After the Dragon Age 4 thread went up, I decided to check BioWare's job postings, and noticed the following: https://career4.successfactors.com/sfcareer/jobreqcareer?jobId=117142&company=EA&username=
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BioWare planning to make more live service games after Anthem
- Thread starter Nirolak
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Did you expect something else?
They'll only gonna balance it better. The rest will be buisness as usual.
I'll be skeptical until we see how Anthem turns out. I hope it does well that way there will be competition and drive for other live service games.
We should put our heads together and figure out how we can get EA charged with BioWare's murder, because this injustice cannot stand.
Instead of releasing a live game service and sticking with it they're going to continually release annual/biannual titles with live service functionality to increase revenues and milk the products further.
I can't see EA sticking with Anthem like an Overwatch or Siege, they're totally going to Destiny it to an even greater extent. Continually patch and change, and add micro-transactions masquerading as GaaS.
I can't see EA sticking with Anthem like an Overwatch or Siege, they're totally going to Destiny it to an even greater extent. Continually patch and change, and add micro-transactions masquerading as GaaS.
The Bioware we all knew and loved is long gone now, but I wonder with the struggles Destiny is having right now if Anthem actually has an opening to come in and offer a better experience.
If this is true and BioWare is planning to transition out of single-player RPGs and just do online only multi-player games, I guess that just leaves CD Projekt, for my meat, story-driven fantasy/SF western RPGs. As long as someone is still interested in making quality games in this genre, I'll live. Too bad though, the original ME trilogy was great, KOTOR was great, and Dragon Age was pretty good too.
All these companies conspiring to save me money by announcing their stupid plans beforehand. Glorious.
I think EA is just too enamored with the games-as-service model right now. I can see the appeal it holds for a corporation, but for me as a customer, It's something I have 0 interest in supporting. I don't care how neat it may be.
I get these things take time to plan out and they want to be ready, but why not wait to make sure your first foray into it is a good one?
Look at Bungie and Destiny 3 years into it, I'm sure Ubisoft had massive plans after The Division but had to completely put them on the back burner to fix it up. Chances are EA won't care to fix the game, just simply move on to popping the next one out.
Look at Bungie and Destiny 3 years into it, I'm sure Ubisoft had massive plans after The Division but had to completely put them on the back burner to fix it up. Chances are EA won't care to fix the game, just simply move on to popping the next one out.
Sadly, I've already written them off as another EA victim for the most part. I just hope we can get one more good Dragon Age game before they go.
Thanks a lot, EA.
I'm not against the idea of games as a live service - I suppose over a decade of playing MMO's made me OK with the idea coming to other types of games. I think if done right it could be wonderful. Hopefully this person takes a good, long look at what has been happening with Destiny and learns from it.
Whatever. This is a company that will follow the lead of other companies rather than innovate themselves. We all know how this ends for them.
Yup. Bioware won't exist in 10 years. 7 maybe. 5 at the absolute worst.
It's a shame what they are doing to Bioware. It's not like it was unexpected though, I mean they showed it with Westworld, Bullfrog, Origin, Maxis, etc.
Why can't games just be games? Like just games you pay 59.99 for and get the full experience with nothing locked or walled off, like games used to be.
Hasn't the backlash against Destiny or the positive support of companies like Cd Projekt Red showed the industry anything?
Man I can't wait until Anthem is out.
In terms of curious to see how they are going to play the micro transaction game after battlefront.
In terms of curious to see how they are going to play the micro transaction game after battlefront.
The only reason I ever cared for bioware was their focus on dialogue / character heavy single player RPGs. If they're going to shift away from that focus (which has already probably happened with Anthem coming and ME:A being a turd) then for me I'm just going to put them in the same mental category as any random EA / Ubi studio working on the next open world GAAS product with a new coat of paint. So I'll just stop caring about BW as a studio.
Not surprising. Bioware was my favorite developer for a long time, but this was coming and I've moved on.
Like Dragon Age Inquisition was a blueprint Mass Effect followed. I expect the template of anthem will also continue in whatever the next Dragon Age 4 is.
EA wants a formula similar to the "Ubisoft open world" they can use on a lot of franchises that at some point turned into a Destiny like.
Who the hell knows how its going to go for them. Obviously at this stage, at Bioware and EAs record. one has to guess its going to go poorly.
EA wants a formula similar to the "Ubisoft open world" they can use on a lot of franchises that at some point turned into a Destiny like.
Who the hell knows how its going to go for them. Obviously at this stage, at Bioware and EAs record. one has to guess its going to go poorly.