MASS EFFECT ANDROMEDA: The Life and Death of BioWare Montreal (UPDATE: Part IV, Final Part Up)

I don't have s problem with what you are doing. However I just have a hunch this won't go over well here. *hides behind rock with popcorn, and draxen for any dextros who want to join me.*

Haven't watched the video yet, but I hope there is room for an intelligent conversation.

I'm sure you're aware that on the BSN intelligence dosen't often compute that's it's problem most of the time I think.

Hehehe
www.starwars.com/video/that-doesn-t-compute

You're a bit late to the party-- at least as far as BSN is concerned. This move as been discussed to the death on here.

Well, the video isn't about discussing the move but an analysis of the entire studio from its formation to the death. And, how it eventually relates to Andromeda.

No doubt, I wanted to do my own in-depth analysis because nothing I'd seen so far touched on all of the reasons why Andromeda was so ill-received, especially as it relates to past BioWare titles.

Really?
I find that very hard to believe.

So far, this is a pretty good analysis of the now defunct Bioware Montreal, I think looking at how there were very few Bioware vets on the teams earlier on, that was a bit of a warning flag for me. I never got the Omega DLC, but I didn't get it for the simple reason of, I didn't care about Aria, and like you said, Omega had very little importance in the context of the story of ME3.

Just a couple of slight corrections. BioWare Edmonton had a small group created in the EA Montreal office in 2009, due to BioWare Edmonton needing help to finish ME2. This wasn't a specific attempt by EA to abuse the BioWare brand. Rather, BioWare was looking for a supplemental studio to help aid Edmonton on ME2 and DAO, as well as Austin on SWTOR. It is true that BioWare Montreal was never originally conceived to be its own standalone studio:

www.gamespot.com/articles/bioware-mass-ing-montreal-devs/1100-6205477/

Also, I'm assuming you've probably already read Kotaku's in-depth article about MEA's development history. On the off chance that you haven't, this would probably be a useful resource for being able to understand why MEA had such a troubling launch:

kotaku.com/the-story-behind-mass-effect-andromedas-troubled-five-1795886428

Regarding EA actually abusing the BioWare brand, you can see all the other studios that weren't created by BioWare, but have since been shut down:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioWare#Structure

Your commentary on Omega was very interesting. You are far more critical of it than I am, but I can see why you would have some concerns going into Andromeda. Truth be told, I don't blame the Montreal development team for Andromeda's failing as much as I blame the leadership and their failure to have a practical, working vision.

Ah, thank you for the first small correction. I did know about the other BioWare branding by EA that was shut down but chose not to mention them all for the sake of brevity. And, of course I'm quite familiar with that Kotaku article. It will be heavily cited in my next video.

Ha. You made me think of this... 


Sorry to digress...