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🏳‍🌈| They/Them | Artist | Adult | SFW content | Comms: Open | OC enthusiast | cant access dms bc I have to verify identity - if you need to dm - I'm starkorg on disc! Unvale site + discord mod, onboarder and superstar ✨

⚠ PSA to artists and clients on #VGen about a Discord scam going around!! ⚠ a scammer is scraping profiles (both artists and clients) to make fake discord accounts impersonating them, then reaching out to people they've worked with in the past who have their discord info publicly visible

Pisses me off seeing people say Veilguard is the reason, Andromeda was the reason Shut up It’s EA Always has been If they let Bioware be Bioware, if they didn’t stick their nose in and try to micromanage the companies they buy, then MAYBE Bioware could have lived

you can't judge when bioware was really killed because the mismanagement at the higher level under EA has been so constant and pervasive since the acquisition at every stage that every game shipped at all was a herculean miracle

The one thing I will advocate for now is that all things considered if you plan on playing Mass Effect or Dragon Age for the first time after seeing the news but do not own those games already you might as well just go ahead and pirate it because EA does not deserve your money. Also valid for Sims.

I was at BioWare over 12 years. It's where I got started writing games. I met and worked alongside wonderful people. Kind, talented, passionate. I learned a lot. I helped create some amazing stories that I'm glad made it out into the world. The people and the stories are what I cherish most.

My heart is fucking broken. Wishing all the best to the incredible devs who lost their jobs... thank you so much for making the games I love so much 🖤 Bioware games are the standard I judge other games by. We lost something so good 💔

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5d ago

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BioWare closing is so depressing. Compounding it for me is how predictable it is at a time where creative institutions --studios where artists were nurtured, resourced and trusted to MAKE THINGS -- are being harvested for parts. Emblematic of a soul-sick world.

it cannot actually be ignored or danced around that the closure of BioWare came so soon after the Saudi and Jared Kushner acquisition of EA. they absolutely did take the studio making EA’s broadly queerest games out back and shoot it old yeller style. do not let yourself or colleagues ignore that

FUCK YOU EA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! In college the one thing that kept me going was thinking one day I may be able to work on something for mass effect, this dream is now perma dead. thanks ea, you guys suck ass and i hope your executives step on legos.

DRAGON AGE KEEP IS MONITORED BY EA AND LIKELY WONT BE SHUT DOWN FOR AWHILE. PC DAI PLAYERS CAN USE SAVE EDITOR FOR WORKAROUND. PLAYSTATION PLAYERS HAVE A WORKAROUND TOO. XBOX HAS YET TO HAVE A WORKAROUND FOUND.