02-13-2012, 11:07 AM
(02-13-2012, 06:00 AM)Wyrm Wrote: Also, Bioware quality doesn't mean anything anymore thanks to EA. EA is the private equity of the videogaming world; buy smaller companies, stripmine their IPs for cash, discard what's left.
If you were a big fan of Mass Effect 2, does it not trouble your argument that it was entirely produced on EA's watch?
I'm not a big fan of EA either. But John Riccitiello seems to have done a fairly good job with the company. It's worth noting that he spent time at BioWare before moving back to EA.
DA2 obviously had its development cycle cut way short, and suffered badly for it. But other than that, I haven't noticed any serious slide. Some of BioWare's strongest games (ME2, for instance) were made on EA's watch.
-Jester