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Note too the shit stains that now own EA.
Can’t spell death without ea
It’s just a shame they never made a 4th dragon age
In these lists of great things to remember Bioware for, people keep not including MDK2. It told an amazing story of a mad scientist, his janitor and robot dog, repelling an alien invasion and saving Earth. Deserves to be mentioned alongside their othet awesome games.
You think it’s popular enough that anyone knows what MDK2 even means? People after lazy and won’t search that to find out. Maybe you should stop being lazy too and just woke out the actually name instead of this game you seem to think it’s unforgettable will remain entirely entirely forgotten
Lol it’s the actual name of the game.
Apparently I wasn’t lazy enough to do some leg work to figure it out (I actually knew about this game and was able to identify it by the name but that’s beyond the point.)
You’re the reason why Netflix has to take into account people doom scrolling on their phones while they watch their media.
It probably took less time for me to search, upload and write this message than it took you to type up that rancid pile of shit.
So for everyone concerned: shut the fuck up.
‘‘woke out the actually name instead’’
You’re an idiot. Learn english if you’re going to preach to people in this language. FYI the name of the game actually is ‘‘MDK2’’.
How about you tell us the ‘actual name’, sucka? Because anyone who was a gamer in 1997-2000 knows of the mystery behind that name.
My Dick Knuckle 2
Murder Death Kill.
This will happen to Rockstar before GTA6 comes out. They can’t admit they don’t have a game.
What? Gta 6 is like next month
GTA6 trailers all just look like Call of Duty knock offs.
I mean, enjoy yourself, but I was done with that franchise when they peaked back at GTA3
You’ve mistaken GTA6 for star citizen.
Upvoting this hurt me. I hate that you’re so damn right.
When they got sold to ea, this was the only possible outcome anyway. Not sure if they sold out or ea did some corporate bullshit to force them to it, but they should have stayed away from ea if they wanted to keep making games.
They sold out to a private equity firm, who in turn sold them to EA.
Bioware also had a large number of employees in Edmonton. Maga goons (Jared Kushner and Lourenco Goncalves) are just laying off Canadians to hurt the economy.
The founders and original lead developers - Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk - created over a dozen games before they sold the company.
Idk what else you’d want. They did their thing and then they cashed out to live their lives doing other things.
Bioware wasn’t even supposed to be a video game company. It was originally founded to pioneer medical technology and only pivoted when their side project - Shattered Steel - outperformed expectations.
Sometime people need to stop being mad because one participate Treats Train has finally ended it’s run. Be glad for the games you got, not sad because it’s over
After all, you’ve still got Larian and Paradox and Owlcat and a thousand other indie studios making equivalent games.
The problem is that EA will still squat on the IP for the indefinite future, so nobody gets to do anything with it later.
I mean, the IP is pretty generic.
Mass Effect isn’t the first game to use space cops and robot aliens fighting over the fate of the galaxy. The Expanse did Mass Effect’s storyline much better.
That’s before you consider how played out the Mass Effect IP already is. Just like Halo, they peaked at game 3. That was the apex of the story.
Mass Effect is a wonderfully constructed world; I disagree on you there.
I’d also argue ME3 is not the peak. The best gameplay, sure, but a more questionable campaign IMO.
You are not wrong about the story trajectory though. They wrote themselves into a corner with the Reaper arc, and that is done now. But I do think “Shepard-free, smaller story spinoffs” were the correct move, rather than trying to pick up a story that should be done (like Halo did).
But I do think “Shepard-free, smaller story spinoffs” were the correct move
Sure. But then it’s just a generic scifi.
You don’t need to own IP to make Mass Effect minus the title characters
No it’s not. They can use the entire world they constructed, its history, and (for the players) all the nostalgia. And selectively bring back characters.
I mean, that immediately drew me into this trailer.
Halo is an entirely different beast. They could not let the MC/Cortana go like they are stuck to them with a chain, but side stories in that world would have been interesting too.
They can use the entire world they constructed, its history, and (for the players) all the nostalgia
Or they can write up something new, just like the Mass Effect guys did.
Paradox just added a expansion for your comment. To unlock please pay $12.99…
$12.99 for… another 200 hours of content? Wtf! In this economy?!
Electraudi Artsrabia strikes again.
Probably doesn’t help, and fuck their current owners, but EA has been notorious for buying and killing studios for more than 30 years.
The plot of Ultima 7 was full of references to it. The big bad was a reference to EA corrupting people to join his side, he tried to destroy magic in the world, his power was split in three artefacts shaped like EA’s logo, and his two main agents in the world had E and A initials.
Funnily enough the game was basically finished when EA bought Origin Systems who made Ultima, so they just published it as-is.
They hadn’t released a game that made back its development cost in over a decade, they were a billion dollar money hole.
Origin? That decade happened under EA’s banner, the company seemed rather healthy before that from what I could find.
And that doesn’t change that EA was already being nicknamed “destroyer of worlds” by them back in 1992.
The Morons in Japan are trying to blame online piracy. Makes me wanna swallow some nails…
Such a tragedy. Black Isle and Bioware were such a great combo in the late 90’s.
Just following the fate of Bethesda and Id: kiddos, your heros will die. So it goes.
CDPR hopefully will not make these same mistakes… or they already have.
Just to push back on this, this is long overdue.
EA closing down studios they buy is the expected inevitable outcome
Anyone who lets EA acquire them deserves this. It’s not even a secret, so fuck everyone at BioWare who sold their company to this. You can be sad, but you don’t get to be surprised
Batteries Included – Purchased in 1987 and closed that same year. Origin Systems – Purchased in 1992. Closed in 2004. Bullfrog Productions – Purchased in 1995. Closed in 2001. Maxis – Purchased in 1997. Closed in 2015. (Studio name still used by EA.) Westwood Studios / EA Pacific – Purchased in 1998. Closed in 2003. Kesmai – Purchased in 1999. Closed in 2001. DreamWorks Interactive / Danger Close Games – Purchased in 2000. Closed in 2013. Black Box Games – Purchased in 2002. Closed in 2013. NuFX / EA Chicago – Purchased in 2004. Closed in 2007. Hypnotix – Purchased and shut down in 2005. Team folded into EA Tiburon. Mythic Entertainment – Purchased in 2006. Closed in 2014. Phenomic Game Development – Purchased in 2006. Closed in 2013. Headgate Studios / EA Salt Lake – Purchased in 2006. Closed in 2017. Pandemic Studios – Purchased in 2007. Closed in 2009. J2MSoft – Purchased in 2008 and folded into EA Korea. Playfish – Purchased in 2009. Closed in 2013. Chillingo – Purchased in 2010. Began shutting down in 2017. Fully closed in 2023. Industrial Toys – Purchased in 2018. Closed in 2023. BioWare – Purchased in 2007. Closed in 2026.
Developers don’t decide who acquires them.
That’s why it is sad. You have a really good team and the money hungry management sells them out. That is sad.
I really wish we could get another great Mass Effect game, but I knew not to get my hopes up. I played Andromeda, after all.
Despite combat being better and more polished in Andromeda than it was in the trilogy Mass Effect, Andromeda felt like a fan-fiction adaptation of Mass Effect. It did not feel like it was made by the same people. I feel like tying that game into Mass Effect was a mistake.
I gotta be honest, this is not unexpected at all.
BioWare released 4 games since 2017, one of which was just a remaster/collection of the older Mass Effect titles. The other three games were Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, and Dragon Age Veilguard, all of which aren’t exactly considered the studio’s best work. These games did not sell well, obviously (and in some cases there are EA earning reports that confirm this), leading to studio closure. Honestly I am surprised this didn’t happen sooner. The talent that actually made BioWares reputation probably havent been at that studio for a while.
I’m a big fan of Bullfrog (own every game) and saw the writing on the wall when Bioware got bought.
The talent that actually made BioWares reputation probably havent been at that studio for a while.
Exactly. A few key figures left not long after the EA buyout. The rest trickled out over time. The Wikipedia article for Dragon Age Veilguard has an entire section dedicated to the revolving door of key staff leaving or being laid off over the course of its almost 10 year development.
It’s far from everyone, but a few names from the old Bioware are currently working on this game set to release next year, which is billing itself as a sort of spiritual successor to Mass Effect:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(2027_video_game)
Edit: And there is also a spiritual successor to KotOR in development with involvement of a few other key names from old Bioware.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Fate_of_the_Old_Republic
This is why I still consider it fair to blame EA for downstream effects like this. There’s no guarantee as independent studios that they would function better, but they at least would have original staff from star games. Like PopCap, and Reddit refuses to acknowledge EA had any part of the garbage PopCap releases now.
all of which aren’t exactly considered the studio’s best work
That’s very mildly put
Andromeda, while a decent game today, was an absolute shitshow on release that was incredibly buggy. Not even thinking about the face animations that still haunt me to this day.
Anthem, while mechanically being genuinely great, severely lacked content and had seemingly no plan for the future.
And Veilguard was absolutely bankrupt from a gameplay standpoint. It was the most boring and most shallow game in the franchise, even more than inquisition and that was already fairly shallow. Not even mentioning the horrendous story and writing.
This makes me sick to my stomach. I know the last dragon age and mass effect weren’t good. But I was still hopeful despite knowing better. There at least was a chance the next ME would be good. I didn’t get far in veilguard, and I’ll probably never finish it, but I still want to fuck around in Thedas. Like others have said this isn’t a surprise, but it hurts me to see this happen to what was once my favorite studio.
I should go.
There at least was a chance the next ME would be good
You have better chance to win a lottery
EA has form for turning buyouts into shit. Look at PopCap who produced joyous casual-but-fair games until EA sunk their claws into them.
It’s hard to believe that titles like Mass Effect: Andromeda, Anthem and Dragon Age: The Veilguard couldn’t save them.
It sucks to see them die, but they did played an hand in their downfall.
In fairness, Anthem was set up to fail. Bioware hadn’t built such a game and then being pushed along by EA it was doomed.
Andromeda had its own series of issues.
They understand the cost of everything, the value of nothing
EA Games: Value Nothing
How dare you say this??? They value money and the shareholders muuuuuuch more than you do!
They do definitely only care about money, but there aren’t shareholders anymore.
