However, I can’t even be disappointed that the studio has closed. To me the studio has been dead for a long while now since EA’s acquisition and the co-founders leaving.
To me the studio has been dead for a long while now since EA’s acquisition and the co-founders leaving.
I’ve seen people mention this a lot today… But those two events are really quite far apart, even if it was only 5 years. The founders leaving definitely seems to have been the turning point, but honestly EA purchasing Bioware didn’t seem to make a difference.
EA acquired Bioware in 2007. Meaning the entirety of Mass Effect and Dragon Age were created under EA. I think it’s a pretty hard thing to try and claim that EA was the issue when both of those series were handled under their ownership.
Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk left Bioware in Sep/Oct 2012, after Mass Effect 3. And both of them left the industry entirely, not just the company, going into completely unrelated things. But even after their departure Bioware released Dragon Age: Inquisition in 2014 which was still good. One could argue I suppose that it was still initially developed under their management, and just finished after they left.
It wasn’t until 2017 with Mass Effect: Andromeda that we really started to see a shift from Bioware. Anthem was 2019, and Dragon Age: Veilguard was 2024.
So it clearly was the departure of the founders that resulted the downfall of Bioware from glory, EA doesn’t seem to have been a primary cause.
Oh my, nobody expected that. 🙄
We’re going to need a bigger boat…
Damn. That is a lot of my childhood right there.
Thus the reason it is a common phrase among millenials to say “EA is the Devil”
Nope, no one indeed.
However, I can’t even be disappointed that the studio has closed. To me the studio has been dead for a long while now since EA’s acquisition and the co-founders leaving.
I’ve seen people mention this a lot today… But those two events are really quite far apart, even if it was only 5 years. The founders leaving definitely seems to have been the turning point, but honestly EA purchasing Bioware didn’t seem to make a difference.
EA acquired Bioware in 2007. Meaning the entirety of Mass Effect and Dragon Age were created under EA. I think it’s a pretty hard thing to try and claim that EA was the issue when both of those series were handled under their ownership.
Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk left Bioware in Sep/Oct 2012, after Mass Effect 3. And both of them left the industry entirely, not just the company, going into completely unrelated things. But even after their departure Bioware released Dragon Age: Inquisition in 2014 which was still good. One could argue I suppose that it was still initially developed under their management, and just finished after they left.
It wasn’t until 2017 with Mass Effect: Andromeda that we really started to see a shift from Bioware. Anthem was 2019, and Dragon Age: Veilguard was 2024.
So it clearly was the departure of the founders that resulted the downfall of Bioware from glory, EA doesn’t seem to have been a primary cause.
I certainly didn’t expect it to take this long, so that’s something…