I'm guessing most of them were people involved with Star Wars: The Old Republic. Electronic Arts is shifting continued development of that game to a third party.
DA:D Dragon Age: Dreadwolf News
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Yeah no they fired their testing team or as we would call them Q&A team.
Well its public knowledge that they recently layed off people from SW:TOR. It's possible that was an entirely separate layoff.
That would expedite the release. Perhaps we'll see that game after all.
I believe Jeff Grubb confirmed earlier today that the fifty or so people laid off were all from the main Edmonton studio. Names I recognize are from the writing team: Lukas Kristjanson, who's been around since 1996 and Baldur's Gate (he's the original writer for Minsc, I think), and Mary Kirby, who's been working on Dragon Age since back in 2006 in the days of Origins. Now there's only one Dragon Age writer left who's been working on the series since the first game, Sheryl Chee, assuming she hasn't been fired too.
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Bioware, as we knew it, is gone. That seems clear. There's been a huge talent drain there over the years (people voluntarily leaving), and now management is concentrating on the bottom line more than ever. Any product that emanates from that shell of a studio is likely to be market tested mediocrity. It's sad, as it's sad when all creative enterprises get swallowed up by crass capitalism, but Bioware had a good run and imo they won't be much missed, not with studios like Larian and Owlcat filling the void, along with the continued existence of Obsidian,InXile, CDPR, BGS, et al.
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Well more drama from a few writers now suing for money.
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Tim Cain was correct about modern workers nowadays.
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It's only pure speculation from a random reporter, but who knows. The big surprise is what the game'll be like.
The only thing that will surprise me is if it's not an action-RPG.
Sad but true. I wonder if anyone is still expecting something good from them.
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I don't care if it's an action RPG or not. I like a lot of action RPGs, along with turn based, RtwP, etc.
I do care if it's good, and I don't think it'll be good. Way too much writing on the wall with this one.
The guard has well and truly changed, it seems. Bioware is a disaster. Bethesda is treading water and Starfield, while imo not at all bad, didn't make the expected splash. Avowed looks like a dud (hopefully not, but that's the impression I get), which isn't going to be good for Obsidian.
I do care if it's good, and I don't think it'll be good. Way too much writing on the wall with this one.
The guard has well and truly changed, it seems. Bioware is a disaster. Bethesda is treading water and Starfield, while imo not at all bad, didn't make the expected splash. Avowed looks like a dud (hopefully not, but that's the impression I get), which isn't going to be good for Obsidian.
It must take a lot for a company to adapt and keep being good at something. You can look in any domain; it's always the same. You must manage the growth (and turnover) of the team, which is already a huge challenge, you must anticipate and adapt to the changes of technology and tools, but you must also anticipate the trend.
In technology, the changes are even quicker, and games are somewhere in that area. Since it takes years to develop one game, the anticipation part must be even more difficult to get right.
It looks like all those dinosaurs you're listing couldn't keep up, unfortunately.
Well more drama from a few writers now suing for money.
Tim Cain was correct about modern workers nowadays.Former BioWare employees sue for better severance after layoffs
A group of former BioWare employees are suing the studio for better severance pay after they were laid off in August. T…
On average, these "modern workers" gave the company 14 years of their lives. During that time their work and creativity helped the company to earn a ton of money. Now the company unexpectedly fires them "en masse" with a pittance severance that is FAR less than similar terminations.
If they are being treated unfairly, and the company won't budge or negotiate, should they just quietly eat the shit sandwich they were handed? Would you?
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Of course thank you for targeting me twice on two different threads today.
Your input will be considered and then quickly forgotten as soon as I type this reply.
Oh and that post was from last year.