A lot of obituaries are going to be penned for BioWare over the next days. Anthem's shaky release only adds to a narrative that's taken shape over the past decade: BioWare's best days are behind it.
Once regarded as one of the very best RPG studios in the business, BioWare's games have drawn more and more criticism over the years.
EA, being the easy target that it is, tends to catch most of the blame for BioWare's troubles. However that's only part of the story. The truth is that BioWare was already on its current path when EA entered the picture.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
Bioware is doing fine.
Yeah. I really don't get all the hate for the game. I'm having fun with it. It's got some issues that they will need to patch but what game upon release doesn't these days.
The critics in the entertainment industry as a whole need to stop drinking the koolaid and actually form their own opinions for once.
That's what they get for selling themselves to EA.
I still blame EA. BioWare was in a tough spot financially when EA bought them, but they have since experienced a decline in quality.
I get that it's the thing to hate on EA but sometimes it's not a fad, it's the truth. Their vision and what they want the same industry to become is enough to rally against them!
But this is about Bioware and there was a Bioware before EA and there is a Bioware after EA.