EA closing Visceral Studios -

It's ironic really,EA picks up the Star Wars licence from Disney because it recognises the selling power of a good/established franchise.......and yet when it come's to EA's own franchises,they treat them like garbage.

Welp EA just shut down Visceral after killing of BW Montreal. I sure hope those shareholders noticed that shit because that would make me extremely uneasy. I swear to god IF bioware gets canned I will never buy a product from EA ever again. Sadly that thought has to cross my mind because of Anthem being so risky.

Also to everyone asking about those internal testers they are either:

A: Family and friends who generally end up being "casuals" (think about your family/co-workers playing video games) these people can hold up NDAs well but at the cost of being fucking completely ignorant of gaming culture.

B: People so desperate to climb the ladder into development they'll do anything.

Companies VERY rarely use a proper target audience. For example I'll use ANet since I've signed up to "test and share my thoughts" the first email I got from them (which is by no means under NDA) was asking participants if they haven't played their MMO Guild Wars 2 in over a year or never played it at all. That second part was a huge red flag because initial recruitment for their testing WAS ON THEIR MAIN FORUMS SEVERAL MONTHS BEFORE HAND.

I, just, ugh. People can be astoundingly stupid when it comes to picking testers.

Just more proof of what we already know. EA is no longer interested in Bioware making Story-driven RPG's. Everything has to be Open world, combat centric, with multiplayer. RIP DA4. You can keep your head buried in the sand if you like, but the bioware I think most of us fell in love with is dead and not coming back.


Before anyone says, "We know nothing about what is or isn't in DA4 so lets wait and see".  I don't need tea leaves or a crystal ball to tell me what the EA mandate is for all their games and I also just need to look at their recent releases to know what to expect of the next DA game.

I'll grant, it's hard to find positives in this news...

Frankly I bet those testers are just you tubers and the general public.

You have nothing but streamers and the like to blame as the majority of that content flocks to multiplayer battles games.

Reading some more stuff around on Neogaf, looks like a lots of the Visceral devs left more than 4 months ago.

I wonder if someone would buy the rights to mass effect if Bioware falls.

Problem is the most popular youtubers ARE playing stuff like PUBG and Overwatch, League or other games in that vein because it gives them views.

So yes, I do lump the majority in, because they are the ones seeing their view counts going up off of those games. And I should point out there is nothing wrong with that either. It's not about variety of content, it's about getting the eyeballs on it to make money. Let's not pretend otherwise for the majority online doing it now.

That, and scathing BS "blame game" videos and top ten lists sell ultimately. 

EA just killed the Dead Space franchise.

........

I need a moment.

No surprise. EA has been doing this for a long time, it's just a business tactic; buy out the competition. No matter what anyone is hoping for, this is going to be BW fate ultimately. They buy a studio, kill that studio's prized franchises with bad sequels or prequels, then close down that studio. Rinse and Repeat.

How come no one knows this? I knew as soon as I watched that dlc for DS3 on YouTube that Dead Space was dead.