The Next Mass Effect
Hello fellow N7's/Pathfinders I'm replaying MEA just after replaying the ME Trilogy. It's got me thinking about the future of one of my franchises. Casey recently said that Bioware has a few secret...
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@Kelrycor wrote:
And before we blame EA in any way: EA bought Bioware because Bioware was financially ruined before.
Is that accurate? I thought BioWare got a huge cash injection from Bono's firm (Elevation partners) before the EA acquisition. I was under the impression that they were doing really well at the time.
There was an interview in which Bioware defended EA because many people think that EA takes too much influence on the process of the making of a game, what they do not according to Biowre. Along with that they stated that Bioware wouldn't exist anymore if it weren't for the financial aid they got under EA. It seems that the costs of making all those storytelling parts with multi-gender romance stuff in ME and DA killed the net profit. Maybe the money from the firm of Bono was not sufficent, or Bioware just stated something that is not true to cover EA? We cannot tell for sure.
I only have a German souces of that:
https://playfront.de/bioware-ohne-ea-wuerde-es-uns-nicht-mehr-geben/
But it is also mentioned in this quite interesting English article of Gaming Instincts
https://www.gaminginstincts.com/anthem-is-biowares-funeral-song
(note that the fate of Dead Space 3 under EA is good example of how things Bioware stated can't be completely true as EA indeed used its influence and actually killed the series with this decision. They probably take more influence as other may want us to know. But this is just a thought of mine, nothing I can proof because EA and every developer under the umbrella of EA won't give us details information about internal things. Understandable)
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