Bioware Montreal SHUTS DOWN

>>386434926
Good SJW Twats trying to pump politics into our hobby

>>386434926
And not a single tear dropped

I'M ONLY HUMAN AFTER ALL

>>386434926
Thank you EA, I take back every bad thing I ever said about you.

>>386434926
It's just a support studio that got their one shot because the main studio was busy with Anthem. They blew it, but those same people are still working at Bioware.

>>386434926
Montreal were like a skin condition on a patient with liver cancer, far from the biggest problem plaguing Bioware itself. Montreal will be absorbed in to said tumor

>>386436750
>>386436535
>>386435140
Shit I just realized that opens that opportunity for them to pump their garbage into SWBF2......eh I wasn't going to get it any way

>>386436819
Another great developer killed by /v/ just for employing sjws. RIP

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>>386434926
>EA moves (former) Bioware employees to support work on SW:BF 2
Welp. That games gonna be shit.

>>386436806
andromeda's biggest problem was lack of focus and spending what, couple of years just being the idea guys until edmonton leads had to come in and get the ball rolling in a short span of time.

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>>386436604
That song is so fucking terrible.

Finally EA do SOMETHING good. Glad they axed this horrible studio

>>386436935
What was the point of creating Bioware Montreal in the first place? They did nothing but kill a good franchise

>>386434926
I think gamers everywhere are happy about this.

>>386437097
they were a support studio that did what was needed on other projects. this was their first shot at running the show.

>>386436924
They dieded cause of spending 40M on a game that was not profitable. EA were pissed and this happened

>>386436924
EA's plan is to send them to EA motive and rehire Casey Hudson. ffs EA

>>386434926
>Bioware employees to support work on SW:BF 2
game dies before its even out.

kek

>>386434926
Would have been happier if the sjws were fired but Montreal dying is okay too

>>386436924
Fuck off

>>386436924
Kinda feel for em

>>386434926
>Mass effect Andromeda sequel is not happening
It will, but it will be either another offshoot of the milky way Mass effect storyline, or a prequel.
Andromeda has too much negative baggage to be picked up again for at least a decade, but at the same time it made people get a hankering for ye goode olde mass effect.
Even 3 is standing in a better light thanks to andromeda.

>>386437305
montreal failed because they were left to their own devices, but whatever contribution they make to other EA IPs will be menial task.

Don't worry, the cash from the SJW market will be arriving anytime now.

>>386438972
And who will make it? Edmonton is making Anthem and the texas one is busy with TOR. No new ME at least for 6-8 years

>>386434926
kek

>>386434926
Nothing like starting your week with great news.

>>386434926
>Bioware employees to support work on SW:BF 2
EA fuck up AGAIN.
Why not just fire those incompetents fuckers?

>>386439095
Doubt EA is the kinda studio to waste funds supporting meaningless staff. They will probably keep them till we forget about Andromeda then fire them.

>>386439730
>No new ME at least for 6-8 years
Good.

>>386439895
Reputation. EA in denial that Andromeda was shit and refused to report their q1 profits.

>>386434926
The right was right again. That's why we're called right.

You people do know that Bioware Montreal was a B-teamer that was founded only six years ago, originally to work on the hypothetical free-to-play Command And Conquer project trying to capitalize on Starcraft-fueled RTS fad. Andromeda was their only project that was actually finished.
Them being cut is not only NOT SUPRISING AT ALL, but also changes nothing.

>>386434926
WTF I LOVE EA NOW!

>>386436375
Ass. Now all that pumping is going to go into battlefront.

>>386439981
They were the only ones I had a problem. Lets hope Edmonton and Casey Hudson can revive this studio.

>>386440148
Changes everything. /v/ wins again, sjws got shut down

>>386439895

why fire people when you can have them work more while paying less?

>>386440153
They moved them to Battlefront group genius. Their still 'game developers' just not bioware

I'm playing Andromeda at the moment. They must have patched the shit out of it as it's no way as buggy as the launch day streams showed. It's kinda fun but not worth full price.

>>386440345

no one cares about star wars shit

>>386440532
Well their not making any DLCs/sequels for it so might as well drop it

>>386434926
Andromeda was so fucking bad after the crack came out I decided to give it a chance and the game fucking sucks so bad quests doesn't work correctly, animation sucks ass and the story is just Mass Effect 1 and 2 with difference just in the fucking enemy name. Remnants are the Protheans, Kett are the robot shits that want to kill you. I want to stop so bad but I'm so fucking autistic I need to finish the game.

>>386434926
bioware have been dead since neverwinter nights 2 and the real mass effect trilogy. RIP you had a shit run because EA, hope you fucked with them somehow.

>>386440742
Lmao you'll be disappointed. I also forced myself to finish it and regretted it. Trust me just drop that waste of time

>>386437097
>What was the point of creating Bioware Montreal in the first place? They did nothing but kill a good franchise
They were supposed to by a supporting studio to Edmonton but become the main single player RPG studio while old Bioware focused on online games.
Obviously people in charge hired talentless hacks, the leads moved form Edmonton were fucking retards, and they wasted years doing fuck all bleeding money left and right.

>>386440897
Been dead since EA bought them and post DAO ME2

>>386441091
>made the old popular bioware do online games
>new talentless sjw bioware does the main game and wastes 40M
Fuckin hell EA have shit for brains

>>386439895
>Why not just fire those incompetents fuckers?
Since personal responsibility dosnt exists in the leftist dream.
Also gaming media is corrupt as fuck, they refuse to name leads and directors of shitty games always spreading the blame across and nameless faceless publisher.

>>386439895

The studio that dismantled only ever did support work. So EA just put them back into their specialty.

>>386441240
>wastes 40M
Try 140 million $
What we know is the development cost alone, not the production cost which must have been well above 100mln if not close to 200mln.
EA will bury the full loses, but we can be safe to assume its at least 50mln for marketing alone of top of the 40mln.

>>386434926
the weirdest thing is that Mass Effect Andromeda actually sold pretty well. I guess the quality was just too bad even by Bioware standards

>>386441350
Just like the mainstream media, gaming media is leftist as shit. Can't imagine a video game version of Breitbart coming soon

>>386441240

Two things.
1. Andromeda got its money back
2. EA stopped caring about Mass Effect

As far as EA is concerned, Bioware games right now are Dragon Age, SWTOR, and Anthem.

>>386441495
Breitbart is shit too though. Journalism in general shouldn't be playing favorites.

>>386441491
But it didn't sell well no evidence of that. Remeber amazon putting it on prime sale after just 48 hours and a UK retailer lowering price to $47. Also if it sold well, why would EA not report their quarterly earnings as usual? Why would they shut down Montreal?

I understand the studio closing down, but why does that mean automatically we'll never get another ME game? They still own the IP.

>>386441568
>Andromeda got its money back

EA shut down Montreal and slashed hopes of a sequel

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at least Shepard won't be raped, well, I expect he will in the inevitable "remastered version"

>>386441568
>EA stopped caring about Mass Effect
Thank fuck. Let it rest in peace.

>>386441894
I haven't had hope for any ME sequel since ME2 turned out to be such a shitpile, and it only got worse from there.

>>386441771
EA aren't happy about Andromeda not selling well. All the Andromeda employees have gone to EA Motive. Edmonton have been told to focus on their new ip and dragon age.

>>386441894

Because they don't need Mass Effect anymore. Anthem fills that role and then some. They only needed Andromeda to fill a void in their release schedule and bring in money for their financial report.

If they wanted anything else out of Andromeda, they would have bolstered the team with veterans. Instead, you had a rookie team that was overseen by like 2 or 3 Bioware higher ups.

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>implying andromeda didn't sell well because ME3 ending
so easy to blame bioware and not the utter lack of interest following that, no?

at least thats how I see it.

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Shouldn't game have like x 5 money profit, compared to cost itself? Same like movie industry.
In that case Andromeda was a disaster.

>>386440169
>battlefront
Who cares about star wars? No really.
>muh glowsticks
>muh 70's laser sound effecs
>muh shitty looking <everything> because they're stuck with visuals from the originals from which they cannot move beyond for fear of losing the fanatics

>>386436806
They laid off a bunch of them before closing Bioware Montreal by putting them all on "performance improvement plans" with impossible goals and firing them when they couldn't meet them.

>>386441489
yeah they spent no less than $80M once marketing is accounted for. the real spend is probably even higher than that.

if they actually made money on it they would be bragging about it, instead they are not mentioning it all in press releases and financial reports after the release. and no, saying it was a "Significant" part of online revenues doesn't say that it made money. revenue is is sales minus the cost of goods sold (e.g. cost to press and ship a disc, retailer margin, etc.) - revenue alone doesn't account for the development + marketing costs at all.

>>386434926
Call me when Edmonton closes and the nightmare is finally over.

>>386441568
andromeda did not makes its money back. you don't cancel all the DLC planned and discount disc based copies by 20%+ within two days of release and digital copies by 33% within a month if a game is successful.

$40M development cost doesn't include marketing which pushes the real cost closer to $80-$100M

disc based copies publishers like EA average $27/disc on a $60 game, and the game was discounted almost immediately.
digital copies sold on non-orign storefronts send a 20-30% cut to Microsoft/Sony

they never confirmed reaching 3 million copies in a month and NPD video game sales data suggests they only sold 3.5M copies when they would need to sell 6-9 million for the game to be successful

>>386442381
andromeda sold poorly because EA screwed the pooch on ME3 ending and people preferred to wait and see rather than preorder.

then they released the PC copy via EA early access a week before release and everyone saw what a fucking mess it was. in addition to cancelled preorders it damaged a lot of people picking up copies after it was released.

>>386442423
video game margins are not that bad, but publishers get a little under half for retail copies and about 70% of the price for digital copies sold through third party storefronts (xbox/playstation).

>>386434926
>EA moves (former) Bioware Employees to support work on SW:BF 2
>Moves
Too afraid to delete your diversity hires? This game is fucked.

>>386444930
thats pretty much what I said, except in my case I didn't look into andromeda beyond the lol broken animation gifs/webms.

I lost all interest when it asked me to pick a color after 3 games of giving a fuck. an EA rep handing me 100$ wouldn't have changed my feelings even.

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>record scratch
>freeze frame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K1QQYGPkVA

>>386436924
Bioware isnt dead.
They have multiple studios and just one was merged. Bioware is currently working on 3 games. Anthem which comes out next year. Dragon Age 4 and rumors say a new Star Wars game.

>>386445047
they fired most of them already
https://gamerant.com/bioware-employee-harsh-work-condition/
>The former employee then proceeds to elaborate on how the studio handles managerial conflicts, claiming that BioWare Montreal would place people on a “performance improvement program”, which ultimately amounted to nothing more than a tactic to lay-off employees who didn’t adhere to the preferred BioWare leadership style.

>>386434926
SJWs and trannies can't write software code, let alone use a fucking modern game engine like Frostbite

>>386445197
>Code
They apparently can't animate for shit either

>>386444704
No revenue is just the sales, no deductions. No costs are taken out of it

>>386436924
/v/ didn't kill them. EA did. EA's plan is to kill every SJW and non-SJW for profit.
A plan so beautiful even the jews complained that it was too jewish.

>>386445387
you're conflating revenue and sales.

if i sell 5 copies of a $60 game then I have $300 in sales.
if the retailer takes $30 of each game for themselves then I make $30 * 5 copies = $150 in revenue

if it cost me $120 to make the game, then I made $150- $120 = $30 profit

>>386436983
but it's a SOULFUL anthem song anon!

>>386434926

These faggots always just jump in to shit on developers but only when it's currently the cool thing to do. Kinda to look like they are critical but they wouldn't dare to be if it wouldn't already be the mainstream way of seeing things
Literally obsolete cancer

>>386436924
>Another great developer
A secondary support studio is dead you twat muffin. The main project offices are still running. Andromeda was a test to see if they could handle producing games and they couldn't.

>>386436924
>phoneposter
every single time

SJWs ruined Bioware

>>386448494
EA killed it before SJWs were even a thing.