14
Feb
…BioWare has seen a lot of changes over recent years, with a handful of top developers leaving the company. That said, Mass Effect writer Drew Karpyshyn left the studio back in 2018 to go work at Archetype Entertainment, but he just recently revealed why he departed BioWare.
Taking to his blog (via Prima Games), Karpyshyn discussed his departure from the beloved studio. “I’ve been in the video game industry for twenty years now,” he said. “When I started at BioWare, everything was fresh and exciting. It was a dream job – talented people working together to create epic games like Baldur’s Gate, KOTOR, Mass Effect and Dragon Age. But as we grew and became more successful, things changed.
We became more corporate. We were less able to make what we loved, and the teams were pushed to create games based on market research rather than our creative instincts and passions. My dream job became just a job, and I lost