It blows my mind that anyone at EA seemed to think that a famously homophobic and misogynistic regime would allow them to continue developing games that featured LGBT characters
Combine that with EAs history of shutting down studios and it's honestly surprising they waited until the Saudis owned it.
It's EA? that's literally what they've always done. Not to mention bioware was already stripped for parts years ago and failing miserably.
Because publishers famously don't know how to manage development studios well. They buy up the next hot thing, ruin it over the course of several years as they squeeze out every cent they can, then cut their losses and look for the next hot thing to buy.
Star Trek Online exec scorns publishers who close teams like BioWare
Honestly how is Larian even remotely comparable to the Bioware of today/yesterday. Larian right now is about where Bioware has been when they made ME1, before all the EA enshittification chased away all the talent.
Well, that makes me feel better about the health/longevity of STO.
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