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"This is going to be horrible": BioWare's classic D&D RPG Baldur's Gate 2 looked like a "hacked-up monstrosity that was still full of bugs" as the devs crunched to get it finished in time for launch

"The crunch at the time was brutal"

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Okay, I’ll play EA’s advocate: The buyout deal can be good, actually

Privatization is always ahead of public trading.

Destructoid

With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'

But by god, we're gonna try.

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Bungie brings in a new Destiny 2 global franchise director as its MMO bleeds – a Dragon Age, Starfield, and Elder Scrolls veteran who only just left Mass Effect 5

Games vet Hilary Hidey joins Bungie ahead of Destiny 2: Renegades

GamesRadar

"EA has a huge repository of dormant IPs that are just sitting there" after $55 billion buyout, says former Dragon Age and Anthem producer, so it could make better "financial sense" to sell studios instead of shutting them down

Selling IPs could help deal with that impending $20 billion of debt

GamesRadar

Starfield and Deus Ex actor has done "a lot" of work with EA, but isn't sitting idly by as rumored AI-powered cost-cutting plans surface following controversial $55 billion buyout: "F*** you"

It's been claimed that investors are hoping to use AI to save money and help manage the $20 billion of debt EA is set to take on

GamesRadar

EA could sell off studios after Saudi and Kushner-funded $55 billion acquisition, says former Dragon Age producer: 'It's hard to imagine that you'd have BioWare pivot from having very progressive messaging to having the reverse'

Also, the debt. The $20 billion debt thing.

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The Best 7 Games To Play During The Mid-Autumn Festival

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Inverse

Analysts say EA buyout "doesn't add up," expect the company to double down on live services and sports at expense of "new ideas and innovation" with layoffs looking inevitable

"Short term they may look to sell off non-crucial assets and smaller IP"

GamesRadar

Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did

He also questions if The Sims would fit into the "messaging desires of the three groups that are involved in the acquisition"

GamesRadar

Ex-BioWare veteran says EA's $55 billion buyout is "likely going to mean layoffs and studio closures and a dramatic reduction in people" thanks to that looming $20 billion of debt

"There is hope to be had here, but it's going to definitely be painful before that hope is going to come to fruition"

GamesRadar

BioWare's just waiting for the axe to fall after EA's $55 billion buyout, say anonymous staff

"Kind of feels like a matter of time."

PC Gamer

Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

Who knows, maybe the Crown Prince is a big Femshep fan.

PC Gamer

EA goes $20 billion in debt as part of its $55 billion buyout, and the BioWare fans who've already waited 8 years for Mass Effect 5 are terrified of how the company might cut costs

"It's over, Commander"

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Can you name every BioWare game in just 2 minutes? Find out with the latest PC Gamer quiz!

From legendary RPGs to at least three things you've completely forgotten existed.

PC Gamer

EA is reportedly about to be sold in a record-setting $50 billion buyout to an investor group that includes private equity and Saudi Arabia

The deal could go through as early as next week.

Windows Central

Electronic Arts reportedly close to going private in a $50 billion deal — backers include Saudi Arabian PIF

A new report claims that Battlefield publisher Electronic Arts is going private, with a $50 billion deal from private equity and the Saudi Arabian PIF.

Inverse

25 Years Ago, 'Baldur’s Gate 2' Changed Games Forever

One of BioWare's most beloved and influential RPGs would define the developer and the genre for decades to come.

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Baldur's Gate 2 has great dungeons and epic quests, but my real love is for my fake friends: BioWare's first truly great companions

Except for that loser, Anomen.

PC Gamer

BioWare never stopped making Baldur's Gate 2

BG2 was when BioWare truly understood how nuts we all were for companions.

PC Gamer

25 years ago today, Baldur's Gate 2 set RPGs on the path to becoming the industry-defining genre they are today: 'We were putting all the fantasies that we had into the game'

The game's original developers let us in on the story of its ambitious and turbulent journey to release.

PC Gamer

Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

GamesRadar

BioWare realized late in Anthem's development that "this game was coming in on fire" after EA told the devs "we were targeting a game in the 70s" on Metacritic

Ex BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah spills the beans on the studio's expectations heading into launch

GamesRadar

Former BioWare exec says Anthem's storytelling failed because it was "treating everyone as if they were the same protagonist," but Borderland succeeds because "the storytelling spreads" across all players when they split up

Mark Darrah continues his chapters-long autopsy of Anthem

GamesRadar

"Bankrupt EA" was on the list of fears at BioWare as it weighed up Mass Effect servers, says former exec: "There's a point at which you are optimizing for an unlikely or virtually unfathomable situation”

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