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Goodbye BioWare. You will be missed. Give our reguards to Westwood Studios and Origin when you reach designer Hell.

Fuck EA.

EDIT.
Since they were owned by a holding company, I guess it was only a matter of time before they were sold off. But to EA. That is still a shitter.

10/11 will go down in history as a day of sadness and utter loss for this Nation's gamers.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the staff of BioWare.

ugh-- this sucks :/

Remind me why EA is so horrible again, please?

Today, the modern action-rpg has died. Anyone worth a shit at BioWare or Pandemic is jumping ship anyway.

EA is the DeBeers of the software industry.

I never understood why they didn't develop NWN2 themselves, NWN was such a great game and had so much replay value, while the second one doesn't.

Oh well

Westwood's Earth & Beyond.

Certainly. Check out about 90 percent of their titles and note their suckiness. Consider yourself reminded!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Sonovabitch. /weep

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I think I saw this on Digg, or somewhere else

"Neverwinter Nights: Street!"

EA tends to shit out games before they're ready, not that it's overly uncommon, but they really have the habit with entities they gobble up, want to make money off the name and don't care that they turn out incomplete crap.

They chew em up, ruin the name and then spit em out.

And they buy up good studios, milk them for a handful of years, and close them.

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Good thing Mass Effect is beyond complete then!

So much for getting excited about their MMO game. :\

fuck a duck

Fuck EA
Fuck them up their stupid asses
I don't give a shit to see The Sims 3: Street Random Sports game Action RPG (makes no sense, but EA is full of retards so I'm fairly sure if anyone could pull that off they could)

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Despite all the fanboyism, EA has been on a road upwards. Madden 08 and NBA Live 08 and Skate are all very impressive titles.

Yay dumb sports games.

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Marauder Harabakc Goat

Ha ha ha... NBA Live?!?!?!?!?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.......

*gasp* ha ha ha ha ha ha.......

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They needed the high powered funding of EA for the baldurs gate/nwn type mmorpg they are working on.

NBA Jam and NFL Blitz 2000(Dreamcast) those where fun sports games! I like my sports games ridiculous, the only real sports game I have is NBA 07.

skate is the shiz. yet it is regretable to see this happen to bioware.

A bit late but let me join the

FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! bandwagon...

I just can't believe it.

To be honest though I only played one Bioware game, Jade Empire, and it was a steaming pile of poo in my opinion. Having an **action** RPG doesn't mean we have to mash one or two buttons during our entire gameplay experience, with almost no thought to any strategy or buildup of character. It seemed to me like they sacrificed approximately 5/6th of what an RPG is in favor of l33t actionz that didn't amount to much.

That being said I heard great things about KOTOR, Baldur's Gate, and NWN so I guess I'll just stop there =p

Always good to know that a company is "on a road upwards" after 25 years in existence and owning a multitude of licenses and subsidiaries. Let's hope this upswing lasts, yo!

if they've been around for 25 years that's amazing, sugoiyo!

http://www.primotechnology.com/2007/10/ ... -universe/


A source close to BioWare confirmed to us today that the studio’s upcoming untitled massively-multiplayer online RPG will be centered around the Star Wars universe, specifically that of Knights of the Old Republic, which the developer released in 2003. The game garnered critical acclaim and spawned a less-popular sequel, released by Obsidian two years later.

The game is being developed by the company’s Austin studio, formed in 2006 and headed by BioWare Creative Director James Ohlen, whose past credits include the first KOTOR, Neverwinter Nights, and Baldur Gate’s I and II.

This is not the first Star Wars-related MMORPG: Star Wars Galaxies debuted in the summer of 2003, followed by several expansions. It was generally well-received by fans and critics, but subscriber numbers plunged and never recovered after a controversial gameplay update in 2005. It’s estimated that the game now has fewer than 100,000 subscribers and less than 20,000 active players.

It’s currently unknown whether or not EA, which acquired BioWare last week, will act as publisher for this title, or if the studio had a previous arrangement with another publisher.

Expect the game sometime in 2009.

Editor’s Note- As no media from the game has yet been made available, the screenshot above is from the first KOTOR title.

Editor’s Note 2- We’ve gotten several emails asking about the validity of this news. The only rumors we post here at Primotech will explicitly be stated as such.

Editor’s Note 3- We’re experiencing heavy traffic from Digg at the present. You're now viewing a static version of this page and the rest of the site may be unresponsive temporarily. We appreciate your patience as we work this out.

I think I need a towel

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Gay. KOTOR sucked dick. In fact, most all Star Wars spin-off stuff does.

haha, just another reason not to take your opinion seriously on most things.

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Hmm, KotOR was one of the best games ever in my list...

Yeah because me saying KOTOR sucks means every single opinion I have is null and void.

Whatever. Retard.

Right, that's exactly what I said.

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well, considering about the only positive opinion you've ever expressed is for NBA basketball, and the fact that you spout off bullshit on topics you obviously know nothing about, I'd say yeah, all of your opinions count for nothing.

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World of Warcraft: Kallaystra, Gweila, Steakumn, Tarathia [ Feathermoon/Horde ]

I played KOTOR. It sucked. Sorry!

PS, I'm not the only person who thinks so.

http://www.google.com/search?q=KOTOR+SU ... =firefox-a

Late!

Shrug, those people probably aren't douchenozzles on every thread they post on either.

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World of Warcraft: Kallaystra, Gweila, Steakumn, Tarathia [ Feathermoon/Horde ]

DOUCHENOZZLE!!! LOL!!!

I'm not a "douchenozzle" in every thread I post in. Just saying it doesn't make it true. Ha.

Every post I've ever seen you make, both here and on the old ezboard, you've been a complete shithead, second only to Dolalin/Numruk as far as your douchebaggery.

Granted, you did apologize and redact some info on you "omg nba pics!" thread, but only after you got called out for dickwaving.

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Yeah dude, huge asshole in all these threads:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3996
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4958&p=89772#p89772
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4958&p=89772#p89772
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4949&p=89602#p89602
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4951&p=89563#p89563
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4751&p=86619#p86619
viewtopic.php?f=35&t=4746&p=86551#p86551
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4730&p=86453#p86453
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4665&p=86067#p86067

I mean seriously, the list goes on and on, I don't have time to sit here and link all my posts but 75% of them are positive, the other 25% are just being honest about how I feel about something.

PS: Cut it out w/ the "douchenozzle" and "douchebaggery" and all that. I know you think they're funny but you're a middle-aged white guy. You lose the right to use those words after your 25th birthday.

Sky and Dola both have backed off on their douchebagness quite a bit over the last few years. They still are sometimes a douche, but overall I don't harbor special resentment for either one at this point. Some of you clearly do, apparently.

i didn't like kotor either i mean the story was cool but the gameplay was such a chore

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I dunno, whenever I see a Skycrasher post on some kind of music/game it's generally "that sucked."

I have likened this behavior to the kids who stop liking bands when they become mainstream.

Backed off? HAHAHA.

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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -Henry Louis Mencken
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VEGETARIAN -Noun (vej-i-tair-ee-uhn): Ancient tribal slang for the village idiot who can't hunt, fish or ride.

Boom! It's a shard!

Another one bites the dust. Though not totally out of bussiness, but only doing distribution from now on.

R.I.P. Atari

I'm actually having problems remembering the last game Atari actually developed. Most of the stuff I can remember them distributing was either Bioware games or Infogrames games.

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Marauder Harabakc Goat

Didn't Atari do the KOTOR games?

Published/distributed, yes. Bioware did the first one, I forget who did the second.

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Marauder Harabakc Goat

Obsidian

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