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EA's BioWare will lay off 50 and cut ties with unionized Keywords playtesting group (venturebeat.com)
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Neither the layoffs nor breaking ties with a playtesting company that knows their worth in the market sound like they're going to help BioWare make RPGs that can compete with Baldur's Gate 3, formerly a BioWare series.

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[–] Phanatik@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Wait, when was Baldur's Gate a BioWare series? That's the first time I'm hearing about this.

Edit: Well how about that...

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

The previous two games, 20 years ago. It's what gave them the reputation of being a studio that made great RPGs. Then they went on to make Neverwinter Nights (another D&D game), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Star Wars with rules very close to D&D), Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

[–] Lunyan@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

BioWare actually made Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 lol

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

1 & 2 were both bioware developed games - including their original expansions.

[–] Poggervania@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

BioWare made BG 1 & 2 back in the day, and they started Dragon Age as a spiritual successor to their DnD games as I would imagine (and assume) that EA didn’t want to deal with WoTC with getting the license to a DnD game.

So it’s kind of ironic that arguably one of the best games to come out this year is a Baldur’s Gate game as the new Dragon Age game sounds like it might be languishing in development.