EA has quickly regained its place as the number one villain in gaming between the Saudi Arabia buyout and closing down BioWare. Almost 300,000 fans have petitioned to #SaveMassEffect in the weeks since, and one fan even spray-painted the campaign's slogan in front of the company's Madrid office. But the most poignant protest against EA's decades of mismanagement yet is a mural outside its Vancouver headquarters to all the studios it has killed.
"So, with the passing of BioWare, a little something something in me snapped," u/Xveers posted to the r/Gaming subreddit. "We've had EA offices in town for years... decades. But this year, with the timing, I decided that maybe, maybe a little more should be done. So a day of cutting, painting, printing and taping ended with this little display getting set up outside their offices."
There's a grave for:
Seeing so much of gaming history laid bare like this, surviving as cardboard graves propped up outside of EA headquarters, is a stark reminder of how much of the industry has been whittled away over the last 20 years by one company.
BioWare, which pioneered the RPG genre with the likes of Baldur's Gate, was shut down...
