Is Larian saying that we should be good little pirates?
Read that as “Larian, Head of Publishing Tears”, as in crying.
English, man.
English, where the word ‘jam’ can mean traffic, a stuck door, to play music, to cram things into a tight space or a fruity preserve lol
We made profits, but not quite as much as we wanted to, so next time we will make a franchised sequel with AI workers instead. Nothing can go wrong.
(In a Morgan Freeman narrator voice) Oh how wrong they were. Some might say that they shit the bed with such thinking and actions. Others… Might believe that they didn’t know better. The fuck they didn’t! The ‘all mighty dollar’ was their carrot on a stick that was placed in front of them by nearly soul dead board members and deep pocketed ‘investors.’ A fixation on the “all mighty dollar” in this extreme capitalistic parent company EA, has shown us endless times, they don’t give a fuck about you or your hobby. Just as long as you continue to throw your money at them like a good little dipshit who can’t seem to realize that you’re being played.
I actually heard Freeman in there excepting the cussin’ which I’m a fan of and use often but doesn’t lend itself to his voice imo. Still awesome tho
This was perfect. Have way through mogan freeman started narrating.
What institutional knowledge? Most of the people who made the games we loved at Bioware are long gone… EA found them to be too expensive so they resorted to hiring cheaper “talent” like Heir. Now it’s too late, they have the IP but none of the passion and inventiveness.
While ya ain’t wrong that bioware isn’t what it used to be your comment claims there’s not been talent in the building for 15 years which is just silly if you think about it. Like, they can still program games 10 times better n you, or me, or, for the context of this quote, biowares management.
Yer just taking the definition of “talent” (in this case used to describe the people who program games, separate from management who produce nothing) and changing it to ‘making great games you like’ which is 1000% not the point he was making.
Same guy who happens to be an exec.
Same guy who said “marketing is dead” is playing the CDPR startegy “we’re the good guys” to endear himself with the public. It’s a dangerous game, especially when he decides jack shit about game structure, engine, writing et al. He’s Literally a marketeer.
Regarding Bioware, I actually went to check game release dates. Turns out the signals they were bleeding talent were there already when ME3 released, roughly 13-15 ago. Wow, ty for mentioning that, Bioware has had 15 of releasing bland crap I don’t find good. Given the current state of the studio, I’m not the only one with that view, clearly.
Same guy who said “marketing is dead” is playing the CDPR startegy “we’re the good guys” to endear himself with the public.
Excellent point. I like where your head is at in general, no cap. Roll with that point, it’s
Bioware has had 15 of releasing bland crap I don’t find good.
True, and i agree, but to clarify my position: that’s not what talent means in this context. In fact, i’m claiming your conflation of the definition of “talent” in this context serves to make a case you perhaps didn’t mean to, a case that ‘they make poor games and thus it doesn’t matter that they’re laid off’.
I’m not saying that was your point, I’m saying that’s what it looks like to readers when you bring up the unrelated point of whether you like biowares games.
Do you get what i mean?
a case that ‘they make poor games and thus it doesn’t matter that they’re laid off’
Oh, not at all, it does matter they’re laid off. They make poor games because that’s all that they know, since companies like EA churn out blueprint made after blueprint made games with no spirit or excitement, built only to leverage the IPS they own (and other EA studios the same, DeadSpace3…). They basically adopted the *FC25 strategy company-wide (except 3rd pty indie publishing) which has created a vacuum of talent and imagination. This situation has been evident for more than a decade. They acquire/absorb talented studios, get rid of those pesky expensive senior workers and milk the franchises to the ground. That’s the EA MO. Sadly, people joined Bioware hoping to get a successful AAA game on their resumé to bolster their chances at pursuing greener pastures, the gamble didn’t pan out. Good luck to them, especially non programming staff, since code monkeys find a much better job market than English majors. Also, it’s a travesty the lady who led DAV got canned. She had worked on Sims games before and was handed a shit hand to play with. At the end of the day, the whole Institutional Knowledge schtick is a misnomer because very little of it was present in the latest round of layoffs at Bioware, they’re assembly workers now. Doesn’t mean they are less important, just means the larian marketing guy is talking out of his arse for clout.
That said, at the end of the day, the writing was on the wall. This goes for EA, Ubisoft, MS, et al. If you’re on the bottom, your arse is out the next time line goes down. Join a private studio instead, like Larian, they pay less but pay longer!
Edit: Almost forgot, fuck John Riccitiello to the moon on a fucking rocket. Him and Don Matric are the main responsible people for the shit environment we have in the games industry today.
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Doesn’t mean they are less important, just means the larian marketing guy is talking out of his arse for clout.
Ok i understand your point now, agreed.
Edit: Almost forgot, fuck John Riccitiello
Did we just become best friends?
Possibly. Wanna set fire to Andrew Wilson and use that to ignite the rocket to send Riccitiello to orbit. I’ll bring the lighters and beverages while we watch the firework.
What institutional knowledge?
Did you play BG3?
So the talent was laid off? Resulting in loss of institutional knowledge? Damn.
Yes, I’m sure this 2025 article comes right on time to address the 15y old layoffs that gutted Bioware before you could speak.
