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

Also, please dump Origin...

Nintendo is crippled?

They might have a cap.. somewhere.. for easy reasons, but that's a far cry from crippled.

"Dump frostbite to unreal.."

You do realize theres the same obstacles, different bugs, its not made for RPGs either ffs... ?

This would also take craploads of time to do again, and they would have maybe even less support than with the in-house engine.

OMG. "The armchair developers on the Internet are always wrong".

I hope EA goes bust, but that's not going to happen is it?

Ok, so I've got a few things to say on this:

First of: for those thinking that this is the second coming, that if Micro$haft bought EA they'd instantly launch into the remakes & dredge up the old franchises, where is the proof of this?

Next: people are always saying that EA are the big bad greed corporation, but honestly, Microsoft have them beaten on that by a long shot, I mean, I was just made redundant & I can't update my C.V on my on laptop without subscribing to Microsoft office & if EA wanted the biggest profit then staying independent would do that as Sony's Playstation nets them more profit.

Next up: I heard a while back, no so sorry can't be more specific, that if Sony lost Playstation they'd be screwed, for want of a better phrase, but Microsoft could easily absorb the loss off Xbox.

My 4th point: EA's been in the news a lot recently, in a negative light with the MTX fiasco & their share prices have fallen, they did so again this year with the release of the Kotaku article about live services in Dragon Age. Would this information about MS thinking about buying EA have even com to light if EA hadn't been in the news like they had? Would MS even have thought about it? How often do these types of talks go on? We hear more now because so much information is more readily available to us, besides, EA is a publisher, not a development studio, so how would that work in general?

Anyway, if Microsoft did buy EA & the only way I could continue to play DA & ME was on a Microsoft platform, then I'd have to buy an Xbox as I can;t stand PC gaming (in general have nothing against PC gamers), but I'd make sure MS got as little from me as possible, I'd buy a second hand unit & absolutely not subscribe to Xbox live, even though I've enjoyed the MP in those games to date.

Anyway I've said all that's on my mind, in short, I don't think it would be a good idea, but that's just my opinion.



EDIT: Removed incorrect information.

Definitely interesting to see how the internet would rage over mass effect being xbox exclusive. Oh my, just thinking about the 0-rated metacritic rageposts makes me feel butterflies in my stomach

Ah my mistake, thanks for that, I'll edit my post accordingly.

This would be a null-sum thing for us, if you think Microsoft would treat their IPs any better then EA you are looking at something that I don't see. How many games and developers have ended with Microsoft over the last couple of years? To the comments of Origin, yes they would remove Origin for something even better the Microsoft Storefront.

Personally I think this is chalking up to rumor or someone misspeaking for to me there doesn't seem to be enough for Microsoft to go through all the potential regulatory problems and costs instead of going out and buying smaller developers and people that self publish. When they can just go out and buy smaller developers with far less headaches and more potential gain.

It's no wonder their animatronics have gotten worse since frostbite when you consider that they used integrated features from UE3 to create the cinematics of the trilogy and them having had to rebuild this tech themselves for Frostbite has just been a disaster. I'll give it that it looked better as far as facial expressions went in DAI but it still looked more like animatronics than it did in the trilogy and the camerawork in particular got way way worse.

Also camerawork and animating has zero to do with engine.. but people..

seriously?? did you forget the xbox one? or you are just joyriding on microsoft because they need to do better cause they are biting the dust of sony's shoes?
No corporations is a saint but microsoft has brought he worst always,
With that said xbox1x is a great console

VERY INTERESTING. I got the request from Microsoft to do a survey (see below) and the questions we very much about preferred games and why, single vs. multi, good stories, high quality graphics, exclusivity, etc. This rumor and the timing of this survey are interesting.




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