Each author credited as being part of the primary writing workforce on Dragon Age: The Veilguard not seems to be working at BioWare, with numerous departures at numerous factors prior to now having been added to by the studio’s newest restructuring.
Following the downsizing introduced yesterday in a weblog put up penned by BioWare common supervisor Gary McKay, Veilguard writing lead Patrick Weekes posted on BlueSky that he is “now on the lookout for a brand new writing/narrative place” as his 20 years on the studio have come to an finish.
On high of this, fellow author Brianne Battye revealed that she’s amongst those that’ve moved from BioWare to Motive Studio as a part of the rectructuring, with Sheryl Chee seemingly being in the identical boat.
Looking on the recreation’s credit as listed on MobyGames and IMDB, you will discover these two names listed as a part of Veilguard’s major writing design workforce, alongside numerous others.
I used to be a author at BioWare for five years (2011-2016). I leaned quite a bit throughout that point from distinctive folx in lots of disciplines, but in addition particularly from my fellow writers & our wonderful editors, on each the ME & DA manufacturers.
Immediately, not a single a kind of writers & editors stays employed there.
— Ann Lemay 🧂 (@annlemay.bsky.social) 29 January 2025 at 23:38
Of these others, nonetheless, Sylvia Feketekuty introduced that she was departing BioWare final month after 15 years, Courtney Woods left the studio to hitch Ghost of Yotei developer Sucker Punch in 2022, with John Dombrow having made a transfer to the identical studio as Woods a few 12 months later, in 2023. In the meantime, each Mary Kirby and Lukas Kristjanson look to have been let go from BioWare in August 2023. Lastly, Jo Berry is listed in MobyGames’ credit for Veilguard, and in accordance with her Linkedin web page left BioWare for a writing place at Motive in 2017.
That is 9 writers, except the latest departures find yourself being introduced again in some capability, on the most recent Dragon Age recreation not working for BioWare, no less than on a full-time foundation. Veilguard recreation director Corrine Busche additionally revealed earlier this month that she’s leaving BioWare to work on a brand new RPG elsewhere.
Provided that, regardless of what idiots on the web would possibly say, Veilguard was removed from an unmitagated catastrophe of a recreation, even when it did not hit the doubtless overzealous targets EA set for it financially, it will be unhappy if certainly the complete writing workforce behind it – apart maybe from some localisers who’re listed as a part of different groups – have certainly both been proven the door or departed the studio on their very own phrases. Particularly since many have been long-time Dragon Age collection stalwarts who’d additionally labored on earlier entries within the collection.
The video games trade in 2025, positively a wholesome place to work with out the fixed shadow of potential turnover or simply being chucked into the solar by some corporately-mandated “restructuring”.
