Andromeda was a financial success.

The comments are certainly interesting.
Also, the fact he uses that thumbnail says it all really.

If this guy is a professional writer then he should know the difference in connotation between "downsized" and "scaled down." This is a clickbait monger backpedaling. Nothing more.

It's an annoyingly vague statement, drenched in corporate speak, though. People focus a lot on the "same facility" part of that statement, and seem to ignore "new studio". I'm not making any claims to which is the correct interpretation, but it certainly can be read as "we've relocated the members of the BioWare Montreal team, they are now part of the new studio we are building under the Motive name". Again, not saying that's what they mean, but it's a possible and valid way to read it. "Studio" when talking game developers has a connotation of "this corporate entity that produces games" rather than "shared office space".

There's no annoyingly vague statements about it. They just said very clearly in english that they hired 100 more to work on someone specific's team for an IP they are working on and that they moved the montreal team into that space as well. The clarification we got seems like people now want to refuse acceptance or put in on EA. Same Facility is as clear as it gets. They weren't downsized They weren't fired. They weren't sent packing or moved to some dark side of the moon. It was an office change. How is that corporate speak.

It's worth noting that none of this would even be a fucking discussion if Schrier hadn't been the town crier that went on a kick to report information that now proves to not be accurate at all as best as I can tell. These debates have grown tiresome and all of them stem from his not very accurate journalism. Did he get any of that article about montreal right? Any of it? If he had not rung that bell, I doubt we'd have a subforum with about 100 pages total on all things related to montreal and what that means for the game's future including DLC. Montreal BW moved to another building and it could be as simple as leasing issues for all we know. But it was reported as anything but that. Unfucking believable.

How about you provide a source that isn't a site that panders to the type of people who lie about, harass, and threaten women who work at BioWare?

Show me literally one single other site that has actually contacted EA themselves and gotten the same reply. Hell, show me one gaming journalism site that anyone actually gives a crap about, not these niche pandering trash hills like MMORPG or TechRaptor.

Just try to ignore her dude, she just ain't worth it. Agreed on using direct quotes from EA instead of "Sources".

Very much this.

The thing that confused me most about Schrier's article was how adamant he was about no DLC coming but with reasoning for it sounding like hogwash (In a world of Dead Space 3 DLC and Titanfall 2 map packs, the idea that all DLC would be cancelled on the basis of not enough 80s reviews sounded ridiculous). However, if the guy knew that there wasn't any DLC coming because his source told him that there would be no teams to do it (thanks to office moves and reorg - i.e. 'rows and rows of empty desks') but decided to spice it all up for teh clickz... maybe throw in a bit of drama about office politics and word of mouth debacles... that would certainly explain it all. Journos typically don't make things up from scratch after all when the bare bones are already there to create an outrage around.

Having said all that, this would work as a neat reason as to why we only got one DLC. I'm not sure it explains *zero* DLC. If they already had plans in place for dev then I could imagine one of Bioware's other studios doing it in their stead - it's reasonably common for DLC to be made by other Bioware studios for one of their games. It's only rare for it to be the first DLC due to it normally being handled by the studio that did the game, but in this case, as has been indicated, they likely wouldn't have time.

Hey fluffy, is Ian Frazier tweeting that he's with Motive after the recent merger good enough?

I'm sure Techraptor will receive your apology any second now, right?

A lot of people bought it, but I guess not many finished it. Played too little of it. If you sell 4 million copies and Origin shows an average play time of 6 hours, you still have financial succes from original sales but aren't making DLC.

The pro wrestling "journalists" are probably in bed with WWE like the game "journalists" are with game publishers.

For those who want dlc, I'd say start being legit worried if September rolls around and there's still nary a peep out of any official source.

Knowing EA I'm shocked they didn't try to sell at least a few microtransactions. Make some money off selling weapons and such.