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Rewatching treasure planet being one of my comfort movies

And had realization I have written Taliesin’s and Varrics dynamic be very much just Jim and Silvers,minus the whole lying betrayal stuff in that film (that’s a job for you Solas)

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Reading more on this BioWare drama and my god it’s so similar from my last job countless restructures only to go back or redo how we worked, cut hours and people cause oh we have to make budget but also the manager took big fat cuts from doing that. All of us stressed cause the place is so short staffed while each personal doing the job 3 more, while people coming complaining and sending complaints none stop cause can’t help or get anything done to point everyone did bare minimum just to get shifts over. Many of us left while others got themselves fired etc. and it was all management and corporate fucking around when they didn’t care for our sanity just profit; majority of us left or fired the place tanked with the management and corporate bs that the location was closed down cause of resource losses. This is very much what Ea did with BioWare and signs were there all they with inquisition’s. I still loved the products they released but from my own experience this very much corporate influence and management issues cause everyone to crash out and creativity killed; Busche came in and wrangled it up it seems with articles I’ve read and the council but with non stop reboots and having likely less resources in what I went for school with if Veilguard did amazing numbers which it’ technically decent, yet not Ea corporate level decent cause they all crazy. I feel EA would’ve still done this, the amount of money they wasted cause they couldn’t make up their minds it was likely just well this what you get it’s your fault to the studio. Greed has just ruined everything it touches I hate it last I’m talking about this

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Wanting to share my two cents on the BioWare news, coming from any already P.O American lately and bullshit of greed, this will be a long rant barely flowing yet my anger and hurt is to strong lately on many things and this news to a series , of many, that help me cope and relax is kinda a breaking point tbh of my patience and cool

As yes someone that liked Veilguard hell even andromeda their could been more yes but all dragon age games in my opinion are 7 or 8 out of 10s for me but I’m in love with the world and there’s still a lot instances of me noticing in veilguard they did still keep vibe of series i know people say otherwise; writers were thrown shit with heavy interference and most likely inner conflict which heavily effects aspects

But I digress EA is scum, playing games since I was very young yet not touching and then going to school for development I could clearly see EA had plan old scum. My first look into it was the dead space franchise then with BioWare playing origins and then all others with development and shit that came out EA always been a problem with their studios they run them dry of any creativity then point blame on them yet have gotten worse among many more AAA studios, there is a reason I never finished my degree cause even my professors were burnt out. I could begin seeing the cracks with inquisition yes it sold well but I feel Skyrim hype helped tbh cause I remember on release to DA fans saying without dlc is badly written too but 10 years later here we are, then an article and leaks of how management was with inquisition even creative shit on that game and mass effect 3. Especially how devs wished inquisition to fail on how toxic everything was then andromeda then anthem was management and ea all arguing or just more bullshit. Ea began the fall of the studio like they do with any of there why I really don’t f***ing know likely greed especially how they want live service so bad for everything or crazy expectations ; we could’ve had Da:4 sooner but EA kept interfering thinking what players would want, then making it live service from originally single to only turn around again and be like nah single player again and oh here’s time frame with my guess less resources and then covid happened. Adding in how that article came out about inquisition development and some things I’ve seen in recent it’s inner conflict as well as Ea bs . The writers yes a lot them in last 15 years have said or done shit too and can be part of the issue yet they do not deserve to treated like trash especially with dev hell that was Veilguard yes o have my disagreements with a lot them but it’s clear EA likely gave an ultimatum for this game after rebooting it a third time and brought people in. It seems when busche came in she tried to wrangle as best she could and likely very little time with dragon age it seems EA never had faith but did for mass effect. Like mass effect is over I was fine with andromeda which yes heavily had it issues many but there was heart there and i feel Veilguard did too but Dev hell and confidence were wrung dry it was basically get decent product out the door which they did and tried really did, game to me Is an 8 same with Da2 which it’s heavily the same and same with origins DAI is the 7 for me, but digressing once more EA likely didn’t care do i kinda agree studio should focus on one game at a time? Absolutely cause years ago they could’ve helped on the sanity of writers and devs yet money money money and EA doing this decision with less people will only cause more inner turmoil where to me it’s basically their Old Yellering the studio like they do every single one. The writers should not have been let go the devs shouldn’t have but oh poor CEO well he needed his money 🥺 and big fat cuts 🥺 no F.U you already make hella money your ass just pulling a F***ing Warner bros bullshit now. Like you can tell it’s about money cause EA still hasn’t moved off their high horse about The Ai shit for the Voice actor strike nor have they given the packages to those they’ve laid off at BioWare ; it’s just straight up greed that’s ruining any of our favs series today. The only studio I’ve seen that stands up to EA or fight back under them is Respawn but how long til they turn on them too their running out of studios and rather greedily hold IPs example being dead space and those Alice games and will not sell or let other studios touch them. And doing this is just justifying the piece of shit grifters who never even cared in first place it isn’t go woke go broke it’s corporate greed money that these asshats don’t need.

Yet my conclusion I loved Veilguard I saw the heart there alot their are references in codex’s and dialogue with little they got . could they’ve done more yes but it seemed EA was basically rushing them to get going and as dev hell continued in already fracturing studio with inner conflicts those who left or were laid off even ones laid towards the end were likely so mentally drained they just did what they had bare minimum , I know the feeling from my last job new management made it so horrible everyone quit or were let go ,and huge industry problem is their killing creativity just like movie studios like Disney are cause they care about money and play it safe why in character writing Rook at times does play safe or simple yes but there’s still a deepness there as well, it’s better than Headcanoning the hell out of your inquisitor and I loved my inquisitor and inquisition to add. To add about the concept arts as well I see people talk about they were sadly concepts my classes would teach it’s basically rapid fire majority of concepts we’ve seen weren’t cut they never were approved and likely with dev hell and seems so much conflict I seemed the creativity was dying during inquisition’s development or confidence with Ea was turned to shit

I don’t know what the future holds cause ea has track record of pulling to help at other studios when now it’s so dwindling, for mass effect another series I love I feel way it’s going back to Milky Way, we don’t know plot yet, but going back with a direct sequel is a bad idea especially of fanfare was to the me3 choice endings, their going to have to make a canon which Like Veilguard with past choices will piss people off too to point of non interest and then if bringing Shep back as playable their stories over so if it is this route I don’t see it going well either, andromeda was the best to continue but I just can’t see ME5 working with fans how drastically each ending changes hopefully I’m wrong in my opinion that’s always been more recognizable. Yet with news I’ll still be posting stuff for all of dragon age even mass effect when I do my annual playthroughs. I love making content for it. I love my characters each helping me either get better at my writing or help find myself in the end. This whole series has helped me during dark times or times where i questioned myself and if it’s the end it suck’s and hope if continued new writers can do justice without Ea interference yet I can’t see it. After all said and done Thank you to all the writers from each game, pouring your heart and soul for trying especially Veilguard.

One day the dawn will come either that be a brighter chance or the end it will come one day and the bs can at least be over the studio and I hope all devs all writers find better ventures and way less toxic in the hellscape of an industry . Yet as a fandom lets remember the series as why we love it and if you don’t like Veilguard or just can’t like it I understand and appreciate your belief and support your reasoning everyone has a right to say their opinions and including dislikes. Art is subjective art is opinionated art is for the people that this industry lacks to understand killing creativity , and know for the series we just carry the torch as a fandom and honor it if it never continues as is.

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I’m so stuck on the pick Harding or Davrin choice in veilguard that I want of my canon worldstate I like both , and have played/added Taliesin getting on well with both. Writing fics too and be undecided is effecting some parts of the fics 😭

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Finally here after 10 years new dragon age is finally here, been a long road 🥺

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Finally seeing it fully and having release after 10 years is such a surreal feeling.

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Had to warn and apologize to my friends the complete ungodly annoyance I will be by tomorrow for dragon age. It’s been 10 years I’m gonna be a lil’unhinged man