I really doubt Bioware is ever going to die. Even these days after nothing but trash for a decade the company still has fans of their older games and name recognition which makes them worth keep around. At worse case I bet EA just forces them to do rereleases and easy to make licensed games but never fully kills the company off.
Why do they need them?
Veilguard would like to have a word with you. Whatever fanbase BioWare had is long gone for the most part - the latest game BioWare release barely broke 1 million copies sold and most certainly did not make back what was spent on development, let alone achieve profitability, and this after a decade of flop after flop after flop.
They did it with the Old Republic too, BioWare hasn't been in charge of the project for years now.
The only thing BioWare has going for it in all honesty is brand name. And that's in the mud now.
Yeah that's true but Bioware was far more popular then whatever company made Dead Space. There's still a active forum that's main topic is nothing but Bioware games. Maybe I'm just in a bubble or something but I still think the company name carries some weight still.
My thought is that without the Bioware/dragon age label Veilgaurd would've probably sold a lot less then only a million. There's probably a lot of people who don't really follow video games that closely that bought it solely because of the name without realizing how bad the company is now. I probably wouldn't have ever heard of Veilgaurd without it being made by Bioware.
For Dragon Age I don't know, but for Bioware it was the two doctors who created the studio. It wasn't the same once they left.
it's all because of fucking normies who never played games, don't know anything about them or the companies, they just see a name of a company/series and that's that. they don't understand that bioware is nothing like it was when it was actually good. the worst thing that ever happened to gaming was it going mainstream
They were proud of announcing that DA:I sold 12 million copies over the course of a decade, and it probably did fine at launch. However, it came it in 2014, with DA2 out in 2011. Even if we assume early development started before the launch of DA2 that still only puts it at 4 years. Veilguard came out in 2024, and initially started development in 2015, that's 9 years of cost piled up with nothing to make up for that from the studio other than anthem microtransactions and the mass effect remake which will have both had their own costs associated with them.
This is true, but it only goes so far. The actual diehard fans have seen Bioware shit up existing franchises twice now(not including the ME3 ending). Younger gamers? Late teens and early 20s? They weren't playing the previous Bioware games from their heyday when those games came out. At best Bioware have gained some of that good will among newer audiences with the ME remaster("Oh, this is what those old boomers were talking about when they said Bioware made good games"), but that's it.
From what I've seen based on reviews your companions basically soley exist in this game to have sex with. You can't control them in combat and their special abilities are just on your hotbar so they don't even perform them themselves.
It's a actually way way worse, I watched Fighncowboy stream it for a bit and he said since the companions are invulnerable enemies don't even target them so they're not even useful for drawing aggro.
Their special abilities for the most part don't even do much of anything other than to occasionally trigger a heavy damage AoE on occasion and even that's dependent on which ones you take with you. The party members don't even take damage or have anything to do other than exist on the screen running around waiting for you to trigger their specials.
Because during early development back in 2017 or so, the game was going to be made into a multiplayer live service game and was on target for that up until 2021 and only changed because Anthem shit the bed so hard, and then on top of that they wanted to make it an action oriented game like fucking modern God of War of all things, so as a result the party only exists a vestigial thing tacked on because they knew some players would expect it.
that has to be a special pack, right?
they saw Fag in your name and thought veilguard was just the right game for you
