User blog comment:Lancer1289/Why do People Hate EA/@comment-2127131-20120619203700/@comment-4807396-20120622133654

Actually, EA picked up BioWare in October of 2007, a few months before ME1 was released. So both DA:O and ME2 are examples of BioWare's work under EA. As for ME2 being more shooter-like and linear, that's hard to argue with, but it could be argued that all they did was cut out the most tedious parts of ME1's gameplay. ME1 was BioWare's first real go at a cover-based shooter, and it shows. It's fun and all, but it lacks polish.