Two Key BioWare Leads Leave The Studio

Dragon Age 4: Online is going to be great!

Anthem pretty much buried the studio and it's a miracle it's still operational tbh. I did hear that there was some other super-duper project the Bioware team was working on but I doubt it will end up being another 5 years of total wasted time and the money pit it ended up being but Casey's departure is no big deal, since he was one of the top personal steering the cluster that was Anthem anyway. The glory days of Mass Effect are well and truly behind him. Switch the light off on the way out please.

Can we just get games made by people who like playing good games? People who don't care about the newest SJW trend?

They want out before the building falls, lol.

Good. Hudson's departure (for the second time) was long overdue. I won't shed any tears there. Bioware, as a company, has been creatively bankrupt since EA took over.

EA getting that plot rdy to add another to their impressive collection.

this is not looking good..

You have to love hating the fact that the new EA RPG projects always start with, " [Blank], who is a key developer leaves the project."

Good.

Keep draining the swamp. I want Bioware Pre 'Dragon Age Inquisition' back.

And BioWare is officially dead. The return of Casey Hudson brought back the light at the end of the tunnel. And we can only hope that in his two and a half years, he was able to make an impact (he did at least on DA4 because they rebooted the development shortly after his return) to leave the last couple of games in development with good direction.

I'm already super excited for the new Mass Effect game they're supposedly working on. /s

Tbh BioWare hasn’t been the same for a decade now, they’ve been working under the worst games they’ve ever produced..... I’m not sad to see anyone leave the studio any more.

“I made so much money, I don’t know where I’ll spend it all.”, said Darrah.

“Being a slug for a giant videogame corporation might sound fun, but at the end of every day you still realize you’re really ruining the industry.”, said Hudson.

Sounds good to me. Time to “retire” kiddos.

Looks like Hudson realized what he got himself into and that there's no saving the company, so he's decided to flee the boat before it's too late. But of course they gotta say some nice things about "trusting fully into the new generation" and crap like that. The generation that brought us games like ME Andromeda and Anthem.

“New generation of developers”, with other words hiring “studios” (if you can call it that) in India and other cheap labour nations for the main work, but themselves taking all the credit while having countless meetings in how to implement in-game cosmetics crap for extra money, deliver an unfinished game while making season passes and other DLCs along the way, nah, I know exactly where this is headed.....more 💰💰💰for the shareholders, less 🎮🎮🎮 for the gamers.

The leadership has been the problem for a long while. Burning the whole thing to the ground and building up is pretty much all that could save them at this point. ...Or rather, just above the ground. The actual ground floor devs and employees have never been the problem. That said, I doubt the disruptive elements in the company will ever be rooted out. Bioware needs strong leadership and a profound respect for their employees in order to succeed, and I just don't see them getting that. It's sad, but we're all just watching the long, disquiet demise of a studio that was once great and has long since lost it's way.

I'll remember Bioware fondly.

"New generation of developers"

Hmm..

I'm happy for the Mass Effect Trilogy remaster, but I don't see where this team is going otherwise. I hope the remaster is good.