The Pyjack's Den! The ME News Discussion Thread

After a bit of digging I think she's actually on the DA4 team, not the ME one. I got distracted by the quote coming up in the ME forum.

I also try to bring whoever makes the most sense for the mission, but Zaeed, Tali, Garrus, and Miranda see a fair bit of time...

Surprisingly someone's post made me use Tali more especially in ME3 for the Geth missions on my Insanity run and she was amazingly effective. IIRC I had my best success on Insanity on the Geth Dreadnought with Tali and Edi after dying a few times with other squadmates.

I was talking about Elle breaking the current build.

I only lost Mordin on my first ME2 playthrough. I'm a completionist and careful with my decisions. And I think paragons have it easier than renegades?

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From the EA Investors Conference Call...

They did say they were looking into "scripted entertainment" (read: TV/Movie series) possibilities for their franchises, and BioWare was name-dropped as one with franchises they're looking into. Apparently not so much as a profit driver on their own, but as a way to boost those franchises.

For more info on EA's latest Financial Quarter: ir.ea.com/home/default.aspx

And for the sake of completeness, a kindly DA fan transcribed all the times BioWare was mentioned during the Investor's Conference Call.

"Our pipeline further amplifies our strength. In addition to our core franchises, we are building new experiences in some of the biggest enduring IP in entertainment. Last week we announced a new agreement with Disney and LucasFilm Games to develop new experiences in the Star Wars universe, continuing our collaboration of more than a decade. [?] is leading the development of the next game in our action-adventure Star Wars Jedi series, as well as two additional Star Wars titles. This adds to our deep pipeline of announced and unannounced projects, with our wholly-owned IP, including Need For Speed, our BioWare franchises, The Sims, Skate, Dead Space, and more."


Q: "In light of the announcement that you guys are working on those three new Star Wars games, can you talk a little bit more about your vision for that IP, and is it fair to say that going forwards you're planning to lean more towards investing in your own IP, and if so what are some of the potential pros and cons of that as a strategy?"

A: "Yeah, the very strength of our business is our balanced portfolio. We have both a deep and a broad portfolio, and what we've demonstrated over the best part of four years is to really develop both our own IP over time - Need For Speed, The Sims, Battlefield, Apex Legends, our BioWare franchises, we have Skate in development now, Dead Space on the way - so an incredible portfolio of own IP that has an extraordinary following across the industry. [...] And so if you think about our strategy going forwards, and the strength of our company, it really comes down to our ability to develop and build and publish industry-leading owned IP, and also [...]"


Q. "Paramount Plus dropped a pretty expensive-looking Halo trailer over the weekend, and Netflix has had some success with The Witcher and League of Legends on their streaming service. There's absolutely ravenous demand for content right now from half a dozen or so streaming services, and you guys have some IP, particularly within BioWare, that I think would be pretty good as a basis for a show. Are we finally at a point where video game IP has some trans-media opportunities or do you think that's still more a theory than a reality?"

A. "No, I think, based on exactly what you just said and what we've experienced, you know, video game IP or interactive entertainment IP is now some of the most culturally relevant IP in all of entertainment. And I think that's going to continue to grow. When you think about hundreds of millions of fans engaging in and around the IP we create, like Apex, like The Sims, like Need For Speed, like our BioWare franchises, like Dead Space, like Skate, it's not unnatural for that to spawn kind of a scripted entertainment element. I think traditionally, the scripted entertainment elements in our industry have not been big revenue drivers in and of themselves, but where they have been of high quality, they have lifted the overall engagement of the franchise more deeply, so there's kind of a one-two punch that drives growth in the business. I think as we think about our future, we do believe that this thing that we do, that is interactive entertainment, is becoming more and more important on a daily basis to all fans, and that our fans are going to want to experience that in many different modalities and some of that might be scripted entertainment in nature. And you should expect that we're looking at any and all aspects that allow us to extend and expand our brands for our fanbase. But that we're doing it very thoughtfully, and, again, as part of our strategy, doing it profitably."

I want it so badly. I don´t care about the cost

Lazare @lazaregvimradze
Reminiscing on my favorite screenshot that I took of the Mako.

There she goes.



Jo Berry @joanna_Berry
Reminds me of a fun physics bug we had briefly on MEA during development where the Nomad was flying through the sky