{"id":14424,"date":"2011-10-04T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bioware-says-it-doesn-t-do-what-ea-tells-it-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14424-bioware-says-it-doesn-t-do-what-ea-tells-it-to-do","title":{"rendered":"Bioware says it doesn&#039;t do what EA tells it to do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware co-founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk have told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-10-03-bioware-ea-doesnt-tell-us-what-to-do\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a> that the studio still operates with a fair degree of autonomy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing we commonly see is when fans don&#8217;t like something we do, they put in the comments, &#8216;Oh those EA guys, they&#8217;re making BioWare do&#8230;&#8217; And I always chuckle because we are EA, we&#8217;re BioWare &#8211; we&#8217;re both, and we still have huge autonomy in terms of what we do,&#8221; said Zeschuk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not being forced to do anything or told to do anything. We make the decisions. We take input. It&#8217;s just funny when people say that, because it&#8217;s not actually remotely true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of the day, we&#8217;re responsible for the quality of the content and games we release, and we&#8217;re committed to try and always take feedback really seriously from our fans and be humble about how we take it &#8211; use it to make the next games better,&#8221; Ray Muzyka added.<\/p>\n<p>Bioware is currently busy working on what is possibly its most ambitious project yet with its MMO, Star Wars: The Old Republic.<\/p>\n<p>The Old Republic is due out internationally on 22 December, however, it is currently not on the cards to be released in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/18446-Bioware-isn-t-pushed-around-by-EA?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Bioware says it doesn't do what EA tells it to do\"><strong>Bioware says it doesn&#8217;t do what EA tells it to do<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still operates independently <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}