Angry Joe interrupts his stream for BioWare's farewell
His reaction to the reported closure and canceled Mass Effect project sparks a comment section roughly eleven times busier than usual.
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Story of Why this story? The video drew 3,886 comments in its first day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (355).
EA SHUTS DOWN BIOWARE! - Angry Rant
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- 0:16Joe brings up Schreier's report of EA job cuts and BioWare's closure.
- 1:08BioWare's farewell statement says early development on the next Mass Effect project is ending.
- 2:36The hosts revisit EA's previous studio closures, including Visceral, Pandemic and Westwood.
- 7:12The team criticizes EA's emphasis on microtransactions and live-service games.
- 9:16Joe hopes former BioWare developers will make games at independent or mid-sized studios.
Angry Joe stops the gameplay to read the news. On screen is Jason Schreier's report that Electronic Arts is cutting around 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare. Then comes the studio's farewell statement, including the end of early development on the next Mass Effect.
For a host whose channel is built around game reviews, this becomes a conversation about losing the people and creative identity behind a familiar name. "BioWare is no longer BioWare. It's not the same BioWare that it was all those years ago," Joe says.
That distinction also runs through the unusually busy comments beneath "EA SHUTS DOWN BIOWARE! - Angry Rant". Viewers debate when the studio stopped feeling like the BioWare they remembered, pointing to Anthem, Andromeda and The Veilguard. Others return to the original Mass Effect trilogy, including one viewer describing a replay that renewed their attachment to those games.
The upload's views were ordinary for AngryJoeShow. The conversation was not: first-day comments arrived at roughly eleven times the channel's usual level.
Joe and his co-hosts pull up EA's history of studio closures and revisit a Mass Effect teaser, an announcement now viewed through the cancellation described in BioWare's statement. Their discussion turns to live-service priorities and cost cutting, before Joe offers a more constructive hope: that former BioWare developers find room at independent or mid-sized studios to make creative games.
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Mass Effect (1-3), you will always be in our hearts.
@robbedoes8619See it on YouTubeI recently replayed the Mass Effect Legendary Trilogy and fell in love with those games all over again. So sad to see how far they fell.
@MattHurley-p2hSee it on YouTubeThe writing was on the wall for a long time. I'm still devastated. Mass Effect is my favourite SciFi game series.
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