Yeah. And using a marriage counseling metaphor for why they need to move on is insidious, deeply wrong, and indicative of a really toxic way of thinking about this relationship.

That’s both pertinent and amazing.

That’s a great idea!

I would have made a CHA rouge, used the standard array but put the high numbers in CHA and CON, making him mediocre or bad in the skills he needs like DEX and INT. Then put all skill proficiencies in lore skills like history.

It’s not that I blame them in a broad sense, it’s that I’m not sure I agree that their move was a good one. If the idea was “no, you don’t get more time, release NOW, and we can fix issues later,” that’s obviously true, but it also doesn’t look at consumer response to the product. Bioware/EA was extremely conscious of…

Allow me to un-boggle your mind: these corporations force such a brutal, constant work schedule on their developers, that it’s not a given that the devs even have free time to play their competitors’ games and learn from them!

Bioware was doomed when EA bought them, their whole MO is driving companies into the ground until they can’t pump out sufficient profits to please investors 

Bad management ruining the world again! And I won’t be surprised if the people losing their job are everyone but the people behind these decisions. Fuckers gonna protect fuckers.

It really boggles the mind that they actively avoided dissecting Destiny for all it was worth and taking what worked, fixing what didn’t and then also adding their own unique flavor and spin to the collectathon shooter.

I honestly cannot comprehend how learning from your competitors and improving upon them is supposed…

I understand EA not wanting to give Bioware more time since they’d already wasted a few years of Anthem’s development, but yeah, I still don’t see why releasing in that state made sense.

did any of Bioware’s game designer ever launched Destiny or Division? Every mistakes these two games made were combined into one game. Which is pretty spectacular to think of.

It’s in the middle of this article, all the discussion of ‘Joplin’.

No. It doesn’t hurt the developers at all - they already got paid for the production.

Well, a corporation has every incentive to return to those glory days when everything appeared to be okay to anyone who mattered - shareholders, one assumes, and (to a lesser extent) customers, and then *maybe* the occasional prospective employee that they really really want to land or poach.

I was really hoping for the rumoured female character as then it would feel like the whole game is a new experience. As it stands it feels like 90% of the game will be the same with 10% new stuff and that’s a lot of same when you’re talking about a 100 hour game.

First off: something something Streisand Effect.

This coming from a publisher for the same developer whose CEO got pissy about one set of journalists breaking a story that was promised exclusively to a different set of journalists?

#catfacts

I never understood this. All of my cats never let me sleep, so it really messed with my immersion during playthroughs.

Wow. This is some next level bullshit. Sending private investigators? In a sense that’s pure intimidation over leaks that are coming from a source they idiotically provided and then were either too lazy or inept to plug properly.