BioWare Working Staff to Tears and Calling Its Mental Abuse “Magic”

On a somewhat unrelated note, I think that the idea of big budget games is demonstrating itself to not be such a good business practice. I feel like more and more AAA games are collapsing under their own weight. I've been playing the total war series since childhood and I actually feel like the widening scope of Rome 2, Attila, and Warhammer have actually made the experience worse. If I look honestly at the games I enjoy most they're actually much more focused and narrow. I'm planning Sekiro: shadows die twice now and it really demonstrates that less is more. The game added a few things, namely stealth and much greater mobility through grappling hook. But it cut out effectively all gear and armor, drastically simplified weapon upgrading to just one incrementing value, eliminated the stats system. Multiplayer was also removed in entirety. It largely cut more content than it added as compared to the Dark Souls series and the game is better for it.

Bioware products are an exemplar of what happens when you treat your staff like crap, and all the senior people take their ball and go home.