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Forums - Gaming - Would you rather Bioware remain with EA for a lot of platforms, or be bought by a console maker and fixed, but on only one system

 

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Bioware staying with E.A,... 7 17.95%
 
Bioware returning to form... 9 23.08%
 
Bioware returning to form... 18 46.15%
 
Bioware returning to form... 5 12.82%
 
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Zoombael on 24 June 2019
vivster said:
I'd rather have no games than exclusive games. There are plenty of developers that do great multiplatform games, exclusivity is not needed at all to make great games.

The ratio of great exclusives vs great mp games disagrees. And with it a very many buyers of Sony and Nintendo exclusives.



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melbye on 24 June 2019
vivster said:
I'd rather have no games than exclusive games. There are plenty of developers that do great multiplatform games, exclusivity is not needed at all to make great games.

That's just weird



VAMatt on 24 June 2019
SanAndreasX said:
VAMatt said:
What we really need is for one of these big publishers to be taken private, so they can stop worrying so much about quarterly and annual results. That would be excellent for gamers and devs, as the pressure to release games before they're ready would.immediately cease.

Valve and ZeniMax (Bethesda's parent) are both privately owned. Problem is there aren't a lot of multi-billionaires out there who want to run a game company for chuckles.

Yeah.  I guess my theory falls apart when we look at Bethesda Game Studios games. 



Random_Matt on 24 June 2019

Their orignal home is PC, where Xbox came from I do not know. So yeah, MS should step in, consoles are not needed.



Shiken on 24 June 2019

I do not care if it be Sony or Nintendo...anyone is better than EA. Even MS would not be as bad, because they have had dealings with them before and I feel they would do fine over there, but I would prefer one of the other two.

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Chazore on 24 June 2019

Well for one, BIoware is basically dead at this point, and for another, their home was more or less on PC/Xbox, so it'd make more sense for MS to buy them.

Personally I'd rather they just be put out the shed and shot, because they're so far gone from their glory days, that there is no possible redemption in sight. Another option I'd resort to is just keeping the game multiplat, so everyone could play the game, rather than being locked to console hw and being limited in scope and tech.

That said, I'm a bit amused at the option of Nintendo having the studio exclusive to them, given the opening preference.



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The Fury on 24 June 2019

Breakaway/Buy themselves out, before EA close them.



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Conina on 24 June 2019
Zoombael said:
vivster said:
I'd rather have no games than exclusive games. There are plenty of developers that do great multiplatform games, exclusivity is not needed at all to make great games.

The ratio of great exclusives vs great mp games disagrees. And with it a very many buyers of Sony and Nintendo exclusives.

Ok, let's take that to a test:

Only 24% of the PS4 games with 90+ MetaCritic are Sony-exclusive (7/29), only 17% are PS4-exclusive (5/29).

Only 13% of the XBO games with 90+ MetaCritic are MicroSoft-exclusive (2/16), 0% are XBO-exclusive (0/16).

Only 36% of the Switch games with 90+ MetaCritic are Nintendo-exclusive (5/14), only 14% are Switch-exclusive (2/14).

So on all three console platforms there are more great multiplatform games than great exclusive games.

And if we count Switch games with 85+ MetaCritic as "great games", only 13% of the great Switch games are Nintendo-exclusive (8/61), only 7% are Switch-exclusive (4/61):

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gergroy on 24 June 2019

Honestly, they need the doctors to come back and run them. Doesn’t really matter who owns them. They have not been the same since the doctors both retired... they are still a good developer... but they aren’t the absolute best developer like they used to be.... anthem was a train wreck...



SanAndreasX on 24 June 2019
Random_Matt said:
Their orignal home is PC, where Xbox came from I do not know. So yeah, MS should step in, consoles are not needed.

With Jade Empire, which was published by Microsoft on Xbox OG, and then the first ME started out as a Microsoft-published 360 exclusive. MS needed Xbox games, and Bioware wanted to break into the big-time.