I'd be fine with them closing them at this point in time. I've lost all hope since DAI and atm I simply wouldn't care because Bioware is long dead, as it seems to me.

They are basically a new team, or even several new teams. It's just another EA studio these days and most people responsible for the classic greats don't even work there anymore. Bioware is just a brand name...there is no soul left and I won't believe otherwise until I see they can indeed change for the better. 

This is true, and not only this, but to some degree it gives the employees a safe haven.  Your other choices are:

1. Sell to Activision or Ubisoft or maybe one of 10 other organizations big enoug...but what if they aren't interested?  there isn't a huge pool of AAA sized publishers.

2. hand off to new leadership, but that could leave your employees ina very precarious position.

3. Shut it down, which seems noble to your dedicated customers but means instant unemployment for your whole team.

Bioware Montreal wasn't a real Bioware studio to begin with. It was just an inexperienced, EA-founded studio which EA had branded Bioware Montreal. It's better they now resolved them in EA Motive because that's at least closer to the truth.

On principle, i fully agree that MT are a thing to be purged from games, like i said, I believe there's other ways and better ways, but I think EA and the others publishers will only realize that if we continue to buy the games but not the MT, because if we don't buy the games they get the wrong idea that people didn't want that game and that the game fail, not because of MT, but not good core, not enough marketing, something else,they might even blame gamers as cry babies just to throw the blame around, but if they sell millions and only 0.0001 use MT they will see it as not worth. The BF II issue, was blown out of proportion fuelled by Angry Joe ( i like him but sometimes he goes over board)  and his 4th grade math that didn't take into consideration several ways of getting free loot box and going by the failed logic that everyone wants to unlock everything in a online game... No, in online competitive games people want to have fun and kill that guy that kill them twice already... In a match of 40 players I doubt there will be more than one or two players that did buy MT (p2w) to get a edge, but so does a unemployed guy with lots of time but low skill. I saw people crucifying EA for this game just to be on cool side... And I still say, I'm better off playing all maps with a unified community and deal with the very few that did p2w than having to pay for a season pass and having the community splited.

Just because there's the option to something "bad" doesn't automatically means that a meaningful number of people will do it and that the game is ruined. 

On Bioware subject, wasn't them passionate about mass effect Andromeda? Who's to say Anthem isn't a passionate project of their's... I don't know, but I find it hard to believe that the Anthem IP was created by a EA executive instead of a Bioware creative team...

While it looks nice in some areas, the game is ultimately going to be an open ended area, where you just grind for shiny coloured loot boxes, all while having MT's up the wazoo and it being online only. Definitely passing on it without a doubt.

I have loved pretty much every game they have made, and they have only seemed to get better.  Dragon age inquisition was awesome and I really liked andromeda as well.  Honestly the only Bioware game I’m not very fond of is dragon age 2, and obvious rush job.  Other than that they are amazing!

if you don’t feel the same way that’s perfectly fine.  Everybody has different opinions.  Personally, I think they are over criticized for small, unimportant things because they are part of EA.  The internet loves to hate on EA.

The writing in DAI and MEA has been bland and pretty terrible in comparison to earlier games. I made the mistake to replay DAO and DA2 before DAI and I must say, even though I wasn’t too fond of DA2 at first it still left a better impression than DAI did. At least they seem to have hired a talented writer for DA4 now. We’ll see if they can redeem themselves.

It got game of the year that year because what else was there on offer? :P

I love DA:O as well, that doesn't mean this was a poor game. It was a great game. Don't worry, I get you, many were disappointed in crtain aspects but I loved it. First, narrative was I'd say 'okay' but there are few games that are truely great in that department. But it's how it's bought to life that matters. In my view, the English actress did the main character justice and helped the story be told. Some NPCs were dull, like most games, but Dorian?

And using the whole fetch quest excuse is old now, it's busy work in an semi open world game like any open world game. Horizon Zero Dawn is an exceptional game, Witcher 3 is too and what do you do in both? That's right, go to a location, kill the thing, free the villain or collect the thing. Half the first chapter of Witcher 3 is "I'll do the thing for you if you go and kill/get the thing for me." It's no different in reality. And get this, you don't have to do the fetch quests. Those skull fragments and all that? Don't do it. 

And the dragon fights, those were great.

Shame you aren't a Twisted Metal fan, man was I excited for Twisted Metal on PS3... it wasn't the best sadly.