A new Star Wars MMO, made by Bioware? The rumours could be true...

[vee4473]

Originally posted by Kataphraktoi


Games arnt products, they are people-though the industry likes to treat them like products. The team in austin will make a vastly different game from the team in canada. dedication to quality is irrelevant

Are you kidding?

Games are products as much as any other. I'm a mechanical engineer. An engineer influences a pysical product as much as a software designer does a virtual one. You'd be AMAZED!!!

The overall company governs any product, game or not, in its quality. I'm so tired of listening to software/game designers acting as if their product is so vastly different than any other. As if they deal with issued that other people don't.

There are freedoms allowed by the top brass and there are guidelines set. The bottom line is that a company has standards. If Bioware is a good company, they wont let a sub standard branch in the bad ol' US ruin it. And if they do, like I said, i'd beware any future game they let out.

[Asher]

Originally posted by vee4473


I'm just curious how you know that what you consider the real Bioware isn't in the loop on this one. You mentioned 2 offices, but how can you know that the one you dislike is the one involved here?

Maybe the Bioware you allude to in Canada as the one we all know does indeed have a role in this project?

The studio in Austin was announced last year to be working on an MMORPG as its first game.

The name isn't what's important in a company, it's the quality of the talent pool. Bioware in Edmonton is filled with PhDs and geniuses, and the people in Austin are all employees who made failed games for other companies.

Sorry for not having huge expectations.

[Asher]

Originally posted by vee4473
Besides, even if it is a different location, quality doesn't neccesarily suffer. I just want to know how you dug that out of the press release. A company has a vested interest in continuing quality, no matter how many offices are scattered around the globe.

How good could good ol' bioware be if they choose to hire inferior designers for their other offices? If that's the case, then i'd start to seriously examine the main office as well as your opinion of their games.

You act like this is unusual?

Compare Rockstar (UK) with Rockstar Vancouver and Rockstar Toronto's games. The name doesn't mean everything, it's the people.

It's very common for there to be one really good team, then other branches opening up with the same dev-house name but seriously lacking quality. Another example is Ubisoft...Ubisoft Montreal has a AAA-record for games, Ubisoft Shanghai is..well, less.

[Kataphraktoi]

Are you kidding?

Games are products as much as any other. I'm a mechanical engineer. An engineer influences a pysical product as much as a software designer does a virtual one. You'd be AMAZED!!!

The overall company governs any product, game or not, in its quality. I'm so tired of listening to software/game designers acting as if their product is so vastly different than any other. As if they deal with issued that other people don't.

There are freedoms allowed by the top brass and there are guidelines set. The bottom line is that a company has standards. If Bioware is a good company, they wont let a sub standard branch in the bad ol' US ruin it. And if they do, like I said, i'd beware any future game they let out.

Yeah right

You can hire an army of artists but they still cant make a mona lisa

[Apocalypse]

Well turns out I was right. They are using people from Origin. Namely Damion Schubert as the lead combat designer, who did UO's combat.