I wish people would get less emotionally attached to these corporate game studios. Like, it’s not the same people. Not the same leadership. Not the same artists. And so on.
It’s just a collection of IP’s, that’s about it. Bioware from 2000 is not the same bioware from 2015 or 2026.
Same can be said for the vast majority of game studios except a handful of indie shops, but do they really count as indie if they’ve been nurturing one IP for 15 years?
Game companies really smarted up when they made gamers care more about the company behind the games than of the creative and technical people that actually create the games.
Why do you assume it the studios they’re attached to and not the IPs? I for one am devistated that a) people are losing their jobs and b) I’m losing beloved future games I was hoping for.
Maybe try a little empathy. Your comments constantly lack it.
Because the IPs fuckin suck under the studio. Nobody cares about Anthem. Andromeda was a mid cashout of Mass Effect. Lord knows wtf they were going to do with Dragon Age. Few, if any people, like these IPs as they are; you like the promise they once held, because you forgot the one rule to responsibly engage with fiction: Good stories get to end. The games still exist. They’ll always exist, or at least as long as you or I are alive. Thus the IP always exists. What goes away is the studio, which, OK, bye
The IPs were created in a specific environment, with a specific set of people coming together to make them. Sure, others can join and create things of the same quality if the same environment is still present. But after so many years the minds these the IPs spawned from have almost all long since moved on or fill other roles. So if the current owners of the IP have no respect for it, dont care, etc. There’s zero reason to still remain invested after its shown they cant live up to the quality and promise of the original creators.
I wish people would get less emotionally attached to these corporate game studios. Like, it’s not the same people. Not the same leadership. Not the same artists. And so on.
It’s just a collection of IP’s, that’s about it. Bioware from 2000 is not the same bioware from 2015 or 2026.
Same can be said for the vast majority of game studios except a handful of indie shops, but do they really count as indie if they’ve been nurturing one IP for 15 years?
Game companies really smarted up when they made gamers care more about the company behind the games than of the creative and technical people that actually create the games.
Electronic Arts in the 1980s was amazing.
EA was a good game company. I don’t like them as a law firm.
Why do you assume it the studios they’re attached to and not the IPs? I for one am devistated that a) people are losing their jobs and b) I’m losing beloved future games I was hoping for.
Maybe try a little empathy. Your comments constantly lack it.
Because the IPs fuckin suck under the studio. Nobody cares about Anthem. Andromeda was a mid cashout of Mass Effect. Lord knows wtf they were going to do with Dragon Age. Few, if any people, like these IPs as they are; you like the promise they once held, because you forgot the one rule to responsibly engage with fiction: Good stories get to end. The games still exist. They’ll always exist, or at least as long as you or I are alive. Thus the IP always exists. What goes away is the studio, which, OK, bye
The IPs were created in a specific environment, with a specific set of people coming together to make them. Sure, others can join and create things of the same quality if the same environment is still present. But after so many years the minds these the IPs spawned from have almost all long since moved on or fill other roles. So if the current owners of the IP have no respect for it, dont care, etc. There’s zero reason to still remain invested after its shown they cant live up to the quality and promise of the original creators.