you can't judge when bioware was really killed because the mismanagement at the higher level under EA has been so constant and pervasive since the acquisition at every stage that every game shipped at all was a herculean miracle

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Games industry execs have shown us that if we don't organize when the times are good, we sure as hell won't have enough power to stop them when they say our time is up.

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"if I make lots of product, there will be people available to buy it" without any consideration for why people give a shit about things is basically every exec in games these days, and it's why games don't seem to be doing well despite being very profitable as a business

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the way one of gaming's biggest abusers and frauds grooms the press to praise him is disgusting, but the way he pitched it to me specifically was "we make lots of games based on your ideas, we hire nothing but contractors, and that way we have lots of revenue streams. a dozen games making $5 each"

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You can see this with really awful people in video games. They saw a bunch of ideas from other people, they took those, and they're churning out the cheapest products they can while claiming it's "cost effective." The games never really sell outside of their parasocial fanbase, but press love em

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