Anthem Review Thread - MC: 61 | OC: 60

[MrWayne]

AngryLittleAlchemist said:

mjk45 said:

I couldn't give a flying fuck about the  Bioware of today  .but I would blame EA if they closed Bioware because they along with Bioware have to be held accountable for the situation , MEA a game I enjoyed btw and deserved to continue got thrown under a bus for this and yes Bioware say it was their choice, but you can't tell me they weren't encouraged ,until we are shown that all those ips are in safe capable  hands then I would stick with Bioware but they need direction and no longer get a free pass.

I mean, I agree with you. Technically, there is almost always some blame on the publishers end, especially if they own the studio in question. I also think stuff like the Mass Effect 3 ending debacle was probably mostly EA's fault (I doubt they didn't ask for extended developer time). But, at this point there's so much tying back to Bioware, that I just think they're an incompetent studio. EA is partially to blame, sure, but a majority of it falls on Bioware. And I think if we're being honest, that's not really how people distribute the blame, even though it's the most honest way to do so. 

At this point Bioware is nothing more than a label, most of the creative figureheads who were responsible for the old Bioware games left the company and some of the games you listed were even made by teams who were never part of Bioware befor EA bought them. It's hard to criticize something that doesn't even exist anymore.

What the games developed by "Bioware" in the last 10 years show is that EA don't really care about brand sustainability. They put the label Bioware on new studios who are unrelated to the original one and neglect quality control.