Electronic Arts 'shamefully used' Dragon Age development team, says former BioWare developer
Mark Darrah, a former developer at BioWare, has posted a new video in which he shares his thoughts on Electronic Arts' failure to provide adequate support to the Dragon Age development team: Veilguard. In the video, he talks about EA's decisions since 2017, which concerned not only Veilguard but also Mass Effect: Andromeda as well.
Here's What We Know
According to Darrah, EA "shamefully exploited" the people who worked on Dragon Age, as well as the rest of BioWare, in late 2016. Among the main problems, he names the lack of any consistency in team leadership:
"This was the first time where we had this leadership discontinuity, where the person in charge of a project left that project to help someone else, some other project, while the project continued to run. In the case of Mass Effect: Andromeda, I don’t think the impact to Dragon Age was huge. It wasn’t very long, but it did set this precedent as this being a thing that we could do, and it’s not a good thing to do. It is incredibly dangerous to have a project run while it’s missing some of its core leadership.".
The developer also spoke about some of the problems the team faced when trying to discuss issues with EA CEO Andrew Wilson, who assured him that the company still values the Dragon Age franchise very much.
"You have to remember: I am the second most senior person at BioWare. Casey was interviewed, and hired, and prepared to be brought back entirely without me being consulted in any way. Would me have being involved in the process have changed the decision? No, I don’t think it would have, but there is an immense amount of disrespect involved in making a hire of this impact, in making a decision of this import, without involving the second-most senior person at your studio in any way.".
Where To Play
Dragon Age: Veilguard is available to play on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC.
Source: GamingBolt
