EA Worldwide Studios Announced, Brings Together EA Mobile, Maxis, and BioWare

Strange. It does seem that EA Mobile/Maxis and BioWare are still completely seperate, but only clustered because of having the same boss. Or is the new IP a mobile game with augmented reality and..

Samantha Ryan seems to have a decent enough biography, she's not particularly a Mobile person.

www.ea.com/executives#samantha-ryan

"Prior to joining EA in 2015, Ryan served as Senior Vice President of Production & Development at Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. She played a critical role in growing Warner Bros. into a Top 10 publisher and managed successful development studios including Rocksteady, WB Games Montreal, and NetherRealm. During her tenure she oversaw titles including the award-winning Batman: Arkham franchise, Mortal Kombat, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Scribblenauts and Injustice: Gods Among Us.

Prior to Warner Bros., she served as President of Monolith Productions where she directed titles such as the critically received No One Lives Forever and F.E.A.R. Her career prior to games included work in promotions and marketing for Infinity Broadcasting and consultant to the Singapore Broadcast Corporation.

Samantha is a lifelong gamer from her early days playing Archon and Wizard on her Commodore 64 through personal favorites like Super Paper Mario, StarCraft and The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Ryan is based in the Bay Area with her family."

At this point it does not seem to be more than a technical restructurization. EA need to manage all those budgets and resources.

It's been 'BioWare, a division of EA' long enough already, you know. It's not like 'BioWare, a division of EA Worldwide Studios' is a critical change. I don't think they are willing to drop the old brand entirely, their name still has some value. But even if they do - it does not mean that developing studios are going to be afected directly.

I don't think it's a good idea to demonize EA. They are simply doing their buisness. Take a look at Disney - they release lots of stuff, sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, sometimes it's awesome. All the products are different and their quality depend on directors, actors and artists. E.g. recent 'Alice' is a pale joke compared to the first movie, while 'Dory' turned out to be an unexpectedly great and well-made sequel.

I have no problem with this. Anyone who worked on or with No One Lives Forever has a gold star in my book.

Ryan is hit or miss, but she has made some good games in the past.

No One Lives Forever comes to mind. She also worked at WB games on the Arkham series and Scribblenauts.

There is some potential here.

Worst that can happen is losing a familiar logo on a dvd-case\in game intro, but it only makes sence along with the carefully planned and slow rebranding process. That's if they do wish to abandon the old and recognizable brand.

People leaving seems much more troubling to me, but that had already happened (same true for becoming part of EA). The main question is how many devoted and skilled devs remain in projects, not what their corporate T-shirt looks like.

So I did some re-reading of this.

It doesn't technically say BioWare is part of EA Worldwide.

It does sort of imply it though.

Perhaps it's just the creation of a new division by consolidating the Mobile and Maxis divisions. I think BioWare is still on the EA Games label though. Can't be sure, going to email them for clarification.

The original FEAR game was good imo, who knows what this all means. The real BioWare was lost years ago.

You're fucking fishing, looking for a response.  I never claimed that she'd be better, and I dare you to find it.

Guess what? I've been hearing that 'not the same anymore' crap since  NwN. Plenty of people who had loved BG hated NwN back then. Does not stop NwN from being classics that had proven itself as one of the best PC DnD\PnP games (if not 'THE Best').  And KOTOR, DAO&ME1 had it even worse, lots of hatered and QQing about 'dumbing the gameplay& RPG features down', yet I see DAO&ME on your 'golden BW list'. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that all the BW games are 100% perfect and flawless. I'm just saying that things change, and so do people, and so do games.  We're yet to see what kind of changes are these ones.

MDK2 is real Bioware

What point?   Look, I can make stupid pointless posts, too!  Car infidelity freak totals killer around belies junket.   That's all you're doing, is slapping words together with no meaning.  Make your point, because as it stands, you haven't made it.

EDIT :  And I'm still not seeing the word better in that quote?   WTF?