That’s how these big companies work, they have multiple studios working on multiple games. You still expect the subsidiaries to mostly mirror the top end.
EA will just shut down a studio if they don’t like what they are doing. BioWare is mostly responsible for dragon age. EA helped but not with the original game. My brother worked on that game for months, EA was basically the distributor
When has EA ever been in alignment with progressive society?
EA funded the game and put its name on it. That’s as good as EA itself putting out a game full of LGBT characters as far as anyone against LGBT rights is concerned. As you yourself said, they would’ve shut BioWare down if they didn’t like it.
EA was actually considered a fairly nice company to work for in terms of the gaming industry a very long time ago.
EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go “well, looks like you’re not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you’re doing.” And again. And again.
Yes they do, they also own a bajiliiian franchises going back decades that are sitting in the scrap heap. But don’t pretend they don’t do their own products ever or never have.
I’ve actually been inside one the studios on multiple occasions m
Ever since Dragon Age Origins? Their published games ever since then have been incredibly LGBT safe.
Wasn’t that BioWare?
EA owns BioWare, and has since 2007. Dragon Age came out in 2009.
Still was developed by BioWare and not EA.
That’s how these big companies work, they have multiple studios working on multiple games. You still expect the subsidiaries to mostly mirror the top end.
EA will just shut down a studio if they don’t like what they are doing. BioWare is mostly responsible for dragon age. EA helped but not with the original game. My brother worked on that game for months, EA was basically the distributor
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EA funded the game and put its name on it. That’s as good as EA itself putting out a game full of LGBT characters as far as anyone against LGBT rights is concerned. As you yourself said, they would’ve shut BioWare down if they didn’t like it.
EA was actually considered a fairly nice company to work for in terms of the gaming industry a very long time ago.
EA has always employed warming kettle strategy. Buy an awesome and beloved independent studio, let them just keep doing awesome stuff, and then go “well, looks like you’re not keeping up with our growth targets, guys, guess we need to keep a closer eye on how you’re doing.” And again. And again.
Sounds accurate
EA hasn’t written its games even going back to the MS-DOS era. It’s just a publisher.
Yes they do, they also own a bajiliiian franchises going back decades that are sitting in the scrap heap. But don’t pretend they don’t do their own products ever or never have.
I’ve actually been inside one the studios on multiple occasions m
Published by EA, they’ll allow anything that makes their investors happy and they push for that.