mercenar1e
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unfortunate for the series but fitting for the studio.
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Kotaku: Mass Effect on hiatus, most BioWare Montreal staff now at Motive, still on MP
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The studio that worked on ME 1-3 is not affected. They're working on a new IP.
funkystudent
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Mass Effect, Dead Space, Mirrors Edge.
All dead.
GG EA.
Think we will get another Dragon Age? I think Inquisition did OK. Even its flaws got overlooked at the time because the consoles just needed a big game real bad
All dead.
GG EA.
Think we will get another Dragon Age? I think Inquisition did OK. Even its flaws got overlooked at the time because the consoles just needed a big game real bad
KillerMan91
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How it's EA's fault that even with delays Bioware developed mediocre game?
Wait what? If you're not counting DA2 then only Gaider left. Weekes is still there.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Good. Still can't play Andromeda AT ALL even after the latest patch, so they need a better team.
Bethesda better watch its step, because it is walking dangerously close to the waters that Bioware is neck-deep in. The impact of disappointing your audience is never felt immediately. Mass Effect 3 for all of its outrage was a very successful game and sold millions of copies. However, the next game pays for the sins of the father. The disappointment of Mass Effect 3 needed to be wiped away by Andromeda, and it wasn't. It was actually even more disappointing, which is stunning. Fans weren't taken by surprise like Mass Effect 3, and it was torn apart.
Back to Bethesda: Fallout 4 was viewed as a a complete disappointment to many of the most ardent fans. Whatever their next game is, they don't have the goodwill of the prior game helping them anymore. Instead of a rabid fascination, many fans are cautious about the direction of the studio. The next game better be an improvement on FO4 because it is going to get similarly torn to shreds if it doesn't impress.
Army of Two and Need for Speed: Nitro?
lololololololol
I am screaming at how genius was the change from EA Montreal to Bioware Montreal with people thinking that the main team was working on this flop
They were certainly delusional in thinking that a map pack developer could handle a next-gen Mass Effect title, even if they were given 5 years. The project was fucked right from the start.
Jampsuliini
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Even though I like Destiny, I don't want Bioware to focus on a Destiny-like game. Even though they have fumbled a bit on recent years, I still want those story heavy singleplayer games Bioware is known for 
Barrel Cannon
Member
Sigh, I remember years back in the Xbox era when Bioware was on the lists of best places to work. Shame how a place that fostered such great games(despite the bugs) ended up making one of the buggiest ones in a long time. Buggy games aren't as easily forgiven anymore. The times have changed.
... Crap.
Not surprised, but... Mass Effect deserves better than this.
EA mismanaged it, the team was woefully underprepared for the undertaking, the game needed far more polish...
I wonder if we'll even get all the fixes and patches the game needs, let alone any worthwhile DLC.
Not surprised, but... Mass Effect deserves better than this.
EA mismanaged it, the team was woefully underprepared for the undertaking, the game needed far more polish...
I wonder if we'll even get all the fixes and patches the game needs, let alone any worthwhile DLC.
I can't possibly imagine they're going to do nothing with that data. That and Alexis Kennedy was brought on for something
This isn't an accomplished studio. It's a spinoff from Bioware. All they've done is DLC and tacked on multiplayer.
That being said, yes, EA gonna EA.
Lucky Seven
Banned
Came in this thread to see this pic
It seems to me its included in that sentence. ''continue to patch AND support MAE multiplayer''
like patch the game like they are doing, and also support mp. Two different thigs I assume
They just released a patch today and they still have yet another one to do at least.
Doesn't bode will for single player DLC though.
It's not really that the game was mediocre, it's that BioWare's next game is aimed at being a huge one and something they'll want to support/extend instead of dividing their resources and attention.
They did the MP mode for ME3. But yeah, they should never have been given ME: Andromeda. 5 years and this is the game we got. Even todays patch still leaves a lot of glitches and bugs unaccounted for. Edmonton is busy with their new IP. And all the other studios on Star Wars. Mass Effect was going to be on hiatus for a while. This was known.
yeah, the prospects for that one are not good it seems
Tony Redgrave
Member
What a trainwreck this whole ordeal has been.
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Wow, way to tank a brand. It's like they literally smeared shit all over the bioware name.
Can I just delete ME:A off my hard drive and pretend it never happened?
dave is ok
aztek is ok
I don't know if extra time could have saved this game. The character creator, the companions, the writing, the animation - all shit.
psynergylover
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wow, didn't think ME:A did this much damage...
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JeremyEtcetera
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Trilogy remaster has a low chance of happening or even being a decent remaster. Trilogy used UE3, and we all know it's not a simple task moving a UE3 game to a different engine. That's why some remasters this gen have been failures/missteps tech wise.
Cheat Code
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Andromeda was so bad it killed the series.
Lmao.
Lmao.
Should have been first post, everytime EA, every fucking time
texhnolyze
Banned
It's like the opposite of what's been said by EA from the other thread earlier.
RecRoulette
Member
Not even DLC? Wow.
Eh. The next game would still have to go through some sort of pre-production stage (and they probably should evaluate what went wrong & do a better job planning next time anyway) while a bunch of folks would have otherwise been sitting around doing nothing, so transferring them to other projects would make sense in that regard.
They shouldn't be. I think it's awful how Andromeda has been so heavily slammed for things which Bethesda have been doing in their games for ages and seem to get very little criticism for. I hate how there's this "mods will fix it" approach to Bethesda games: relying on the community to fix issues which have been brought on by Bethesda's insistence on using that aging piece of crap they call an engine.
I only hope no one has lost their job over it.
Weskerlover
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I think people only blaming Bioware Montreal are wrong. I think both parties made mistakes BUT EA management decided to let a relatively inexperienced studio work with the Mass Effect IP. EA is famous for mismanagening studios and IP. It is as much their fault.
RedlineRonin
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Yup, it just doesn't matter like it used to, unfortunately. ME2 and ME3 were a long time ago. That was before BF3 and the resurgence of Battlefield as a brand. Before SW BF. And FIFA seems to just get bigger and bigger every year.
And you can be almost certain less dev time (read dollars) goes into each iteration of FIFA compared to what they spent on ME:A
When you're a publicly traded company, at some point, taking bets with a series like ME stop making good business sense. Which sucks.
And that's probably now even more so, because they have a big hole to dig out of for the next one. At the end of the day, this just isn't surprising news. Certainly sad news, just not surprising.
E: Which actually makes their unwillingness to contemplate a trilogy remaster all the more baffling. I have no idea what kind of effort that would be, but it would almost certainly be profitable, assuming all the assets are still around.
I would say that after the horrendous launches of ME3 and Andromeda, Mass Effect very much is a soured name. With the main team at Bioware busy making a new IP, there's nothing to do but put the series on ice. Another half-baked game isn't the answer. They will just have to wait until the time is right.
If we are lucky then they will try again in 8 years time like they did with Mirror's Edge. Will EA even be interested in single player RPGs by that time, though?
