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Post by pdusen on Aug 22, 2016 13:55:00 GMT
I read somewhere once that Bioware has around 800 employees. For comparison, my company has about 150 employees, and we currently have 12 openings posted. So no, in my opinion, 20 postings is not unusually high for a company their size. Okay, yeah, they still have a lot of postings open. I don't check their job posting page all that often because I am not looking for a job with them, but until March/April this year, whenever I had checked, there usually wasn't much. A 2012 article mentions that BioWare has 400 or so Canadian employees, but I'm not sure whether the journalist meant 'employees in Canada' or 'employees at all three studios with Canadian citizenship' since a number of long-time Edmonton studio staff are from the USA, and I think it's likely a bunch of Canadians are in Austin. Back in 2010, another article mentioned that the Montreal studio was doubling in size from 27 to 55 employees. I'm having trouble finding anything recent and reputable about number of employees, but I think 800 might be an overestimate. The wiki page on BioWare states 800, but the reference link is broken so I'm not sure how much I trust that figure. Even so, if they have at least 400 total, 20 job postings doesn't seem like anything to worry about. |
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 22, 2016 15:19:04 GMT
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"I don't want to know what anyone's doing with people's nugs." #BioWareMornings
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 22, 2016 15:28:00 GMT
The New IP has been in development for... close to 3 years? So I'm guessing their plan was to release it late next year. I don't know if MEA's delay is going to impact that, but it's a lot further along than the next DA. Developing a new IP takes a lot more time than making the next game in an established series. The first time I heard about DA was 2004, and then it was 5 years after that until DAO came out. I'd say what comes first is completely in the air at the moment. They have a plan of course, but we have no way to see it. There appears to be a significant lull in game production though. If I look at the games they made in the past since ME1, that would be ME1 in 2007, DAO in 2009, ME2 in 2010, DA2 in 2011, ME3 in 2012 and DAI in 2014, more than two years between games, as it will be between DAI (2014) and ME1 (almost certainly 2017), that's unprecedented. I agree, starting an RPG from scratch is going to take a long time. To be fair, the "... close to 3 years?" is just a guess - they very well could have been doing the initial work for longer. But the New IP is definitely farther along in production - they were reviewing gameplay months ago. |
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Post by rapscallioness on Aug 22, 2016 16:59:11 GMT
Are there Nugs in Tevinter? Or was that a Southern Thedas phenomena? There has been a definite Nug population boom. Something about the Breach?
Maybe they've migrated up North to Tevinter. If you go up to Redcliffe and look out over the water, you'll see a few nugs floating by on a piece of driftwood heading north.
They're wily like that.
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 22, 2016 17:09:42 GMT
Are there Nugs in Tevinter? Or was that a Southern Thedas phenomena? There has been a definite Nug population boom. Something about the Breach? Maybe they've migrated up North to Tevinter. If you go up to Redcliffe and look out over the water, you'll see a few nugs floating by on a piece of driftwood heading north. They're wily like that. There was a note in WoT saying they were more common on the surface after the 5th Blight. But let's face it, nugs have become as much a mascot for Dragon Age as... dragons.  |
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 22, 2016 23:02:10 GMT
Chisolm Brant @chisolm300
with the possibility of getting @masseffect getting remastered could we possibly see Dragon Age Origins and II remastered?
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Possible: yes. Likely: no idea. It would be a significant amount of work.
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 22, 2016 23:03:22 GMT
DJ Shepherd djshepherd Okay when you kids announcing the next Dragon Age game? At least I hope you already started development. Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Studio’s pretty focused on Andromeda, SWTOR, and the new IP right now. That said, they have kept us around….
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Post by LordGunSmith90 on Aug 22, 2016 23:35:42 GMT
DJ Shepherd djshepherd Okay when you kids announcing the next Dragon Age game? At least I hope you already started development. Mike Laidlaw @mike_Laidlaw Studio’s pretty focused on Andromeda, SWTOR, and the new IP right now. That said, they have kept us around…. Pax leak, pax leak pax leak please! |
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Post by BevH on Aug 23, 2016 1:52:44 GMT
Boxer... good choice for a mabari stand-in. |
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Post by ladyiolanthe on Aug 23, 2016 2:01:56 GMT
A boerboel would be an even better mabari stand-in! I saw my first one at my local pool's "Swim with your dog" night yesterday. Wow... just dock the ears and you'd have the spitting image of a DAO mabari.
Disclaimer: I do not support cosmetic docking of animal body parts, but mabaris definitely have docked ears and tails.
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 23, 2016 3:08:28 GMT
Gabriel Hellwise @aubrey_gageSaw this poster and wanted to say thank u to everyone at Bioware who made this game series possible #DragonAge 
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Post by Nightscrawl on Aug 23, 2016 10:15:53 GMT
Are there Nugs in Tevinter? Or was that a Southern Thedas phenomena? There has been a definite Nug population boom. Something about the Breach? Maybe they've migrated up North to Tevinter. If you go up to Redcliffe and look out over the water, you'll see a few nugs floating by on a piece of driftwood heading north. They're wily like that. Dorian doesn't appear to have seen nugs himself until the time of DAI -- "I had no idea nugs had such creepy little feet." However, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried some nug at a party at the dwarven embassy. I guarantee they had nug on offer at any such party. |
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Post by thats1evildude on Aug 23, 2016 17:10:10 GMT
Nugs are explosive breeders, but I imagine being in close proximity to darkspawn keeps their numbers down. After a Blight, however, the darkspawn population takes a temporary hit, so the nug population probably increases proportionally. And since the Deep Roads extend to Tevinter, they'll probably be there, albeit in fewer numbers.
I expect to see more lizards like the dracolisk in Tevinter, since they apparently use them in their cavalry. Also, giants are apparently more common in Tevinter.
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Post by rapscallioness on Aug 23, 2016 17:36:11 GMT
That's some good Tevinter info.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 17:57:25 GMT
Nugs are explosive breeders, but I imagine being in close proximity to darkspawn keeps their numbers down. After a Blight, however, the darkspawn population takes a temporary hit, so the nug population probably increases proportionally. And since the Deep Roads extend to Tevinter, they'll probably be there, albeit in fewer numbers. I expect to see more lizards like the dracolisk in Tevinter, since they apparently use them in their cavalry. Also, giants are apparently more common in Tevinter. Is it strange that I heard David Attenborough's voice in my head while reading your post.  |
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 23, 2016 18:10:18 GMT
On a related note, I wonder if any of the creatures/enemies that were cut from DAI will make it into DA4...   We got giant scorpion mounts, a bear... dog... thing, guys with flails, chickens... But despite Dorian's comment, I'd be surprised if we didn't see nugs runnin' around the wilderness areas. |
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Post by thats1evildude on Aug 23, 2016 19:01:25 GMT
On a related note, I wonder if any of the creatures/enemies that were cut from DAI will make it into DA4... I can ID most of those demons except the fourth one: wisp, shade, terror demon, ????, desire demon, rage demon, despair demon and fear demon. |
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Post by Gilli on Aug 23, 2016 19:03:50 GMT
On a related note, I wonder if any of the creatures/enemies that were cut from DAI will make it into DA4... I can ID most of those demons except the fourth one: wisp, shade, terror demon, ????, desire demon, rage demon, despair demon and fear demon. Could be a Sloth Demon? We didn't see any in DAI. |
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Post by thats1evildude on Aug 23, 2016 19:06:07 GMT
There are three possibilities:
1) Sloth demon, though that seems unlikely since it tends to take the form of other creatures.
2) Hunger demon.
3) Some new type of demon. The word underneath appears to be "Phantasm," though I'm not 100 per cent sure.
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Post by Gilli on Aug 23, 2016 19:11:00 GMT
There are three possibilities: 1) Sloth demon, though that seems unlikely since it tends to take the form of other creatures. 2) Hunger demon. 3) Some new type of demon. The word underneath appears to be "Phantasm," though I'm not 100 per cent sure. Somehow I'd say No 3 Was also thinking it could be the Formless One, but then I remembered the "Minions" below those Demons.  |
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Post by rapscallioness on Aug 23, 2016 19:16:09 GMT
I forgot about those!
Look, it's a giant RadScorpion--that I can ride? Thedas. Thedas never changes.
Oooo, and the one with the flails. That could be a fun combat challenge.
....flails could also be a great new weapon for my pc. just sayin'
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Post by Hrungr on Aug 23, 2016 19:17:51 GMT
There are three possibilities: 1) Sloth demon, though that seems unlikely since it tends to take the form of other creatures. 2) Hunger demon. 3) Some new type of demon. The word underneath appears to be "Phantasm," though I'm not 100 per cent sure. It looks like there's a letter with a descender in the name... Maybe... Plague -somethingoranother...? I have no idea...  |
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