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>you'd think that Bioware would have made a Star Trek game over Star Wars.
I was actually planning to work for Bioware.
>Just completed training at a mediocre 3D school that lived for 3 years before dying
>Wife, baby boy, and myself moved back home, which is near Bioware Edmonton
>Working on portfolio CD (this was the early 2000s) in the hopes of impressing the pack of smug cunts guys that ran the joint
>Wife makes friend with wife of Bioware animator
>Talk with him and tell him my plans
>mfw he describes a litany of employee shoahs, the likes of which haven't been seen outside of Victorian times
>Employees forced to work 20 hours days
>Some guys sleep at the office because if they don't have to travel back and forth, they get more time to sleep
>Christmas becomes an anti-holiday as ridiculous release deadlines loom ever closer
>Vicious infighting over the silliest things
And this is BEFORE the social justice virus took hold.
Roughly the same time period:
>Friend of a friend (and a guy who I privately hated) took the reigns of one project: a sequel to a mildly popular game
>No support from above, no support from below
>I assume it was part politics and part his sparkling personality
>Game was universally hated
>He was banished to the manual department
Recently:
>Buddy talks me into going to the reveal party for Ass Effect: Andromeda.
>Never interested in the previous games, and don't give a shit about this one, but buddy's already bought the tickets
>Charity donation, allegedly
>If they're smart, they used the cash for canned goods for themselves
>Watch in horror as sample of the game plays on big screen, making the horrible faces even MORE apparent
>Q&A
>Some sperg asks a question about a particular alien race
>Faggot who answers suddenly starts virtuegasming about Trump, never answering the guy's question, but getting a round of applause from the sheep
>Next guy asks about the shitty faces and when they'll be fixed
>Entire panel gets angry and refuses to answer the question
>Gal asks about romances with aliens
>Complete cum-inhaler answers question. Says he romanced some male non-humanoid thing
>Gets post-coital look on his face and says "The players will find him… very satisfying."
>mfw
Bioware deserves to burn, guys. I loved Baldur's Gate I & II, but their shit is weak and their management is retarded.