Has Bioware Montreal been shut down? Thoughts?

suikoden thread?

Um, if Montreal has been shutdown...who keeps patching the game? And yes, seriously, we keep getting new threads. These threads are becoming clickbait...

Until ACTUAL hard evidence comes out, I'm not going to believe that the studio is closed. The writer at Kotaku has an agenda...I don't know what it is, but he's got something in his craw about this subject, and isn't letting it go. Interestingly enough, back in 2014, he wrote an article on why devs keep getting laid off, and studios closing even on games that do pretty well. Apparently, getting cut, or being moved to a new studio is a REGULAR occurrence, according to the author...who started the wildfire about Bioware and the Montreal studio. Yes, EA is mentioned as a publisher that axes positions frequently. So, in the interest of SPECULATION and my only evidence this guys article...its very possible that the studio was going to be downsized ANYWAY...as it apparently happens ALL THE BLASTED TIME...preproduction is done? There is the door. Game enters a new phase? There is the door. Game is finished? Door.

kotaku.com/why-game-developers-keep-getting-laid-off-1583192249

Kinda interesting...

My initial impression was exactly this, that he was having a hard day or something. I couldn't work out why he'd taken it all so personally and reacted by using a lot of words to say very little. Like, he literally doesn't say anything more than what is already in his article.

It was only later when I was reading that he was releasing a book that it all fell into place. I can understand him wanting to defend his reputation as a writer as he's relying on that to sell his book, but going off on one about clickbait and how people want to blame him rather than whoever else... eh. Good insight into his character. Combine that with the fact that they had to revise the article after publication and it leaves me thinking that its truth:spin ratio was a bit less balanced then I'd originally thought.

To the best of my knowledge, it's a book that charts games design and draws from material he's gathered from several projects.

I don't see it as "the bigger issue" - it's the same issue... a complete lack of journalistic integrity within the game reporting industry.  Pro or con, they scramble to be the first to "hit" with "news" to the point that they are not reporting anything that is researched or reliable... even when it comes to simple tips for playing the games themselves.  There is so much misinformation out there that the player simply cannot believe ANY of it, pro or con or even just tactical advice.  I watch one reporter giving her serious tips on how to ME:A and the video was obviously made early on and without having really researched how to play the game.  I tried following it, and it totally screwed me over.  There are at least 100 more just like it... all released either just before or right after the game was released.

That video should be now taken down or at least marked as obsolete and linked to a corrected one... but nooooo, that "reporter" is now probably too busy making videos spreading the wild speculation about the state of Bioware Montreal, etc. 

They (the reporters) frenzy feed off each other like a herd of rampaging buffalo headed for a buffalo jump.

If their speculation is someday proven wrong... they still won't correct themselves or take the articles now or link them to what's correct.  They'll sit there, just waiting to be resurrected yet another time on some forum in another thread like this one.

Not exactly new info OP

Oh I think we all know why this thread was made... 

This thread.

Just want to clarify my belief...loving MEA and being aware of its faults is possible.

i hope that one day Jason Schreir has a good long drink and realises what a crappy journslist he's been. Then strive to do better.

If he can't handle 'attacks' (aka people questioning his 'anymonous' sources) then he's in the wrong business.

I wonder how he would react if he was treated the same way as people from BioWare are treated? For the way he is being treated seems very tame compared to what they have gotten.