Nagendra

video game enthusiast, introvert

[本間 覚（フォース） @homma_force]

自分はDragon Age: Originsが好きすぎて、どうしても日本語化したいと思い、スパイクのころにBioWareにコンタクトしてそれを実現しました。そのときの担当だったBioWareのリチャードさんが自分の仕事を評価してくれて、スパイクをCD PROJEKTに紹介し、Xbox 360版のウィッチャー2をスパイクで出すことになりました。それがウィッチャー3に繋がり、今に至ります。BioWareは自分の人生を変えてくれた会社です。BioWareがなければエッジランナーズもなかったかもしれない。本当にお疲れ様でした。

[Mapocolops @Mapocolops]

Reminder:
- EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017

- Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again.

- After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations.

- Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released.

- This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around.
We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up.

The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too.
Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game.

EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn.

People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

[Mass Effect News @MassEffect_News]

I should go. #MassEffect

[Game Informer @gameinformer]

In 2016, we published potentially the largest single feature to ever appear in a printed issue of Game Informer magazine with a full oral history of the legendary studio, BioWare.

We've made that feature available online and free for the first time following reports of the studio's impending closure. https://t.co/jRThcbKbIE

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

The BioWare news is heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure. That teams games pioneered choice-based storytelling in a way that fundamentally shaped games as we know them. It deserved that one last shot at Mass Effect. Such a shame.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this was my childhood. its now gone.

[NeoGameSpark @NeoGameSpark]

Thank you BioWare for one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time.

A series unlike any other.

[Gray @Spectre_Gray]

Veilguard did not kill BioWare. Private equity killed BioWare. Money killed BioWare. Corporate greed killed BioWare. Shut the fuck up about wokeness and Veilguard for fuck’s sake. Holy shit

[Michał Nowakowski @michalnowakow]

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.

[ǝdɐɔsǝʇıʍpıɯ @cnb_1992]

"People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem."

[Amanita Design 🔧 Machinarium 2 @Amanita_Design]

The audacity to feed Machinarium assets to AI, make AI slop animations, and call it a love letter…

Love letters are supposed to be handwritten. This looks disgusting and has nothing to do with us or our craft.

[Inosuke Hashibira🐉 @dragonNTRNEE]

Ee movie entha realistic ga unthado

Bheemla Nayak antha artificial ga unthadi

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

The biggest con-man of twenty first century.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Brown fascists citing the example of white fascism to defend their own sums up the times we live in

[P. 🇵🇸🇺🇦🍁 @Enbyyreturns]

generational meltdown happening among right wingers

[Mukesh @mikejava85]

Works for an American company which sells decentralized products which can by pass Indian govt's security and monitoring can do off-grid, encrypted peer-to-peer messaging ..

talks about Starlink should be banned ??

Average low IQ Bengaluru Nibbi

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

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DON'T scan your face for Discord.
DON'T scan your face for Twitter.
DON'T scan your face for YouTube.
DON'T scan your face for Instagram.
DON'T scan your face for Reddit.
DON'T scan your face for Spotify.
DON'T scan your face for Twitch.

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Do Not Be Cruel To Matt Reeves Over ‘The Batman Part 2’ Filming Delay via @forbes https://t.co/akSUlpSShE

[Scuderia Ferrari HP @ScuderiaFerrari]

That’s P3 in the Bahrain GP for Lewis! 🇧🇭🥉