BioWare deserved better.

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• AL

  @alanahpearce · 6 days ago · pinned

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• US

  @user-pw2ro7gt4r · 5 days ago

  🪦 THE EA STUDIO GRAVEYARD 🪦 <br> <br>✝ Bullfrog Productions (1987-2001) <br>✝ Westwood Studios (1985-2003) <br>✝ Origin Systems (1983-2004) <br>✝ Pandemic Studios (1998-2009) <br>✝ Black Box Games (1998-2013) <br>✝ Phenomic (1997-2013) <br>✝ Mythic Entertainment (1995-2014) <br>✝ Maxis (Original Studio) (1987-2015) <br>✝ Visceral Games (1998-2017) <br>✝ BioWare (1995-2026)<br><br>&quot;We create worlds.&quot; - Origin Systems<br>&quot;And we bury them.&quot; - EA, probably, hypothetically, rhetorically, non-literally, for legal purposes not an an actual quote, paraphrased or something.

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• VT

  @vtolgorgon4080 · 5 days ago

  The cold open and text crawl for Mass Effect 1 is still one of the greatest game intros of all time. <br><br>&quot;They called it the greatest discovery in human history....<br><br>The civilizations of the galaxy call it...&quot;

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• GA

  @gamexpert510 · 5 days ago

  &quot;You exist because we allow it, and you will end because we demand it.&quot;<br><br>Maybe we should treat EA like Shepard treated Sovereign...

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• RE

  @revcmods · 5 days ago

  KOTOR was my first Xbox game and my introduction to the Star Wars Expanded Universe. Drew Karpyshen, the lead writer of KOTOR and Mass Effect, also wrote my favorite Star Wars trilogy of all time. The Darth Bane series. They didn’t come out until much later after KOTOR but the game got me into reading SW novels around that time in 2003. I would bring the books with me to school and read them at lunch (and sometimes under my desk in class) while daydreaming about getting home and playing KOTOR. It all felt like one amazing universe. I’ll never forget the joy and impact BioWare had on my childhood.

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• RO

  @RobinBooze468 · 5 days ago

  I&apos;m 29. It&apos;s not a joke that Dragon Age Origins shaped me as a human being during highschool and without it I probably would have way diferent fundamental tastes or views in the world. It really felt like you were talking to a person when Leliana told you about her homeland, her shoes and the flowers her mum used to put on her wardrobe to keep the clothes fresh. Every companion had memorable moments and they grew with you in such an organic way. It&apos;s a shame it ended that way but it makes me so happy to have experienced these games when I was growing up. That legacy will never die

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• PI

  @picto3 · 5 days ago

  I still remember going going to Gamestop to get Mass Effect on the Xbox 360. The person there said if you make it past the Citadel you will be hooked. I was hooked and have loved most everything they have done with Mass Effect 2, Dragon Age Origins and KOTOR being my favorites.

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• NU

  @nutsymcgregor · 5 days ago

  Rich patrons, there is Studio Laika doing stop motion animation but that’s the only one I can think of.

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• EM

  @EmrysCorbin · 5 days ago

  Our whole industry needs a complete reboot free of publicly traded companies or, in this case, venture capital vultures.

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• CO

  @ColonelRPG · 5 days ago

  It&apos;s true. Baldur&apos;s Gate 1 and 2 were groundbreaking games for the time, on multiple levels, and they influenced the entire industry.<br>But unfortunately the death of BioWare was predictable and expected, after EA bought them. I remember reading all the fan forums around the time they were bought. Everyone hated that. Everyone mourned BioWare then.

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• UB

  @UBCS98 · 5 days ago

  This is a lovely little requiem for Bioware. While it was bittersweet to see so many devs share their passion for the studio in the wake of its closing, I&apos;m comforted by the thought that Bioware&apos;s legacy will forever be felt in the DNA of future RPGs. Thanks Alanah.

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• LU

  @luxomatix · 4 days ago

  Any opportunity to hear from Josh is worthwhile

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