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BioWare Edmonton leads move on to new projects/Dragon Age 4; Austin supporting Anthem
- Thread starter Landford
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So what I have learned/observed from the ME, ME:A and Anthem is that Edmonton are the only team to look up to.
Montreal shit the bad with Andromeda, and Austin handles Srarwars or related live service Bioware games(?).
Anyway, EA will be pleased with DA4 either-way.
Seeing the DA:I gameplay, it would be really easy to make somewhat similar structured game with a ton of micro-transactions possibilities. They will finally have their GaaS revenue game, what EA wanted from Bioware with Anthem.
Montreal shit the bad with Andromeda, and Austin handles Srarwars or related live service Bioware games(?).
Anyway, EA will be pleased with DA4 either-way.
Seeing the DA:I gameplay, it would be really easy to make somewhat similar structured game with a ton of micro-transactions possibilities. They will finally have their GaaS revenue game, what EA wanted from Bioware with Anthem.
Wasn't Edmonton Bioware's top studio? Also, neither Andromeda nor Anthem lacked time and resources. It's leadership and talent we should hope for future Bioware games.
Well that was quick....
Austin did a fantastic job supporting SWTOR so Anthem is in good hands for content drops and fixes.
Edmonton wasn't suited for this.
Austin did a fantastic job supporting SWTOR so Anthem is in good hands for content drops and fixes.
Edmonton wasn't suited for this.
Austin inherits a mess. Hope they can sort things out gradually as they have to fix the issues and provide content updates.
I wonder if they bring back something from the canceled DA4 project they worked before EA made them drop it.
Putting their roadmap on hiatus, shifting teams, lowering personnel on hand to keep working on it. Dont expect an ARR comeback
Austin is the team that for years very competently blended multiplayer narrative with a shared world game.
Are you talking about The Old Republic? Do you think that would be the reference for the next Dragon Age?
That is not accurate either. Half of those people only came to the project very recently to help get it shipped.
Same hope here. He was on Trespasser and even as a fan of DA:I that DLC made the game way better and should have been part of the base game since it's the true ending.
Slight aside, but there's far too many people IIT that haven't read the Anthem tell-all article. It is excellent and explains everything you would wish to know about Anthem's development.
No I meant Anthem being handled by some of the folks who worked on TOR sounds like a good fit.
the game is almost completely off the top 50 played games on xbl
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/most-played/games/xbox
id be hard pressed to find a reason to say its NOT dead
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/most-played/games/xbox
id be hard pressed to find a reason to say its NOT dead
Edmonton is the original, the one founded by the Docs, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter, KOTOR, Mass Effect, Dragon Age. Austin is SWTOR.
I don't think leads generally stay on for post-launch support anyway. They're on to the next installment.
Yeah.. Anthem is the proverbial spilt milk, all the best Bioware for Dragon Age 4.. Hope management has LEARNED from this last debacle of Anthem.
This was always the plan internally. Austin has a great team in place to support the game as a live service. Chad and Ben are BWA leads so no change on that front.
Darrah has been at BioWare since Baldur's Gate. He is a veteran.
It sounded like the plan was always for Austin to take over Anthem while Edmonton primarily moved onto other projects so this was expected.
Iam just waiting for the news that "Bioware" will be shut down. Cant help but iam afraid they are going to die with the Anthem failure. Do they have anything left up their sleeve?
Iam just waiting for the news that "Bioware" will be shut down. Cant help but iam afraid they are going to die with the Anthem failure. Do they have anything left up their sleeve?
They should update this image. A more correct one would be EA giving Bioware a rope and it hanging itself.
Always very original to drag out a tired old meme and and ask if they have anything up their sleeve, instead of reading one of the many posts in this thread explaining what is going on (and that this is normal and was always planned). Ah, forums... <3
This needs to be threadmarked or quoted in the OP, otherwise people will (and are) just jump to the assumption that they're killing Anthem or something.
This aligns with the Kotaku report. Edmonton is no longer working on Anthem. That is Austin's project now.
You know Era can't be level headed when it comes to BioWare :/
Well i didnt like Inquisition because it was literally a "Single Player MMO". Now they have Anthem going down. I know the teaser of the new "Dragon Age" but i also know they rumors around it. (Small team, not very far) and after "Inquisition" iam burned.
When my nephew had birthday. I gave him a PSN Card now and told him i will buy a game for us to play together. He said he would like to have "Anthem". Because of work i never got it at release but now he doesnt want it anymore. Iam glad that i didnt buy it - it would be just a waste of money.
We are looking now for other games...
So i guess... they dont have anything else left beside the upcoming "Dragon Age 4" and maybe some other games not known yet. But its hard to believe they will make Dragon Age 4 a good one again.
Lets see where it leads with all those possible stuff hanging in the air but nothing seems to finish soon.
Personally i still hope for another good "Mass Effect". Hope dies last.... and i really enjoyed Andromeda.
And the meme tells one thing "History repeating itself..."
So if I understand correctly, some of the project-wide leads are done (and were always supposed to be done), but lower-level leads have just moved from Edmonton to Austin? (hopefully not literally, it'd be unfortunate if they had to move their families to another country!)
It definitely sounds like this is only notable because of the current state of the game, which was what I was kind of getting at earlier: all of this makes sense for a stable game, but Anthem is not stable. On the other hand, it's entirely possible Austin is in as good a position to fix these issues as Bioware Edmonton was; Edmonton did ship the launch-day product, after all.
I'd assume so unless EA are going to move away from it in the future. Every EA developer uses it other than Respawn.
I really hope Dragon Age comes together. I can't imagine what will happen if Bioware has 3 down turns in a row.
According to Schrier's article they would be using frostbite and the tech they built out for Anthem with Dragon Age. This is compared to them developing new frostbite tools for all their previous games.
Hey yall, Im confused, was this the plan from day 1?
(In any event, it does seem like Bioware Austin has a better handle on these types of games, lets see if they will be given the freedom to do something with it).
(In any event, it does seem like Bioware Austin has a better handle on these types of games, lets see if they will be given the freedom to do something with it).
Literally dreamed last night a reveal trailer for Mass Effect 4 picking up in the Milky Way again, let's hope my brain knows something we don't know.
If the same people working on Anthem are working on Dragon Age, then that's pretty terrifying. I'd probably give it to Austin since they seem to be the last studio that knows what they're doing.
