Something went wrong. Try again later
    Follow

    BioWare

    Company »

    BioWare is a game company that is currently owned by Electronic Arts (EA). It specializes in making role playing games that usually involve deep and engaging stories.

    Greg Zeschuk, Ray Muzyka Are Leaving BioWare

    Avatar image for phoenix6153
    phoenix6153

    78

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #401  Edited By phoenix6153

    NOOOOOOO....why? EA just had to destroy their souls. They couldn't leave well enough alone. What a shame. Good luck docs on your next epic adventure.

    Avatar image for therealspratt
    therealspratt

    31

    Forum Posts

    8

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #402  Edited By therealspratt

    @PinstripeHourglass: Good a reason as any to retire!

    Avatar image for chernobylcow
    ChernobylCow

    259

    Forum Posts

    12353

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 9

    User Lists: 8

    #403  Edited By ChernobylCow

    Baldur's Gate 3 please.

    Avatar image for wilshere
    Wilshere

    408

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #404  Edited By Wilshere

    Good job, EA.

    Avatar image for kriscarter
    KrisCarter

    123

    Forum Posts

    71

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 2

    #405  Edited By KrisCarter

    "Nailed it!"

    -EA

    Avatar image for spiritof
    Spiritof

    2471

    Forum Posts

    28754

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 25

    User Lists: 27

    #406  Edited By Spiritof

    Man, Zeschuk's comments sound like something akin to a suicide note.

    Depressing.

    Avatar image for tom1243
    Tom1243

    66

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #407  Edited By Tom1243

    Gutted, the company has been on a slow decline with EA, even though I have enjoyed all the games they released infer them to some capacity. Feel like the company was loosing the core Internet using gamer favour... (or so the Internet has told me)

    Avatar image for tom1243
    Tom1243

    66

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #408  Edited By Tom1243

    Under*

    Avatar image for uniform
    uniform

    1843

    Forum Posts

    33

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #409  Edited By uniform

    Sad to see this happen. It feels like yesterday many of us would list BioWare in "Top/Favorite Developers" threads. It's scary to see a success like BioWare reach this point as fast as it all happened.

    Avatar image for jasongeorge
    JasonGeorge

    12

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #410  Edited By JasonGeorge

    Good riddance.

    Wow that sounded harsh but sadly that was my immediate response on hearing the news. I never would have dreamed I'd see the developers of the Baldurs Gate series decline so rapidly.

    Avatar image for smokey_earhole
    Smokey_Earhole

    530

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #411  Edited By Smokey_Earhole

    ABANDON SHIP!

    Avatar image for slag
    Slag

    8308

    Forum Posts

    15965

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 8

    User Lists: 45

    #412  Edited By Slag

    @AhmadMetallic said:

    @Make_Me_Mad said:

    I think the only really unexpected part here is that they're retiring from the Game industry altogether. When Zeschuk says he has no more passion for the business, you have to wonder what kind of soul-devouring happens at EA.

    bam

    said:

    As Jerry Holkins (Penny Arcade's Tycho) noted, their departure is almost five years to the day that EA originally bought Bioware out. They may very well have been obligated to stay for five years (or as some others noted on Twitter, basically spent the past five years in golden handcuffs. They got a nice payday, but they couldn't go anywhere else as a result.) Whatever the case though, they're no longer obligated to stick around while EA and the "new" Bioware tarnishes whatever's left of the old Bioware.
    Of course, five years ago, EA was all about the song and dance, telling everyone that Bioware wouldn't become another Westwood or Bullfrog. And they were right, to an extent. Bioware has more or less become another Maxis; they're still around in name, but the quality of their output has diminished greatly.......
    It's a question of finances. Being smaller and independent doesn't mean you're in a better position than you'd be if you were bought out. We frankly don't know what Bioware's financial situation looked like before they agreed to being bought out, nor do we know what sort of incentives EA might have offered in the deal.
    Point being, you can say "no." It's just not always the best idea to do so....
    Agreeing to having your company being bought out is not the same thing as selling out. Bioware is and always has been a business, and the decision to allow the purchase by EA was a business decision that, at the time, the doctors almost certainly felt was a positive move for the company.

    your comments speak the truth.

    Avatar image for originalhb504
    OriginalHB504

    28

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #413  Edited By OriginalHB504

    Yep not surprised. Thanks EA! We love you!

    Oh wait DA3 on Frostbite2? Hmmm I wonder if this means no mods for pc players. A Dragon Age that isn't mod friendly, imagine that. Yeah, as someone stated earlier, "EA with their hands in everything". =/

    Avatar image for contra
    Contra

    254

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 3

    #414  Edited By Contra

    Watching your creative vision became a sequel spewing factory for the last 5 years, would be depressing.

    Avatar image for werupenstein
    Kidavenger

    4417

    Forum Posts

    1553

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 90

    User Lists: 33

    #415  Edited By Kidavenger

    I wonder why they even had to make the announcement; it just seems like it will do a lot of damage to EA and Bioware's image when these guys probably aren't nearly as hands on as when they made their/Bioware's good reputation and any games coming out in the future probably wouldn't be any different had they remained involved or not. They could have just slowly just stopped coming in and it's not like they are off to work at some other developer so nobody other than upper management would have really known.

    Best of luck to them both, I hope they find their way back into making great games again when they are ready.

    Avatar image for gbrading
    gbrading

    3317

    Forum Posts

    10581

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 34

    User Lists: 5

    #416  Edited By gbrading

    Maybe they'll go back to Medicine.

    Avatar image for deactivated-58a3c9b2cc154
    deactivated-58a3c9b2cc154

    149

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    I really hate EA.

    Avatar image for wrighteous86
    wrighteous86

    4036

    Forum Posts

    3673

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 5

    User Lists: 1

    #418  Edited By wrighteous86

    @Kidavenger said:

    I wonder why they even had to make the announcement; it just seems like it will do a lot of damage to EA and Bioware's image when these guys probably aren't nearly as hands on as when they made their/Bioware's good reputation and any games coming out in the future probably wouldn't be any different had they remained involved or not. They could have just slowly just stopped coming in and it's not like they are off to work at some other developer so nobody other than upper management would have really known.

    Best of luck to them both, I hope they find their way back into making great games again when they are ready.

    Journalists would've caught wind anyway and reported on it. This way they can get right out in front of it. Also, they deserve the respect of having their departure from their company announced and not hidden away like Harry Potter under the stairs.

    Avatar image for ciscoidiot
    ciscoidiot

    98

    Forum Posts

    15

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #419  Edited By ciscoidiot

    @Wrighteous86 said:

    @Kidavenger said:

    I wonder why they even had to make the announcement; it just seems like it will do a lot of damage to EA and Bioware's image when these guys probably aren't nearly as hands on as when they made their/Bioware's good reputation and any games coming out in the future probably wouldn't be any different had they remained involved or not. They could have just slowly just stopped coming in and it's not like they are off to work at some other developer so nobody other than upper management would have really known.

    Best of luck to them both, I hope they find their way back into making great games again when they are ready.

    Journalists would've caught wind anyway and reported on it. This way they can get right out in front of it. Also, they deserve the respect of having their departure from their company announced and not hidden away like Harry Potter under the stairs.

    Pretty much this. If they hadn't made an announcement the press would attempt to dig up some scandalous shit when it's really not the case. It's also a chance for fans of their games and projects to look back and appreciate their contributions to the industry. I'd shake their hands and say thanks if given the opportunity.

    Avatar image for outerabiz
    outerabiz

    717

    Forum Posts

    16

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #420  Edited By outerabiz

    i wonder what would have happened, if they had made kotor 3. as everyone wanted and not swtor.

    Avatar image for wait
    wait

    61

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 1

    #421  Edited By wait

    It's a sad day in video games when you see two men who fought so hard to build a reputation of quality be squandered by a parent company whose business philosophy is sequels means more money........ EA just lost customer in this guy (me), unless they can prove to me they can churn out quality RPG games.

    Avatar image for looter
    Looter

    5

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #422  Edited By Looter

    I blame Bono!

    Avatar image for roger778
    Roger778

    960

    Forum Posts

    0

    Wiki Points

    0

    Followers

    Reviews: 0

    User Lists: 0

    #423  Edited By Roger778

    This is really depressing news.

    I wish the best for the two doctors, and I will always remember them for giving me the best Star Wars game ever: Knights of the Old Republic.

    This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:

    Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. Make sure this is what you intended. This will likely increase the time it takes for your changes to go live.

    Comment and Save

    Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.