"Bioware announces staff "restructuring" but former Dragon Age developers say dozens have been quietly laid off"

https://edmontonjournal.com/technology/gaming/bioware-restructuring-layoffs-dragon-age-mass-effect]

Damn!

While it sucks for the writers and developers, Bioware is no longer the Bioware people loved who created the Mass Effect trilogy, KOTOR, and Dragon Age entries. It seems quite a few of the very capable directors have either left the company or have been promoted to the point where they arnt involved in game development.

It doesnt bode well for the rumored new Mass Effect to be honest.

With Electronic Arts, this is merely an inevitability, the graveyard is full of amazing development studios that have been strained to there limits, restructured, and then dismantled.

Not particularly fond of using it but if this isn't a case where it's more than fitting:

Go woke, go broke.

In the meantime the dude who's larping as a woman and also was the game director on Veilguard has been failing upwards and will be serving (again) as the game director for another RPG from a D&D/Wizards of the Coast-associated development studio called Skeleton Key.

Sure, nothing stays the same, but some of the folks now out of a job were at Bioware for eons, i mean, 14,19,20 years, that's a lot.

And, yeah, my expecctations for ME were already low, i can't see this having a positive impact. To be fair, nothing in Bioware's recent output says "amazing development studio", quite the opposite.

I'm still keeping faith, who knows .... keeping those old dinosaurs around might be counterintuitive this day and age.

That said, i enjoyed their latest titles, at least those presented on the Sci Fi side of life. (yes even anthem and andromeda) their knack for story telling which provides for situations and a certain level of immersion reaching far beyond the industries standards, even when only available in sparks alone was enough to keep the Bioware standard raised high. I'm hoping Veil Guard will provide similar moments, though with about 5 hours played it is as yet nothing more than a beautiful crafted colour palette.

Yes I read about their senior writer. Yes i know about the masses and yes i know that human development is filled with mass graves and the occasional flower garden @Whatdoyoubelief?

>shrug< Bioware has been an empty shell churning out soulless, mediocre slop for years now.

lol, well, if we really are opposites i feel for you, good entity

Well, they lasted longer under EA's pillow of asphyxiation than I gave them credit for.

I enjoyed the hell out of a number of Bioware games over the years. A mecha game called 'Shattered Steel', and a KOTOR, TOR, Neverwinter, and C&C Generals. But man... the last couple of years they've just making absolute crap. Especially Veilguard.

Makes me sad to seem them go, but if Bioware just has completely lost the plot. And I can't see a way that they can't step back and sort out their issues.

Aside from the one poster who lost the plot and should go back to posting greentexts, it is indeed the logical conclusion to being beneath the shadow cast by EA.

This is something which dates back to the death of the Ultima series.

Don't be weird, if something fails time and again you would be stupid to continue, or ? .....

I dunno, ask the billionaire failson trying to make Horizons a thing.

True. The downward spiral of mediocrity was out in the open for the longest time even in more or less well received titles.

Similar to what's happening with Beth actually with a small but all important difference, Beth's games are still unique in what they offer. Sure, Starfield to a significantly lesser degree than previous titles but still.