Episode 585: BioWare dies, SWTOR lives on

BioWare, gone.

Shut down by Electronic Arts.

400 people killed.

part of a 400 person layoff, uh, all the Bioware projects that were in the works, including the next mass effect canceled.

Um, and this once great studio that, uh, created among other things, Star Wars, the old Republic, uh, is gone.

And I think Brie popped her head in the other day and said, I've never been so glad that the game got shut, shuttled off to broad sword as we do now with Sotor and, uh,

That was definitely a feeling among other fans in Reddit that I had encountered when I was doing the post-mortem.

There was a lot of people who were like, man, I'm so happy that Brodsword is taking this over right now.

And it sucks that that's what people have to put up with.

I mean...

We all know that BioWare has been on the downturn.

We get it.

A lot of their recent projects were not apparently great or certainly not, you know, bar and burners.

Anthem didn't work out.

They tried mightily.

They were trying that Anthem Next thing and that floundered pretty hard.

uh apparently dragon age the veil guard wasn't great i never played it i can't tell you um it wasn't a it wasn't that good

okay i've read a lot of reviews on it people were just not thrilled

yeah it was that one got panned super super hard which only makes me want to play it more weirdly enough but i don't know that's

okay you know it's

I'm still out there.

I'm out.

But anyway, the point being is, like, they still had a lot of incredible ideas, an amazing legacy.

Like, they are, like, without...

I think it's not too hard for me to say that, like, they're one of the major forces of Western RPG game development.