What has Bioware got left to offer?

[zombieshark6666]

No one cared when Pandemic got shut down. I guess it won't be the same for Bioware, aka "the walking corpse".

 

[Lucem712]

I don't get it. Why are Bioware in trouble? in their entire catalogue of games, how many bad games are there? I count 1 and a bit. Dragon Age 2 was bad (imo not as bad as rabid dragon age fanboys claim it to be) and the end of another game. That's it? But yeah they are in trouble.

Old Republic lackluster? Sure compared to WoW's numbers it looks horrible, but it also hasn't had a 7 year monopoly on the market. C&C Generals? You are judging a game not even released anytime soon, buy a small offshoot studio of Bioware.

Also, while yes shepards story is over, Mass Effect is not. They have stated many times they are going to continue Mass Effect games, so that isn't over.

I think it mostly has to do with the fact that they are controlled by EA now. Hardly any companies under EA survive to tell about it. It doesn't help that the company they were bought with is now defunct. Many important people abandon ship and the company remains a shell of itself until EA kills off the company and absorbed whatever is left into another developer.

 

[The Funslinger]

Exactly, they're going to die. EA are making sure of that.

Exactly. This is basically what's happening:

 

[sabercrusader]

They'll continue making Mass Effect games, as has been stated multiple times. Just they won't be a part of Shepard's story.

Still Dragon Age 3 to come in. And then maybe something after in the DA universe?

They can always go back to Jade Empire.



Those are three well-liked universes that they can continue to make games in.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

There's still KOTOR they're sitting on, probably could make another one with Mass Effect 3's engine.

Snip.

Quite obviously a ME3 butthurter. Mass Effect 3 was an excellent game, TOR is a good MMORPG and they still have a large portion of creativity left. And they possibly have a new Baldur's Gate and still have the Jade Empire IP.

 

[lacktheknack]

There's always the stuff on gog.com...

 

[babinro]

Mass Effect - pretty much finished bar the long slow milking via DLC.

While I agree that Mass Effect 3 was disappointing plot wise, the game play was still great.

Star Wars - An fairly lack luster MMO soon to be forgotten.

Easily my all-time favorite MMO. It's not a huge leap forward for the market but it certainly sets the bar for what someone should expect to get out of an MMO prior to the endgame.

Dragon Age - Their only real IP with room to expand, though DA has always been a beta project and kind of lacks a strong sense of identity, especially in todays over-saturated WRPG market.

I agree. This is the most promising franchise to continue working on. I'd be hugely disappointed if Dragon Age 3 never became a reality.

C&C Generals: A very un-Bioware game.

Yet it's the best C&C / Red Alert game in years if not the best in the entire series.



Personally, I think the new console generation should give Bioware the excuse to try more new IP's. They can write excellent characters and create excellent combat systems. I wouldn't be opposed to them taking the Final Fantasy approach and just constantly releasing new RPG's with new settings and characters.

 

[Thoric485]

A third Dragon Age simply can't be profitable enough for EA to bother producing, I think they're just waiting for the right time to announce the cancellation. SW:TOR will follow WAR, AoC and Rift to the WoW-clone limbo soon enough, Mass Effect still has some milkage potential and... that's it.

The C&C game is being developed by a studio that's BioWare in name only. I wouldn't be surprised if the RPG BioWare gets the chopping block before the end of the year.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Their honorable disembowelling. And an apology to every single person who bought DA2.

Aside from that, dragon age 3: the last moneygrab.

 

[Arina Love]

Nothing in what i will be interested. After Me3 i will never buy game made by Bioware.

 

[The_Critic]

DA3 and probably more after that I don't see Dragon Age being a trilogy. And like everyone else said more non Shepard mass effect games, until there about to be shut down or all interest in the ME world disappears then they will make another game revolving around Shepard and it will be terrible.

 

[DolorousEdd]

They have a monopoly and even the most snarky derision about any tiny elements of their games that someone wants changed generally seems to stem from an addiction to their style of storytelling.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

Did I miss something? I'm saying that because nobody has even mentioned Baulder's Gate yet.

 

[PrinceOfShapeir]

I think at this point, the only thing Bioware has left to offer is Casey Hudson's head on a pike.

 

[deathbydeath]

Yeah, they just to make a proper KOTOR 3, Jade Empire 2, and a real ME2/3, not this EA garbage they've been shitting out

EDIT:

I think at this point, the only thing Bioware has left to offer is Casey Hudson's head on a pike.

That's a close fourth, though. Third if I drop KOTOR 3

 

[boyvirgo666]

Exactly, they're going to die. EA are making sure of that.

Going to die?

Mass effect series - dead

Dragon age series - dead (because DA2 was a such a piece of crap)

SW:tor - will be dead in under a year


Bioware has utterly lost its reputation people who are still buying there games are either blind fan boys, or people who dont care about the quility of video games.

I still disagree on DA2 being crap. Its a fun game they just reused maps. Lot of games are guilty of that and no one harps on them.

 

[locke]

Maybe they just wanted to do like Sam Raimi did with Spiderman 3; make it end so stupidly that they would never be asked to make another one.