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Jade Empire Could Have Been a Franchise if it Came to Xbox 360 – BioWare Co-Founder

February 27, 2025 5 Min Read
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One of many unique co-founders of BioWare, Dr. Greg Zeschuck, has revealed that traditional RPG Jade Empire had the potential to be a full-fledged franchise. In an interview with the My Good Console podcast (through GamesRadar), Zeschuck revealed that Microsoft’s recommendation in regards to the sport’s launch is what led to Jade Empire being left behind.

For context, Jade Empire was launched on the unique Xbox and PC all the best way again in April 2005. This is able to be just some months earlier than the launch of the Xbox 360 (November 2005), which might go on to turn into an extremely widespread console.

“And Microsoft’s like, ‘no no, you must launch it now, proper on the finish of the cycle, as a result of it’s a good time,’” Zeschuk mentioned about Jade Empire‘s launch. “It was like, the worst recommendation. Like, absolute moronic recommendation from them. It was the stupidest factor ever.”

This is able to point out that Jade Empire was initially going to be launched on Xbox 360 moderately than being left behind on the unique Xbox because of Microsoft’s recommendation. Zeschuck spoke about BioWare probably utilizing the additional time main as much as the Xbox 360’s launch to enhance the visuals of Jade Empire.

“Give us six months, give us the prospect to make it a launch title for the 360 and we’d have one other franchise,” Zeschuk mentioned. “And I imply, who is aware of the place… like, I simply suppose it might have been a far more profitable product on the beginnning of a cycle, versus the tip.”

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For some extra context, BioWare had labored fairly intently with Microsoft on the time, having developed RPGs like Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic for the unique Xbox. Their partnership would proceed on the Xbox 360, which was the primary platform to get the unique Mass Impact.

In the identical interview, Zeschuck additionally spoke about how he, alongside co-founder Ray Muzyka, might have probably taken over EA from throughout the firm if BioWare’s in-development MMORPG on the time, Star Wars: The Outdated Republic, would have been profitable. In keeping with Zeschuck, if The Outdated Republic had been profitable sufficient to have made an unbelievable amount of cash – round $2 billion a 12 months – the duo had a shot of taking up EA.

“I lived in Austin for two-and-a-half years making Star Wars the Outdated Republic [and] I knew that was type of a one-way journey,” mentioned Zeschuk. “If it was tremendous profitable, tremendous duper profitable, Ray and I’d have in all probability launched a bid to attempt to take over EA from the within, being the company pirates that we’re. Nevertheless it wanted to be like $2 billion a 12 months profitable. Nevertheless it didn’t work out so I used to be like, ‘Ah, I’m fantastic.’”

Zeschuck additionally spoke how working at EA made him realise how a lot he disliked working inside a giant coporate machine. Regardless of the success BioWare noticed on the time with Mass Impact and Dragon Age, Zeschuck realised that he was going to go away sooner or later.

“Huge firms exist to take advantage of properties,” he mentioned. “They exist to take advantage of video games. A lot of the massive North American guys, they’re simply good at ‘Hey, let’s simply squeeze essentially the most cash out of this franchise.’ They don’t type of create a variety of them, and I type of realized early on that I like making video games. I don’t like simply working.”

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