I see the words ‘agile’ and my hackles raise 😐 blog.bioware.com/2025/01/29/b... - ThreadSky

ghildirthalen.bsky.social • 25 days ago

I see the words ‘agile’ and my hackles raise 😐

https://blog.bioware.com/2025/01/29/bioware-studio-update/

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I try to think optimistically about stuff like this ... but, my goodness, McKay needs to not word everything like it's political spin. Whew ..... makes the optimism tough to hold onto.

varricschesthair.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm sure some corporate communications person was tasked with writing that. Muckity mucks are too busy going over spreadsheets of who they're going to get rid of to think about how to communicate it in a transparent, thoughtful way

walkingdeadpool.bsky.social•25 days ago

For a second, I was almost impressed by the spin and wording of it, then was like, Oh no bro. 😮‍💨

annoyed-galaxy.bsky.social•24 days ago

I am blowing EA up with my mind. I fucking KNEW they would be the downfall of Bioware. GRAAAH

ohgaywarden.bsky.social•25 days ago

I wished they would stop using project corpo speak in a PR letter like this knowing that media outlets would pick it up bc unless you've worked at a tech company no one knows what agile means in a project sense 😭

oakvaleyokel.bsky.social•25 days ago

The future of two fun fantasy worlds I love, Dragon Age and Mass Effect are standing very close to the abyss

luke-garou.bsky.social•25 days ago

The vibes are not great, particularly without specifics.

sageodonovan.bsky.social•25 days ago

The vibes are rancid.
I mean, they’ve been that way for a while with the casualness in layoffs (ie. The artist who made the Hawke armor for Veilguard being laid off the day of the armors release). There’s some sort of feeling between trepidation+disgust.
I hope everyone manages to bounce back soon…

sageodonovan.bsky.social•25 days ago

The amount of writers, artists, animators, designers, etc. who gave everything they had to be tossed out just rubs me so wrong.
I wish gaming could divest itself from corporatism, esp. with how they handle development cycles. Icky.

todrazok.bsky.social•25 days ago

sounds like they are downscaling the studio?

kahuna68.bsky.social•25 days ago

Translation: There will be layoffs and we will have to do more with less going forward.

varricschesthair.bsky.social•25 days ago

"we have challenged ourselves..."
"...reimagine how we work"
"...become a more agile, focused studio"

All corporate speak for "we've got what we wanted from you now and will toss you aside like a wet rag. please get out."

walkingdeadpool.bsky.social•25 days ago

Boy, the way it's worded, too, it's just...

wickeditalian.bsky.social•25 days ago

His business jargon doesn't fool me. They're downsizing because EA only wants them to work on one project at a time and I fucking hate it.

dassjennir.bsky.social•25 days ago

So "agile = we are firing people"?

triaelf9.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's DISGUSTING

yourfunnyuncle.bsky.social•25 days ago

Pure management-speak for "We're not killing the studio quite yet but we're doing everything short of that until we decide if the new ME game is actually worth making."

chaosbria.com•25 days ago

😬😬😬

setvil.bsky.social•25 days ago

I don't like the feeling this just put in my chest.

sassytyty.bsky.social•25 days ago

So what I'm getting from this is they're about to get rid of a bunch of people again.

farore5.bsky.social•25 days ago

I’m staying positive by pretending I didn’t just read this. 🫠

princessgoose.bsky.social•25 days ago

guarda-veu.bsky.social•25 days ago

a lot of people have been quitting, too....

bookishmeow.bsky.social•25 days ago

So layoffs?

ghildirthalen.bsky.social•25 days ago

I think so...

bookishmeow.bsky.social•25 days ago

Let's hope they keep the writers long enough to push out World of Thedas Vol 3. That's all I ask at this point!

rinjirenee.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is so tactless. "Please hand me more lore on your way out the door." The fandom should be raging on their behalf right now.

bookishmeow.bsky.social•25 days ago

I am raging. But also, I am worried that the DA series is gone now because it didn't get the metrics they wanted.

They'll be laying people off for sure, and yeah it is a little selfish of me to want that, but i'm hoping they don't boot everyone involved with DA that isn't "useful" over on ME.

towardsdawn.bsky.social•25 days ago

Please check yourself

bookishmeow.bsky.social•25 days ago

So if that means, one little project for lore will hold on to the writers and hold on hope that DA will continue, I'll take it.

worfsplaining.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oh dear :(

eveyning.bsky.social•25 days ago

when an exec at my job tried to make my dept more agile, they stripped people of important roles, tried to force everyone to have the same knowlegde and fired half the team
obv they needed to hire them back bc things went to hell pretty quickly 🙄 the sob got promoted for his amazing idea anyway

safty.me•25 days ago

Seeing execs fail up like this is a microcosm for why Capitalism as practiced in the US is a failed economic strategy.

beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social•25 days ago

Same. That word is always code for "we slashed our workforce."

ehammons.bsky.social•25 days ago

honestly so glad veilguard's story actually ended unlike how open ended inquisition's ended so if bw does implode it doesn't take the end of the story with it

sistrnightingale.bsky.social•25 days ago

you hate to see it ….. ☹️

starfinderjenn.bsky.social•25 days ago

😬

djshepherd.bsky.social•25 days ago

Double talk that uses a technical technique of code development and repurposes it to mean laying people off. I’m really not happy.

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