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Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

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Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

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Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

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I thought EA was dead for a long time.
- He is, but him keeping the complaints about his copper earned him immortality.
EA killed my favourite game series of all time, Super Mega Baseball. Also Command and Conquer back in the day. They claimed they were done with that buyout-competitors stuff but they clearly are not.
- Don't forget about them screwing Origin Systems. RIP Wing Commander and Ultima.
Did EA have games with gay stuff?
- Mass Effect and Dragon Age series come to mind
  
  Sadly Dragon Age is dead after that last attempt at a sequel. They should sell it off to a company that might actually be able to fix it.
- I made sure all my Mass Effect playthroughs were as gay as possible
  
  That’s using the ol spacenoodle alright
- Besides what was already mentioned: For what it's worth, Apex Legends has a lot of queer characters.
- The Sims comes to mind here, since it's had same-sex relationships for quite a while (and same-sex marriage for at least 3 and 4, I think).
- Not intentionally.
FC 2026 with dragon age and mass effect characters confirmed.
And nothing of value was lost.
Not because of the gay stiff, kind, but because the BioWare hasn't made a game that isn't shit for ages.
- ...
  Homie? I am not going to pretend I have liked... ANYTHING Bioware has done since DA2/ME3. But when your first response to "gay stuff is out" is "nothing of value is lost. Oh, I mean Bioware, not the actual gay stuff" you have to really question what you are doing with your life.
  Some shit is more important than your hatred of a studio for... not making games you want to buy. And you ALWAYS have the option of pretending it is Friday and shutting the fuck up.
  
  Wat
  
  I like how on Lemmy, both these comments are upvoted.
Wait, Bioware still exists? I thought they were quietly shuttered after Andromeda. Either way- not like this will fundamentally change anything with how EA already works. Garbage no matter what.
- Unfortunately BioWare has been in sharp decline for a pretty long time now, though they are still releasing games. As an old school big time fan of the Dragon Age series, I didn't even want to try the latest entry in the series, because I saw enough to know I'd be disappointed. And as I understand it, their other franchises and games released have pretty much gone in the same direction for almost a decade now.
- Yes, but Bioware has been in bad shape since EA doomed Anthem by forcing a complete rewrite and redevelopment 18 months before release, and then pulled funding after letting Anthem's dev team promise a full 2.0 fix. Anything EA touches turns to feces, even if it was once great.
Bad news if you were waiting for a new gay rpg
- Honestly, which good RPGs aren't gay?
- There will be others.
Calling BioWare venerable is a complete joke. The last decent games they made were Mass Effect 1 and Dragon Age 2, and that was about oh 20 fkn years ago. Maybe they were venerable once, but not for a long time. I'm okay with putting them to rest. (do bungie next)
- I don't know how much weight I put on an opinion that thinks Dragon Age 2 was better than... Well, mostly anything.
  
  I never played it because it shifted the series toward the crowded action adventure genre than the CRPG genre.
  Was DA2 actually that bad even as an action game?
  
  Luckily opinions can be ignored if desired. I remember liking it quite a bit but you never know
- The last decent games they made were Mass Effect 1
  That bitch Ashley had it coming.

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