EA closes Bioware, 400 laid off across EA

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OlfinBedwere said:

shikamaru317 said:

Yeah, Mass Effect Legendary Edition sold quite well, EA's CEO Andrew Wilson said in an investor earnings call 3 months after release that it was selling well above expectations. Not the case for their last 3 new games, Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age Veilguard were each said to have sold under expectations in their investor earnings calls. Veilguard barely sold more than half of what EA was expecting to sell in the launch quarter, while exact amounts below expectations weren't given for Anthem and Andromeda.

I think the bigger problem was that all three of them were in development for so long and their budgets grow so far out of control that none of them had any prayer of turning a profit. EA clearly had cause to suspect that whatever new Mass Effect project was in development was heading the same way.

EA is still the shittiest publisher in gaming. Millions have fond memories of Mass Effect, but nobody will have fond memories of any modern Madden or FIFA games because they're all the same recycled shit. Even Call of Duty isn't as recycled as Madden or FIFA. Those two franchises are only successful because there aren't any real alternatives to either of them.