End of an Era as EA Shuts Down BioWare, Closing 30-Year-Old Studio amid Latest Round of Layoffs and Cancelling Next Mass Effect Game

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Yet another game development studio has closed, and this time it’s the legendary team at BioWare who’ve been given their walking papers as EA continues to lay off staff. As, unfortunately, expected following the buyout of EA by a group of investors company-wide layoffs have been taking place. This, sadly, is common practice where large […]

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Brian_B said:
As sad as it is to see them go, I have to admit, it's been a long time coming...
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Yeah, they were basically a shambling corpse of their old selves long before this final killing. After Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk left I had basically already considered the company dead anyways. Now it's just being made official. Too bad. A sad end for a once great company. No one is safe under EA ownership though.
 
People make studios, not companies. EA is an IP mill, or rather, became one. Up next is a company like EA getting the idea that AIs will make the studios, so they will have trained models into their IP realms, making assets for them, then game design AIs etc etc.
Many loud voices will cry, reviews will start to be ' surprised' at how good some games will be, as acceptance is slowly pushed, and most will just blindly buy whatever anyway, including me, because I promise you this, the next boycott that works, will work without me.
 
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