#i love DA2

[transfenris-truther]

Broward probably just didn't renw the contract on October 1st the end of the fiscal year. Just how it is for contractor businesses unfortunately. I don't think they were layoffs but a common motion in big business. Still sucks for the contractors though but once it's expired, it's done with.

Respectfully, who cares? Bioware (it's autocorrecting to Broward for me too, lol) has been bleeding long-time team members, alienating its employees and engaging in generally crap employment practices for AGES. And it's only gotten worse over the last few years.

Bioware absolutely could've saved these jobs. They could've saved the jobs of other employees that they definitively have laid off in the past. They could've made the lives of their employees good enough that their veteran writers and game designers didn't feel compelled to quit. Bioware doesn't have to hire contractors either. I personally know out of work game designers who are desperate to escape a contractor model where they have no rights and no job security. Bioware could hire these people as employees, pay them good money and benefits, and not treat them like crap.

But they don't do that. Because the "Bioware" we have now is just EA wearing its corpse.

Bioware may not be the worst games company out there, but they're a part of an industry that is extremely committed to burning out employees, churning out trend-chasing, souless garbage, and enabling incredibly toxic business practices which harm their consumers and employees. The crunch is very real at Bioware and, while they've shown more restraint than the average AAA game company, we've seen them choose to engage in business practices which are anti-employee, and some that are anti-consumer as well.

We lost Bioware a long time ago, and I don't think the video game industry is ever going to give it back.

[shittywizzard]

Ok I'm normal again

No more dragon age posting. I'm normal I'm normal

[albaharu]

did you know if you support merrill in her act 2 mission you get rivalry points with everyone except isabela and varric. anyway merrill support team no one is gonna be mean to her on my watch

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[sparemoon]

RELEASE THE DA2 VARRIC ROMANCE ENDING BIOWARE

[nauti-ca]

just finished my official origins world save game….. ohhh the sillies. ohhh

[beebundt]

this is the first time back at my computer since my back injury 3 months ago and i had a hankering for some isabela 💙🗡

[pepsiprophecy]

fenhawke brainrot ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝

[riddleturner]

he's an apostate. he's a grey warden. he's on the run from the law. he's bonded body mind and soul to a spirit of the fade. he practices one of the rarest and most taxing magical diciplines known to mages. he's a cat dad. he was put in solitary confinement for a full year. he saves lives daily and asks for no payment. he's a massive bitch. he's personal friends with the hero of ferelden. he hates the church. he's hopelessly in love with you. he writes and distributes his own manifesto. he was forced to kill his own ex boyfriend. he doesn't see a way out. he's fucking blonde.

[kirkwallguy]

ngl even if you take the mage-templar issues out of the equation i think living in a sewer full of refugees who are sick and starving knowing that there's a church in the rich part of town that's full of gold statues would be enough to make me start killing

[okthisway]

Gale x Astarion 🤝 Anders x Fenris dangerous and annoying boyfriends

[lonelyoleander]

fenris bullying merrill is so funny to me cuz bro THIS is who you're beefing with?????? GET REAL

[albaharu]

anders like "yeah mage oppresion and being possesed my two big problems in life. oh shit fuck the taint"

[shadovvheart]

phew! finally, here are my main heroes. click for better quality!

templates: x, x, x. (made by @marianchurchland !)

[flekh]

• 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐀𝐖 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐄𝐑 🎵 𝐉𝐨𝐳𝐞𝐟 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐦 - 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐈 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐞

[joy-jpg]

justice design concepts

[mourn-and-watch]

actually i love that we never got to know anders' name. it's such a defining detail because i don't think that at the start of daa/da2 he even feels the need to tell anyone what he was called once, no matter how close he gets to the people around him. does it even matter now? is there something left from the boy that set that barn on fire and never saw his home again? he's used to anders and it suits him, not even because of his origin, but because of the reason why he got that name. not speaking, not disclosing anything about himself to people who locked him up was his first act of rebellion, in a way. it took him years and a spirit of justice and also a lot of shit to start caring about other mages, but he couldn't accept what was happening to him since he was a kid and oh boy was he determined to stand his ground even when it couldn't change that much. i mean, that's why he is anders. quite literally. the first spark of the mage rebellion was lit by a person who was stubborn enough to never give his name away to anyone in that tower