BioWare reportedly shut down because EA bosses chose to invest in the development of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5.
BioWare reportedly shut down because EA bosses chose to invest in the development of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 over Mass Effect 5.
Then people wonder why nothing new has come to replace the +50 year old franchises. This whole century is an exercise in monetizing nostalgia; it’s what the lengthening of IP protections paved the way for, and it is sort of stagnating popular culture.
To be fair, Mass Effect 5 wasn’t exactly going to be an experimental original thing either.
Dont look to big corporations for new and unique experiences. That’s pretty much the opposite of what they do. They make money off of nostalgia for the most part.
My nostalgia of Star Wars got ruined by the terrible new trilogy movies and terrible tv shows. Sole exception being Andor which was amazing, but definitely an outlier.
I havent given the IP a chance since phantom menace.
I really should, people say some are incredible, but the sparkles gone. It just looks like work to me now.
Andor is great since it feels like a war series that happens to have a Star Wars back drop, but would be a great series on its own too. Covers regular people as opposed to force users doing jedi stuff, so can be enjoyed without the Star Wars baggage. Feels relevant too with it covering facism.
It’s a scifi series much closer to the Expanse than Star Wars.
Yeah. Pragmata was a pretty cool original IP that came out recently. But it’s seen as a risk to be original now