch like she's meta-aware enough to know that nobody is going to be allowed to call her out on it
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>>750122950
If dei and diversity were the actual thing that killed them, then bg3 would have flopped. Chuds going on about le go woke go broke conveniently forgot about that or somehow try to bargain and cope by saying bg3 didnt have those things. The reality is there was no hype or shill campaign for the game. It wasnt any worse or more boring than bg3. It just wasnt shilled as effectively
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you know, maybe there aren't that many twitter threads haha
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>>750124964
just like your shitty dead company lmaooo
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>>750130770
I have long had a grudge against EA for what they did to Sim City. Yes it's been that long.
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>>750136271
Writer's barely disguised fetish shit right there. Just manifested a little differently.

>>750136350
Still preferable to GOGOGO big decomp slop energy threads.
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>>750136550
Disagree. Decomps/Recomps at least gives us vidya.
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>>750122950
*exhales* Yes, I'm very happy *inhales* From now own, I'll treat this day as a holiday *exhales*
*inhales* Every year, I'll dance on its grave *exhales* I'll call it *inhales* "END OF RINE" Day *exhales*
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>>750136550
>twitter crying is better than actual video game threads
The absolute state of aids victims. There is no helping brain damage like that.
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>>750136737
*inhales* based *inhales*
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>>750136346
yeah yeah that's cool bro, 400 far leftists just got tossed like a piece of shit into the trash can for making garbage for 15 years.
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>>750136727
>>750136872
Buy an ad.
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>>750122950
woke = broke
when will they learn?
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>>750123171
Why a men hater dyke decide to be known as "Foreskin"???
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>>750136872
Well here's what you can do for that problem, get these people to come here to cry and everybody's happy
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>>750137213
>Buy an ad.
The ironing
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>>750122950
this is a bad sign for the games industry as a whole. people are not buying games.
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>>750122950
It's like a rotting corpse finally being cremated.
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>>750122950
BioWare? More like BioWorn out.
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
To be honest I don't really care either way, I have never played even one of their games. But it seems to me that trying to dictate what the market wants is a bad idea.
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>>750122950
Bioware made 2 games in 14 years.
They're a video game company that could barely do the thing that kept them afloat.
This isn't anyone's fault but their own.
After DA:Inquisition, there was Mass Effect Andromeda in 2017. Then Anthem got cancelled, and Shadow Realms got cancelled.
Dragon Age Veilguard came out. Then that's it. They had Andromeda and Veilguard. And they both failed to produce revenue.
I'd shutter it too.
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>>750137474
>this is a bad sign for the games industry as a whole. people are not buying games.
It's bad if you're a CEO who wants another yacht, or a developer with their job on the line. It's not bad for consumers. In fact it's the best thing that could have happened. We will witness an historical shrinkage of the industry, resulting in a size similar to that of the 90s, with a similar number of developers (and AI)
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>>750137568
More like Bioworms with how trannycoded all their games are.
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Nonsense. Buying games is the fastest way to shut down AAA studios now.
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yes, im happy that bioware died.
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>>750122950
Bioware was bought by the VG Holding Corp in the mid 2000's. Then this VG Holding Corp decided to sell Bioware to EA for 800 million dollars, of which the shareholders at VG Holding Corp pocketed all of it. Then for years after EA kept making stupid fucking decisions to please the shareholders for short-term profit, which didn't benefit the gamers or the studio in any way. They had to bend over for a bunch of investors who didn't give a shit about video games. Bioware weren't morons. They knew how to make good RPGs for their fans, but they just weren't allowed to make them.
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>>750139753
does the foid know she literally just proved the weeb pfp poster right
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Classic EA would have already killed Bioware for Mass Effect Andromeda, it's honestly impressive they managed to hold out for so long.
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>>750122950
Fucking finally!
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>>750126472
Kek, nice.
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>the sheer amount of cope everywhere regarding bioware's closure
it warms the heart. it's like short respite before gta6's release, we got this little good thing
i will be running on the dopamine collected from these retards for a week
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>>750123946
Did you just read the threads and not to post yesterday, anon? Did you not notice none of them moved in the catalog at all?
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Stop watching Fox News chuds
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>>750137213
>she says as she constantly shills xitter accounts
Terminal brain damage
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>>750137278
Why does a bat hating coward decide to name himself batman?
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>>750140997
But they just said Trump killed it for being woke
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>>750122950
Do not try to make games without my approval; I am very powerful.
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Today, I will remind them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdBAdBfvMKY
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>>750140997
Yes, and those people were also annoying retards but those annoying retards weren't the people making the fucking games

I'm not going to play your game because gay shit. Is that stupid and petty? Yes. Yes it is. There are so many fucking videogames now I'm begging you to give me an excuse not to buy your game
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**sips**
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>>750125352
Diversity kikes miss the point so hard it's not even funny. There's all the potential to tell stories in different types of settings but they take generic fantasy and turn it into some vessel for pushing disgusting political agenda.
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I suggest we celebrate every time something like this happens
call your chudbuds over and have a good time
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Haven't bought or played a BioWere game since Mass Effect 2.
I'll muster a small kek for old times' sake, but in truth I feel nothing.
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>>750124382
>there are people who unironically defend cisquisition on /v/
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>>750122950
They died a long time ago anon.
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>>750143020
6/10 is decent.
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>>750143020
There are people who will look you in the eye and tell you DA2 isn't that bad actually
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>>750143108
DA2 was already extremely gay, cisquisition was literally the gayest game that existed in 2014.
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>>750143230
You want to ride THE BULL?
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>>750143020
>>750143195
I had fun.
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>>750143392
Drop and give me a quick ten
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>>750143512
Veilguard Isabella is non-canon
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>>750123472
Absolutely insane. How did this ever get an OKAY from everyone. It was like watching a trainwreck. A suicide. Surely they had to know. They just had to know it would fuck them, and they did it anyways. What the actual fuck.
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>>750124830
I read that all in Moridins voice
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>>750143592
I actually have relatively fond memories of Veilguard because I dropped it before ever meeting that thing.
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i can't believe donald trump would literally destroy my video games. i'm fucking crying
sorry fellas i'm voting blue no matter who
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>>750143602
I will personally carry TW4 on my back, entirely solo. With big titty ciri lewd mods.
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>>750143712
this, we can't let this guy have the dev codes
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>>750122950
Bungie or Ubislop are next
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>>750143602
>Divinity will flop
Hold on now, are you betting against Swen?
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>>750143602
>Bg3 flopped - post a verifiable screenshot of an official Larian account reporting the sales in writing on steam/X and I will remove it from the list of flops
Cute that this addendum needed to be added.
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>>750122950
That is great news!
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>>750122950
sell to companies like EA/Microsoft/Saudi Arabia, have your baby raped and closed, simple as
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>>750144052
So just the CEO saying it openly isn’t good enough for you?
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>>750126318
No you can't.
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Oh no I'll miss out on a probably somehow even worse ME Andromeda
Woe is me
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>>750123654
Wow, maybe I judged trump too harshly
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>>750133708
I will believe this story.
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>>750133708
i was one of those dudes, i see he left out the erection i was sporting the whole time
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>>750125752
The funniest thing is, he probably left because of Casey Hudson.
Then Casey Hudson left in 2014, and in 2016 or 2017 Drew came back and even got to work on Casey's ex-project Anthem
Then Casey came back
Then Drew left again.
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>>750122950
I am the economic terrorist known as 4chan, and I will strike again when you least expect me.
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>>750131841
It was just as real back then as it is now.
Same people complaining even.
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>>750122950
They did it themselves by not making games i wanted to buy.
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
>You killed BioWare because you refused to buy their games!!!!
Just these last month and a half I didn't buy:
Halo: Campaign Evolved
Wolverine (starring Debra Wilson)
Silent Hill: Townfall
Ace Combat 8 (starring Debra Wilson + body types)
Gears of War E Day

With the cherry on top being Bioware shut down + lay offs. It's a good day. Leftists can only cope and seethe, still acting like they won.
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>>750123654
>make wokeslop
>literally go broke and shut down
What more proof do xhey need?
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>>750122950
>Release dogshit for over 10 years
>Only three big releases in 14 years all dogshit
>expected to keep paying the same people making you lose money.
>HOW COULD YOU JUST FIRE THEM????
Never understood this.
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>>750145706
Even Debra Wilson is sick of seeing Debra Wilson in videogames, it's hilarious
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>>750122950
What took so long? I would have closed them down before Veilguard even released.
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>>750122950
I love how right wingers have been blaming BioWare's layoffs on them being "woke" or whatever even though anyone with a brain knew that EA had been sabotaging BioWare with terrible business practices for over a decade now.

What's even funnier is how the "woke" elements chuds have been screeching about have been part of BioWare games for decades. Fox News was literally complaining about BioWare's inclusion of a lesbian relationship back in 2007.
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>>750122950
Can someone else buy this studio now and make Mass Effect in their own vision? Even if all the people are gone?
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>>750133708
I was there and I clapped
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>>750146152
I'm just glad

It's over
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>>750146152
>anyone with a brain knew that EA had been sabotaging BioWare with terrible business practices for over a decade now.
OH MY GOD LMAOOOOO
how do even FUNCTION dude, are you ok??? is your little brain even on?
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>>750146152
>The ugly tranny and mastectomy scars in Veilguard were the things keeping that studio alive!
Ok bro.
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>>750146152
They were interested in all the stuff their fans actually wanted, including gays and inclusiveness.
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>>750146286
Look into private equity before you act perplexed by how EA's capitalistic practices killed BioWare. Otherwise you just sound ignorant.
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>>750146152
I remember that segment.
>Xbox? More like SEX BOX. How the loony left is brainwashing your kids with gay propaganda!
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>>750146152
Isn't it a bit weird that your dad had a vasectomy years before you were born?
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>>750146152
oh yeah, yeah, they were "forced" to add all their faggot propaganda in a "sabotage" by the big meanies who literally own them
god you're dumb
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>>750146372
>David Gayder
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>>750146372
Obviously meant not interested*
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>>750145706
>Silent Hill: Townfall
>Ace Combat 8 (starring Debra Wilson + body types)
????
You don't create a character in ace combat
Debra was not facescanned in ac8 either
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>>750123445
Anon, they released exactly three games in the last decade and those were Andromeda, Anthem and Veilguard.
If anything, they're lucky they were given so many second chances despite an entire decade of releasing nothing but straight garbage.
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>>750143913
That shit has been in pre production for 2 years with no actual game to show for it. That shit is the next cyberpunk fiasco in the making and you can take that to the bank.
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>>750122950
yeh
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>>750146372
>>750146546
Ok, I see you're too stupid to understand the point I'm making. The inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters and themes is NOT why BioWare failed. BioWare failed because (1) lack of proper funding from EA, (2) being forced by EA to push out unfinished products to meet arbitrary deadlines, (3) EA limiting BioWare's creative freedom and (4) EA selling out to private equity (Saudi Arabia which was facilitated by Trump and Jared Kushner). Notice how NONE of these things are related to "wokeness" or whatever...
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>>750146372
>You can't order them to 'take thei leave' of the metacirtic forums

Holy fuck that's brutal.
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>You killed BioWare
good
>you refuesed to buy their games
i got kotor in my shelves
i dont know what you are talking about
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>>750146843
Nah was the tranny shit. Wont buy tranny games simple as
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>>750146843
oh, it had NOTHING to do with it, huh
nothing at all, merely a coincidence, just a footnote
once again, god you're dumb
at fucking least admit it's all that stuff AND faggot propaganda, be a little smarter than that
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>>750146967
>Wont buy tranny games simple as
Well yeah that's because you're a snowflake who recoils in terror at the sight of someone who differs from you in any way. The irony is that the most terrifying thing you could ever see is your own reflection.
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>>750123171
justin beiber looks kinda weird nowdays
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>>750122950
They said those games aren't for me. Why didn't the people buy they were made for?
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>>750147036
lmao and there it is, right on que
stay down tranny
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>>750146843
Maybe if they made better games, they would have survived despite the meddling :)
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>>750146843
Wrong
DA:Veilguard has good graphics and gameplay.
Everything else, story and characters, is liquid diarrhea. Guess who is responsable for that?
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>>750123132
Anthem at least broke even in the end kek
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>>750147018
>oh, it had NOTHING to do with it, huh
That's correct. BioWare has had LGBTQ+ inclusivity in their games for DECADES. So why didn't they shut down decades ago? Either it's because something changed in the last decade *cough cough* like EA. ORRRRR the gaming industry was invaded by incels demanding the industry pander to their sensitivies.
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>>750123654
the new francisco franco can't come soon enough
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>>750147036
I saw a tranny having a boner while burning himself to death. That was pretty terrifying.
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>>750123445
Anon, their last truly good game came out in 2009.
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>>750146546
>they were "forced" to add all their faggot propaganda in a "sabotage" by the big meanies who literally own them
Kek. You joke, but it's literally the same retarded defense comblr used when their slop crashed and burned
>"N-No, you see... all these writers and animators with pronouns and flags in their bios are all edgy and based just like us 4Channelers™! They wanted to make cool actionkino with lot of swearing and explosions, but then the heckin' corpos kicked the door and forced them at gunpoint to make gay pastel-colored calarts shit that just so happen to look exactly like their entire portfolios... I swear!!1"
>"Oh, and when they were proudly defending their slop in their free time and insulting anyone criticizing it? That too was the heckin' corpos fault!!!1"
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>>750147193
They had it but they got more in your face and down your throat with the bullshit as time went on. Didn't help the quality in writing, atmosphere and characters took a tailspin because they all had to have marvel tier drivel also gay, so gay so very gay. Did we forget to mention that this wizard is gay! What about him? Doesn't matter hes gay!
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>>750147241
>2003
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Bioware has been dead for decades.
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>>750147193
Next you'll tell me that Patrick Weekes and Trick Weekes are the same person

They might have the same SSN but that's about it
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>>750147167
They made games as good as could be expected in light of EA's terrible business practices.

>>750147181
>DA:Veilguard has good graphics and gameplay. Everything else, story and characters, is liquid diarrhea.
That's because Veilguard was supposed to be a multiplayer game until EA forced them to change it to a singleplayer game in the last minute. So they were able to port over the gameplay and graphics they spent years making but had to rush a story and characters. Thanks for proving my point.
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>>750147181
>it...it had good gameplay
I dont think it did. It had inoffensive gameplay.
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>>750122950
Yes
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>>750126272
I was like 12 when this came out, it blew my fucking mind. I’ve played it through end to end at least 8 times now.
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>>750147425
>They made games as good as could be expected in light of EA's terrible business practices.
ROLL THE ANDROMEDA CLIPS!
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>>750122950
Gotta laugh at how all but one of those games (the one that flopped and had its servers shut down) is from before the EA acquisition. Rest in piss.
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>>750147584
I can't. My face is... tired.
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which franchise started as rpg and the sequel was a mouso with blood and shit?
wasn't that dragon age?
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I dont know how anyone can blame EA for this. EA handed Bioware all the rope they needed to put a raft together, and instead they did what all trannies do and fashioned themselves a noose.
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So... I applied at McDonalds.
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>>750122950
These niggas seriously put Anthem there over Jade Empire
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>>750147753
Dragon Age 2 was advertised with the idea of "press a button and cool shit happens" or something like that, trying to appeal to a completely different audience than the original
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>>750122950
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>>750147974
Uhh, sweetheart? Jade Empire is totally problematic because it's appropriating Chinese culture
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>>750146843
>The inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters and themes is NOT why BioWare failed.
It certainly didn't contribute to its success..
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>>750147992
BUTTON : AWESOME

TOGETHER AT LAST

Honestly the only Buttonawesome game I've played in a while was Star Wars Galactic Racer when using the ramjet
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>>750146843
>(1) lack of proper funding from EA, (2) being forced by EA to push out unfinished products to meet arbitrary deadlines,
Look at the development timelines of their games from the past decade, none of which were big hits that made money.
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>>750122950
I hate when studios get shut down, or devs get fired or laid off. But jesus christ bioware was asking for it for a decade minimum at this point.
The last well reviewed game they put out was fucking DA:I in 2013, AND IT SUCKED.
They had the option to release remasters of games people liked. DA:O people had been begging for a remaster for 10 or 15 fucking years, the industry proved that people will eat those remasters up, but instead, Bioware
>Hey, we need an influx of cash to get publishers off our backs
>should we put a year into a DA:O remaster?
>No, sorry we literally don't know how that game works, so instead we're just going to say Mass Effect 4 will totally exist if you just give us another 8 years.

The nail in the coffin for bioware was the full release of the Anthem story. It's still the fault of the general system and dynamic with publishers, but it proved the studio was beyond saving. Originally everybody thought EA was forcing live service games down Bioware's throat against it's will, but it turned out that EA was actually super chill and gave Bioware a ton of wiggle room to do whatever they wanted... but by then management was so corpo-pilled that what they wanted was whatever they thought would make the publisher the most happy, not what gamers want.
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>>750123476
Yfw you get fired from Bioware for being an asshole and still haven't found a permanent job over a year later
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>>750147992
i check gameplay and that isn't what i remember..well what a great memory i have
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>>750148103
I love the only reason Anthem even came out was that one C-suite who clapped like a seal at the Ironman stuff which was just about the only foundational part of the game they had set in stone

Remember the retarded nonsense about the "Anthem of Creation" was an after the fact justification for the game's title. They had no fucking idea what they were doing and nobody could make a decision
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>>750122950
What took so fucking long?
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>>750147760
Because EA is the devil. Its become such a boogeyman that even when a studio has slogged along for as long as Bioware has even when they FINALLY get the bullet at the back of the head its all EAs fault and not the retards that have shoveled out continous shit for YEARS.
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>>750148270
EA was propping them up beyond their expiration date.
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>Bioware's last good game was DAO
>DAO released in 2009
How does a studio release only mediocre to shit games for 17 years straight before finally getting shut down?
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>>750148103
>>750148218
I can forgive Anthem cause everybody fell for the Destiny (failed game btw) clone trick, but the fact that they kept going with DA4 after cancelling two different versions of it and the studio being completely on fire with the only thing that could save them being a new Mass Effect was the equivalent of eating both barrels.
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time to update
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>>750148140
>They/Them

nice..
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>>750147753
Yes. It's the main reason I hate Bioware after EA, but basically all their big three franchises underwent something similar.

>Mass Effect
Became a Gears of War clone. The first game has more of a unique identity, but subsequent games became more and more "action" oriented and less about the RPG.
>Dragon Age
Exactly as you described. The first game was one of the best 3D real time with pause D&D-like games ever made. The game was finished before EA bought them, but EA was behind some of the weird marketing where everything was about "blood" and had rock music because the suits at EA thought a high fantasy RPG was nerd shit that no one would buy. (Despite that being the very reason they bought Bioware)
>Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic
Became an MMO instead of a singleplayer RPG. The first two games were some of the most celebrated Star Wars games of all time, the first game's plot twist is still considered one of the best game twists ever, and they used strictly D&D-like d20 Star Wars systems to do it. Then the MMO came along and threw literally all of that out while trying to continue the plot from the first two games, effectively ensuring a true third singleplayer RPG would never happen.

Bioware is the definitive example of how to ruin a good studio and throw away all good will with your existing fans.
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>>750148218
It was also like the only good thing about the final game. that corpo was right for once. They literally had no fucking idea what they were doing and he just assumed they would make something decent, and they spent all development trying to turn it into the best sales pitch to a publisher who already had signed on. It is beyond fucking retarded.
This is what happens when your decision makers aren't interested in the company. They probably wanted to stepping stone to positions at different companies or become EA execs themselves. Huge problem with director level and even PMs, they have to 'make their mark' to get noticed, and end up just fucking ruining everything but they hope they can move up before the metrics really come in.
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>>750148452
>Dragon age
>good
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You go woke, you go broke.
This is what they voted for.
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I remember it being funny that autists picked Anthem apart and verified that the starter gun was the STRONGEST weapon in the game, as equipping more powerful guns simply statbloated foes and made them take more shots to kill. That might've also been the game where the devs were banning players for efficiently farming treasure chests out of maps because they were "exploiting" or maybe it was TOR
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>>750122950
If I told myself 15 years ago the studio would be kill, I'd have been genuinely bummed. Probably my favorite studio back in the day. Hearing the news now just makes me happy. Good riddance.
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>>750122950
bioware is not entitled to my money
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>>750122950
>outlasted by SQUARE
total JARPIG dub. filthy gaijin is what you get for chasing profit.
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>>750148484
Bioware is already on there?
Also, I really do hate EA, but this one really isn't their fault.
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>>750148514
Lmao it's a bold/retarded move to put pronouns on a Linked In
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>>750148616
I mourned them when I heard EA bought them way back. It was only ever a matter of time.
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>>750148668
you right
sorry i haven't looked at the pic in years
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>>750147992
They advertised it that way, but under the hood it was just DA:O with flashier animations and less options
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>>750122950
(Tourettes guy voice) I DONT GIVE A SHIT!!
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>>750146843
Lmao. You see the bias from a mile away. Every single failure gets blamed on the evil corporation and the Saudis/Trump deal, but the second anyone brings up the actual writing, the non-binary Qunari lectures, or how the game played like a sanitized corporate product you start screaming "it's not wokeness!!!" Yes EA jerked them around. Yes they forced the live service pivot then walked it back. Yes the Saudi buyout is the final nail. None of that erases that BioWare spent years with no clear vision, pulled their own leads off the project, and then shipped a game a lot of the remaining audience just didn't want. Dragon Age always had gay options. That wasn't the problem. The problem was the quality and the tone.
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>>750123654
I always find these opinions fascinating. They're so emotionally charged that they disregard all logic while writing them.
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>>750148671
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>>750148685
The weird thing about EA is that the first thing that came out after they bought a studio was usually good (Mass Effect 2, Dead Space 2, C&C Generals etc.). The rot only truly sets in later, sometimes much later.
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>>750123171
>"Don't like it?"
>"Don't buy it!"
>"Don't watch it!"

Has this ever not backfired? I'm being serious, it's a genuine question. Has this ever actually worked? I can't think of a single instance where telling customers to go fuck themselves has lead to massive success.

They always fail. It may take weeks, months, years, but they always end up calling it quits and pack their shit up and go. If I were in charge of a company, the moment somebody tells anyone to not buy our shit, their ass is getting thrown out of the building. 1 strike policy.
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>>750128117
Asians. Even the latest ME5 was dangerously edgy for having an Asian protagonist
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>>750149656
ME5?
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>FUCK YOU CHUDS WHY DIDNT YOU BUY THE GAME?!
>Me?! Well I didn’t buy it either!
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>>750149656
>Asian

I thought they were Autistic.
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>>750147036
>recoils in terror
It's just fatigue from seeing shit I don't want to see in real life, why would I want it in my video games? Enjoy never learning anything from this.
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>>750122950
based. i feel so powerful!
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>>750122950
Bioware died 15 years ago. They just buried the corpse.
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>>750124106
would
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>>750148517
>because the suits at EA thought a high fantasy RPG was nerd shit
DAO wasn't High Fantasy, it was a song of ice and fire rip off.
Later entries flanderized the setting turning it into Disney High Fantasy.
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>>750149624
They don't care about sales. It's about pushing the message. The people who do this just flee the sinking ship and sabotage more companies that their clique hires them to.
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>>750123016
There he is, officer. The evil bigoted chud.
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>>750151109
Its a microcosm of cannibalizing functional states into commie hellholes except they can't force a captive audience yet
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>>750145706
You are being an idiot about Ace Combat but you do you.
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>>750149624
The only time it hasn't backfired is with Wardogs to my knowledge.
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>>750127914
>>750128207
Also it's a Netflix product. What do you think. Rumor is everyone thinks it's awful.

https://sffgazette.com/fantasy/movies/narnia-the-magicians-nephew-rumored-to-be-a-disaster-everyone-at-netflix-thinks-its-awful-a11569
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>supporting one another through transition
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>>750151406
stop inserting the same monkey in all games shill
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>>750122950
>killed BioWare
It was already dead nigga. The time of companies wearing the skin of a previously good company needs to end.
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>>750122950
>Goyguard was scraped of a failed GaaS slop
>Anthem was in dev hell until E3 presentation and slapped together in 18 months
>Andromeda was partially rebuild in a year
>ME5 hasn't left pre-production in 6 years at least
Unsurprising
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>>750151406
Shut up stupid retard
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>>750151406
kys bamco shill
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>>750122950
>early development on the next Mass Effect project
Kek, beyond the shitty woke writing and ugly artstyle, this game still being in early development is why these retards got shut down. Two years after the last game and their next game is still in early development? In the age of AI? What the FUCK were they doing? We should have a trailer by now.
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I dont know where the sentiment of "we created a thing now we are owed recognition" came from, as if the creation has inherent value regardless of the quality.
Like come on, you are not owed a sale because you spent time and effort alone.
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>>750152253
>I dont know where the sentiment of "we created a thing now we are owed recognition" came from
Prehistory
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>>750122950
But I did absolutely nothing.
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>>750140461
They got bailed by SWTOR sub money and covid inflation, once EA moved SW over to a different studio the writing was on the wall.
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>>750124830
why did they name her trash though?
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>>750150514
This. I watched Asmongold's video on this and found it a complete waste of time. Such an uneducated analysis. All you have to do is focus on the EA acquisition and the following games, the rest is a zombie company that stayed upright for 15 years.
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>>750152416
Patrick is still in there and is screaming on the inside
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>>750122950
Calling it now, this is just a new type of marketing strategy and you're all falling for the bait.
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>>750122950
I AM happy, yes. This is exactly the outcome I wanted.
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>>750134576
one of these four voices in xher head?
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>>750122950
I refused to buy they/them games
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>>750152970
No, I'm legitimately extremely excited for EA's next game now that they've shown they are my ally and friend. That's not marketing.
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>>750126472
Took me a second.
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>>750139753
>As someone ... another studio.
>.
As an anon.
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>>750148140
Why hire assholes that hates gamers?
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>>750152757
this wrong. they put out their second best game under EA
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I've never bought a Bioware game
Not my problem
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>>750152970
Market what, the studio's dead.
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>>750122950
Yes TOTAL CHUD VICTORY
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>>750123445
2 flops that took 10 years to make
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>>750154020
Wait, I thought Veilguard was shit and Bioware died because EA ruined it on purpose?

But he's saying they couldn't have made a better game?
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>>750128816
>6 years shitting and pissing into a room "making a game"
>EA comes in "so where is the ga...
>"get out"
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>>750143602
>Gta6 will flop
retarded rat dumbfuck
it's gonna make its money back from preorders alone
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>>750123654
>incoherent ramblings of a terminally online loser
lole
this is fun
we're having fun here
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>>750141510
>its woke its perfect
>studio closes due to game being shit
>it was shit, but not because its woke

how do they merge these ideas? They appear to be in a constant state of conflicting ideas inside their minds.
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Generally companies are supposed to fail if they don't produce anything or only things nobody wants.
That's how business works.
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>>750133708
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>>750126472
Made me audibly kek.
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>>750124830
>No, I like girls. Girls smell good.

I could read the average /v/ thread dozens of times across a week and not find a post as fucking creepy as that serial killer statement, what the fuck.
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>>750122950
I bought Mass Effect 1 and 2 on a Steam sale somewhere between 10 and 15 years ago. Was that not enough for them?
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>>750146843
>(1) lack of proper funding from EA
Uh oh sounds like someone is being the BIG GREEEEEDY!!!

>to push out unfinished products to meet arbitrary deadlines
HAHAHAHAHAHA
>WHO C-CARES ABOUT RESULTS, CHUD!!! I'M HERE TO PUSH A MESSAGE!!! PROFITS BAD!

>(3) EA limiting BioWare's creative freedom
>Scarcity doesn't exist, chud!!! ITS A CAPITALIST LIE!!
>BUT ALSO NOT ENOUGH FUNDING!!!

>(4) EA selling out to private equity (Saudi Arabia which was facilitated by Trump and Jared Kushner)
UH OH! I thought you leftist troons LOVE democratic decision-making!
A board of directors making democratic decisions is too uncomfortable for you?
>I-I-ITS OKAY WHEN WE DO IT!!!!
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>>750155835
well the person who wrote traash was out of their damn mind and thought they were a woman, so it makes sense if it comes across that way.
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>>750122950
yes actually, where are the wokies at they love to screech about chuds why didn't they support bioware to make up for us? they should've each bought 10 copies of the game why did they let the chuds win whyy this is like letting hitler win by doing nothing
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>>750156085
Wait that's from the actual game? I thought this was a fucking tumblr post or something, jesus christ.
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>Make 20 years of bad games
>Don't even do anything the last 6 years
Why were they open at all?
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>>750146843
>The inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters and themes is NOT why BioWare failed.
its a symptom though of lazy writing and the team's political views leaking into media. They could've made taash be a quinari who idk was part dragonthingy and felt uncomfortable as one but couldn't go fully through the transition of converting.
Instead we had RAAAAAAAAAA I"M NOT MALE OR FEMALE.
EA gave them more then enough funding the hiring manager bloated the team with a bunch of talentless waste post covid.
Ahh yes the 5 year deadline with nothing to show for it, at some point the developper bootlicking needs to stop and people need to realize its not EA's fault some people are just creatively bankrupt.
EA limiting creative freedom while the team has a bunch of bluewig psychopaths who turned their title into a meme ya that's real likely, you think EA mandated they include those taash scenes?
EA selling out is like saying they're entitled to be salaries for life despite being a lossleader and parasite on the company. If Bioware was doing good work the saudis would've kept them on.
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>>750156085
No, Trick Weekes thinks he's above the gender binary

In reality he's a schlubby white guy with blue hair
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>>750126757
>im going to assume bioware had absolutely nothing done for mass effect and EA just told them to fuck off cause they didn't want to put up with that shit again after dragon age
Are we actually seeing EA starting to be the good guy for once in its entire history?
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Good riddance. I heard Subway is hiring. Garbage fucking studio making garbage fucking games and paying the smug-as-fuck price for it. I hope owning the chuds by focusing on unwanted and repugnant gender cult bullshit instead of creating interesting gameplay was worth it you fucking miserable retards.
I would like to say thanks for all the great and unforgettable stuff back from when the company was worth a shit but none of those people have been there for years.
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Don't worry guys, Exodus will replace Mass effect
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>>750157153
It's just a cheap TPS game pretending to be an RPG
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>>750124106
tell her to make her own original ip with that 'minority representative' let see how its done and receive lol, lmao even. nah it won't happen because them/ they people know how hypocrite their worthless life for trying to ruin establish ip. so fuck you. tell her that
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>>750123016
based and same
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>>750122950
>heh. you chuds are not the target audience. don't like it? the door is right there sweetie :)
>WHAT THE FUCK LOOK WHAT YOU DID YOU ECONOMIC TERRORIST!!!
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U NASTY TRORRUS KIRRED GRORIOUS BIOWARU

DIS IS DE FINAR RINE
---------------------RINE ENDS HERE!!
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>>750123445
>Anthem flopped hard
>Andromeda flopped hard
>Veilgaurd flopped hard
>Mass Effect 5 was announced 6 years ago and is said to still be in pre-production
Bioware had so many chances to fix themselves but never bothered to.
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>>750148036
Thog delivers once again
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>>750151429
well for wardogs it wasnt a feminist bitch telling them to not buy the game if they dont like lgbt, it was a man telling the customers dont buy the game if you dont like the product
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>>750122950
>Are you happy now?!
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>>750122950
I keep telling these game companies make good games OR ELSE. But they foolishly don't listen and die. Maybe if enough of them go under, they'll actually listen to me! I say keep 'em coming.
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Meanwhile based polish devs with warhammer 40k, space marines 2
>15m players reached
>last confirmed sales number was 7m units.
>2m units sold in its 24hours
>4,5m units sold in its first month
Meanwhile bioware
>wokeguard reached 1,5m players in its first two months.
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>>750151429
To be very fair to Wardogs, that was them saying "This is the game we want to make and play, and if you don't like this type of game, you are likely not the intended audience", which feels, I don't know, more respectful?
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>>750155746
kek, these people
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Why do they have to make shitty fucking games just to "own the chuds"? Why can't they make good games involving their shitty politics?
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Realtak: I didn't even buy Mass Effect 2
First one wasn't that good.
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>>750159813
These "people" aren't in any space to do what said space is intended for. They're there to indoctrinate. Remember this.
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>>750159813
Because every part of the development staff will be bloated with DEI hires, who have no idea what they're doing.
It's not just bad writing, or "woke".
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>>750159572
>for the chuds
That's the curious part. You don't need to add, I don't know the nazi flag? the union flag? a 'hate' symbol? just good looking woman and heterosexual content. Well, I guess those things are labelled as things only enjoyed by chuds.
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>>750147992
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzkCmidjeHc
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>>750122950
The only game of theirs I ever bought was DA: Origins.
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>343 dead
>bioware dead
>coalition probably going to die soon

good fuck all of them
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>>750122950
According to Kotaku lolcow Alyssa Mercante, GamerGate is responsible for taking down BioWare.
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Get out of there.
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>>750160417
that dumb bitch realizes that means woke killed bioware and chuds are the customers that bioware should have pandered to?
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>>750146843
>lack of proper funding from EA
>Dragon Age The Veilguard had a $250 million budget
Yeah because it would've been good with $500 million lmao
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>>750160417
>who make money off the rage
they are so unintentional funny
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>>750160417
I suppose commies want a future where they are free to put out garbage products till the end of time with zero repercussions
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>>750160865
Yes that's literally a big part of it
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>normalfags all hate jews now because Gaza is [current thing]
>Saudis shitcan bioware, a studio everyone who actually plays games already openly hated
>Against all odds, Iran crushed Israel and America and now controls the most important shipping route in the world
Is it actually happening? Can I still go to heaven if I convert to Islam this late in the game? Inshallah, I renounce the false profit - may Jesus spend eternity in hell boiling in semen and feces!
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>>750161132
mudslimes are not your allies. they are also your enemies, just like the kikes. don't be fooled
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>>750122950

I will not support people who hate me for being a white straight male and want me dead and cheer when they fail as they never had any intention of entertaining me, only attack me!!!FACT!!!
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>>750126472
I came here to laugh at this
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>>750122950
>ME3 was the last game of any merit
>Even if I thought it was worse than 2
>That was 2012
>It's been 14 years since they've made a single game I had interest in

I wonder what happened.
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>>750126837
>Do these people even THINK
Leftists don't have functioning brains, so no
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I mean the real "redpill" is that video games are made by people, in particular the creative leads, but apparently gamers will never learn that and will keep worshipping/vilifying corporate logos instead. Bioware dying means literally nothing, there is no one left from ME/DA:O, let alone BG/KOTOR.
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>>750162148
>Bioware dying means literally nothing
Which is why it's so puzzling that people on xitter are mourning them
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>>750162295
A vague sense of loss because "the makers" of Baldur's Gate 2 and KOTOR is bankrupt is fine, if dumb, it's only retarded if you're mad that Mass Effect 5 won't come out in about 5 years.
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>>750162410
Don't know what the hell you just said but it definitely is funny seeing people cry and bitch about it so yeah
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>>750160865
>I suppose commies want a future where they are free to put out garbage products till the end of time with zero repercussions
While having luxury living standards that far outweigh their value, effort or ability in any regard.
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"The chuds we told not to buy our games did not... buy our games?"
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>>750123016
H-He's too powerful!
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>>750162479
You should try to think about stuff and form your own opinions rather than trying to be a retarded /v/ermin drone. Actually you seem young and new, so my advice to you would be to leave this worthless shithole and spend the time you save reading some non-fiction books instead.
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>>750129259
Nah, niggers are also cringe and preachy
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>>750162562
you either aren't capable of realizing it or you just blocked the possibility that people might come to these conclusions themselves
nobody's going to take you seriously when you talk like this, mr condescending. i am also probably older than you, for better or worse
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But I didn't do anything
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>>750123654
Thank you orange man
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>>750161132
Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet, not the Son of God, and that he will save the world
It's (((another))) group that says he's in shit in Hell
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>be chud
>have loads of money and like games
>erm excuse me chuddy, we don't want YOUR money
>don't buy game or give them money
>they go out of business

I have the power to topple empires.



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