Forum Posts: 9 | Comment #1 by Iconoclast Envy Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:03:06 AM | |
| It's a shame but you have to do what you have to do to make a living now a days. |
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Forum Posts: 41 | Comment #2 by 123yhman Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:07:38 AM | |
| I hope he hasn't left, a shame when the founder/co-founder of something leaves, it's like leaving a child behind /: |
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Forum Posts: 1528 | Comment #3 by Baihu1983 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:09:50 AM | |
| Fed up of seeing his child killed by EA. |
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Forum Posts: 33 | Comment #4 by Magsec5 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:17:20 AM | |
| EA EA EA EA EA EA EA EA EA EA EA EA, complete ownership is scary |
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Forum Posts: 29 | Comment #5 by welsh dragon888 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:18:15 AM | |
Nice to see EA are jumping straight into his bed as soon as he is gone. Can see it now,
"So guys... Has he left yet?"
"... Ummmm, YEAH! Just left now!"
"Nice! So.. Show of hands for renaming it EA Austin?" |
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Forum Posts: 251 | Comment #6 by Fang Foom Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:22:11 AM | |
I agree. Must be horrible to leave something you started behind. Guess that's what happens when you lose/give control of it to someone else.
If I ever start anything of any worth (unlikely) it'll be mine FOREVER! |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #7 by Calib4n Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:25:18 AM | |
| I don't have any sympathy for Zeschuk or Muzyka. They knew they were selling their souls by signing with EA. Heh, poor jobless and depressed multimillionaires. SWToR was a trainwreck and so was the ending of ME3. Oh I know what you're all thinking, I know they contributed to the cause of video gaming more than anyone else (except maybe Blizzard) for a decade, but now they need to retire. If only were it on a high note. |
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Forum Posts: 29 | Comment #8 by welsh dragon888 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:31:20 AM | |
@7
This is crappy news for any gameing fan, is that how you react to A co-founder of one of the most consistantly great gaming company's leaving? What's your thinking?
"meh, he served his purpose. We don't need him anymore!"
This article is a sign that EA are just going to swallow Bioware up completely! And for me that is bad news. |
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Forum Posts: 80 | Comment #9 by Calib4n Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:35:28 AM | |
@8
My point exactly, but EA couldn't have done so without those two guys' signatures. Keep that in mind. That's the sad thing. |
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Forum Posts: 164 | Comment #10 by Snake Eyes Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 07:48:15 AM | |
| EA have been around Harbinger for to long as they are ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL of every developer/company they can get there hands on |
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Forum Posts: 190 | Comment #11 by ash356 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:01:48 AM | |
@7
'They knew they were selling their souls by signing with EA.'
You seem to be forgetting that no-one hated EA at the time they signed up - EA were on the back of awesome games like Dead Space, Crysis and Mirrors Edge at that point.
It was only about a year after that all the EA hate started to accumulate, up until that point everyone was primarily hating on Activision. |
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Forum Posts: 91 | Comment #12 by EvilWays Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:08:01 AM | |
@11
The EA hate has been around for a very long time, long before Dead Space, Crysis and Mirror's Edge. EA has been hated for the Madden Syndrome long before Activision caught it. |
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Forum Posts: 182 | Comment #13 by Simlaurel Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:08:06 AM | |
| After being indoctrinated by EA and their franchise destroying money grabs, Bioware is nothing but a souless husk anyways. I still look back fondly at Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars KoR, and Mass Effect 1, then I look at Dragon Age 2 and a lot of the issues with ME 3 and just shake my head. These guys used to design some of the greatest RPGs ever, now they've clearly abandoned that in favor of pumping out COD-esque action games. |
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Forum Posts: 30 | Comment #14 by MrDerrf Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:11:49 AM | |
@11
They signed with EA in 2007, EA was rotten WAY before that. |
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Forum Posts: 190 | Comment #15 by ash356 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:19:39 AM | |
@12
I don't know what exactly you would class as 'long', but the first instance I recall was with the milking of the Need for Speed franchise in about 2008.
Fifa/Madden/NBA/Tiger woods were admittedly being milked, but nowadays it's somewhat easy to forget, considering most hate is centred around FPS's and games like Guitar Hero and Need for Speed... the yearly sports iterations just seem to get a free pass in the eyes of the gaming community. |
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Forum Posts: 2 | Comment #16 by Damodar Thade Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:30:05 AM | |
| And people are surprised by this? When the next game out of a former bioware studio doesn't sell well enough watch EA shut the studio altogether they have done it before and will keep on doing it. |
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Forum Posts: 186 | Comment #17 by Jabbawocky Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:30:15 AM | |
| @11 They were looking better that year but it was still dubious to trust them. Think Westwood and Bullfrog. |
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Forum Posts: 14 | Comment #18 by xMEGADETHxSLY Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:40:12 AM | |
| EA Bended Over Bioware |
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Forum Posts: 231 | Comment #19 by Infomouse Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:43:53 AM | |
| After Mass Effect 3 and SWTOR, I'm really not suprised by this. Such a shame to happen to one of the best developers there is. Rest in piece BioWare. |
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Forum Posts: 390 | Comment #20 by ReD S1X Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 08:46:09 AM | |
| when will people ever learn? |
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Forum Posts: 202 | Comment #21 by Sanchezz4387 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 09:10:23 AM | |
EA have the Midas touch most certainly. They need to be careful because soon enough they will have touched one too many things and it will be their undoing.
As has been stated Bioware made amazing games, but all that is falling apart, DA:2 was te start, DICE will follow suit....sorry have followed suit with BF3 and battlelog. EA really don't know how to stop being sick heads do they? They must be proud of being the worst company in the world.
Goodbye bioware, your games will e remembered but as Faustus found out, you sign your soul to the devil and he will come for payment one day |
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Forum Posts: 898 | Comment #22 by sm182 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 09:29:34 AM | |
@#15
You should think back to what EA did to Bullfrog then. |
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Forum Posts: 193 | Comment #23 by DarkGin87 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 09:33:53 AM | |
| They should stayed with microsoft, least mass effect 2 and 3 would been much better and on par with mass effect 1 |
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Forum Posts: 16 | Comment #24 by Lyander Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 09:57:01 AM | |
| Yeah, EA started in the late 90´s to kill of Studios....Bullfrog, Westwood and very very sadly Origin Studios to name just a few |
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Forum Posts: 169 | Comment #25 by Arron114 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:03:12 AM | |
| Remember when gaming news was fun? |
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Forum Posts: 88 | Comment #26 by hmp bogeet Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:04:02 AM | |
| If this is true the Austin got a little less weird today :( |
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Forum Posts: 113 | Comment #27 by hotdogenigma Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:05:45 AM | |
| @23 I agree they should have stayed with Microsoft, perhaps they wouldn't have forced MP into ME3 like I'm sure EA did. Personally though I didn't have a problem with ME 2 and 3. To be honest, my favourite of the three games was the second one. Not sure why, perhaps the deeper story, great locations and tons of characters to play with. ME 1 was good but for me 2 was the best. I enjoyed the final chapter in the series, but the exploration was severely lacking and that's what I didn't like. |
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Forum Posts: 0 | Comment #28 by zeder1 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:08:00 AM | |
| EA SUCKS THEY SHOULD HAVE LEFT BIOWARE ALONE FROM THE START |
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Forum Posts: 3034 | Comment #29 by DecadentBeaver Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:12:07 AM | |
| EA really have all their fingers in all the pies. They will soon take over the whole world if we don't keep them under control. Maybe one day a Dev will reject an offer from EA after seeing what they have done. |
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Forum Posts: 190 | Comment #30 by Kaskade Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:43:13 AM | |
| Lets be honest,both Greg Zeschuk and Ray Muzyka knew what they were getting when they signed with EA.They probably didnt think it would happen this soon |
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Forum Posts: 1086 | Comment #31 by TrishTheDish Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 10:59:45 AM | |
HERE WE GO! Been waiting for this news the second EA got its cancer causing hands on BioWare, as it meant BioWare was going to join the likes of Origin, Westwood, Maxis, and Pandemic.
RIP BioWare. |
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Forum Posts: 129 | Comment #32 by Skelix Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 11:10:22 AM | |
| I've hated EA since they destroyed Origin and have not really PC gamed since then. I've stopped buying EA games new since Mass Effect 2, I've either been buying used (Gamefly) or skiiping out altogether. Everyone knew this was coming, tis what happens when you're gobbled up. Vote with your wallet! |
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Forum Posts: 530 | Comment #33 by TRAGICTRIXIE Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 12:44:29 PM | |
| EA's exact words towards Bioware "Assuming Direct Control!" |
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Forum Posts: 1 | Comment #34 by Buck Rogers87 Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 01:33:40 PM | |
I'm guessing most (read all) of you just read the title and posted immediately that EA was killing Bioware? He stepped down to "have a broader role" in the making of Bioware games. And the article says right off the jump, literally in the first sentence, that the rumor of him leaving and subsequent renaming of the studio was just "guff". By the way, guff means nonsense, making the article below the bold-faced type "Original Story" a rumor that was false.
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Forum Posts: 16 | Comment #35 by Spandex Stiffy Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 02:04:30 PM | |
@34, most of those comments were before the update. After the negativity and doom were taken out of it, most folks lost interest and stopped commenting. One guy actually left to finish his master thesis: "How EA Killed My Dog and Made Me Less Attractive: the True Story of How EA Created COD to Shadow Their Own Evil."
He's #1628 on the FBI's watchlist. |
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Forum Posts: 23 | Comment #36 by SydLosttarot Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 05:07:26 PM | |
| Your hilarity didn't deserve to be besmirched with a roman digit disapproval. That was funny, sir(or madam). |
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Forum Posts: 338 | Comment #37 by ModernViking Friday, August 10, 2012 @ 05:25:36 PM | |
| The only reason the Star Wars MMo is struggling is because people who play MMO play so much of it its impossible to keep up with them. |
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