BioWare 'doing great' despite missteps, says EA COO
EA COO Peter Moore showed a vote of confidence in BioWare, despite a string of recent problems.
Many have been disappointed in BioWare as of late--from Mass Effect 3's controversial ending, to the poor performance of Star Wars: The Old Republic, to Dragon Age 2's tepid reception. But EA COO Peter Moore says the publisher still has faith in the company.
"They're doing great," Moore told Eurogamer. "You say the last 12-18 months, I think of three things: I think of Star Wars: The Old Republic, I think of what Mass Effect 3 has done and all of the offshoots we've done of that, and then a little bit further back Dragon Age. So from that perspective I think the studio has done great."
He says Mass Effect was "enormous" in terms of sales, and credited BioWare for listening to the fans in regards to the ending controversy. "So the team at BioWare, again, to their credit, said, all right, we're going to stop a few things right now, the team's going to go back and provide some DLC, no charge, to provide more context around what went on there," he said. "We delivered that recently."
For The Old Republic, Moore says the business model has moved on and the studio adapted to it. He pointed out that 40% of the exit interviews cited the subscription fee as a reason for leaving, so they adjusted their expectations based on that. "We're just reacting to consumer feedback by doing that."
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EA COO Peter Moore showed a vote of confidence in BioWare, despite a string of recent problems.-
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Well... it's been 18 months since DA2 came out. That's the same amount of time between DA:O and DA2. That means they'll have put more more work into DA3 by the time it comes out. The only question is whether they're taking it in a good direction or not. They made some off-hand comment about Skyrim being a big inspiration, but I don't know anyone who wants to see the game be like Skyrim.
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Of course he's going to say they are doing great. Peter Moore has been sounding the F2P trumpet for EA more than anyone lately and SW-OR is making the move to .... yep you guessed it F2P, of course Bioware is doing great !!!
EA's 1 billion dollar PopCap bubble is starting to burst. Now they are putting all their chips in F2P. Lets see the only Bioware games I know of right now are Star Wars - Old Republic.... going F2P and Bioware-Victory's C&C Generals 2 which was just move to ....... yet F2P.
Bioware is EA's new poster child for F2P so of course everything is alright according to Peter.
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I'd love for them to forget DA2 existed and make an amazing RPG again, but I have no faith in them anymore. I am still playing SWTOR, but only because I've made friends through the game, not because of how good it is...it was good, but I've done everything in the game aside from level every class, which I'm never going to do because of how boring leveling is once you've done it once. It'd be great if there was a perk to only play the story missions, but they will never do that.
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