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SegataSanshiro on 20 March 2017

VFX Artist 5 year Employee

 

"I worked at BioWare full-time (More than 5 years)

Pros

- Used to be a great environment filled with great amount of world class creative talents.
- Work on a great AAA IP.
- Great location downtown Montreal.

Cons

- Bioware Edmonton and Montreal symbiosis is broken. Lots of conflicts and bro culture.

- Lost over 13 leads (game design, art, audio, prog, senior core leads, etc) in 5 years at Bioware Montreal on Mass Effect. Edmonton lost only 3. It is clear that Edmonton has the bigger part of the stick when it comes to purge Leads and Producers who are not aligned with their leadership style.

- Putting people on p… Show More

Advice to Management

Not going to waste my breath on this one... Sadly they won't listen anyway."

https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Employee-Review-BioWare-RVW11370424.htm

 

Personally kind of known issues been going on a while. I just didn't know how bad.




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hudsoniscool on 20 March 2017

https://my.mixtape.moe/yugchn.mp4
Side by side comparison early 2016build vs final product
1yr old bold looks better but more importantly it looks more like mass effect. The art style I mean.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Lawlight on 20 March 2017

Hard to know if it's real or not. The company has an 82% approval on glassdoor which is very high.



areason on 20 March 2017

The sjws have finally ruined something we love.



Airaku on 20 March 2017

Yep, it's really sad. I wasn't aware it was that bad over in Montreal though, but last year I've heard things are really looking up in Edmonton and the new IP seems to be shaping up to be something really special. It's a shame that the Montreal location isn't doing so hot. I'm curious as what will be next for them.... I truly hope people don't go do harsh or toxic over Andromeda and enjoy it for what it is. Even if it's nothing near the quality of the original trilogy. Maybe next year all will be forgiven with the main studio in Edmonton pushes the new IP. I for one am excited for what's to come and just trying to keep my head up :)


I think everyone should try and be a little optimistic before jumping on the whole doom and gloom of BioWare's days are over.




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Ljink96 on 20 March 2017

Another reason why I don't want to work at AAA game studios...



Acevil on 20 March 2017
areason said:
The sjws have finally ruined something we love.

I'm confused how did you get SJW from any of that? If anything the person is saying Bro Culture is fault, and that is pretty far from SJW. 



 

areason on 20 March 2017
Acevil said:
areason said:
The sjws have finally ruined something we love.

I'm confused how did you get SJW from any of that? If anything the person is saying Bro Culture is fault, and that is pretty far from SJW. 

One of the head directors of the game is anti white, you don't have lighter skin tones in the character creation screen, and having random trans people placed in the game. 

 

Those things definetely give the impression of "sjw diversity".

Also when it comes to the original post the studio that did Andromeda is a new studio and not the original bioware team, so i don't know if those claims apply. 



Acevil on 20 March 2017
areason said:
Acevil said:

I'm confused how did you get SJW from any of that? If anything the person is saying Bro Culture is fault, and that is pretty far from SJW. 

One of the head directors of the game is anti white, you don't have lighter skin tones in the character creation screen, and having random trans people placed in the game. 

 

Those things definetely give the impression of "sjw diversity".

Also when it comes to the original post the studio that did Andromeda is a new studio and not the original bioware team, so i don't know if those claims apply. 

I saw the game have a white character in the creation screen, I think you are drawing straws to make weak arguements. 

Also so one guy in a team is racist, so that makes him SJW? How does that work. Do not think people know what Alternate Right and Social Justice means anymore. 



 

Lawlight on 20 March 2017
Acevil said:
areason said:
The sjws have finally ruined something we love.

I'm confused how did you get SJW from any of that? If anything the person is saying Bro Culture is fault, and that is pretty far from SJW. 

That doesn't lineup with how the game was being presented - Bioware using Fem Ryder as the face of the game or making the characters "unsexy" but only the female characters or with their developer hating white people.