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sirico, (edited ) do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
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All these studios are ships of Theseus at this point

RxBrad, do gaming w Microsoft completely removes recently-nerfed £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass trial
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Long games like this were never what I spun up a Game Pass trial for anyways. It was always “finish as many 8-12hr games as I can in a month”.

That said, I still have plenty of Microsoft Rewards points racked up for the next time I decide to do this for free…

ryven, do gaming w Microsoft completely removes recently-nerfed £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass trial
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Well, if I didn’t sign up when it was $1, I’m certainly not going to now…

RxBrad, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
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Would Mass Effect Andromeda’s writers be considered senior staff at this point?

UrPartnerInCrime, (edited )
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That’s what I was wondering. This may not be a terrible decison.

Edit: because I didn’t read I was wrong

TheMinions,

From the article:

As part of its recently publicised cutbacks, BioWare has “let go of” Lukas Kristjanson, the lead writer behind Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, and the writer of the first three Dragon Age games, Mary Kirby.

killeronthecorner,

Welp

GreenMario,

I didn’t even think they had anyone from the BG era still there.

Imagine having the same job for 23 years and then going “fuck you bye”.

circuitfarmer,
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There is no social contract anymore.

TWeaK,

I wouldn’t mind it, typically that level of service comes with redundancy pay. Depends where he was based, if he was working in the US then he’d probably be left high and dry, because US employment is shit.

MrScottyTay,

Could’ve been a mutual decision. They may have taken the hot because they were already thinking of leaving at some point anyway. That sort of thing happens sometimes.

naticus,

Lol I don’t even have to imagine that. It’s funny you point out 23 years because that’s exactly how long I worked at my previous job before moving on in 2022.

Steeve,

Dude could be getting a severance package over a year long at this point, I don’t know if that’s a “fuck you bye”

GreenMario,

The good ending.

Blizzard,

The fuck? Hope he gets hired at Larian.

k_rol, do gaming w Microsoft completely removes recently-nerfed £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass trial

But I deserve lots of games for $1! How dare they!?

Iapar, do gaming w Microsoft completely removes recently-nerfed £1/$1 Xbox Game Pass trial
MonkderZweite, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

Oh. Bioware disassembles itself.

ebenixo, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

Experience doesn’t matter to companies anymore. They’ll get college hires to do the role and reward them for mediocrity

NathanielThomas, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

Writers, who the fuck needs them, eh?

It’s not like writers ever made Mass Effect good or anything. I mean, something something Reapers, big whatever.

Kahlenar,

Well, now I can’t tell if the writing for ME was good or bad

Call_Me_Maple, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
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The time of the LLMs is upon us. Settle in everyone, it’s going to be a very bumpy ride.

doggle, do games w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

Character in the thumbnail is throwing the kukri backwards

mihnt,
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akchuawly, that's more like a saw back recurve bowie. Kukris have a curve along the spine.

Pistcow, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts

How hard is it to write “pick a color”?

DrQuint,

Depends on how much you get to crunch.

Madison_rogue, do gaming w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun
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For a fusion rifle? Meh...

CIWS-30, do gaming w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

Honestly, given how toxic Destiny 2's monetization can be, along with its FOMO, I'm not surprised. That + the grind was why I quit. It got tiring and repetitive, especially the buy to play seasons.

GreenMario, do games w Destiny 2 players are pre-ordering and cancelling The Final Shape just to get an exotic gun

On one hand, 😂

The other, aren’t they just gonna delete that gun from your inventory? A simple check if expansion == owned is all they gotta do?

Chozo,

Bungie 100% can remove the gun from people's inventories, but they won't. They're usually pretty hands-off on stuff like this, because your inventory is accessible cross-platform, but your purchased expansions are not. So they'll leave the gun in your inventory because they know that the possibility exists that some people may change their minds on their original purchase and re-buy the expansion for a different platform.

GreenMario,

Huh. Loophole. Well I’ll be 🤣

DagonPie,
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Ive done this a couple times and you get to keep all the pre order bonuses.

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