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[Infested Goblin]

But managers with actuall decision making power that are responsible for this shit game are still working and making decisions. Nothing will change then lol

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeah 100% she was asked to resign. She didn’t just coincidentally happen to find a new job a few days before EA announced they missed sales targets by 50% and studio reorganization/layoffs.

On the plus side, probably got a sweet package and lead time to sort out job searching. Most people don’t get advanced notice.

It’s like that concord guy who told the world he got offered another job at Sony when the game was in limbo being shut down. Everyone else is waiting for their future status at the company, but he and management were already in cahoots sorting out his career options. Then a month later Firewalk is shut down for good.

 

[VenomousCoffee]

Yeah 100% she was asked to resign. She didn’t just coincidentally happen to find a new job a few days before EA announced they missed sales targets by 50% and studio reorganization/layoffs.

As usual, the boss who made the bad decisions gets protected, and the underlings who did what they were told get a swift kick in the ass on their way out.

 

[Last Hearth]

Yeah I dunno. I think the vast majority normal people dress/act/present themselves in a way that clearly advertises their gender and they don’t want to have to explicitly tell others what gender they are. And they don’t want others to treat them like their gender is some complete mystery until they are told otherwise.

If you have some specific way that you want people to address you then fine. But I always thought it was totally nuts to make this like the default way that people are supposed to greet each other.

It was done so the people who did feel the need to specify and tell people their "preferred gender" can feel like what they're doing is "normal". It was always ridiculous that everyone had to change how they act just to comfort a tiny group of people who feel out of place. It's like everyone was required to shave their heads so the bald people can feel normal.

 

[f~N_CH_1:3:3:3_SushiBoat]

Those messages at least suggest these people were around when the writing was still good. 19-26 years takes us back to the days of BG2 and KOTOR. Those guys are perhaps not to blame. It’s the narcissistic director who used this game as a vanity project who was the core of the issues.

Attitude reflects leadership.

 

[Lokaum D+]

 

[GymWolf]

But managers with actuall decision making power that are responsible for this shit game are still working and making decisions. Nothing will change then lol

Managers have been brainwashed, now they see that the modern audience doesn't actually exist or has no money to spend.

 

[Jsisto]

It’s easy to make fun of these people, but remember those at the corporate level that allowed this ideology to infest their company, and frankly embraced it because they misread the culture and didn’t have the backbone to say no, are probably getting off scot-free. That’s disgusting.

 

[SHA]

I can already imagine the next asmon video about this in my mind

I remember when gamers were not allowed to judge games on the internet, now it's asmon and his army, those days were harsh for sure.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

And the same last name as the other guy, nepotism?

Nah, they are both very talented. Equally talented, I dare say. None is better or worse than the other in the slightest.

 

[llLeonhart]

That's unfortunate. Outside of Taash, the writing has been pretty good for vanguard. A few of the char stories have been really good.....

I disagree. Outside of Taash it was mid at best. Player agency was totally absent, and more importantly, it didn't feel like a Dragon Age game at all. Modern speech was all over the place and it totally brought me out of it.
Art direction was a mixed bag, character design was awful with the big heads and cartoonish looks, but I loved the overall world, most of the enemy design, and honestly, it's the best hair system I've ever seen.

 

[GymWolf]

I disagree. Outside of Taash it was mid at best. Player agency was totally absent, and more importantly, it didn't feel like a Dragon Age game at all. Modern speech was all over the place and it totally brought me out of it.
Art direction was a mixed bag, character design was awful with the big heads and cartoonish looks, but I loved the overall world, most of the enemy design, and honestly, it's the best hair system I've ever seen.

Dude the enemy design was pedestrian at best...

When it wasn't generic, it was downright bad.

The hair system is the same as fifa 2021-22 and i would argue that no haircut in the game look as good as this gif

Some haircuts straight up have lump of hairs with zero physics like the hairs on harding forehead.

 

[SHAKEZ]

This is on us.

T-thanks

 

[Kronark]

Wait... Mass Effect 2 was shit? I don't even...

Yes. ME 2 is actually the point where I dropped the franchise like half way through the game. The vanguard class nerfs had been handled so poorly in the second game along with the terrible shotgun ammo economy that half my play through ended up being pistol + cover and just a complete slog. To be clear I'm not saying it was hard, I'm saying it was boring. Add on to that the fact that I already thought ME1's main storyline hunt for the mcguffin artifact and end game reveal had been so dogshit that I did not even care about the story in the slightest.
Bioware could have been shutdown yesterday and nothing of value would have been lost.

Last Hearth:
So now it's the "It's not that Veilguard and Andromeda were trash, Origins and Mass Effect were trash too" cope, have to admit that's a new one.

I hated them when they came out. Fail to see how this is cope. I haven't cared about Bioware in a long time.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

shame. The writing was a highlight of that game

 

[Mikado]

He/she was pushed out. I’d bet any money Corrine bushe knew months ago but EA gave extra time to smooth things out. Also claimed she left to work on a dream RPG at another company. So any day now, their LinkedIn profile should be updated when and where the new company is.

There was also another one (I forget who) who left in December too. Basically a lot of legacy BioWare people are getting gutted.

To be fair, cost-of-living-increases and raises-while-at-the-same-company aren't really a thing in the games industry. End-of-project always sees anyone with any ambition quitting because the only way to Move Up in this industry is to Move On: When a project ends you quit so you can get hired somewhere else at the now-current market rate.

Assuming, ofc, that anyone wants to hire you...

The fact that there are so many "lifers" on that team is odd, but understandable because gamedev options aren't exactly plentiful in fucking Edmonton.

 

[Alebrije]

When the only great of an RPG is the hair of the characters , it will boomb.

Those writters killed DA not because diversity but by the lack of narrative and well writting dialogs...Veligard feels like its for childrens. Nobody wants to hear stupid dialogs, they kill inmmersion.

 

[Holammer]

I wonder if EA will allow Mass Effect to continue development without oversight?
I'm guessing they got new marching orders and/or script doctors to tone down woke themes.

 

[EN250]

Maybe ME5 can be saved, maybe there is a tiny chance...

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Buh bye!

 

[SmokedMeat]

Now hire some people that have played Dragon Age, and know what fans want.

 

[TheChumpNation]

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

 

[Mister Wolf]

Yeah 100% she was asked to resign. She didn’t just coincidentally happen to find a new job a few days before EA announced they missed sales targets by 50% and studio reorganization/layoffs.

His choice was the window or the stairs. He chose the stairs.

 

[Braag]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

I was with him until ugly and fat guys.

 

[Rambotito]

Pronoun twats on the dole

She/Her more like Was/Were

 

[od-chan]

I was with him until ugly and fat guys.

Make Ugly Bastards Great Again

 

[captainnapalm]

Veilguard isn't the worst game ever made - but it's certainly in the running for one of the worst sequels ever made, in terms of failing to deliver on almost everything you would expect from a Dragon Age game. Bioware flat out make bad games now.

 

[AgatonSax]

Pronoun twats on the dole

Looks like a McPoyle.

 

[Fbh]

On the one hand: good.

On the other hand: Meh, until I'm proven wrong I have zero faith these big companies will learn. They needed someone to blame for the failure of Veilguard and needed to show investors they are taking steps to ensure ME doesn't follow the same path. Now they'll just hire and promote different blue haired they/them devs for Mass Effect and it's going to be the same story again.

 

[Fake]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

'Legend'

 

[ungalo]

But managers with actuall decision making power that are responsible for this shit game are still working and making decisions. Nothing will change then lol

what do you mean ? Positions mentioned here seem like management positions to me no ?

 

[Complistic]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Im not sure how most of this is supposed to be a bad thing.

 

[viveks86]

Yes. ME 2 is actually the point where I dropped the franchise like half way through the game. The vanguard class nerfs had been handled so poorly in the second game along with the terrible shotgun ammo economy that half my play through ended up being pistol + cover and just a complete slog. To be clear I'm not saying it was hard, I'm saying it was boring.

Ha... I guess I never really thought about gameplay that much while playing ME2. It was just... serviceable to keep the story moving forward and the choices play out. Like the witcher games

Though I must say tweaks made to witcher 3 has actually made gameplay enjoyable as well.

 

[Madflavor]

Least surprising news so far this year. This was inevitable.

 

[diffusionx]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Where do I preorder?

 

[SJRB]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Sounds based as fuck.

Bioware, hire this guy!

 

[Musashipan]

Thank you Mr.Trump

 

[hussar16]

But managers with actuall decision making power that are responsible for this shit game are still working and making decisions. Nothing will change then lol

the top never realy get fired only moved, it takes like a huge failure for the big heads to get fired which this was one.looked like th big heads used these fires as scapegoats

 

[SJRB]

Ban everyone responsible for this dumb shit from the industry forever.

 

[Mister Wolf]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Day one with a preorder.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[Zacfoldor]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

 

[Kacho]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Literally shaking

 

[Digital-Aftertaste]

I bet you that the people that were in charge of firing these writers chose "Oof!" as their dialogue choice to deal with their complaints upon hearing the news.

 

[graywolf323]

Patrick Weekes

he’s one of those that seems to have lost his mind since 2020, I mean he was involved with the OG Mass Effect trilogy (though one could argue that the story got worse the higher he was elevated)

Patrick Weekes - MobyGames

Game credits, biography, portraits and other game industry information for Patrick Weekes - MobyGames

www.mobygames.com

 

[Kacho]

he’s one of those that seems to have lost his mind since 2020, I mean he was involved with the OG Mass Effect trilogy (though one could argue that the story got worse the higher he was elevated)

Patrick Weekes - MobyGames

Game credits, biography, portraits and other game industry information for Patrick Weekes - MobyGames

www.mobygames.com

He is completely batshit now. Changed his name to “Trick” because he’s no doubt some sexual deviant.

 

[VenomousCoffee]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

Today I learned I'm a MAGA supporter if I ........... don't want to assign gender identities to trolls and dragons?

 

[RoboFu]

Today I learned I'm a MAGA supporter if I ........... don't want to assign gender identities to trolls and dragons?

Those guys sure love their abbreviations.. GG, MAGA, NAMBLA....

 

[CloudShiner]

EA: "Wipe it clean, you hear me? No traces. Fuck them all."