please stop replying to game devs saying things like "well look on the bright side those laid off devs can start their own indie studios now" because eventually one of us is going to snap and "WITH WHAT FUCKING MONEY" would be a shitty last thing to hear before you die

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There was a lot of stuff inside. Scripts from Richard Garriott's annual haunted house (staffed by Origin team members as near as we could tell), loads of original art (including a Hildebrandt bros painting) that we tried to return to the artists if we could identify and find them, old games, etc.

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Years ago, when EA bought us, Mythic inherited what was left of Origin Systems which we found out involved a shipping container being sent to our studio. As near as we could tell, it was never cataloged or tracked in a real way. Everything was just boxed up, crammed into storage and shuffled around.

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what exactly DOES happen to materials from a major studio that’s closed? where do physical hard drives, documents, etc go? who maintains all this pointless secrecy? if you know or have stories, get in touch: nathan@aftermath.site, nathangrayson.666 (signal), aftermathdotsite@proton.me (proton mail)

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I know that Bioware is the big headline but let's not ignore the folks across EA who were also caught up in this wave

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