yeah they are getting more "agile"

like i said... heh the second i saw the first gameplay it was all over...

Originally posted by XanapyXP:

Maybe make games for gamers and not the elusive “modern audience” that doesn’t exist. Now you’re on the chopping block and experiencing lay offs and potential shutdown if you ♥♥♥♥ up mass effect. Quit the gender politics and DEI garbage and make a good game with diversity that actually makes sense within the story and not forcing it.

I mean, didn't they have a marketing department and it should have been their job to figure out whether such a player base even exists to sustain a game of such proportions? Or to find out on the other side how many people would be turned off by this (messages forced down your throat in the most stupid upfront way) and would not buy the game?

Bioware was dead the moment EA purchased them.
I am just glad to enjoy the spectical behind their death rather than the slow death by 1,000 cuts it normally is.

I'm sad for Bioware but I'm not going to hold back my laughter at the biased access press that rushed to give this a 10/10 and lauded it as a "return to form for bioware". They look like absolute clowns now. A cautionary tale as to why one shouldn't be too hyperbolic about it.

"A return to form" that ended in such a dismal performance that EA execs took a scalpel to bioware and had to resort to euphemisms like "players engaged" (read: PADDED numbers) because they were too embarrassed to talk actual copies sold.

Mr Wilson is also probably smarting from his earlier suggestion that the game had "breakout potential".

Originally posted by thee.alemaozinho:

Originally posted by XanapyXP:

Maybe make games for gamers and not the elusive “modern audience” that doesn’t exist. Now you’re on the chopping block and experiencing lay offs and potential shutdown if you ♥♥♥♥ up mass effect. Quit the gender politics and DEI garbage and make a good game with diversity that actually makes sense within the story and not forcing it.

I mean, didn't they have a marketing department and it should have been their job to figure out whether such a player base even exists to sustain a game of such proportions? Or to find out on the other side how many people would be turned off by this (messages forced down your throat in the most stupid upfront way) and would not buy the game?

Like so many studios before them, they fell into the social media trap.

A lot of companies want to align with what they see as the "morally right" side, but they don’t realize that social media isn’t reality. It leans heavily in one direction, out of touch, preachy, and disconnected from the broader gaming audience.

And since so many fresh grads enter the industry straight out of college - where progressive ideology is the norm - it all feels natural to them. Their social circles don’t change much, and nothing seems out of place from their perspective.

But then reality hits, and we end up with flops like Dustborn, Veilguard, and other games that mistake activism for storytelling.

We all knew it would end the way it did.

All of those Steam-level 0 accounts agree with you...

Originally posted by Suisight:

All of those Steam-level 0 accounts agree with you...

And you're also a steam-level 0 account, lol.

Originally posted by Overlord1993:

Originally posted by Suisight:

All of those Steam-level 0 accounts agree with you...

And you're also a steam-level 0 account, lol.

So are you ... since your profile is private Steam shows you as level 0 ... found that out myself a few weeks back :)

Originally posted by Montera:

Originally posted by Overlord1993:

And you're also a steam-level 0 account, lol.

So are you ... since your profile is private Steam shows you as level 0 ... found that out myself a few weeks back :)

Oh, I know. I just thought it was funny that Suisight was trying to make a point about steam account levels when he/she is also a lvl 0, lol.

Why, they must keep fightin gamers

Press "S" to spit on their grave.

Beeg beeg corporations shouldn't be involved in video games anymore. They're all hedgefund minded. At this point they should be selling the copper in the walls instead.

Originally posted by Zogtar:

Beeg beeg corporations shouldn't be involved in video games anymore. They're all hedgefund minded. At this point they should be selling the copper in the walls instead.

That may have been more profitable.

The new Obsidian game coming out and ACS may have to delay their launch