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The History of BioWare
It seems somehow appropriate, given the day, to link over to a historical perspective on the developer BioWare. Eurogamer took a look back at the house the doctors built to give us some insight on where the company came from, and where it's going. "The modding community had always rallied around Baldur's Gate, so Neverwinter Nights wisely shipped with the game's toolset available and ready for use by fans. Improved quests were soon blooming all over the internet, like so much role-playing lichen. BioWare also supported the game with their own official expansion packs, and later through smaller downloadable modules, while the game brushed seductively alongside the world of the MMORPG with a hefty multiplayer component that enabled players to join up across the internet to tackle the main story."
Sources on these bug reports and reviews? Metacritic score is a very respectable 93. And what does Microsoft have to do with Bioware? They developed 2 games for the xbox. Also for all the people bemoaning EA's acquisition of Bioware, remember that Bioware games were published by Interplay, and they sure as hell outlived that disaster (and came out stronger for it).