Comments on: We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.

By: Alexander R.

Alexander R. — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:07:24 +0000

This is quite disturbing. I’ll follow Heather’s idea and go soak my brain in misc. alcoholic beverages.

I guess one should not underestimate the power of the dark side/borg, which begs the question: Are YOU next?

By: IanB

IanB — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:58:58 +0000

Alas poor Dragon Age, we hardly knew ye.

By: Heartless_

Heartless_ — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:58:55 +0000

Still… holding… optimism…

/twinge

By: Ardanna

Ardanna — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:58:09 +0000

BioWare was listed as one of the top companies to work for in Alberta, if not Canada.

EA, Canada, has many horror stories in the community here (live in Vancouver, with the EA “Campus” next door in Burnaby), I work in QA and know many refugees from EA, Canada. I have told recruiters specifically that I won’t work for them and I invariably get the “yeah, I know” response.

I guess BioWare’s title of top employer to work for is pretty much toast now, nevermind the games etc. I feel bad for the people that work there.

By: Stormwaltz

Stormwaltz — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:55:05 +0000

EA’s purchase would include BioWare’s own IPs (Mass, Dragon Age, Jade Empire) and code (Eclipse and Aurora Engines, the RPG systems Mass added to Unreal 3).

There could be no BG, NWN, or KotOR sequels without permission of the license holders for those franchises.

The interesting question is how the games currently in production for third parties will be handled. The ME trilogy was paid for by MS, and the Sonic handheld by Sega.

By: Kaalinn

Kaalinn — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:54:07 +0000

I see several people mentioning the probability of horrible sequels to BioWare games, however, doesn’t Wizards of the Coast have a say in that?

I don’t know a lot about IP laws but I’m pretty sure they couldn’t do another NWN, KotOR, BG, etc. without the respective IP owners permission, right?

By: J.

J. — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 04:46:19 +0000

If the most you can hate EA for is UO2 … get over it.

By: chacmool

chacmool — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 03:41:06 +0000

Bungie used to be free, back when they made marathon and myth.. before the dark times. before the empire.

By: Elistor

Elistor — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:54:55 +0000

Which UO2?

Yeah after two sequels getting canned because they would compete with the relic that is UO… I will NEVER AGAIN allow myself any interest in something coming out of any EA studio until it’s hit the shelves and been patched twice. Personally I’m waiting to hear they’ve put Warhammer on hold, I was looking forward to it until EA bought Mythic.

By: 18Rabbit

18Rabbit — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:44:57 +0000

I still haven’t been able to forgive EA for canceling UO2.