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  Isasis

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6/26/12 10:58:24 PM#1

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

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  azmundai

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6/26/12 10:59:31 PM#2

maybe, if they can detach themselves from ea

LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already :)

  sumdumguy1

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6/26/12 11:00:53 PM#3
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

  Isasis

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6/26/12 11:02:59 PM#4
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

The metacritic user score says different

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  Slampig

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Whatever you do, do NOT speak ill of Asheron's Call 2...

6/26/12 11:04:21 PM#5

Yes, games are games, some will be awesome, some won't be. But if I based it all on what you percieve to be three bad games then why play games at all?

 

That Guild Wars 2 login screen knocked up my wife. Must be the second coming!

  Isasis

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6/26/12 11:05:49 PM#6
Originally posted by Slampig

Yes, games are games, some will be awesome, some won't be. But if I based it all on what you percieve to be three bad games then why play games at all?

 

The title is buy them at release. Which is the topic.

 

If its good AFTER release, and then you buy it...is different than if you buy it at release before you know how it actually is.

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PvPers that gank newbies, are carebears. They don't want a challenge (like a carebear), they just want easy mode (like a carebear) and a no challenge combat (like a carebear).

  arche22

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6/26/12 11:07:04 PM#7
Originally posted by Isasis
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

The metacritic user score says different

Oh please, Metacritic user scores have more trolls than the WoW forums. ME3 was good wit hthe exception of the ending, DA2 was mediocre but hardly a failure. SWTOR, I will give you that one.

  winter

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Posts: 1932

6/26/12 11:10:59 PM#8

Buy from them at release? used to be I would, but after ME3 hell no. I'll not be buying from them till t goes on sell and has many good reviews from source that aren't bought and paid for from EA. IGN I'm looking at you!

  Voiidiin

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6/26/12 11:15:03 PM#9
Originally posted by Isasis
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

The metacritic user score says different

Sorry, but while i was super disappointed with ME3 and its horrendous ending, the rest of the game was decent enough, but you do understand that people who were happy with the game or really liked it do not go out of there way to metacritic to talk flowers and lolipops. 

Its the disgruntled and angry players who take the time to go spew forth vitriol and bile whne they feel they have been cheated/slighted in some way.

So the user metacritic score shows the minority of the player reviews, just like most mmo forums contain mostly the more caustic players, well because they are unhappy with the game and are looking for a way to vent about it and be heard.

Lolipops !

  Jerek_

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6/26/12 11:15:13 PM#10

DA2 was a suprise, I played through twice and enjoyed the game but no question that it had some serious issues.  I pre-ordered swtor, and dispite the fact that I consider it a failure of an mmo I actually am still subscribed and enjoy it due to guild and rl friends that play.  ME3 however... that ending was the single worst gaming experience of my life.  i won't forgive them for me3 and the taint it put on the entire ME series.

  winter

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Posts: 1932

6/26/12 11:16:03 PM#11
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

  The Majority of people polled by Biowares own oll show that most did not think ME3 was a good game. yes a stupid bad ending can ruin a otherwise good game, and covering the fact it was rush shoddy 1 man designed ending with "artistic integrity" didn't help much. Bioware very much put another nail in their coffin with ME3.

  Mst peole will not rave that the soup is still great after eating it and enjoying it till the last spoonfull in which they discover the dead fly and curly hair in it.

  AwDiddums

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Joined: 6/09/12
Posts: 216

6/26/12 11:20:44 PM#12
Originally posted by Isasis
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

The metacritic user score says different


And I should follow what Metacritic says blindly and never buy a game it poorly rates?

If I followed what the critics told me was crap I'd never have watched "The Shawshank Redemption"

What do critics actually know what "I" like to play, shock horror the critics aren't always right you know.

 

 

  Isasis

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Joined: 8/09/05
Posts: 420

 
6/26/12 11:24:26 PM#13
Originally posted by AwDiddums
Originally posted by Isasis
Originally posted by sumdumguy1
Originally posted by Isasis

Mass Effect 3...Dragon Age 2...and now SWTOR.

 

All have been heavily critizied. However, their older games...Mass Effect 1 and 2...Dragon Age 1...even before that...have been critically acclaimed. After they got bought by EA, it seems their games are no longer the quality they once were.

And SWTOR is already talking about turning free and losing a good portion of their servers. It did much horribly than anticipated.

Will you still buy Bioware games at release? Do you still enjoy Bioware's new games? Or are you disatisfied with their latest games they have made?

You probably need to take Mass Effect 3 off that list.  With the exception of the ending, it was a pretty good game.  Many many people have very high praises for ME3.

The metacritic user score says different


And I should follow what Metacritic says blindly and never buy a game it poorly rates?

If I followed what the critics told me was crap I'd never have watched "The Shawshank Redemption"

What do critics actually know what "I" like to play, shock horror the critics aren't always right you know.

 

 

the funny part is, the critics gave it a rather good score. So this post made me chuckle.

 

In any case...in my personal experience. Dragon Age 1...awesome. Mass Effect 1...awesome. Dragon Age 2...horrible. Mass Effect 2 was great...Mass Effect 3...ending could have been WAY better, it felt really rushed.

 

Everyone will of course have different opinions. But I'll answer my own title. Will I buy a bioware game? If it is good, yes. Will I buy one at release, like I have been? Nope.

My youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheExplorium

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WoW already does WoW good.

PvPers that gank newbies, are carebears. They don't want a challenge (like a carebear), they just want easy mode (like a carebear) and a no challenge combat (like a carebear).

  JRRNeiklot

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Posts: 50

6/26/12 11:25:14 PM#14

Bioware has been shit since BG2.

  Trionicus

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6/26/12 11:30:21 PM#15

Not at release. Not unless there was tons of game footage like with swtor. Then at least I could make an informed decision. It's not like people didn't know what they were getting with those games, except ME3, you can never underestimate a bad ending. Especially when the writer who made it good wasn't working on it anymore.

  Rabenwolf

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6/26/12 11:30:57 PM#16

When small home grown studio which found its success in classic D&D role playing games becomes an overweight mutant assimilated into the Borg entity known as EA MYTHIC BIOWARE (official name now of Bioware), it is already dead and needs to be buried....buried deep...sprinkled with holy water and read its last rights.

EA's history with acquired studios (often taken by force or manipulation) is pretty consistent. They take, change, merge and then kill.

Nothing new here, though its a constant reminder of what is wrong with the Publisher system.

  Wizardry

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Waiting for Archeage but not banking on it.

6/26/12 11:40:06 PM#17

I would say the Bioware team is extremely talented but somewhere in that chain of command are extremely bad decisions.

What i saw in SWTOR for example is a game that had massive potetntial to be a super great game.However what else i saw was a lot of corner cutting to eleviate cheaper faster game developement.

There was just so many parts of the game where i sat and thought "ok a nice start ,but where is the rest of the effort?".

So my opinion on the state of Bioware is someone in there is putting a PUSH on their games,a time limit and the game MUST get done no matter what.

I wouldn't say i give up on a developer,many can make poor decisions and come back even stronger,but many as long as they turn a profit will keep turning out poor effort.I saw enoguh of SWTOR to tell me the ydefinitely have the ability,they just need the producer/management to allow them to make a solid game.

 

 

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  ZombieKen

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6/26/12 11:43:19 PM#18
Originally posted by Rabenwolf

EA's history with acquired studios (often taken by force or manipulation) is pretty consistent. They take, change, merge and then kill.

Nothing new here, though its a constant reminder of what is wrong with the Publisher system.

 

It's amazing how many developers get gobbled up and then destroyed.  I stumbled into this list (scroll to section labeled defunct) when looking for information about a specific dev.  I don't understand the business, but it seems like being "aquired" is like a kiss of death to a development studio.

  Rabenwolf

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6/27/12 12:05:44 AM#19
Originally posted by XAPGames
Originally posted by Rabenwolf

EA's history with acquired studios (often taken by force or manipulation) is pretty consistent. They take, change, merge and then kill.

Nothing new here, though its a constant reminder of what is wrong with the Publisher system.

 

It's amazing how many developers get gobbled up and then destroyed.  I stumbled into this list (scroll to section labeled defunct) when looking for information about a specific dev.  I don't understand the business, but it seems like being "aquired" is like a kiss of death to a development studio.

 

Indeed, it is in part due to the fact that the Publisher (mostly run by lawyers and producers, some often with little care for video games themselves) care very little about the talent itself, but rather the brand/studio ID. They will just get rid of people and replace them, often outsourcing most of the work to asia just to make an extra buck. Obviously the quality drops and after gamers start losing respect for the brand ID, the studio gets shut down or downsized. Developers often have already moved to other studios or changed industries.

The publisher system and their behavior patterns are more of a cancer to the industry than a boon. The irony here is that EA was created to support and help developers, since then they have destroyed some of histories best studios that now almost remain forgotten. Bullfrog, Westwood, Origin, Maxis (kept the name, use a different studio)...ect So many franchises lost due to publishers. Microsoft acquired digital anvil and took all their IPs, sold them to other studios and fired all the employees that didnt merge into their microsoft studios division. It was outright murder. The creative honcho behind digital anvil got so fed up with the practice he went into the film industry instead.

Publishers will try to control what they consider an out of control indie market and make sure 3rd party studios cannot exist on their own.

  Grixxitt

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6/27/12 12:23:57 AM#20

I wouldn't expect much from Bioware at this point.

How long did they keep Mythic around before they parted them out completely?

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