I am a bleeding heart dude so I hate to see people lose jobs no matter what. Like in my ideal world even a studio that is dropping utter dogshit games just keeps going and releases something that redeems it and I love. But I am gonna talk about Bioware.
I was one of those dudes who fell for Anthem. You can imagine just how bitter I was by what had gone on with it and how much I was suckered and lied to about how it would be fixed. For a while I even blamed EA as the reason it happened, until I read the Kotaku article on it and realized it was all Bioware. I still came out of it sympathetic to the devs on a personal level but I think at that point I sort of lost love for Bioware as a studio. I used to stan for them, but after I couldn't trust them to deliver.
This is nothing to do with go woke go broke fwiw. That's just reactionary nonsense which shouldn't be trusted as it's peddled by grifters. My complicated feelings on say Bioware is more of a "spurned fan" kinda thing. Like I was deeply annoyed with Bioware for years after Anthem and now they're gone. I wasn't losing sleep, but if you pressed me on them I'd certainly give a rather negative opinion. I feel for every individual dev, but the studio is more like me knowing someone wasn't who they used to be.
I am a bleeding heart dude so I hate to see people lose jobs no matter what. Like in my ideal world even a studio that is dropping utter dogshit games just keeps going and releases something that redeems it and I love. But I am gonna talk about Bioware.
I was one of those dudes who fell for Anthem. You can imagine just how bitter I was by what had gone on with it and how much I was suckered and lied to about how it would be fixed. For a while I even blamed EA as the reason it happened, until I read the Kotaku article on it and realized it was all Bioware. I still came out of it sympathetic to the devs on a personal level but I think at that point I sort of lost love for Bioware as a studio. I used to stan for them, but after I couldn't trust them to deliver.
This is nothing to do with go woke go broke fwiw. That's just reactionary nonsense which shouldn't be trusted as it's peddled by grifters. My complicated feelings on say Bioware is more of a "spurned fan" kinda thing. Like I was deeply annoyed with Bioware for years after Anthem and now they're gone. I wasn't losing sleep, but if you pressed me on them I'd certainly give a rather negative opinion. I feel for every individual dev, but the studio is more like me knowing someone wasn't who they used to be.