EA Gave BioWare "Complete Creative Control"

[Darren716]

OK I know this has nothing to do with the article but I want that guys shirt

 

[duchaked]

doesn't explain why ME3 had the EA mandatory MP bit lol
don't get me wrong I actually quite enjoyed the co-op experience there since it played into the bigger picture of the campaign (props to BioWare for that one) but still

Cuz maybe the people working on it had plans for multiplayer since the first incarnation and finally got a chance to implement it in a meaningful way rather than have it feel tacked on with shallow deathmatch style gameplay?

mm possibly. but forced or not, I agree that it was incredibly well implemented. a shallow TDM mode would've just hurt it

 

[Woodsey]

As far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. DA2 was pants and so was SWTOR, but fuck me, Mass Effect 3 was great.

 

[Epona]

As far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. DA2 was pants and so was SWTOR, but fuck me, Mass Effect 3 was great.

One highly controversial game is an upward swing?

Anyway, I never understood all this love for Bioware. Aside from KOTOR they weren't ever that great and I attribute the greatness of KOTOR to it's license. When they did their own space RPG (Mass Effect) it was mediocre.

I also don't think EA was hands off either. Maybe they weren't that overbearing but they were there making decisions.

 

[Woodsey]

As far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. DA2 was pants and so was SWTOR, but fuck me, Mass Effect 3 was great.

One highly controversial game is an upward swing?

It wasn't controversial to me. That's why, as far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. Certainly not a spirally descent.

 

[Epona]

As far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. DA2 was pants and so was SWTOR, but fuck me, Mass Effect 3 was great.

One highly controversial game is an upward swing?

It wasn't controversial to me. That's why, as far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. Certainly not a spirally descent.

I think it was a controversial game and that was a fact, not an opinion. I don't think it's worth arguing about though.

I still think that it takes more than one game to create a pattern. Maybe you don't see upward swing as a pattern though.

 

[Woodsey]

As far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. DA2 was pants and so was SWTOR, but fuck me, Mass Effect 3 was great.

One highly controversial game is an upward swing?

It wasn't controversial to me. That's why, as far as I'm concerned, they've been on an upward swing. Certainly not a spirally descent.

I think it was a controversial game and that was a fact, not an opinion. I don't think it's worth arguing about though.

I still think that it take more than one game to create a pattern. Maybe you don't see upward swing as a pattern though.

It was controversial to and for other people. It was not controversial to or for me. I had no problem with the ending that was anywhere near large enough to shit myself over. Other people's controversies, born of other people's opinions, have no influence on my own thoughts. So there's really no need to take it into account when I say that I think they're back on track.