At least with the ship of theseus it's an inanimate object. You could replace any board or sail and still consider it the ship in question. Is it still in fact the ship of theseus? That's debatable but you could say that it still represents the ship.

In this case BioWare is made up of thinking human beings all that are motivated by different factors. You can't replace one person with another and expect the same of them even if you got someone who followed the initial person's logic as closely as possible, they'd still end up with different results to the first.

That is if EA even cares enough to replace the previous developers with like minded individuals which I highly doubt. BioWare of old, make great games while telling the best stories possible. After modern day EA's influence? Make as much money as you can while puppeteering as the BioWare of old.

That's how I see it anyways.

[–] FontMasterFlex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You can’t replace one person with another and expect the same of them even if you got someone who followed the initial person’s logic as closely as possible, they’d still end up with different results to the first.

but this is... how businesses work. No business is the same people ALL the time. i don 't know why people expect any different here. and the quality of writing has suffered as of late, so why not get new blood in? i really don't understand what the issue is here.