What will happen to Bioware now?

[Prince Ian]

Now that Veilguard has completely bombed. Does their survival depend on a Hail Mary with Mass Effect?

[Jayken ✜]

Publicado originalmente por Character Name:

They lost a lot of money on this game for sure. However, ME5 is still in process, and they're throwing all their eggs in that basket. It's got an Amazon TV Series in process, so unless Bioware goes "full-******", they'll keep afloat, perhaps laying off half their staff.

Is that just based on feels or do you have anything to back that up?

[Rayols]

xd

[GM Morgan]

Publicado originalmente por Mewsha:

Publicado originalmente por GM Morgan:

It's so weird that people are like "They sold me a complete game! What a failure."

They can take the work on this, make some improvements, and just make a whole new game instead of DLC. It's not a novel concept, but you'd think it is all the sudden.

LOL

No like actually I don't think these people are truly thinking about the things they're being told to say sometimes.

There's such good things about this release that we all should be applauding. I certainly have my criticisms of the game, but they released a stable game without Denuvo and the EA app at $60 USD on PC and the DLC is truly just cosmetic addons.

I despise DLC personally. I'm whatever about cosmetic things being DLC, but content DLCs were the first step toward the monetization hellscape we exist in today. No Denuvo, no content DLC, like these are things I want all games to start implementing.

You're preaching to the choir. The game's rough around the edges, but the core is solid and feels like something (amusingly enough) from the period right before Dragon Age (which had multiple story DLC and an expansion pack). Makes me think that a certain type of "gamer" doesn't care about better games. They're just hear on the tour.

[September]

In the near future - layoffs.

Long term - if BioWare continues to fail (which is looking increasingly more likely), it's possible the studio will be shut down entirely and its intellectual properties sold to the highest bidder. While selling the properties won't recuperate their monumental losses, at least they may reduce them a bit.

[DeTortor]

Publicado originalmente por bayomaycry:

Publicado originalmente por TenFour:

Angry Joe said he heard they are working on Mass Effect now and are abandoning this game. No DLC or anything.

angryjoe seems to have gotten some info wrong, as trick weekes said before a month of veilguard's release that it would have no DLC because they thought that DAI's dlc should have been base game.

So they knew a month out that they'd lose money on DLC. That just says they had no confidence in their product. These days AAA games sell skins for $8 an outfit. If they decided not to make more content a month out then they knew their product was subpar and going to fail.

[DeTortor]

Publicado originalmente por bayomaycry:

Publicado originalmente por DeTortor:

So they knew a month out that they'd lose money on DLC. That just says they had no confidence in their product. These days AAA games sell skins for $8 an outfit. If they decided not to make more content a month out then they knew their product was subpar and going to fail.

no, literally just said that the reason they didn't make DLC is because that DAI's dlc should have been base game. veilguard is a continuation off of trespasser. there is no dlc to even be made, lol.

LoL.
That's the company line so it must be true!

[DeTortor]

"There's no DLC to be made."
That means the story is shallow and the game is a dead end.

[Ouro]

just shut it down, they havent made anything worth playing for a while.

[Wielki Elektronik]

Just look Angry Joe review 3/10

[DeTortor]

Publicado originalmente por Wielki Elektronik:

Just look Angry Joe review 3/10

I don't follow him, but just look at the player drop. 70k to 10k in just a few weeks. If it was a good RPG people would be trying multiple playthroughs and new players would be buying in. For it to shrink this quickly says it's a linear story and there's not much to do.

Even the discussion sections main defender is saying there'd be no point to creating DLC. They think that's a it's a defense of DA Veilguard to say the developers announced a month out they had no plans for DLC content, but what that really says is either they knew that there wouldn't be interest in expanding the story, or their world is so shallow they couldn't think of anything to add to it. Really I think it's a combination of creative bankruptcy and knowing the players were going to reject their subpar product.