They kinda are.. Look up Exodus. Feels like that game will never come out though

InXile was most famously the Wasteland series, the spiritual successors to the original fallout designs (1 and 2). But they also did Tides of Numeria and Bards Tale (I think, but don't quote me)

Dead Cells which eventually got Castlevania official support is very good

They could buy the rights to the Freespace franchise from Interplay. It's the same story, after all.

InXile did Wasteland 2/3 and Torment: Numenara. All fine RPGs.

Completely agree that the talent needs to go elsewhere - this deal is the death knell for creative works at EA. I'd be careful about what you promise on Kickstarter, though. Signing up to lots of stretch goals is likely to burden your game with lots of tickbox features that don't make any sense.

In fact, I'd say that Bloodstained (while generally excellent) would be improved by cropping out some stuff. The crafting, cooking and crop farming could just be chopped out whole, and put all the upgraded gear in the place where you find items. Would swap out some of the enemy and boss count for a bit more variety. And 'hard mode' could have done with some playtesting and a general rebalance, or just be renamed 'infrequent crazy difficulty spike' mode. But someone paid for those tickboxes and so we've got them.

Letting RPG designers run completely free from publishers can be a recipe for disaster, too. Pillars of Eternity? Excellent. PoE2? Unbelievably unfocussed and sprawling, disrespectful of your time, goes nowhere fast. Could possibly have made two games out of it if someone had told them to chop it in half and then polish the bits, but was a bit of a studio killer instead, could never sell enough to cover the costs.

and the Switch port was (apparently) never fixed...

What's the supposed issues on the Switch port? I only owned the game on Switch, and I didn't have any issues playing through it.

It happened with the developers behind Fallout as well. They became Obsidian

Ok, well, let's not forget that the only reason Fallout achieved mainstream popularity is because Bethesda took it and applied their Elder Scrolls formula.

The Outer Worlds

Which although being more polished than Fallout, was nowhere near as good. They also had some bad writers with an agenda that made sure players couldn't have relationships.

BioWare needs to take its talent and go indie.

Bioware has no talent in 2025.

Naw, still too gay. Its gotta be nothing but scenes from top gun from now on.

I liked Inquisition alot though the behind the scenes scoop was that the development process was a dumpster fire that only came together into a good game cause they got lucky.

Why do you suspect this is good?

Religious extremists will come and piss us off wherever they can... It makes sense, but it's a pain in the ass!

The problem is that we allowed these idiots to amass so much wealth, that they can just buy and ruin everything they don't agree with. If the US had anything close to an actual anti cartel agency, they would not allow these kind of takeover to protect free speech and american values