Neither the layoffs nor breaking ties with a playtesting company that knows their worth in the market sound like they’re going to help BioWare make RPGs that can compete with Baldur’s Gate 3, formerly a BioWare series.

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    Wait, when was Baldur’s Gate a BioWare series? That’s the first time I’m hearing about this.

    Edit: Well how about that…

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      The previous two games, 20 years ago. It’s what gave them the reputation of being a studio that made great RPGs. Then they went on to make Neverwinter Nights (another D&D game), Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (Star Wars with rules very close to D&D), Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age.

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      BioWare made BG 1 & 2 back in the day, and they started Dragon Age as a spiritual successor to their DnD games as I would imagine (and assume) that EA didn’t want to deal with WoTC with getting the license to a DnD game.

      So it’s kind of ironic that arguably one of the best games to come out this year is a Baldur’s Gate game as the new Dragon Age game sounds like it might be languishing in development.