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Blueprotoss

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darkiddd wrote...

The type of games Bioware tries to create require a completely different vision of the one EA has of the gaming industry. RPGs need planification, a good story, great investment, and real consequences after your choices. All this things revolve around one essential element: time. 

And this is a factor Bioware can't control because their EA overlords put on them constant time sheets and tight deadlines to meet the expectations of their market and shareholders. Trying to maximize every benefit by swinging the lead of the resources spent even if it is at the cost of the game quality and the consumers trust. Then releasing DLCs at the cost of more consumers money to slightly improve a story that is just too flawed and incomplete to be fixed.

Bioware will continue to produce more or less mediocre games like DA2 or ME3 because it is not a problem of "they should have done this or that" or "the writers got this event completely wrong" this are also existing flaws on their last two games but the fundamental problem is how the philosophy of work they have been forced to adapt collides completely with the phylosophy of work that RPGs require. A philosophy that rewards patience, dedication, and amongst all, the underlying idea of "we do this because we want to tell a good story to please fans and get money to create more good stories". And not " we do this because we want to make money, money, money."

Bioware had the first phylosophy of work but at one point of the road they lost their identity and so they also lost the point and central themes of dragon age and mass effect with DA2 and ME3.

Unless Bioware leaves EA or EA is bought by another company with different ideas Bioware will continue to produce mediocre games until one day people won't care anymore. 

This is a straw-mann especially when Bioware got small uproars in their games before EA got involved with Bioware.

Modifié par Blueprotoss, 27 août 2012 - 05:04 .


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BigGuy28

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I am eagerly awaiting the release of Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition next month, classic Bioware game made even better to wash the memories of the new fail Bioware out of my mind for awhile.

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Kathleen321 wrote...

EA is killing Bioware but when you make a deal with the devil....

If thats the case then you should be talking about Microsoft.

CronoDragoon wrote...

I don't believe they are doomed. To a certain extent they are more restricted than before in terms of the specifics of a game they can produce, but that has more to do with the way the industry as evolved - specifically the extreme rising costs of development necessitating very little risk taking or diverse gameplay. 

The best example was the dialogue wheel being forced into DA2 when DA Origins' dialogue system was already excellent; it was clear they thought that since ME was so popular and had the wheel it would make DA more popular.

This and Bioware games are very expensive to make. 


Apocaleepse360 wrote...

Remember Westwood is all I'm going to say on this matter.

Westwood was good while no Publisher is free from closing down studios while Westwood is still no Blizzard. 

Modifié par Blueprotoss, 27 août 2012 - 05:10 .


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iTallaNT wrote...

spinachdiaper wrote...

Bioware is a namesake now not an individual company, hey it could be worse the EA part of the company could of been like lets turn Mass Effect into Madden Effect and made a yearly port out of this franchise that would of ruined the....

Oh god don't utter those words because they might actually come true >.> There is nothing worse then the retarted sports games that are spit out every year by EA.... and they love them because all they have to do is tweak the graphics a little each time to make millions off the saps who buy them.

did't you heard...? all Sport gaming companies were dropped by EA, they are free to do as they want now that EA is no longer the boss of those companies. Image IPB

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superblaze1 wrote...

iTallaNT wrote...

spinachdiaper wrote...

Bioware is a namesake now not an individual company, hey it could be worse the EA part of the company could of been like lets turn Mass Effect into Madden Effect and made a yearly port out of this franchise that would of ruined the....

Oh god don't utter those words because they might actually come true >.> There is nothing worse then the retarted sports games that are spit out every year by EA.... and they love them because all they have to do is tweak the graphics a little each time to make millions off the saps who buy them.

did't you heard...? all Sport gaming companies were dropped by EA, they are free to do as they want now that EA is no longer the boss of those companies. Image IPB

Yet that hasn't happened while it might happen in the next decade or two.

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I'm just trying to figure out what second guessing game dev's et al, will do for the games overall?

If you don't buy it, they won't become... as opposed to: if you build it ,they will come..

(OR get better/more complicated/w eye candy and cool'n interesting subject matter.)

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And done.


LOCKDOWN!



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