>They failed; EA has no interest in selling the IP.These fools have been living off money they stole from EA all along,how could they possibly afford to pay enough for EA to sell the IP to them?https://x.com/baundiesel/status/2113587674820804742
>employees are trying to buy itself
>>750244603LmaoStupid whoresShould have made veilguard a game that appealed to gamers with money.
saudis are getting the IP into non faggot hands
Hope they crash and burn. They aren't the BioWare that accomplished a goddamn thing.
>>750244603I doubt there's any employees left that could make anything decent anyway
>>750244603Good on them to try, but I see no reason why EA would hand over the IP at all
>>750244952It would never have recouped its cost regardless considering its dev history of being rebooted multiple times.
Does anyone actually still care about Mass Effect?
>Implying a bunch of trans-faggots who will have to survive for the next years with only their severance package have to money to buy anything from EAyou lost
>>750245017>le based Saudis are saving gamingthe only way I can maintain my sanity reading /v/ is by convincing myself that 95% of posters are troliing
>>750244603>You're fired>NUH UH, I'LL JUST BUY THE COMPANY THENAre these niggas for real?
>>750245225if it sold 12 million like inquisition then it would have, instead it got 1.5 million 'player impressions" whatever that means.
>crash the IP into the ground>try and buy it out from EA for bargain bin priceslmao fuck off
>>750244603They're either keeping the IPs or they already had plans to sell it to someone else who had more money period
>>750245259
>>750244603>attempted to buy the mass effect ipjust goes to show how out of touch with reality and delusional they were, as if the fucking pronoun lecture in veilguard didn't prove that already.
>>750245017haha
>>750244603I guess they want to become homeless faster.
>>750244603
>>750245260Idk who this Chris guy is because I don't care about Star Wars or Fallout but pretty based response at the end ngl
>>750244603They should be fucking praying to their gods that EA doesn't seek punitive damages for them wasting their money.
mic drop of all mic drops
>>750245578Yeah Donald Trump walked right in there and told them they're all fired.
the new ea owners are not the bad guys here. bioware was given every opportunity to make good games and they failed. they had all the time and money they needed and couldn't get it done. fuck em
>>750245639And given the discriminatory hiring practices happening at Bioware, fuck them even harder.
>>750244603EA likely does have interest in Mass Effect. Which is exactly why they canned Bioware and are most likely going to have a new studio work on a game.
>>750245578Fagnars always moving the goalposts lmaoooo, still not buying your modern video games btw, and wishing your ilk the worst in life.
>>750245578Literally every single one of these fags got ratio'd to hell on twitter. Only leftists would be stupid enough to think it's Trump or the Saudis fault a studio that's made nothing but flops for a decade shut down
>>750244603>saudis offer price>ex devs crowdfund and meet price>saudis double price and say get fucked lmao
>>750245225Bro, if they made it sexy enough they could milk it for decades. Its like the golden goose has boobs and women will do anything to get away from it.
>>750244603Why not create a new studio and make new games? There's nothing BioWare there except the name, all the key people left long ago.
>>750245678its clear the rot was too deep in the studio that shuttering it and starting again was the only option
>>750245578It'd be quite interesting twist if Trump really forced them to make Veilguard.
You would have to be insane to think that any corporation would let a proven succesful IP go, even if they plan on doing nothing with it in the short or long term
>>750245490He was famously a main writer for several highly praised RPGs, so of course they removed him, even from his own co-founded company.
I'll be the fag that's for corporations on this threadIf I created something, I have the right to destroy itIf I make a painting I have every right to torch if I want to, your opinion on the painting, your attachment to the painting, and the influence of the painting in your life, has no bearing on my ability to destroy the painting.Your overattachment is the abhorrent thing here, and why SKG failed
Its obvious EA only want football and fps shit and any of their other IP will only be licenced out for tv shows or movies and whatnot not video games. They will take the free money from the mass effect tv show.
>>750245264No one is saying they're "saving gaming". It's funny watching trannies cry. Get a sense of humor
>>750245908>free moneyThe show won't make back its production costs
>>750245017If you’re on the side of Saudi Arabia you’ve lost the fucking plot completely
>>750245259I care about liara, tali, miranda and aria.
>>750245639I don't even understand why they got more chances then all the other studios they killed after a single underperformance
>>750245947Probably but same could be said for being on the side of the shitlibs and leftoids that think Bioware didn't deserve to be shutdown.
>>750245901>If I created something, I have the right to destroy it Neither Drew Karpyshyn nor Casey Hudson would be given that choice because neither are at BioWare anymore, thoughever.
>>750245578Trump made them make bad games and believe in "Bioware magic" while doing literally zero work?
>>750245578I'm buying gta for $100 just so these people think they can charge just as much and kill themselves through their own greed.
>>750245578I literally stopped using reddit 3 months after "the election". I was completely apolitical and thought it was funny Trump won. The sheer vitriol I read on both Facebook and reddit made me literally delete all social media and I haven't looked back. These people. Legitimately. Have Trump derangement syndrome
>>750245947Reflect on how bad things are if Saudi Arabia are heroes then retard
>>750245947Anon we live in a time where these studios could have probably made more money asking us to bid for them to leave the franchises dead. Nobody likes the saudis, they're just enjoying the schadenfreude
>>750244603>EA Presents Dragon Age: 4>lgbtqiaP+ Interactive presents Troon Guard 2I think I know what I am choosing
>>750245947I struggle to think of any party I would not side with against fucking leafs, prince saad al baseed certainly doesn't make the list.
>>750246006I forgot about that holy fuck. That bioware magic was bone breaking crunch btw. That's when diamonds are made
>>750245806That would require you to have your own ideas. Even Nintendo has to start doing remakes because they also see people making money for no reason and follow suit. Once Kojima is gone so is the passion. Enjoy.
>>750246001With the "i create something" i'm implying ownership of rights and the ability to do whatever with that ownershipDoesn't matter if I actively create it and have ownership from the get go or if that ownership was passed down or was sold to me
>>750244603People still play the older games and would buy them like good goys when a "remaster" aka HD textures pack comes out. Also whatever these clowns came up with is nowhere close to the 800 million EA paid to buy Bioware. Nor do they understand how the business they work in actually makes money on a macro economic scale. Hell they can't even grasp that EA likes and wants the games they USED to make, they don't any fucking use for the new shit that makes "journalists" happy but can't sell enough to justify the budget of the project.
>>750245017Gaming is haram, only sports games are tolerated so ME IP dies and more MESSI GOYSLOP 2027 ERA PENAL Edition for you
>>750245784It is kinda funny how troons are both hilariously addicted to porn, and yet are utterly sex negative. No wonder they kill themselves in droves, living as a walking contradiction must be hell.
Based Saudis removing the filth.
>>750245947I side with the Saudis
>>750245578>previously jagmeet voters now avi voters wanted to save bioware>kamala voters now wanted to save biowareWhat's up with pajeet diaspora and Bioware? Why does chud means fuck in Hindi?
>>750245806These people don't have talent or vision. They become parasites by infesting industry giants and hijacking established IPs by injecting their original ideas donut steal into them. They cannot create, only destroy.
>>750245846People will still buy the old games and they can remaster origins.
Why am I supposed to even hate saudis? Everyone's like "you're siding with the Saudis? THEM? BECAUSE...YOU KNOW" and no one says the quiet part. Because they're brown? I guess it's fucked that they're siphoning American money out of the country but everyone else already does that
>>750246143Messi recently retired from Argentina NT. There wouldn't be anyone like him soon especially that Yamal chooses to be a ngubu merc instead of playing for Morocco NT.
>>750244603>what's the point of keeping or destroying somethingmaybe because if they still own the IP they can legally purge all the trannies and faggots from Bioware by shutting down the company first, then hiring competent normal people to make it down the road
>>750244603Only crying about it now. Lol EA was smart not to let these human pieces of garbage have an IP after fumbling for years.
>>750245947Why am I supposed to hate them?
>>750245947America has allied with Saudis & Israelis for over 30 years. If you hate the saudis you hate America. The IP is in good hands.
>>750245017>Leaving white man's IP to lazy browns
>>750245947I don't give a shit about some sand niggers, they were at least useful for once
Look on the bright side, none of these people will ever get hired in the gaming industry again
>>750246521Name one game IP produced by arabs and what games arabs plays outside FIFA
>>750246852These subhumans will worm their way into their next host through HR departments as they gather critical mass again.
>>750245017>Dragon age is done by Capcom now
>>750246852>none of these people will ever get hired in the gaming industry againThe worst dregs in the gaming industry literally only ever fail upwards
>>750246852And here you are wrong.They will all end up into other studios, either hired by their kin and fester the already existing rot or they will parasite a studio that was free of them and kill them
>>750246852a lot of bioware devs have already got into other companies like bethesda (one actually does vlogs or interviews or whatever and talks about his experience making mass effect and inquisition)
>>750246941>They will all end up into other studiosA few, yes. Most, no. The overall number of western game devs is shrinking by the month
>>750247030Cancer starts from one cell.
>>750244603Canada's government will save Mass Effect. We won.
>>750246521It's because they're muslim and problematic. Which is especially funny because this only applies to videogames apparently because leftists other otherwise worship them
>>750244603Holy based EA.
>>750244603They've been embezzling so much goddamn money and for so long that they have no idea how the real world works. It's clear that there's been a christ-ton of monetary embezzlement and time theft on AAA+ games, and I suspect companies have finally been catching it after something prompted them to start actually "auditing" their studios and it's at least part of why there's been so many mass layoffs recently.
>>750247159Bro, in 2026, every dev is either an activist or a silent participant who let activists go unopposed. All the leads are activists. There is no spread, it's already saturated. The industry crash is the cure.
>>750247204>sell me your word salad!
>>750245434>You have alerted the horde.
>>750247314if only the underground bros would raise up they won't let it all crash.
>>750244603>what's the point of destroying somethingidk I could ask these niggerfaggots the same thing about Mass Effect and Dragon Age
Nothing will change the fact that they worked on this "game" for like 6 years and all they could say was that it was still early in production. 6 years to have pretty much nothing means you are a complete and utter failure of a studio and should be shut down.
>>750247204Yea we did, now those canucks will be reduced to third world status cause their government wants to subsidise bioware with taxes. Hopefully their next game's budget is a $2 billion so that their entire country goes bankrupt quicker.
>>750247204>cuckada>pretending they have any kind of agencyLMAO
>>750245947I'm not siding with troons and women
>>750244603>how could they possibly afford to pay enough for EA to sell the IP to them?Very leveraged bank loans.
did you do your bharvs for the day anon?
>>750246989That's fucking hillarious.
>>750244603I hope they start a campaign.
>>750247446>6 years to have pretty much nothing means you are a complete and utter failure of a studio and should be shut down.Todd Howard just shot up in his enormous twin bed in a panicked cold sweat.
Saudi Prince wants to hold onto the IP to make a straight mans blue alien dating sim, and he knows Skinwalker Bioware is 15 years too late to make him one.
>>750245947What does that even mean, you retard. There are no sides, Bioware imploded because they hired quadrillion communists, what do Saudis even have to do with that (unless you are prepared to admit that leftism is foreign tool of subversion, which you aren't).Mass Effect Andromeda was 2017 my man, a decade ago.
>>750247204>Raising everyone's taxes to pay for some hack studio to put out more flops Yeah Canada would do that
>>750247314Established old guards, sure. The only industry crash is western devs getting curbstomped by studios with a dream and vision or eastern devs surrounded by a continental moat.
>>750247663>his enormous twin bed
>>750244603I don't think you'll be buying any studios with those mcdonalds wages. You will be putting the fries in the bag though. Maybe stop dying your hair green.
So.... why are people upset about them shutting down exactly? They made good games, those games still exist. Bioware for the last decade has made terrible games, lost hundreds of millions of dollars. Obviously they're not gonna keep a studio like that around. Don't be surprised if the coalition will undergo mass layoffs or even closure within the year
gamergate really REALLY set us back decades
>>750248120If anything EA had more patience with Bioware than with any other studio ever.
>>750248191Imagine if WestWood had been given 15+ years and multiple underperforming games...
>>750248185calling out the the power of buying good reviews with pussy failed because of simps and the support of cia cutout journalists. Then followed by the infiltration of esg and other shit really did a number on gaming the last 15 years. its kinda insane.
Just don't use your job in the entertainment industry as a platform for political/religious preaching/activism. Apparently this is impossible to ask of lefties.
>>750248185Let me guess, all the posts on gamingcirclejerk are blaming orange man for bioware shuttering
>>750248185I still dont get what it's about other than some hooa blowing a guy for a review and anyone I ask keeps saying it's more complicated than that
>>750248185Set who back?Bioware hasn't made anything good since ME2.They did this shit to themselves.
>>750248353these people cry about fascism but would literally want to psycho-pass all of society so they can kill people for wrongthink before iit's even realizedlittle do they know how many brown people (and fellow queers) they would wipe out too
>>750248358Lotta long time bioware fans learning about what games they made for the first time today
>>750248120Bioware good tribe diversity tribe gay tribeAnything hurt good tribe bad tribeBioware tribe bring home rotten meat and poison berries but GOOD TRIBE, have many hairy berry pickers.Sandrock-tribe and beak-nose-tribe shaman kill good bioware tribe because sandrock tribe HATE hairy-berrypickers! Beak-nose-tribe chieftain join in for some reason. Maybe told to by orange huge chieftain? That make sandrock tribe and beak-nose-tribe shaman EVEN MORE BAD.
>>750248353These narcissists can't help themselves by broadcasting they work for X company but "views are my own" every single time. Using their employer's name and position as a badge of authority when they post.
>>750245578You could say this is true only in the sense that Trump's election caused a large portion of the Left to write themselves a moral blank check saying that we now live in an evil country and therefore any act is permitted.
>>750246360jeets are one of the most reliable leftist thrall demographics thanks to their utter shamelessness
>>750248510Beak nose shaman join in, not beak nose chieftain. Beak nose chieftain busy smashing other sand rock tribe into dust before beak nose tribes pick new chieftain. He no kill hairy berry picker bioware tribe.>>750248358Also sand-rock saw-dye tribe and beak nose shaman of big orange chieftain. But yeah they're blaming the Saudis and Kushner. There's a pathological inability these people have to accept reality (water is also wet I learned recently), to where if their worldview faces something that disagrees with it>Bioware was shut down because it performed poorlyIt's rather because of some zero-sum manichean struggle of righteous progressive good and evil fascistic evil. Instead of>Bioware performed poorly.I've seen it with another progressive shithole game that failed to where they come up with these rube goldberg tier logical rigamarole to explain away a poor performance and bristle when presented with a simple truth.
>>750245947I'm on the side of spite. A bunch of Muslims that throw fags and trannies off roof tops, bought an ip fags and trannies used as a soap box.
>>750244603>EA is claimed to have shown no interest in the deal and proceeded to close the studio>If a studio wants to leave, and clearly you have no interest in the IPs they work on, let them go. What's the point of keeping or destroying something?Sorry, that's how the law works. Copyright lets the holders do whatever the fuck they want and as a corporate slave you have no recourse.Sucks when the jewish laws you've supported and defended to the death come back to bite you in the ass, doesn't it? You deserve it
>>750245260Based Avellone
>>750248993>and clearly you have no interest in the IPsThey'll probably get more money in rerereleasing them as remasters than they would get from selling the ip.
>>750245260Is that even legal to do?
>>750245260Damn, Turtle Liker is a patient hunter.
I'd sacrifice 100 biowares in order to resurrect westwood
>>750244603suffa game devs suffa
>>750245947na the saudi chads are throwing your dei trash off a building
>>750244603I'm aware that BioWare hasn't been able to release a good game in over 10 years, but I'm still sad about the loss of the BioWare I used to love.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5IDHZ3q_RI&list=RDx5IDHZ3q_RI&start_radio=1
>>750245173Money.
>>750245947Sauds got me KOF15 and a new Garou, which is more than the Canadians have done for me lately.I'll take Ronaldo, some random DJ and an anime guy on the roster over whatever the fuck Taash, Peebee and the downie elf from Inquisition were any day.
>>750245298>"player impressions"I'm guessing sales (counting refunds) combined with people playing it on Gamepass.The alternative is something like "people who viewed an ad for it on their console menu" which is just tragic.
>>750250232The Bioware you knew and loved died long before this anon. What remained was a corpse bearing its name, but without the spark that made it what it once was.
>>750245578>Blaming Trump for shit that happened before he even began running for president
>>750246098>>750246006qrd
>>750245173>sell it to the fags who ruined the brand in the first place, for money they almost certainly don't have>or keep it to sell to the sauds who are already eyeing off the acquisitionIt's honestly a no-brainer, only an idiot would think that EA would have any interest in devaluing themselves prior to a buyout.
>>750245947the Saudis are our allies in this woke gay time. Sometimes the enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Bioware deserved what they got they were acting like smug cunt liberal activists right to the end
>>750244603Mass Effect IP should be given to Owlcat. They are the only one still capable producing good RPGs out there. They are the last hope for this genre
>>750248374It was women trying to take over a huge mostly male space, by shaming and blaming men, taking over studios, sucking cock to astroturf their games, etc. It came at the same time as the many SJW type movements and was also a reaction to them, and was a big part of getting young men interested in politics, after the neocons had mostly left young people to the left in the 2000s.
>>750245806They know that nobody's buying their games unless they can continue to wear the Bioware logo like a skinsuit.
>>750245784The main drawcard of Bioware games for the last decade or so has been to use them as AAA dating simulators. It's amazing that they just thought they could shit on that and throw out a bunch of ugly autistic LIs and hope the gameplay (lol) and the message would carry them through.
>>750245578no, I'm pretty sure you can trace it back to the TORtanic and the fact that they haven't made a good game since like 2012.
>>750247204Please do so we can get another veilguard tortanic flop lmfao
>>750247731DAO remaster when?
>>750245259I saw a few people crying about the closure on youtube. 3 of them said their first Bioware game was Andromeda or Inquisition.
>>750249259political beliefs and associations are not protected under discrimination laws, being that they're a "choice" that an individual makes.
>>750250810that's a ding dong bannu
>>750245578People were criticizing Bioware since DA2.
>>750244603Based EA saving us from more shit from the terrorists of Bioware
>>750245260>HR is doing political purity testing in Western video game companiesMy mouth is on the floor. How could this have been? None of us could have seen it coming.
>>750248374>who-er sucks dick for positive coverage (technically no reviews, which people love to cite as a "gotcha", but it's more because the "game" is barely a game at all)>gets called out by her ex and all this is revealed to the public>all her gaming media cronies circle the wagons to protect themselves from accusations of whoring out for preferential treatment>turns out that all of those sites are straight up colluding on their articles even though they deny it, hence why there was 20+ "uh yikes gamers are heckin' bad" articles in like an hour>glorified bloggers continue to screech about how they're more important than they actually are to try and protect their exclusive coverage and all the free shit & perks they get from publishers>faggot ecelebs get involved, turns into a huge mess of drama for a few years>meanwhile literally who-er makes several more blatant scams and gets away with the money completely scot free because everyone feels bad for her for some reasonLook up some of the comments that were posted on her Chuck Tingle kickstarter if you want a laugh, shit like "okay guys it's been five years with no word now, I /think/ we might have been swindled, maybe?"The best part is she didn't even have approval from him to do it, she basically committed copyright infringement/fraud but still got to keep all the money with no questions.
>>750246852Lol, lmao even. You have no idea how corporate hiring works. Most of them will get hired in one studio or another.
>>750244603So the problem wasn't money, the problem was Bioware.
>>750250810I'm playing SWTOR now and while it's not great, it's frankly better than pretty much everything put out with the Star Wars branding on it in the last decade.And yes, I know that's an incredibly low bar to pass
>>750251124They can't all be in a secret club with ideological purity like Bioware now
>>750245264They aren't saving shit. They are simply delivering the much needed final blow
>>750248374just keep pretending to be stupid, it's working wonders for all you people
>>750245947Better than tranny hands.
>>750251201HR's just going to see their resume and go>oh you worked for EA? for six years? as a product lead? well, clearly you're qualified, welcome aboard!
>>750244603I'm still in shock. How could this have happened to such a storied and celebrated game developer?
>>750248185>set us back>usSure, it set you troons and journo bootlickers back. You deserve it for insulting the audienceGamergate exposed journo fraudsters for the shams they were and called into question the (non-existent) integrity and trustworthiness of mainstream media. Gawker's yellow press machine went down in flames as well.It should have blown up further but the establishment was not going to have it
>>750245017Now we'll stop having ugly women but they'll wear burkas, big win LMAO
The funniest thing about their attempts at moralizing propaganda is how bad they are at it . The nonbinary dragon woman thing in veilguard,.just from the clips posted here, came off as extremely unlikable. Arguing with her mom at dinner and treating her like shit even though her mom was trying in her way to be supportive and understanding. I bet the troons didn't even have the self awareness to realize how bad that character looked because troons live in their own bubble and sincerely think it's everyone else that is the problem.
>>750244603I won't buy their game either way and then they'll lose their jobs again
>>750244603>what do you mean I will die if I drink from the poisoned chalice?
>>750244603If they're that motivated and had that much cash they could 100% make their own games. Sure they won't have triple A budget or looks (when did bioware ever?) but they could do it.
>>750250810>TORtanicI don't know shit about MMORPGs but was that shitshow as grim as it sounds it was?
>>750251738You had things like people getting warned for going to zones that were above their level and sneaking around enemies to loot chests. Or farming.
>>750251738all MMOs are SHIT. They're skinner boxes for sub IQ humans to filter them into areas so I don't have to see them.
>>750244603>along,how could they possibly afford to pay enough for EA to sell the IP to them?They gonna try to scam cattle on kickstarter
>>750251628I doubt they had the cash. The brand still has value even if the devs don't. It's worth keeping the IP just to sell merch and vibecoded remasters in the future. Also whoever wrote that is being disengenuous and presumptuous by assuming that EA has zero desire to use the IP just because they have zero desire to keep paying Bioware to make garbage. Even Microsoft bending over backwards to avoid more negative publicity by letting studios like Tango or Double Fine leave with IP, still held onto stuff like Evil Within.
>>750251485>Arguing with her mom at dinner and treating her like shit even though her mom was trying in her way to be supportive and understanding.The way that whole scene plays out, especially with how the player character has to sit there and watch from the sidelines without chiming in at all during it, really makes me think that it was taken almost verbatim from a conversation one of the writers had with their own parents. It reeks of "fuck you mom I'm going to show the whole world what a bitch you are, then you'll see I'm right".It explains how completely tone deaf the scene is, the mother genuinely comes across as trying to be nice and accepting and la creatura is just NO SHUT UP YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND I HATE YOU.
>>750251628>If they're that motivated and had that much cashThey absolutely do not have either the cash or the motivation to get it, let alone to continue making games. This is just as desperate attempt to keep the gravy train going, because even if they do own the company, who's going to pay them?
>>750251949You got about 2-4 years to say "from former bioware devs" before people stop completely giving a shit.The real issue is I don't know if I could trust this team to make a good game. This isn't like Love-de-Lic breaking apart and making 3 amazing companies.
>>750251628If they had true conviction and actually believed in their product, they would form a studio and work sweat equity to launch a game on their own merits. Easy to make art projects when using someone else's money. Different story when it's your own cash on the line.
>>750251738It was fucking atrocious at launch, but surprisingly it's still going to this day and it's gotten considerably better since.It's still not great, but it's better than anything they've put out since.
>>750252168They know nobody's going to be suckered into buying it if it doesn't have the Bioware logo on it (not that anyone's getting suckered into buying it now, kek).
>>750244603This is standard practice though, because if they bought the IP from EA and made a profit then EA would view it as profits they lost, it looks bad at upper levels of the company. Typically they'll hold on to their IPs just to sit on them so that no one else can show them up, its nothing unusual.
>>750245947i take a saudi over 1000 jews
it would be a power move if the saudis make a cgi trailer where they throw all the homo characters off a rooftop
>>750244603They legit cannot tell why the closure happenedThey actually think it was standard evil corporate bullshitAnd not the simple fact that AAA western studios have become so incredibly rottenWhile modern woke HR entrenches the culture
>>750245947get fucked, we conservatives love jews and indians and saudis and russia now
>>750245260>Sorry about your layoff from biowareholy shit I could see the smoke from the catalog
>>750245260kek
>make nothing of value for the past 15 years>get shut down>drop a trailer where guy goes to a bar and talks for 2 minutes>everyone acts like it's the single greatest thing ever made>people start signing petitions to bring Bioware backWe wanted Bioware to close their doors ever since EA bought them and now you retards want to bring them back over a game we know nothing about. Talk about battered wife syndrome.
>>750248120Normalfags as a whole still really struggle with understanding that a company's worth is based on who's currently inside operating it and not the name or history.Bioware previously made multiple genre defining titles so in the eyes of the retarded normie they can do no wrong even if they put out shit games for over a decade because maybe the next one would be another genre defining game like when they were young.Bioware was also very openly and actively lgbt and it's writing staff was plagued by the type to scream and shit themselves if you didn't have their very specific "tolerant" views, so losing the company is seen as an attack on the lgbt even though the games were shit and made no money for 10 years.
>>750244603Why don't they create their own studio instead?
>>750251425>Sure, it set you troons and journo bootlickers backWhat?You're retardedIt merely accelerated their agenda and allowed them to clamp down on the medium even harder than they would have, because now they had the convenient excuse of fighting for wahmen or some shitRandom gamer chuds started getting banned and censored on all the platformsMeanwhile Zoe Quinn made a speech in the United Nations councilHow was that "setting the troons and journo bootlickers back" exactly?
>>750244603Why is the half naked girl in the image? Their recent games didn't feature anything like that
>>750250502God dammit, isn't that the point of wokies? Make shitty games so their companies get sold off to chinks or muzzies, to destabilize the west?
>>750244603lol, i'm sure the Mass Effect IP is worth more than the studio itself.I highly doubt the people trying to buy it offered enough money. I also highly doubt the people offering money would buy the studio without the Mass Effect IP. This is the key to why EA turned it down.
>>750253039No one trusts journos anymore. Their reputation is in the gutter. Everyone laughs at themYou lost tranny
>>750252967>from the creators of [good game]This would have worked during the Kickstarter era but people know better now and this is one of the biggest red flags a game can have.
>>750244603>>750244724SAAAAAAAAAAAR FUCK YOU BLOODY FUCK BENCHOID
>>750245947I'll take the lesser of two evils
>>750245017Saudis are just brown Jews.Anyone expecting them to be heckin based is retarded, their mentality is "gays for thee but not for me"
>>750253128>Why is the half naked girl in the image?That game is Dragon Age: Origins.It's a really fun game, but there will never be a remaster.The game system is actually outdated now, and it's pretty tiring to play.
>>750254308This, even if its wrong, there's no evidence from recent performance out of Bioware to assume things would be as they used to be. Its better for there to be no content than more bad content.
no way EA will sell those ip's they just wait until dept is paid in full
>>750254403why tf is she wearing a salad
>>750245947>self reflection: 0
>>750251738>was that shitshow as grim as it sounds it was?No?It was one of the best MMOs ever at launch. The leveling was like vanilla WoW leveling if it wasn't as retarded and had voice actingAll the TORtanic hate was extremely forced, which is why the game survives to this day even after Bioware is dead
>>750245017ha ha ha ha
>>750252607Cope, Leftoid. Any action that's taken that hurts you is good, because you're an evil human. It's not taking any "sides". I don't like Muslims, but I wouldn't care nor feel any kind of empathy nor sympathy if Muhamad were to chuck you off a roof, because you're a piece of shit. I don't care for Jews, but I would laugh and love it if they were to censor you, because you deserve to be censored and deplatformed. TLDR, you and everyone like you are shitty non-humans, and anyone gets an automatic 1+ good boy point for harming you.
>>750245947Is this from the party that mocked others for the last decade and a half about being islamaphobic? Cry me a fucking river.
I don't even know why you need to take political "sides" for this shit. Bioware was plenty rotten even without the leftist crap>the shitty combat and copypasted dungeons in DA2>the writing and ending in ME3>the writing, animations, and combat in ME:A>the dogshit open world fetch quests in DA:I>every character speaking like a modern day Californian in FailguardApparently Anthem was bad too but I don't play liveslop
>>750251738swtor is one of the better mmorpgs out there and its class stories should just be converted into a single player experience. I don't know about the later expansions but all the "tortanic" stuff was just dumb memes.>>750251824This didn't happen or it didn't happen at scale, having played swtor from its beta through til just a little bit after the Makeb expansion its either some one off or a lie.Unless you mean going to higher level planets before they're unlocked, but that's not really a warning, planets just weren't unlocked until the story unlocked them. You could actually do some out of 'canonical sequence' if you wanted, and they'd be higher level and more challenging and the game didn't stop you at all from those. You just had to follow the main story and if you weren't playing it for the class stories then I don't know why you were playing that game at all.
>>750244603I hope every single employee is blacklisted. Sure they can probably find some other studio who hasn't got the memo, or join some indie startup that'll land them a short gig off Canuck bucks, but the inevitability of failure and exiting the field is going to happen.
>>750254890>leftoid devs>blacklistedhahahahahaha
>>750254403I demand to diddle deedlit with my donger
>>750254890Unfortunately even Concord devs got rehired at other studios almost immediately. It's all nepotism and bias towards fellow politicult members, experience and track record mean nothing to HR hags and daemonic department leads
>>750244603>I can't believe EA would keep IPs they don't intend to use!Were these people literally born yesterday? EA has been doing exactly that for decades.
>>750244603i would let them do it just to see them lose not only their job but all their savings as well.
>>750247204Please let this shit come true because it'll be so funny.
>>750251124they are running out of studios
>>750245017Give it to gooks or chinks, at least the girls would be hot
>>750245947Ask the houtis then, faggot
>>750255039>get hired>kills the studio since they do fuck all If that's the fastest way to kill stupid studios, I want them to be hired.
>>750245434i ain't reading all of this twitter slop. qrd?
>>750250810you forgot about dragon age 2 which came out earlier that year
>>750245017saudis literally bought ea because they're 90iq nfs underground 2 and fifa street fans, they're shutting anything down that isn't that
>>750245947Saudi Arabia does not want to kill all White people. So they're not that bad comparatively.
>>750244603Please let them succeed, it's gonna be hilarious to watch them double down with they gay shit and then crash and burn even harder but with no EA or the Saudis to blame this time.
>>750255320They probably will and they definately won't.They'll likely get a package from the Canadian government to help build a new studio and loans to fund a new game.They won't get the BioWare name, they'll never wrest any of the IP from EA.FYI: KOTOR is owned by Disney... EA doesn't own any of it
>>750251738all these mazed MMOtards will try to cope about it, but to put SWTOR into perspective, it had a peak concurrency of around 30k players and an EA investor report showed that it cost around $200 million in 2012 to develop, which is more like $300 mil today. on release it was one of, if not the biggest flop in gaming history until Concord came along, though back then you could keep shit like that running on fumes for decades, and eventually they milked the remaining whales for over a billy.
>>750255506They had to reuse those animations for years too.
>>750245274That's how we got new Wasteland games. Original creator bought the IP from the company. He wanted to get Fallout too but the Toddjew had more money.
Funny how things are lining up exactly like a hundred years ago
>>750250232>I used to love>da2
>>750244603I have the high ground anaqueer !!!
>>750255496>FYI: KOTOR is owned by Disney... EA doesn't own any of itDisney doesn't fuck with video game shit. They outsource all of it. They left SWTOR alone and EA is still the publisher and manages the game via Broadsword Online. BioWare hasn't actually had anything to do with it since 2023
>>750244603just make a new company at that pointwhat extra would they get from buying the one they got fired from?
>>750256553>just make a new companyThe Question: Where Does the Money Come From?
>>750245017>completely new team>CDPR>Larian>OwlcatWho will it be?
>>750254689not having principals and giving real enemies leverage and power because your poor wittle feefees got hurt is why quality of life is worse. you'll grow up one day.
>>750255573>incentivize sabotaging IP on purpose to get company to sell you the rightsinfinite money glitch
>>750246116Intellectual property doesn't exist
>>750256615not the pointthe point is making a new company would be cheaper
>>750248120BioWare was a sacred cow for woke fags. It was a driving force for putting sex and gay romance in RPGs.
>>750245017I have to say I really like the Saudis now
>>750256803>making a new company would be cheaperThat's true, but you still have to pay your employees' salaries.And your employees are a bunch of fools obsessed with LGBTQ+, who got fired because they couldn't make good games.Where will the money come from?
>>750246028The people here are just rabid degenerates, not that surprising, you have been being psyopped non stop and are absolutely slurping it down.
>>750244603>IPlollmao even
>>750255067OH, I just realized liberals hate Saudis because they're on the Houthi side because Houthis are anti-US, wow isn't that basically treason to always side with those against you
>>750256918>Houthis are anti-USThey aren't anti-US. They are anti-Saudi. Which US should be as well, lol
>>750256954Yeah US should just ally with everyone that shouts death to America that makes so much sense
>>750256672Most likely Respawn since EA actually owns them. They have some experience making story heavy sci-fi games with RPG elements with the Jedi games.
>>750257002Why should we care about any of the Middle East? It causes nothing but trouble ever since we let the Jews build a genocidal colony with stolen nuclear weapons. We should focus on our own hemisphere.
>>750257002we already do that and have been doing that before you were born. fucking newfag retard just getting into politics probably because of tiktok
>>750250810I'd like to request a wordfilter that changes "tortanic" to "I'm a massive retard". Would fit every single time it's mentioned.
>>750245806They know that they are leeches.
>>750256879probably from the same delusional source as for this buyoutneither option has a chance, that is for sure
>>750256672Why do so many retards think that actual studios like Larian and CDPR have wish for nothing more than to pick up some middling franchise with more bad than good games and tons of baggage? Do you even think about what you're posting?
>Shame on you for not funding unprofitable wokeslop forever!
>>750257280Many people in those studios love Dragon Age/Mass Effect their games are heavily inspired by them. They even have some ex-BioWare employees already hired.
>>750257302This guy’s last game was Epic Mickey kek
>>750248185>It's boogergate/orange man/Putler fault!You can't make this shit up
It's time to abandon gaming, there's no way to fight against the subversion and demoralization when there's actual interest groups and global investment banks working day and night making sure mentally ill communist trannies get hired to these studios
Now, when bioware is dead. Who is next? I bet in warhorse and Obsidian. Then CR project and larian
I would celebrate, but I know that due to nepotism and corruption most of these freaks will simply fail upwards, with no real consequences happening to them. You'd have to tank the entire system, starting from Blackrock to see change in the industry.
>>750257676Check the catalog Arkane is next.
>>750257769>Arkaneyep
>>750257729Tbf, I just find it really funny how they all tried so hard to insist that Veilguard was a success and that the chuds are delusional. Like it's genuinely insane to me how the average lib brain is so thoroughly washed and in constant echochambers to not realize how fucking offputting and weird Veilguard is. They use the example of BG3 as wokeness suceeding, but conveniently ignore that the entire party of humans is essentially conventionally attractive playersexual white men and women for chuds and chuddettes to lust over and fuck with their self insert OCs, there's one black guy but he's the most abandoned/least marketed/and least developed companion in the game.Sadly these freaks will again get more opportunities in other companies, not all of them thankfully, but most will, and like the parasites they are they'll weigh down and ruin the other companies too. I have my eye on CDPR, I think they took the pozz pill a bit too hard and are echochamber maxxing, the manager of CDPR/Witcher/Cyberpunk acc on twitter is constantly ragebaiting le chuds in comments, and that shows there's no real culture in the company telling them to be normal and stop posting coal. I expect TW4 and CP2 to be incredibly gassy and potentially company killing tier, and CDPR always loves to lie about their upcoming games, so expectations and promises to investors will be brutal too and it'll probably cost 50 gazillion as they have so many devs in US now.
>>750244603Nobody buys their games even if they stick themselves to popular IPs. At this point they should stop trying and just give up.
>>750244603>bioware: we'll buy out our own studio with the mass effect IP!>ea: How much are you offering?>bioware: umm... how about a million dollars?>ea: are you retarded?>next morning: EA KILLS BIOWARE BIOWARE WANTED TO BUY THE ENTIRE COMPANY AND IP BUT EA WOULDNT LET THEM!!!!! THIS IS THE WORST THING IN HISTORYYYY!!!
The amount of armchair incels ITT is staggering
>>750258176Incels won. Bioware lost.
>>750249259It's in that weird gray area where you're technically not supposed to fire people or deny people for meaningless reasons, but that shit just gets handwaved in a million different ways and it's so common it's "normal".Some higher-up has a stick up their ass about you because they're one of the CRAZY feminists and want a majority-female team? Oops, you don't have enough experience, or you had that 2-month employment gap in 1997, or you paused for a moment too long in the interview, or you're risky and unreliable because you have a family at home and might have to call out sometimes, or you're antisocial because you live alone and that means you wont work with teams well.>>750246027I still can't decide if TDS made shitloads of people legitimately insane, or if TDS brought all the existing crazies out of the woodworks and gave them a megaphone.The media going absolutely all-in on manipulation, gaslighting and other trickery didn't help, and it going out from all angles didn't help either.It's like every left-leaning piece of media ever all decided they should drop everything and use every tool at their disposal to create some kind of "cold civil war".Cartoons (holy shit, South Park), late night TV, the news, comedians, the internet. Reply to this post or your mom dies in her sleep tonight. Even pre-Musk Twitter was revealed to have been almost literally a weapon against the right, specifically targeting, deboosting, shadowbanning and full-banning right wing content/users (primarily the big influential ones.)I could go on but nobody's gonna read this post anyway.
>>750245017The Saudis aren’t going to fund RPGs. They’re going to try to milk sports and FPS for all it’s worth. They’re all in on “esports.”
>>750257882Unfortunately, anon, they've made it their mission to destroy everything "white male". They don't care about profits, market, whatever. That's why they can simply do this shit again and again. That, and jewish money printer that enables them.
>>750257848I bet the chuds did this.
>>750250838Aged awfully too. The game has all kinds of random issues if you try to play it today on modern systems. It'd be nice if someone decomp'd it and fixed it up, polishing all the original and modern issues, but I can't imagine anyone cares enough.>>750251062Yeah, but the critic scores were high so now you've got people looking back at the game with rose-tinted glasses like it was some "masterpiece" that "trolls" ruined, or whatever.
>>750258242Problem with libshits is that they don't understand the premise of not everything having to be said out loud. Like it's okay to accept that most people are inherently selfish and self-serving and vote and act in their own interests. Majority of players/customers are straight, majority of ones able to afford $70 games on release are White and Male. If you don't make games that primarily pander to them, your games will usually flop. Now, nothing prevents you from having side quests, or some companions, or some story telling that is progressive, like anti-xenophobia, anti-racism, pro-feminism, even pro-lgb themes were in pretty much every big western RPG ever, from Skyrim, to KotOR, to VtMB, FNV, everything. But these retards don't understand being lowkey. They love to ragebait and intentionally make shit as woke as possible to prove they can and then they just radicalize people and make more people bigoted. It's funny how it works.
>>750258147Should have taken the deal, severance for all those devs is a lot more than a million dollars and the IPs are probably worthless
>>750258481nah, you can give Mass Effect to another company and market it as "RETURN TO FORM"
>>750258530If they try, it will fail, and that will be funny too. Mass Effect is radioactive turf. Nobody can salvage it.
>>750258242I read your post sir>TDS brought all the existing crazies out of the woodworks and gave them a megaphone.probably this
Bioware has been dead for many, many years. You idiots that don't understand how a company can purchase it and then purge it of all its employees so the company can use the name to trick you into buying things are truly without hope. How do you think a name is going to magically produce something? It was always about the people that simply don't work there anymore and haven't for many years.
>>750256776I still think this was funny.>try to "reclaim" Pepe from being a super duper gigaracist evil nazi icon>doesn't work at fuckin' all because duh>eventually give up and call him "dead">media does that weird thing where they join in and say Pepe's "dead" and then make up things about how dead he is and what the evil nahtzees are gonna do now that he's "gone", or they cherrypick people for comments like a lot of journalists do these days>people just continue to use Pepe as-is, nobody cares>possibly MORE Pepes come out because of it>OG creator comes back to sell Pepe NFTs
>>750245947>t. mentally ill retard
>>750255163qrd is you don't hate games journalists enough
>>750258643This is a retarded post considering that most writers that work on modern woke games are the ones that wrote the "good" games people like. In fact you should kill yourself now for posting such a retarded low IQ opinion. You do realize that the games you like were written by the same people that write these games? David Gaider, a fag, wrote normal games before, he now writes coal. Trick Weekes, a normal dude before now enby or whatever, wrote good shit before, now writes coal. Josh Sawyer, normalfag before, now retard obssesed with politics on bluesky and makes coal. Why didn't you do any research before posting this retard post? Are you retarded? Why haven't you killed yourself yet?
>>750258480It's because it's a religion, they have to always "progress" so they have to go beyond what they were doing and it's totally justified because progress will make everything betterIf Chuds give you pushback that means you just have to push harder because soon they will be extinct and everyone will be progressive. They can't conceive of a world where they lose, their ideology assures them that their end goal is inevitable
>>750244603Who forced BioWare into doing all the gay shits?
>>750258856They do it for themselves, nobody forced them, they're just narcissistic high on their own farts retards.
>>750246729they arent just against the gays, theyre against women showing sex appeal too.
>>750251091it's just ancient commie tactics but these retards' motives are ''be nice or else'', and what they mean by nice is to be a complete degenerate censor homo like they arethe only way they can pretend to win is by censoring
>>750251738At launch it was horribly mismanaged by bioware, it became infamous for banning people for various reasons (going to high level areas at a low level, dancing in PvP, buying high selling low in the market), as well as having several bugsAt the time, it was the most expensive video game ever made (300 million). Eventually it survived the initial failures, went free to pay and survives to this day
>>750245264Chuds won. And you will be one too soon enough.
>>750244603When EA forced Visceral to make all those changes to Dead Space, and closed Visceral when Dead Space 3 sucked, that was abhorrent.EA closing down Bioware after 10 years of absolute dogshit is an "about time"
>>750244603>EA has no interest>EA had interest in selling itself to saudisIts all about hoarding IPs and patents these days. Doesnt matter that they sit on them with their asses, as long as they own them.Lets begin with the fact that EA was sold to saudis - that should've not happened in the first place, but hey, its EA. Someone needs to place a deathmark on Andrew Wilson.
>>750244603It's funny that any imagies about bioware are all there games from near or over 20 years ago. Look at that photo, the most recent one in that is Mass Effect 3 from 12 which was 13 years from the past and not that well liked. They ever show images of Andromeda or Veilguard, their most recent titles, it's always the shit that have 0 of the creators working there now
>>750245260Based Chris
>>750245260shots fired!
>>750259149I'm honestly shocked 100000% that they included Anthem in their little list of franchises in the postmortem image they posted.
>>750258530>get a cool million + savings on severance and other legal headaches for a completely failed studio and IP now + some goodwill from customers while you could use it>or shove the IP into an indian company with monkeys at typewriters who will totally turn the tide after spending another 50 million on it Saudis aren't known to be good business men, they just got a lot of oil money.
>>750256879>Where will the money come from?Loans, investors, interested parties. You can make a game with just 10-20 people. All depends on WHAT you are making. Don't expect AAA(A) out of that.
Looking forward to when AI replaces the hiring companies. The algorithm can be designed to filter employees off their work history who underperformed in the creation of their games.
>>750245260Social media really did drive a lot of people insane, didn't it?
>>750259331AI can also be used to replace managers, upper management, CEOs and board of directors. See if that happens, because they are the biggest financial drain on the company, and they dont make anything of value unlike your usual rank-and-file workers.
>>750259385the insanity inflected was people started assuming the random nobodies who tweet are the majority and never understood they were always a minorityRemember: Propaganda isn't getting you to believe something, it's making you think everyone else believes it.
>>750251091What's happening in the west? I remember it wasn't this much of a taboo to work with people who has a different political opinion back in the 00s
>>750259385Social media is just a tool/medium. People who you claim have gone insane were not driven to that state by it, they were already like it. Social media just exposed them and created a containment bubble.
>>750259523>blame the tool, not the user!Blame governments and church for being fuck-ups who ruined education because they just needed factory workers and consumers.
>>750259613*tips fedora*
>>750259613Propaganda isn't getting you to believe something, it's making you think everyone else believes it.
>>750259674I am immune to propaganda though
>>750244603Why didn't EA simply give them deadlines?
>>750245947i love how this truth made incels cope and seethe so hard
>>750250578Not true. Can be given to inXile after their new game ships. There's also hope that Larian hasn't hired too many of "them" after the success of BG3.
>>750259484Never happening. Should be obvious why.
>>750244603>ea selling ip ever>ea selling ip to less than a hundred broke ass niggers of indeterminate gender and no talent/v/ unironically has better chances of purchasing Mass Effect.
>>750259767They did. The saudi deal was a year ago. They clearly told them to shape up or get fired in a year
>>750244603Why would you sell your IP to a bunch of homeless people when you can hire actual competent devs to make the games instead?
>>750259674Don't care. Propaganda is a shitty tool used by retards when they dont have anything of value to show or offer, but feel a narcissistic impulse to do so. There are exceptions, but the general use is that if someone/something uses propaganda - they are not worth obeying/following/etc. Ofcourse, then comes the question if you have enough power to defend yourself, because you can bet your ass that propaganda-user will try to come down on you, heavily. Soviets did it with lethal force, US does it with law and force (sometimes lethal).>>750259746Noone is immune to propaganda. Just because you are immune to one type, doesnt make you immune to another. That shit is designed to appeal to your beliefs and emotions. So if you think you are immune to it - it is because you are not its target.
>>750259892>hirelmaothey have $20B debt to get rid off, they aren't hiring anybody
>>750259385I'm old (40) and while social media existed it wasn't the thing that it is now when I started university at 17 (skipped a class). It was already infested by cultural marxists who made a career out of never graduating and trying to convert people to their cause, hoping to become one of the few that would eventually make the jump into politics from there.You always had cultist behaviour like that, social medias just bring it directly in front of your eyes so you notice it more.The "arts" and "entertainment" business in Western Europe has been controlled by the left for as far as I can remember. Not surprising that vidya suffered the same fate in America.They're like Indians, the moment you let one in, they will do everything they can to get more indians into the company until it's a pajeet majority and nothing works. Same shit with endoctrinated leftists.
>>750259385Nah. It just made it easier for nutsos to find each other and form bubbles that radicalize them into complete lunacy.
>>750259801Because managerial class is the privileged class, much like in soviet union the commie party was. In the end, nothing changes really, just names and colours.
>>750259915I've never met a guy called Noone but he must be just like me if he is also immune to propaganda
>>750259930$20B in debtKek did the Saudis do the VC jew trick where they buy a company and then add the purchase price to that company’s debt balance?
>>750259930Saudis have infinite oil money, anon
>>750245680Either that, or they found someone to buy the IP, without Bioware, and are going through the details right now. Either way, this is obviously not the end of Mass Effect. However anyone feels about it.
>>750244603Women whores in gaming who ruined everything, EA did a good thing blowing these whores out with their rejection.
>>750259783> There's also hope that LarianLol. Lmao evenThese faggots made the failguard before failguard was even releasedTheir games are equally mad as nubioware games
>>750259969>I've never met a guy called Noonenewfag
>>750259969>I've never met a guy called Noone
>>750259981No, they specifically bought EA half with money, half with a loanI don't understand how you can just take out a loan to buy a company but that's what they didhttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjejyl34345o>This is because as well as the $36bn it has already put into the deal, PIF needs to borrow $20bn from investment bankers JPMorgan to close it, with the business taking on the debt.
>>750259775>its capitalism's fault>its the Saudis's faultyou guys realize this argument is saying that your game was unpopular and rejected by the public thus not being able to make enough money to remain in business right? you fucking morons are blaming wokeness for killing bioware by a few degrees of separation.
>>750260109In other words, yes they did. The parent company put the purchase burden on the company they purchased. Classic kikery.
>>750259981Yes. It was a leveraged buy-out. Also known as corporate pillaging. That shit should be illegal, but good luck with that.
>>750260190But they still borrowed money from a bank, your example sounded like they paid for something with their own money and then pretended it was debt for the new company
>>750245260My fucking hero.
>>750251628Good point. If you can afford buying a studio that makes no money, you should afford establishing one with the same people (or just some of them, seeing as you don't HAVE TO have all the bloat from the start).
>>750260230Is it really any different?
>>750244603Actally let them buy themselves out. It will be extremy funny when they keep making garbage and foreseably fail miseraby, and end up equally unemployed, but also having wasted all their savings/debt in buying themselves out lmao
>>750245259Yeah, I do
>>750260409Well I thought the point was that you buy something and then pretend it's debt (but you don't have to pay it back, since it was your money) to double-dip on writing off losses for tax reasonsIf you actually borrow the money, you have to pay back the loan
>>750244603Let's say they have enough money to buy but will they really do it?I'm 100% sure the studio will come with fuckin huge ass debt.
>>750260618It's irrelevant when EA is in the middle of production on a ME tv show. Everyone SHOULD know this but Bioware is staffed by commie troons who are too low iq to understand how business and money work.
>>750260471It’s neither, it’s just bookkeeping for asset flipping. If you pay $20B for something, that something needs to appreciate in value by $20B for you to break even when you resell it. So you just add “amount I expect this purchase to make for me” to its debt balance and then you can demand it “balance its budget” as a way of generating that value.The concept of the private equity resell is that these investors will take a failing company and fix it up like you’d fix up a rundown old house, but of course they’re all jews whose only talent is “having money” so they use an accounting scam to make the company fix itself and then pocket the difference.
>>750260109>I don't understand how you can just take out a loan to buy a companyYou use the company assets as leverage, if you don't pay they get the buildings and all that.
>>750245947didn't saudis literally save SNK
>make nothing but dogshit for 15 years>last game was a gigantic bomb>studio eventually gets shutdown>THIS IS ALL CHUD INCELS FAULTit’s amazing there are people who legitimately think BioWare are somehow victims in all of this.
>>750244603Meatbags
>>750259775>in the middle of the shit-flinging contest, a single shit-covered man has the courage to stand and say>"lol look at those guys covered in shit"
>>750244603Is he posting from his phone? What mobile games has Bioware made?
>>750245947If you didn't want us siding with the "enemy", maybe don't declare ideological and cultural war on gamers next time. You made the bed, now sleep in it.
>>750244603Camping IP a company has no interest in even using should honestly be illegal. I know it's cool to hate Bioware but it's honestly shitty of EA to flat out deny any attempt by people that want to keep it alive.In general IP camping is fucking lame.
>>7502508102010. ME3 wasnt good
>>750244603why would they want the IP?It´s just a name, just make "ass meffect" and put in the tagline it was made by the same people who made mass effect andromeda, i´m sure people would be very interested in that
>>750260836They're communists. They genuinely refuse to acknowledge that businesses need to make money and you will never get through to them, not even when you put them up against the wall.
>>750245260>Sorry about your layoff from BiowareFucking KEK.
>>750245947You mean we didn't lose the plot when we started castrating children for gay pedophiles to throw money at them when they dance for drag queen story time?And don't tell me it doesn't happen, I'm specifically referencing the eleven year old drag queen with the purple wig.
>>750245947Now hang on just a goddamn minute, when I saw a Saudi on the bus and started kicking the shit out of him, a bunch of women with pink hair and men dressed like women told me I was the bad guy. What's the fuckin deal?
>>750245578not wrong, nu-bioware was nothign but retards with trump derangement syndrome
>>750245259More people care about ME than about Dragon Age, which is why working on Veilguard instead of Mass Effect was a dumb decision.
>>750258957Good.The moment we let women dress themselves and they turned into absolute whores they got too comfortable in thinking the only thing they need to do is be pretty.Then when their looks fade and their prestige goes they turn into the most wretched, hateful cunts ever because now they're slighted.Fuck em.Shove them all in a burqa and belt the fuck out of the loudest ones.Islam is right about women.
>>750261148IP is retarded generally.
>>750261148Keeping Bioware from making another ME game is literally the best thing that could happen to the ME franchise.
>>750256672Bethesda.
>>750261329>replace panty shots with spats: toxic male gaze editionThe west has ruined gaming>replace panty shots with spats: absolutely haram editionBased based based
>>750261148>by people that want to keep it alive.No.They want to keep its corpse on their pride parade float like they did with Andromeda.Get fucked.Sometimes Dead Is Better
>>750245578God what a retarded claim. Even dumber than blaming the Saudis. Bioware got closed because their games FLOPPED. Veilguard FLOPPED. Anthem FLOPPED. Andromeda FLOPPED. It is not a charity or adult day care. You can't keep blowing money and expect to just get funded forever. Now we can sit here and discuss why their games flopped. Personally I think the blame can be split between EA and Bioware themselves on that, but pointing the finger at some outside agent is stupid.
>>750261406One empowers women.The other disenfranchises them.>NOOOOOOO THEY WON'T LET ME SEE PANTIESThey'll let you have a wife that isn't a cunt.Hell, they'll let you have a wife.
>>750245947The simple fact that people actually side with the Saudis should have been a massive wake up call for you and how insufferable people (and not just retarded maga cultists) find your side and have just had enough of it.But instead of using that wake up call for a long overdue introspection, it's better to shift the blame because in your mind, you can do no wrong.Wake up already.
>>750251091The most impressive thing is they treat this like it doesn't happen in 90% of jobs nowadaysFuck Linkedin so much
>>750245578You can trace the presidency of Donald Trump to faggots ruining videogames on behalf of feminists.
>ALL OF YOU (BIOWARE)>HAVE LIVED>STOLEN LIVES>BUT NOW YOU MUST GIVE THEM BACK FOR I..AM...EA SPORTS (ITS IN THE GAME)
>>750261509Nah
>>750244603this is why kojima productions is the last bastian of gaming
>>750261591Also Saudis would let you mod their games with panties.At the end of the day so long as they don't sin they don't give a shit about the kaffir.It's why they'll beat their own women to death for dressing inappropriately but happily shit in the mouth of a kaffir whore. Their logic is literally "She's already going to hell anyway for being a Kuffar, who cares?"They loved shitting on prostitutes so much they had to force an entire new chocolate flavour gimmick to offset the SEO on Dubai Chocolate.
>>750261547I wish more people understood this. I fucking hate Trump, he's a goddamn bowl of diarrhea. But when you put him up against a bowl of bloody diarrhea and tell me to pick my favorite, you can bet I'm taking the regular diarrhea. If I'd had a better alternative, I would have taken it
>>750261749The message has been around for years now."Why did you make me do this? I just wanted to play videogames."
>>750261749The idea that you get a choice in leadership or that who you choose matters at all is complete lunacy. The machine is designed to run in one direction, it doesn’t matter who sits at the controls. Political “sides” are the lowest form of discourse.Identity politics and its rise to prominence has been a complete fucking disaster for the working class and I am so glad to see it crashing and burning. But the idea that it has anything to do with voting for a D or R is a very bad joke.
>>750261406Which games have the saudis done this to?
>>750257302Has a single journalist mentioned that Bioware got far more leeway than any of EA's other victims?They were so infamous for butchering studios at the drop of a hat in the 2000s that everyone thought it was a miracle they survived Andromeda, let alone Anthem.
>>750261189I don't want Krogan at home, I want Krogan
>>750244603it's impressive how long Bioware lived compared to all of the other studios EA gunned down after a single flop, often unjustly soThese faggots got so much leeway it's actually ridiculous
>>750261889Lol, no.
>>750261738>They loved shitting on prostitutes so much they had to force an entire new chocolate flavour gimmick to offset the SEO on Dubai Chocolate.Fucking kek is that what the story is there? I was wondering why that god awful shit got memed into existence>the rest of the postI repeat my “nah”. Maybe you’re too young to remember the Jack Thompson/Satanic Panic era of gaming but I’m old as shit and I remember it. I’m not excited to go back to it, even though I am excited to leave the woke hellscape. The defeat of puritanical identity politics by equally puritanical religious fundamentalism is not a win. It’s a changing of the guard. The best possible outcome here is for the Saudis to fumble the shit out of every EA IP, lose a ton of money, and the whole thing just burns.
>>750261538I left a once comfy IT job ealier this year because it has turned from a regular professional office environment to a den of linkedin strongwomyn without any trace of talent. The continuously shrinking amount of men left basically had to do more and more work until the whole thing had basically turned into some kind of weird corporate cult that no sane person would endure for long.
>EA>selling an IPlmao
>>750245017The only thing saudis are getting is a bullet in their skull given they're getting completely BTFO by based Yemenite guerrillas
>>750262042The end stage of bureaucracy is every member having no talent except for being an expert navigator of bureaucracy.
>>750245260Lmao rekt
>>750244603So they buy the IP and make some gay as fuck preachy space game. Who will they blame when they have to shut down the second time?
>>750245578>Jared Kushner's investment firm has a STAGGERING 1.1% ownership in EA>son in law of Trump>somehow this gets translated to "Trump closed BioWare"leftists are insane
>>750245578>he's not jokingOkay, I believe him now.
BioWare has released 3 hot steaming turds in the last 10 yearsare there people who would seriously and unironically want a new game from this studio? why? we all know it wouldn't be goodalso why THE FUCK are people so attached to BioWare, it's literally just a name of a studio in which developers were coming and going over the years, it's not the same people who were making ME trilogy or other previous games, it's just bunch of literal whos that were unable to produce a single good game in 10 years people are crying like it's end of the world and Mass Effect or Dragon Age will never be produced again.... EA knows very well how valuable these IPs are, sooner or later there will be new ones, except they'll be made by a different studio, so who the fuck cares? or maybe EA should seriously sell those to someone else, look at BG3, a comeback after so many years in a genre forgotten by the world and sold tens of millions of copies, why people are mad that this worthless studio got closed? they should be happy, because those franchises might be revived one day in much better form made by a much more competent studio/s
>>750251181SWTOR now is not what TORtanic was back in 2011. It didn't have a lot of QoL and endgame content, while also being way more buggy than now. And it was $15/month. When it became F2P, it went through a generational run of expansions and updates that turned TOR into a decent enough game.
>>750261958I'm still fucking mad Pandemic got fucked and they didn't make a Mercs 3 yet these fucking niggers were allowed to fail thrice and only then they got shut down.
>>750261664AI is the true last bastion, since that's the only fucking thing these NPCs refuse to touch.
>>750245264So you're Islamophobic now??
>>750245259People only care about the girls of Mass Effect, the games overall have long since had successors or is in the midst of getting successors. If you want the girls now, you can just mod them into another game
>>750262987If the forces of evil are so incensed by the arrival of our silicon friend then perhaps they/it truly is a source for good.
>>750262596Those people don't actually buy games. They virtue signal about supporting the game to trick other people into buying it in their place so they can loop back later and claim go woke go bro---err, top the charts.
If they are so talented why not just create a new studio and make games in the same genre, it happened before with a lot of success.
>>750263079>People only care about the girls of Mass Effect, the games overall have long since had successors or is in the midst of getting successors
>>750246028>if Satan is evil, why am I rooting for him?This is the kind of stupid fuck that inhabits this board
>>750244603Fucking commie Canucks
>>750263795>Oh shit, everyone is rooting for who I thought was Satan>Maybe... Maybe he's not Satan and the person I'm rooting for is Satan.
>>750256692I didn't ask to side with kikes and muzzies. You forced me to by refusing to leave my entertainment the fuck alone.
>>750261958Fucking this.
>>750250442"BioWare Magic" is a term the BioWare execs and a lot of parroting retards came up with to describe the studio's ability to rush shit out the door with minimal time or resources and still have it be pretty good. Of course, that involved a bunch of people pulling double shifts and sleeping at the office, but that's what you've gotta do sometimes.Shockingly, that magic wore off when they forced all the talented old guard out of the company who actually had the grit and tenacity to see that shit through.
>>750248120One of the first game companies to openly promote modern propaganda.
>>750245260holy fuck kek>>750251091that's how commies operate; infiltrate key positions in organizations and then filter out anyone who doesn't align with their own beliefs 100%. despite what they're virtue-signalling for, wokies absolutely do NOT want diversity of thought anywhere near them.
>>750258242>Reply to this post or your mom dies in her sleep tonightYou sick fuck
>>750245308They were let go to cut overhead, EA are inevitably going to sell assets it was a leveraged buyout you retard
>>750245260wonder if brainwashed leftoids one day realize -they- are the scummy people, they so desperately tried to avoid whole life. instead they created scummy echo chambers and hugboxes and kicked off everyone else
>>750246192Have they ever produced anything of worth?
>>750262042but why it takes so long to collapse once all talent leaves?
>>750245947This, it's Saudi's new method of destroying the west. Now they want to rid us of deep and complex narrative driven roleplaying games.
>>750264506that would imply that they are capable of critical thinking and selfreflection.never going to happen.
>>750264752This is the final stage of acceptance on the narcissistic abuse journey.
>>750262042We pray all these developers being destroyed is a sign of the demonic stronghold witch-cult being vanquished by the Wrath of God.
>>750261379There have been leaks about what the next ME game was going to be like and it looks kino I'm afraid.
>>750245017This whole thing is literal Israeli shenanigans thanks to Jared Kushner. Saudis are too dumb to make decisions on their own.
>>750262042I can't believe this is real. What is the leadership's rationale?
>>750245259Yes, there's nothing else like it.
>>750245260I don't think he even reached this level of based until those two whores tried to gut him in court on fake rape charges. Whatever happened between then and when they finally admitted they lied, it awakened his true self and now he's just spitting out one truke after another.
>>750245887they didnt just "remove him", they had 2 women falsely accuse him of sexual misconduct, which chris took them to court over and won, exposing the far left invasion of the gaming industry
>>7502459479/11 was hilarious and deserved
>>750250982is religion also not a choice
>>750256918>liberals hate Saudis because they're on the Houthi side because Houthis are anti-USAre you saying liberals side with Houthis because they're anti-US, or are you saying Saudis side with Houthis because they're anti-US? I can't tell which is it, but one of the interpretations is one of the dumbest thing I've ever heard on /v/ this year.
>>750245947I'm on the side of anything that shuts down the dysgenic homosexuality of you freaks
>>750245264do we have any indication that the saudis are using their fuck you money to further ruin this hobby?because all the ones ive heard of and seen have been devoid of shoehorn their religion or western ideology into gaming and instead want to make money
>>750245017That is incredibly based
>>750245260Avellone is based and I'm tired of pretending he isnt
>>750244603The Saudi prince probably laughed in their face. I would've
>>750245947No Saudi ever called me a chud.
>>750245017>new Mass Effect game is released after Saudis' cleanup:>no gays, lesbians, trannies, etc>but>all female characters wear hijabs>a lot of characters praise AllahWould this be an acceptable exchange?
>>750245947why?
>>750244603the fact that the bioware employees thought they could afford the mass effect IP just shows how retarded they were
>>750245260>"Sorry about your layoff from Bioware"
>>750244603If they have "money" to buy the company and ips then why not just make their own studio and create spiritual successor?
>>750254254thispeople are dumb as fuckSaudis are just bearded jews
>>750259331Hiring companies are already using AI and it's fucking terrible
>>750245264/v/ in general has that classic mantra of >I don't care if I lose, X can't winThey'll happily eat shit if it means someone they don't like has to take a bite.
>>750245259I'll be honest the dialogue really doesn't hold up and the gameplay was always kind of shit.
>>750259057Saudis are the biggest jew cocuckers on the planet.
>>750245578OBJECTION!It's Netanyahu who started the war with Iran which in turn started bombing the shit out of Saudis which led to Saudi-owned EA killing all dead ends like Bioware. Literally jews did it.
>>750244603They got what they voted for!Gonna be able to buy the studio when you're working at McDonald's, libtard?KEK put the fries in the bag lil bro!Based Saudis
>>750245260>We are D I V E R S E>rejects the second they don't approve your likesDiversity of M&M pack. Colorful outside, same shit inside
>>750268243Based Bibi
>>750267535>what if instead of ugly women we just covered them all up and then chanted a stupid sounding ‘prayer’ that sounds like an old man popping a hemorrhoids
>>750268025"I will personally burn everything I’ve made to the fucking ground if I think I can catch them in the flames."
>>750257676That guy is just mad because Vavra pulled his domestic abuse court case documents out in a twitter argument.
>>750244603BASED, EAT SHIT TROONS
>>750258643>look at how smart I am>a bunch of retarded nonsense you heard somewhere else and only understood half of it based
>>750259149All where games? You dumb idiot.
>>750257676The only company who has had a rocky stretch is Obsidian but they were basically just subsidized by Bethesda and given a new Fallout game to make.CDPR, Warhorse, and Larian have had nothing but success the past 10 years and are growing, not atrophying. I get that you don't like them but they would need to have like at least 2 big budget games bomb to be in dire straits.
>>750259331They aren't hiring politically motivated on and racially on accident, you retard. They can tell their robot to filter out White men just as easily as their HR golem does it.
>>750258643You're right. The people replying to you are complete idiots.
>>750261148>not selling me all your IPs you aren't currently working on for $1 should be illegal Do you understand how stupid you are? You obviously don't.>b-but I said nothing about $1Okay, then I'll sell all my IPs for infinity money.>n-nooo it has to be a fair price, a fair price thatWho decides that fair price? You? Some government faggot? Kill yourself.
>>750245947i'm not. i'm just watching my enemies attack each other. and one side is clearly winning over the other.
>>750259960What changed is now you don't get free housing, education and healthcare, so you're even more of a slave.
>>750261148Kill yourself, commie
>>750268902>free housing, education and healthcareFree? Even putting the fact that it's all paid with my taxes aside, It's not free if the they can take it from me for wrongthink. You lying sack of shit.
>>750269175I wish I could control who my taxes support. I want socialized healthcare for whites only. Non-whites and trannies should get exterminated. I want socialized healthcare only for the groups I support, the rest should be killed.
>the woke right has to switch boots on the fly between supporting white leftists (supposedly backed by israel) and supporting arabs (who supposedly want to kill them o algo therefore they need to send more money to Israel to bomb them or something)lmao
>>750244603There's some sense of irony in Bioware going so woke they eventually end up owned by people that reverse all the things they pushed for. If they had been just a little bit less woke the games might have sold better and there would be enough money to buy the freedom.
>>750256954Retard>God is great>Death to America>Death to Israel>Curse the Jews>Victory to Islam
>>750261148>sell your company and all its IP>do such a dogshit job you get fired>"b-but I deserve to have the IP again, right?"Eat shit biodrone, literally why the fuck should EA have to lose what they bought? Just because some trannies are sad? Because you won't get the next Glup Shitto Funko Pop Yellow Paint Slop Experience? Eat shit, nigger.
>>750269442genuinely how much twitter do you need to consume to be able to post something so schizo?
>>750244603If EA had no interest then that means they didn't offer enough money to offset whatever residual profits they make from the games.
>>750261148No. I'd rather have no more Dragon Age games ever again than the absoluite disgusting filth like the series has become. It's dead, stop raping the corpse you monster.
>>750261469THIS. DEAD IP IS BETTER THAN RUINED IP. ALWAYS.Those unemployed pieces of shit just want to keep ruining ips for the sake of torturing those who loved them when those ips were good. They are no longer good now. They deserve to rest, not be eternal victims of rape at the hands of awful horrible people like bioware writers. I hope they never find employment ever again.
>>750256918retard
>uhhh so we'll give you like the $500 we pooled and uhhh a few copies of Das Kapital we had lying around
>>750261889Their broke ass target demographics PARENTS weren't even in middleschool when saying "i hope your favorite studio gets bought out by EA" was a genuine threat
>>750245173Why would they try and buy it, just start a new studio. Mass Effect is just generic scifi and Dragon Age is generic fantasy. I know they have games in development and it sucks to throw it away and start from scratch but the amount they'll have to pay for the IP is probably more than the cost of the game sales of whatever is in development right now.
They were so smug. My enemies. No, OUR enemies. I'm part of a team, a family... a race. An army. They're not here with me now, but they're everywhere out there, so I feel secure that, I'm not alone. We're under attack, but together. My people. I feel safe. The enemies were so smug, but they've fallen. Look how low they are, unemployed, poor, angry. Look how low they are now, below me. And I judge them. I'm the one in control, I'm the judge. You made the wrong choices, now look at you. And look at me. I'm the winner now. Not you. Never you. Me. I won, me and my people won, and you lost. God I feel so electric right now. Like I could do anything. Is this what it feels like to feel powerful? What all could I get away with? I am a God in a human form.
>>750245017has this ever been true?
>>750270827If they had anything substantial worth salvaging then EA probably wouldn't have closed the studio.
>>750245419what year was that from? i haven't seen that many white people in edmonton for 15 years
>>750244603>are tryingTried, like other studios have done in similar circumstances. EA not going along with it just further reinforces my belief that the PE firms in charge don't have any intent at keeping the company alive for long.
>>750245017Saudis did 911
imagine simping for people who regard you as cattle
>>750244603I really want this to happen. Not Bioware getting any of the legacy IPs, but going fully independent.I want to see what nuBioware will make without any guardrails. No latching on to beloved IPs, no coasting on the success past titles, no excuses of EA/Saudis bad. Just pure, uncut nuBioware.
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>>750271457jared kushner is jewish you stupid cunt
>>750244603These faggots are just gonna have to live with it and find employment at fast food or, better yet, at some factory.
yeah okay. just put the fries in the bag lil bro.the only thing you'll be asking anyone is if they want fries with that because you'll be taking my order at mc D's, bio-was/were faggots
>>750248185They opted to side with a bunch of left hand path social science degree tarts and crazed sexual predators over common sense and libertine values and are somehow surprised that everything burned down.
>>750268243It would be very awkward thing to say, but based jews if true.
Im gonna go stuff my fat retarded face with a bunch of poison goyslop from McDonald's and pay $30 for it like a fucking moron, probably see some former biowoke colored hair freakshow taking my order lol. Go woke go broke lil bro.
>>750268243That chain of events doesn't make any senseHasbara not sending their best
>>750251738They blatantly copypasted shit from wow and people were getting warned/banned for pvping. In a pvp zone.
>>750244603>believe such obvious lieThe game been in development for 7 years and already had to consume at lest 200mln$ in production cost, and the ip is worth another lets say 200mln$.What fucking employee has half a bilion$, fucking 400mln$ + to buy it from EA?
>>750245947saudis are literally one of the most important ally to EU, US and Israel, fuck you on about retarded fuck?
>>750244603>EA has no interest in selling the IP.Guess the proves the theory that Jared and Saudi's wanted a woke studio closed and it was less about the money.
>>750271828All of the technology and animation quality was done by the ME5 team lol
>>750245017
>>750273403they would sell it, if there was a buyerwho gonna give them 1bilion$ to buy it ? Sony? has its own brands, xbox? cant even menage their own ips, nintendo? dosnt care
>>750263026Always has been mudslime
>>750244603Good. License the Dragon Age and Mass Effect IP to asian studios and orient towards a straight male audience. It's so fucking obvious
Based Saudis are gonna throw former bio was/were color hair theythem troonjeet fagfreak off the roof Spl-ACK!Gravity force you into the ground harder than you forced your libfreak bbq politics into my video gamesAnd no health insurance gonna fix that broken spine because they work at McDonald's now making min wage and McDonald's keeps scheduling them for 38 hours not 40 so they can't get health insurance. These chains do sussy practices like that. So they're gonna suffer in pain with no healthcare provided by McDonald's and I will laff
>>750260072Keep seething niggercattle, it was fun, sold well and reviewed well, it made journos seethe, it made schizos seethe, swen won
>>750271163>the small-hat financial department trying to trick you into supporting their cultural departmentNot today.
>>750273873>So they're gonna suffer in pain with no healthcare provided by McDonald's and I will laffIt's Canada idiot, yeah Alberta has more privatized healthcare then the rest of Canada but both are still public healthcare. Who the fuck cares about Bioware Austin.
These developers are free to form their own studio and put up their own capital. But it's not fun when you're wasting your own money, is it?
>>750244603>what's the point of keeping and destroying somethingTax write-off
