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Sorry, Saudi Arabia don’t like sci-fi. Just football and hacking up journalists.
They’d love to make a game about hacking up journalists, but their lawyers say it would be inadvisable.
There should only be one company making video games. That’s the most efficient and cheapest.
i wish it was just “EA is shutting down”
When Saudi Arabia PIF and Jared Kushner bought EA, I expected something like this to eventually happen. They would want to prop up consumable yearly microtransactioned garbage over games with more moral dilemmas than their respective regimes are willing to tolerate…
Valve please acquire BioWare challenge (seriously, please acquire BioWare, Gaben)
I just wanted one more mass effect. I guess it wasn’t nearly a far along as they’d teased.
This meme was a prophecy.
I can still remember that feeling of anticipation when “Westwood” came on the screen. I haven’t felt that in decades 😔
Capitalism
Aw man. Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, and OG Dragon Age saw me through some of my formative gaming years and it’s been a shame to watch since. I didn’t even bother with Veilguard.
Larian is our big shining hope for this kind of game now, it seems.
Tomorrow: “EA to acquire Larian in $100B deal”
Check out Owlcat’s new Expanse game, Osiris Reborn. It’s an obvious love letter to everything about the Mass Effect series, while also being the best looking video game adaptation of the Expanse yet.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’m not familiar with the Expanse but I’ll keep an eye on the reviews! My windows gaming days are over but if the Xbox version is good I might pick it up.
Strongly recommend reading through the books if you have time. I couldn’t ever get in to the TV show but I’ve gone through the books several times.
The TV show is also great once you get through the first half of the first season, which is sloooow. The rest is amazing though, I actually prefer some aspects of it over the books (like introducing Avasarala earlier and giving Bobbie more to do).
I stopped somewhere in season 2. I kept hearing it gets better and it just kept on being the same.
Miller was also quite a bit more sympathetic than he seems on the page which is… Well it’s a choice.
Ooh another Owlcat game to sink too much time into.
Thank God. I was worried a Saudi Kushner Mass Effect would create some kind of paradoxal tear in reality, like the damn pocket universe in Superman.
Wait for an upcoming patch where they don’t change any of the actual content, but if you’re in a gay romance it just continually spawns hostile units every time you enter an area.
I play games to escape reality, not relive it.
Give it another 5 years and a different, more inept developer
safe to say we won’t get controller support for dragon age origins anytime soon 😅
ill never forgive EA for destroying westwood studios and maxis,
FUCK EA
Fuck. Now I have to add Bioware to the pile.
yoyo they found 21 missing people off of that music video. its really a song of hope.
Didn’t the song out a bunch of people who went missing on purpose and ruin their lives?
from the article:
It wasn’t always plain sailing for the families afterwards – kids don’t run away from happy homes – but maybe things had changed when they went back or they were older and able to cope better.
i don’t know the specifics, but that sounds like what they’re trying to say very gently. i wouldn’t go so far as to say it ruined their lives, but in our experiences (two of my cousins and one niece ran away when they were teenagers) if their lives were ruined it was the shit that caused them to run away that did it.
i know, small sample size, but most people expect their lives to be ordinary. it makes it easy to fall into the logical trap that everyone has the same experiences
Absolutely. Incredible what came from that campaign. The song still fit the tone I wanted for the meme.
Damn it. What’s the first one again? I instantly remember the feeling playing this game, but I can’t remember…
Fantastic game. I think it ran on Amiga 500 and other OS I can’t remember. Now my night is ruined until I recall.
Thanks for the memories!
EA is exactly the republican party. Destroy everything they touch with loads of bigotry and sheer incompetence.
Are EA bigots? They have always been the epitome of amoral capitalism in the gaming world to me
Given their new owners, it wouldn’t be too far off to call them bigots now.
Valid point
Many game companies were bigots. shrugs. Another example is Ubisoft, founded by 5 brothers (no cooties eh), very toxic environment from my experience.
“Woke” was actually a problem with DA4 with how piss poorly the writers handled it, it was embarrassing. Absolutely not bigots
The bigotry is probably a new thing for them then because at least back in the day they didn’t give a fuck as long as it made money. Bioware games usually had LGB(perhaps not T, don’t remember any) characters, often as romance options and I recall racial justice being a theme in both Mass Effect and Dragon Age games.
But I suspect the new owners don’t really want their games to infect anyone with the gays™
Ah, I didn’t know about that one because I could never get into Inquisition myself. Though it seems to have been well received enough as a game that perhaps I should try it.
Part of me wonders if Krem received less hate than some other Ts in media because the Internet hate machine mostly seems to have it out for MTF rather than FTM folks or because he genuinely had good writing rather than being shoehorned in
Typically MTFs are seen as “misogynistic perverts” and FTMs are seen as “misunderstood lesbians”
Neither are an accurate picture but one is far easier to sympathize with.
I wish it wasn’t so hard for people to see them as “folks just living their lives and not affecting mine in the slightest”
Everybody affects everybody else. We absolutely do not live in a vacuum. It’s why libertarianism fails.
Good news is that EA self-destructed in the Saudi deal so a few guys at the top could fill their pockets one more time. The debt they loaded EA with will be paid by selling everything. There is no other way. EA can no longer operate and their IPs will go to different studios. Let‘s hope one or two of them treat the franchises a tiny bit more carefully. Maybe. Or it will all be AI slop. Time will tell. But the way I see it EA is toast.
Generals 2 was in the make. There was a promo gameplay video. They fucking canceled it. I’ll never forgive them for it.
Litteraly everything they touch, they kill. Either they cancel it or it becomes a pay to win gambling platform which lacks actual content. Enshitification Assholes.
We’ll build our own BioWare! With blackjack! And hookers!
But unfortunately without the IP
Surely copyright doesn’t last forever plus a day, and they will be released into the public domain in a timely manner.
Let’s just use AI and say that it’s fair use.
My theory is that EA is actually secretly ran by Hollywood in a bid to get people back to watching movies and TV.
It’s ran by Saudis, they don’t like queer things.
The Saudis who bought it don’t care about queer things, religion or morals. They only care about money.
Game companies are reading the tea leaves.
AI bought all the ram
AI bought owns all the GPU
Any Game can be decoded and rewritten in fresh code via AI for the tiniest fraction of a salary. It will eventually be able to do it with performance.
New IP could maybe, possibly be generated by some designer/artist types for the cost of a couple salaries.
The client is in the enemy’s (our) hands.
All games must go back to Gaming as a Service
We won’t pay for gaming as a service.
No new affordable tech is coming to drive the industry, all games will need to shift to online only, AI may get good enough to make games for pennies.
The only part of gaming that survives this is indie developers that push past making shovelware with AI. AAA is cooked.
Saudi Arabia bought it to diversify. They want success.
Does anyone have any methods on studying Marx easily without losing focus and without losing memory, and what should I do if I don’t have any motivation to study, mostly out of laziness?
oh no… what a surprise… ea shuts down a studio they aquired…
