Poll: When do you think Bioware started going downhill?

[Allthingsspectacular]

The moment they were acquired by EA.

What I especially love is all the people criticizing others for blaming EA. What? The fact that this exact same thing happened to many other talented studios when they were acquired by EA isn't a big enough clue?

 

[ReinWeisserRitter]

I was never of the impression that Bioware was a decent company to begin with. Then again, I don't have any experience with them before Knight of the Old Republic.

No, I'm not going to play what you personally think was the height of the company from whenever ago, so please don't ask.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

They havnt gone down hill, just made a game you didnt like. So what if you didnt like ME? Bioware isnt there to make games just for you. As for DA:O - most boring game ever in my opinion. Regardless of this, i know people love it. But look at it as Bioware experimenting, trying new stuff, cutting stuff and seeing what works. Yes fans will hate it, but fans are irrational anyway. If fans had the way there would only be PacMan and thats it.

Franchises have to change. Cant give the same experience as people would ***** that they are like COD. yes they may fail but with good input from fans they can make the sequels a more satisfying game.

 

[penguindude42]

When Electronic Arses scooped them up.

 

[pilouuuu]

Short answer: When EA bought them.

Captcha: let's roll

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

I still like them. I haven't played Dragon age 2, nor do i really want to, and I LIKED the mass effect 3 ending. Was it too bleak for you all? Was the message that whatever you do, sometimes it doesn't matter, it doesn't make a difference in the end to bleak? Meh. I liked it. But prehaps I'm just a depressing ol' freak.

For the original ending, my problems were the plot holes, the mass relays getting destroyed, and the lack of closure. It felt like nothing I did in the past three games mattered. Solved the krogan-turian-salarian problems, curing the genophage? Doesn't matter! None of those three races will see each other again! Solve the quarian-geth conflict? Doesn't matter!

The EC fixed a lot of that, and I was satisfied with it. I didn't mind the bleakness of the original ending. After all, the entire theme of Mass Effect 3 is "victory at any cost". It was the lack of closure and feeling like all I had done was of no consequence at all, something the new ending fixed.