BioWare Montreal absorbed by EA Motive. Mass Effect IP returns to Edmonton

Bioware is only a stamp at this point. EA absorbed them years ago. Any Bioware developer is an EA employee, so shuffling devs from one imprint to another is just par for the course. Once EA bought out Bioware, it ceased to truly exist.

That's not a very healthy attitude. Would you like people to deride you for being wrong about something?

I wouldn't give a shit because when I am wrong, I admit it. I say, 'Hey, I was wrong about that. You were right." I don't pretend otherwise and go on fits in forums and such. See, part of being a mature adult is being able to admit when you are wrong and accept it. Anyone who can't has issues.

So am I running for the hills or not? This forum's so confusing.

Yes. Wait...no? Well, maybe. Keep your running shoes on.

To the best of my knowledge, Bioware Montreal (a studio that was shut down months ago) has now been increased in size and moved into a new office, which in troll land means the opposite of every aspect. I think.

Some people will always read what they want to see, instead of what is actually written...

Is this story based on any 'actual facts'?

I'm seeing the story of BioWare Montreal getting absorbed tweeted around, and I still don't see any 'facts' to support it...

It's based on someone repeating a small part of a statement the CFO made during the Q&A.

Here's the full CFO statement;

Q: I was wondering, can you tease out what you mentioned earlier on the step-up in OpEx maybe on the R&D side with the new genres. And perhaps how much of the increase is more a timing issue versus a higher run rate for R&D?

A: So we will have a slightly higher run rate for R&D. We're building out a new studio in Montréal, as we've told everyone. And we've hired over 100 people into that studio that are brand-new to EA. This is to build the new IP around Jade Raymond's team that she's been building. I was in that studio last month. And it's a wonderful new addition to our team. And we brought our BioWare Montréal team into that same facility. So they now all sit in one new studio together. We're obviously investing in Anthem, which everyone got a chance to see at E3. That's out of the BioWare Edmonton team and are very excited -- they're very excited. We'll see some increases around that in terms of spending. And then we're continuing to invest across all of our network and platform activities. I don't see any of those going beyond the targets that we've talked about, trying to keep R&D expense in the 21% to 22% of revenue range, but it is -- the goal is to drive new revenue. And if for some reason we weren't able to drive new revenue, clearly, that would be overspending, but we're very confident that we can drive new revenue around the action genre and continuing live service build-out across all of our products.

Yep, nothing there about divisional merger.
And both divisions still publicize the separate entities and addresses on their websites:



oh, and further:

Q: Why do gaming websites have a comments section on their articles now?
A: So that the initial level of stupid has further to go...