RageGT wrote...
Once upon a time there was an excellent PC games developers company named Bioware which used to be run by "free thinkers who could care less about corporate priorities". (note that this is how CD Projekt defines themselves in a frame-message-inside-a-video to their fans). They would make great games and of course they must have made money out of it even if the games were crafted masterpieces that costed a lot more to produce than it might if they were produced by a different company submissive to big publishers directives. They even make the best effort to patch their games asap and would only stop it when they were bug free. Then EA happened in their way.
If you think EA will not use the label Bioware that they bought to cover their losses at all costs, I really don't know what to say. I'm as much a fan boy as anyone who loved all Bioware games, with a few that I haven't played like SW's or JE. Like I said, NWN still is a great game and there are people still playing it. Perhaps even buying it. Do you see DA2 surviving 8 years in the market?
Sure, old Bioware guys do take pride in their work, Only they cannot do their work as freely anymore because they have to follow directives and priorities which do not exactly prize crafted masterpieces. They want sales and as much as they can get with as little costs as they must have. Even with one BW designated a top executive of EA, he's not the boss. The bosses are the shareholders and I doubt many of them play video games at all.
I agree on some points and disagree on others. But to point out the obviousness of how bad this is, look at this in a positive light rather than the negative; EA allows people to continue to make their games as part of their EA Partnership. Indie developers can get their games out through it, and maybe get a start where they haven't gotten it before with EA. EA while having a bad reputation, is not the worst there is. EA will never be the worst there is; they came up from the bottom and are making amends at a slow pace to the gaming community as a whole.
Whereas if BioWare had been bought out by Activision, there would be no BioWare; there would be no DA3 if it did not sell well. They would try to cash**** BioWare with facebook, or twitter, try to tie them in with facebook casual games for the sales, they would ONLY care about the sales. Sales are a decently large part, but not all there is to it with EA. Sales does matter; but it is not the only thing that matters. At least BioWare is being given control over their games. SOE, NCsoft, and Activision are the worst; would you rather SOE get into your game and control it's development by people who aren't developers?
Would your ather NCsoft nix your game because it did not reach proported sales numbers as normally predicted, and axe a game that had potential, or ruin it wholly? Would you rather have Activision tear down the Gaming Industry itself by striking at one of the premier RPG developers first, then move on elsewhere? I am happy that EA bought out BioWare. If EA had not, Activision or Sega, or another company that only looks at sales or casual gaming market, then this would be a lot worse than it is.
EA is a lesser evil in this case; sure it isn't the best corporation of video game companies that allow art to takes its form. But do not think they are always about SALES SALES SALES CASUAL GAMES SALES because they aren't.
/end rant.
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