BioWare would have gone under if not for EA, part of the reason DA2 was rushed

That's... comforting, but we'll see if the same policy stands if Anthem doesn't bring in the coin like it was supposed to.

They did.  EA Acquired Bioware in 2007.  DAO wasn't even released until 2009.

The phrasing of the original post (paraphrasing of notes at a panel) is ambiguous. They say DA2 was rushed. Then they say BW would have gone under if not for EA. That could mean a lot of things but I think in this instance it means DAO and ME were expensive, if successful and with out EA they would not have continued. Not that DA2 bankrupted them and EA saved them because the timeline does not add up. EA owned BW before DA2

edit: so the takeaway is that EA may have contributed to DA2 being like it was, but BW needed EA or it would have not made post 2007 games (DAO, DA2, SWTOR, ME2, ME3, DAI, MEA). 

This is good to know. If EA saved Bioware then they're not that bad.

Well, EA actually acquired Bioware earlier than I previously thought. I thought it had happened after DAO's publication, not before. 

I did no such thing.

I suggested that EA has had a far more corrupting influence on Bioware than people are willing to admit.  The only childish thing about my comment was that it was a quite from a children's book.

I daresay I've been playing and enjoying Bioware games a lot longer than you have, and it breaks my heart to see their quality plummet so.  

Yeah it is heartening to know EA seems supportive of BW and in particular their writers. 

But, the phrasing that when BW went to EA about characters like Krem and EA’s response was concern that they should “do it right” is kind of troubling because we are assuming they mean represent a ftm person in a “good” way when they could be more concerned with them being represented in a way that is safe to the “majority” of gamers and not in presenting LGBTQ people in ways that are satisfying to LGBTQ people. And after MEA and the backlash BW received I would still be skepticle that what EA thinks is the right way to represent LGBTQ people is really about LGBTQ representation for the sake of telling interesting, realistic, human, affective stories and not because EA has done the blood calculus and determined the formulaic right way to do it to appease lgbtq gamers while catering to non lgbtq gamers. 

But I do think this is fairly good news. Just good news that should be tempered by what happened in MEA. 

Are you actually reading the words I'm typing, or just making up my responses instead?  Because if it's the latter, I could just stop and let you carry on this argument alone.  It would be more productive.

I did NOT say "I'm a better fan"  I'm responding to YOU claiming I 1) Don't like Bioware games and 2) want to see them go out of business.  Neither is true., except in your own mind.

You like the product they put out?  Great!  I've seen a huge decline in the last few years.  I think they're but a shadow of what they used to be, which coincidentally, seems to line up with them getting their money from EA.

YOU may want to read responses more carefully before flying off the handle.  My comments stay.  But I'm leaving.

True. EA seems more supportive on this issue than other AAA game publishers. But. The phrasing of this particular example in BW’s case is too vague to be positive about, in lieu of BW’s most recent project. 

Also, the sims has a decades old history of LGB and a bit T representation. So is EA really supporting the broader topic of LGBTQ representation in video games with its support of the sims or are they merely supporting that feature of the sims because the sims has been making money off of relatively stellar lgbtq content for years? Again, after MEA I have fears, i’m A little less trusting. 

But out in general I think the summary of the panel in the OP does allay my fears a bit for DA but not all of BW

EA has had the Sims since the beginning so it's hard to know which came first - but I agree MEA wasn't great at it, but then if I'm honest I don't think the romances in general were  that much better (it really needed more time in the cooking pot so to speak even if I liked the game) and the Trans one was awkward as hell. I don't think in general the Mass Effect franchise has ever been as good at being as diverse as Dragon Age either, it's something they really need to work on. I have faith in Dragon Age but not much in the Mass Effect franchise for it either. So basically we need the DA team influencing everyone Mark Darrah's already started with being Executive Producer for Anthem

Well the op post does say that romances are expensive, and so with that MEA makes some sense as Cora and some of the other romances seem to have been invested with more money. Yet, at the release of MEA you had the dismal state of the Gil romance and the m/m version of Reyes. So you can clearly tell resources were prioritized. Hence my distrust as the panel made clear romances cost a whole lot. Animations cost a whole lot. So that kind of means Cora’s sex scene cost a whole lot and might of come at the expense of say Gil’s non face scanned basically CC face. So, again, I can’t be too reassured by that panel as Anthem stands in the way of DA4 as much as the ghost of MEA.