• @RightHandOfIkaros
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    9 hours ago

    Its too bad basically the only good writer left at BioWare is leaving.

    I have to wonder if she was/felt pushed out by the other employees there. Veilguard has laughably bad writing, and the fact that the DA creator, and multiple writers either left or were fired before Veilguard went into production/ during its production feels suspicious.

    • MudMan
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      67 hours ago

      There’s been a Dragon Age sequel in some form of development for a decade. It’s not that surprising, people are gonna churn. I mean, I don’t know about you, but I haven’t stuck around in a single job for 15 years ever.

      I’m not her and I’m not there, but I’m not sure what “being pushed out by other employees” would even mean. That sounds like something that happens in a nature documentary about lions, not games studio.

      • @RightHandOfIkaros
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        24 hours ago

        By being pushed out, I mean when other employees either don’t like you, disagree with your personal views, or whatever else would cause them to view you negatively, begin to treat you badly. They might give meaningless tasks or make your work seem trivial, or they might leave you out of group activities you otherwise wanted to join, especially if they know that. Basically creating a hostile working environment in a way that isn’t likely to get HR to agree with you when you report it, and more likely that HR will think you are crazy.

        Essentially, due to the way other employees treat them or make them feel, they can feel pushed out of the company. Forced into taking the option to leave because a previously enjoyable job is now insufferable because of the other employees.

        • MudMan
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          13 hours ago

          Yeah, no, I got the intent, it just seems like… a random thought? Why would that be the case? You just think the other writers are jealous of someone who was there for fifteen years and just… mean girl’d them out of the company?

          That’s not a plausible scenario. Or at least not the first think you’d leap to.

          • @RightHandOfIkaros
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            23 hours ago

            Its quite plausible. Veilguards writers were bad at their jobs, and her writing for Emmerich only served to make the other writers look even worse. I could absolutely see this happening, I have seen it happen at less creative jobs over way lower stakes than this.