Bioware has been a massive part of CDPR history. We befriended them when localizing and selling Baldur’s Gate games in Poland, Czech, and Slovakia. And later they were great help when lending us their engine for Witcher 1, sharing their wisdom and even giving us a spot at their booth at E3. I had a pleasure to visit them a few times in Edmonton and also host them in our Warsaw office. Very sad for the people affected, but also sad to see a legendary brand go down. Not a great day in the games industry.
@KdeKercy Really shows you how important good leadership is. Who knows where CDPR would be if they had greedy leadership who sold out at the first good opportunity
Bioware helped CDPR in developing the first Witcher game by giving them access to the Aurora engine when they were THE big gigant in the industry.
20 years forward, CDPR is one of the big gigants and Bioware is fcking gone, stop and think about that... crazy times.
Fun fact, Jared Kushner owns one of the investment companies in this deal. He has a good relationship with the crowned prince (he literally override the PIF advisors decision to not give Kushner money) and was probably brought in to make sure there wouldn't be goverment pushback
HOLY FUCK, I literally just wrote a paper about the EA acquisition and how mentioned how this could be bad for consumers. I think maybe there'd be censorship or more microtransactions put in the game but straight up canceling it? EA is just gonna be sports games, The Sims, and AI
@_Leonorb True, they got a really good offer so its just expected corporate greed that they sold it. The PIF is the decision maker now though and anything with LGBTQ+ elements isn't safe. U.S. Goverment should have never allowed this in the first place but we have a evil administration