This week, BioWare founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk announced that they were stepping down and leaving BioWare.
I smell something foul. Something that reeks with the stench of greed, a complete disregard for an industry and a company built to serve a large part of the population not to mention the stench of a small game studio that had been absorbed by a larger entity that has a track record of absorbing and liquidating small game companies and...
.....Oh, that makes sense now. I mean, it's not like EA has gone around buying up small game studios and then liquidating those assets, resulting in some really, really bad games, right?
.......well shit.
In any case, the retirement of the BioWare founders only months AFTER Mass Effect 3's (which was good, but lacked a lot, especially in the ending) launch and subsequent scandal and just after the announcement of Dragon Age 3 (admittedly, that doesn't matter to me, since I don't play that series. But some people love it, apparently), only brings about suspicions that EA is once again messing with a company that started with an amazing reputation. Now just shadows of what they once were. For example, MAXIS. Sims, SimCity. Sims 3 is the latest and features an in game market, where players use real money to buy points to buy more stuff in game. (ignoring the whole bit about the never ending amount of expansion packs, since that's been going since day 1) SimCity. SimCity was a revolution in it's day. SimCity 2000 was one of the best games I had growing up. The latest installment that is soon to be released has been converted into an MMO in all but name.
Westwood studios. Makers of Command & Conquer as well as Dune. CnC is my all time favourite game series. Red Alert 2 was amazing. Westwood studios was liquidated and closed shortly after RA2 launch (though many Westwood veterans went on to form Petroglyph Studios that brought Star Wars Empire at War, which was amazing). Generals set the bar for modern RTS combat. Red Alert 3 was so zany and off the wall it blew my mind. Command and Conquer 4, the supposed "finale" in the Tiberium series was so much of a failure that I played it for a half hour, uninstalled it and haven't touched it since. Recently, EA announced a new game, GENERALS 2. I was so happy! But even more recently they changed it from GENERALS 2 to just Command and Conquer Free2Play with no single player (they later said that SP will be added later) or Skirmish mode. Once again an MMO in all but name.
NUFF SAID. I really shouldn't have to add that EA's big boss has proudly said that he has never green lit any games that are purely single player, but I will anyway, because he's a moron.
For whatever difference it makes, I'm riding myself of EA and tossing my support behind THQ and other developers that understand how important single player is.
I smell something foul. Something that reeks with the stench of greed, a complete disregard for an industry and a company built to serve a large part of the population not to mention the stench of a small game studio that had been absorbed by a larger entity that has a track record of absorbing and liquidating small game companies and...
.....Oh, that makes sense now. I mean, it's not like EA has gone around buying up small game studios and then liquidating those assets, resulting in some really, really bad games, right?
In any case, the retirement of the BioWare founders only months AFTER Mass Effect 3's (which was good, but lacked a lot, especially in the ending) launch and subsequent scandal and just after the announcement of Dragon Age 3 (admittedly, that doesn't matter to me, since I don't play that series. But some people love it, apparently), only brings about suspicions that EA is once again messing with a company that started with an amazing reputation. Now just shadows of what they once were. For example, MAXIS. Sims, SimCity. Sims 3 is the latest and features an in game market, where players use real money to buy points to buy more stuff in game. (ignoring the whole bit about the never ending amount of expansion packs, since that's been going since day 1) SimCity. SimCity was a revolution in it's day. SimCity 2000 was one of the best games I had growing up. The latest installment that is soon to be released has been converted into an MMO in all but name.
Westwood studios. Makers of Command & Conquer as well as Dune. CnC is my all time favourite game series. Red Alert 2 was amazing. Westwood studios was liquidated and closed shortly after RA2 launch (though many Westwood veterans went on to form Petroglyph Studios that brought Star Wars Empire at War, which was amazing). Generals set the bar for modern RTS combat. Red Alert 3 was so zany and off the wall it blew my mind. Command and Conquer 4, the supposed "finale" in the Tiberium series was so much of a failure that I played it for a half hour, uninstalled it and haven't touched it since. Recently, EA announced a new game, GENERALS 2. I was so happy! But even more recently they changed it from GENERALS 2 to just Command and Conquer Free2Play with no single player (they later said that SP will be added later) or Skirmish mode. Once again an MMO in all but name.
NUFF SAID. I really shouldn't have to add that EA's big boss has proudly said that he has never green lit any games that are purely single player, but I will anyway, because he's a moron.
For whatever difference it makes, I'm riding myself of EA and tossing my support behind THQ and other developers that understand how important single player is.
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