BioWare Closure, Mass Effect Cancellation and Veilguard Criticism

Let's read what they said about this, right?

'Cause this just happened an hour ago.

"For more than 30 years, BioWare has been a studio,

has been more than a

studio. It has been a home for storytellers,

developers, and the players who

brought our worlds to life. Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights

of the Old Republic, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and Anthem." Well,

I don't know about

the last one, but yeah. "Now, after more than three decades of shared

adventures,

BioWare is closing, and early development on the next Mass

Effect project is

ending. There is nothing easy about writing these

words.

Our focus right now is on our incredibly talented team who put

their hearts into

these games, supporting one another through this

transition.

What generations of BioWare built together is something to celebrate and remember.

These games became so much more because you played them, debated your choices,

fell

in love with the characters, and made the worlds your own.

From all of us here at BioWare, thank you for being the most meaningful

part of our

story." I mean, this is a nice little going away message,

but it never

had to be like this. You never had to make a game like Dragon

Age: The

Veilguard. Everybody was saying, "This is bad.

We don't like this," and you just went ahead with it anyway.

Like, why did you think that it was a good idea?

A- and also, like Dragon Age: The Veilguard, this is the big problem,

is that

whenever you have activists inside of video games, the big thing that's

a problem is that activists don't care about video games

foundationally. It's not like the activists,

all they wanna do is they just wanna

make a character gay and that's it.

The problem is that whenever you have those people that are involved in

development, they have no interest in what the gameplay

loop is.

They have no interest in, you know, how fun it is to play.

They have no interest in how interesting is this boss fight.

They don't care about the narrative outside of how it dovetails into their

ideology. So Dragon Age: The Veilguard was a terrible game.

It was-