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ill never forgive EA for destroying westwood studios and maxis,
FUCK EA
Fuck. Now I have to add Bioware to the pile.
yoyo they found 21 missing people off of that music video. its really a song of hope.
Didn’t the song out a bunch of people who went missing on purpose and ruin their lives?
from the article:
It wasn’t always plain sailing for the families afterwards – kids don’t run away from happy homes – but maybe things had changed when they went back or they were older and able to cope better.
i don’t know the specifics, but that sounds like what they’re trying to say very gently. i wouldn’t go so far as to say it ruined their lives, but in our experiences (two of my cousins and one niece ran away when they were teenagers) if their lives were ruined it was the shit that caused them to run away that did it.
i know, small sample size, but most people expect their lives to be ordinary. it makes it easy to fall into the logical trap that everyone has the same experiences
Absolutely. Incredible what came from that campaign. The song still fit the tone I wanted for the meme.
Damn it. What’s the first one again? I instantly remember the feeling playing this game, but I can’t remember…
Thanks for the memories!
Fantastic game. I think it ran on Amiga 500 and other OS I can’t remember. Now my night is ruined until I recall.
EA is exactly the republican party. Destroy everything they touch with loads of bigotry and sheer incompetence.
Are EA bigots? They have always been the epitome of amoral capitalism in the gaming world to me
Given their new owners, it wouldn’t be too far off to call them bigots now.
Valid point
“Woke” was actually a problem with DA4 with how piss poorly the writers handled it, it was embarrassing. Absolutely not bigots
The bigotry is probably a new thing for them then because at least back in the day they didn’t give a fuck as long as it made money. Bioware games usually had LGB(perhaps not T, don’t remember any) characters, often as romance options and I recall racial justice being a theme in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age games.
But I suspect the new owners don’t really want their games to infect anyone with the gays™
Ah, I didn’t know about that one because I could never get into Inquisition myself. Though it seems to have been well received enough as a game that perhaps I should try it.
Part of me wonders if Krem received less hate than some other Ts in media because the Internet hate machine mostly seems to have it out for MTF rather than FTM folks or because he genuinely had good writing rather than being shoehorned in
Typically MTFs are seen as “misogynistic perverts” and FTMs are seen as “misunderstood lesbians”
Neither are an accurate picture but one is far easier to sympathize with.
I wish it wasn’t so hard for people to see them as “folks just living their lives and not affecting mine in the slightest”
Everybody affects everybody else. We absolutely do not live in a vacuum. It’s why libertarianism fails.
Good news is that EA self-destructed in the Saudi deal so a few guys at the top could fill their pockets one more time. The debt they loaded EA with will be paid by selling everything. There is no other way. EA can no longer operate and their IPs will go to different studios. Let‘s hope one or two of them treat the franchises a tiny bit more carefully. Maybe. Or it will all be AI slop. Time will tell. But the way I see it EA is toast.
i am also never forgiving EA for killing Renderware
Time to rename EA to Saudi TM Gaming
All aliens must wear hijab or be executed. /s
I mean, the Quarians were basically hijabi
Perhaps they can make a game about dismembering journalists.
The T stands for Trump!
Scopely Premium
Lmao I like how everyone was saying this was going to happen like a year ago. So predictable.
I’m guessing those new owners don’t appreciate stories where gay characters are treated with respect.
Yes, I’m sure THAT’S the reason, and not that Bioware has been dead in the water for 12 years at minimum
People keep blaming Saudi Arabia/Kushner for this, but it was going to happen with or without them.
They don’t care. That kind of thing would be censored locally but as long as it makes them money, it doesn’t matter.
Eh… It was written on the wall 12 years ago when EA bought Bioware.
I’d love to see Microsoft buy EA, then close it
EA was bought by the Saudis along with Trump’s son-in-law. This Bioware closure likely isn’t the first we’ll see.
They closed studios they acquired since they started acquiring game studios…
Yes, but the Saudi deal is a new wrinkle. It’s VC bullshit at its worst. EA was bad before, but it’s nothing compared to what’s coming.
They had announced their next game. I find it just a little curious that it happened now, so soon after de deal was finalised.
Or EA buy XBOX and close it. (˶ˆᗜˆ˵)
they could buy steam instead and close it 😃😃 what whys everyone looking at me like that
Lol. They already pull in $17B/yr, ~4B/yr profit, ~70% market share, <400 employees… Privately held…
Gabe already has >9B himself.
Why would they sell?
Sure, some day they may enshitify, but by the time that happens, I’ll be able to reverse engineer and recompile my STEAM library on my home server.
hold on, im calling EA to buy your home server rn
That works too!
This meme was a prophecy.
I can still remember that feeling of anticipation when “Westwood” came on the screen. I haven’t felt that in decades 😔
Good lord everything EA touches turns to shit. Mass Effect is one of my all time favorite series and I credit it with breaking me out of just playing JRPGs. I was really looking forward to the next entry in the series, but the trilogy (there is no Andromeda in Ba Sing Se) will always be in my top games of all time and has enough of a conclusion to leave me satisfied
Bioware has been dead to me since they got bought by EA anyway. All this means is that if they ever made a Jade Empire 2, it’s gonna be bland and stupid.
Fuck Jade Empire is such a good game.
oh no… what a surprise… ea shuts down a studio they aquired…
We’ll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!
But unfortunately without the IP
Let’s just use AI and say that it’s fair use.
Surely copyright doesn’t last forever plus a day, and they will be released into the public domain in a timely manner.
good. It died years ago, should have killed the walking corpse way earlier.
We should’ve never let the psychotic zombie making fucks at EA buy any of these studios in the first place.
that, is exactly it.
Bioware was already rotting in the mass grave where formerly successful studios they bought spend their last days being milked of any remaining collective goodwill in the gaming zeitgeist before being summarily executed.
This was just them posting the obituary we all knew was coming.
Aw man. Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and OG Dragon Age saw me through some of my formative gaming years and it’s been a shame to watch since. I didn’t even bother with Veilguard.
Larian is our big shining hope for this kind of game now, it seems.
Check out Owlcat’s new Expanse game, Osiris Reborn. It’s an obvious love letter to everything about the Mass Effect series, while also being the best looking video game adaptation of the Expanse yet.
Ooh another Owlcat game to sink too much time into.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m not familiar with the Expanse but I’ll keep an eye on the reviews! My windows gaming days are over but if the Xbox version is good I might pick it up.
Strongly recommend reading through the books if you have time. I couldn’t ever get in to the TV show but I’ve gone through the books several times.
The TV show is also great once you get through the first half of the first season, which is sloooow. The rest is amazing though, I actually prefer some aspects of it over the books (like introducing Avasarala earlier and giving Bobbie more to do).
I stopped somewhere in season 2. I kept hearing it gets better and it just kept on being the same.
Miller was also quite a bit more sympathetic than he seems on the page which is… Well it’s a choice.
Tomorrow: “EA to acquire Larian in $100B deal”
I suspected this would happen after the Saudi take-over. I haven’t played Veilguard, but i did see something about a non-binary character. I’d be very surprised if the saudi’s funded something progressive like that, even if it was poorly executed from what i’ve seen.
Edit: Called it.
