Mass Effect and BioWare could end up in Microsoft's lap soon

The rumor I heard was that EA had offered more time, not buckets of it but a few months, and Bioware turned it down. That would have been clean it up time, so the launch wouldn't have been as meme worthy. Without someone leaking documents, we will never know but my impression was its unfinished state was all on Bioware.

Because they saw the writing on the wall.

They knew their game was gonna be below par, and a few more months wouldn't finish it.

Dammit I thought I could resubmit without that stupid broken text.

Anyway, seems to me that the bulk of what people make fun of is the animation stuff and its numerous, ridiculous glitches. 

People do that with most games, even the ones that are considered to be good. It's 2018 and Oblivion meme videos (radiant AI, conversation bugs, etc.) are still being uploaded to Youtube fairly often. But the key is that it's a good game, and well-liked, so it doesn't matter how often people take the piss out of it. No amount of comedic irony will diminish a quality effort.

I don't want to act like I can evaluate all the strengths and weaknesses of MEA since I'll probably never play it. But animations and silly bugs don't sink a title, and they don't appear to be what sank Andromeda. If the game is great then meh, not many people will care. MEA's issues seem more fundamental, and spending months of time and money on polish for what by most accounts was a mediocre game is just a waste of effort.

Valve takes a 30% cut of games sold on their platform, so they've obviously spent a long time perfecting the art of highway robbery. 

But yeah they're set. They're never going to go back to the dismal world of game development.

That and they seem to be allergic to the number three.

Yeah cause that's what gaming industry needs, more monopoly and less competition! /s


Beyond that being a horrible idea, how the hell does that help Mass Effect? Microsoft had struggled to make any decent exclusives for XBOne, Halo franchise is not doing to well among its fanbase. And let's be real ME1 was really only popular for being many people's first action-RPG when it came on X360 as exclusive.

I do not see this move being good for Mass Effect, even less so for gaming industry as a whole.

Oh yeah, supporting Microsoft having a monopoly on gaming industry sure is an acceptable thing just to spite EA for terminating failing studios all those years ago. /s

I want the flavor that puts out the games I want rather than shelves them completely.

Yknow Bioware started the Mass Effect series under Microsoft Game Studios. I don't see it as an acquisition, i see it as a return home after being in an abusive relationship.

Isn't this academic? That acquisition rumor never made any sense in the first place; EA's valuation assumes they're going to get Playstation revenue, so buying them and making their games XBox exclusives would blow up all that equity. If Microsoft wants to set a bundle of money on fire, there are more interesting ways.

Not sure how making a piece of hardware then makes a good place to make video games, but I don't think they crack the top five selling consoles of all time.  I bet the majority of those are Nintendo platforms with things like the Will and Switch since people will buy them to compliment other hardware or portability.

I know there are plenty of people out there that would also say that Microsoft with Mass Effect was the first step to where BioWare is today because that is when they started to abandon their roots of Knights of the Old Republic style games and making games more action oriented with less RPG elements. I doubt Microsoft would be any more hands off or sparing of BioWare then EA is for they closed down Lionhead Studios and canned multiple games that were in developing for this generation of games.  Its not about what anyone has done in the past, but how they are treating the developers now and frankly right now Microsoft has been treating their studios the same was EA has been.

343i from what I read online (I don't play console games) hasn't made a decent Halo game yet according to internet criticism just like how people say the same about Mass Effect now under EA.  Just like there are people out there that think Microsoft is butchering Gears of War (or is it just gears now), you can see what you want to in the overall landscape, but to me any company that releases games doesn't do it for the fans no matter what they say they are doing it for profits.