David Gaider, the former Lead Writer for BioWare’s Dragon Age franchise claims that BioWare’s parent company, Electronic Arts, wanted a new non-RPG audience and was not worried about making their RPG games appeal to RPG players.This Substack is reader-supported.
"Buy our game because gay".
Not a great plan.
EA gave the Biowoke developers free reign and even forced Andrew Bush on them.
Does anyone think the Bioware devs really struggled against being given a totally blank check to "explore" their "gender journeys?"
This was a circle-jerk of nose-ring failure.
What kind of logic is at work here.
Create a RP game, build a loyal fan base, and suddenly don't want the very people who built your company.
Fire the writers and teams that built your reputation, and replace them with shit writers and chimps throwing poo.
It's one more company going for broke.
They thought they had a captured audience of culture junkies and wanted to appeal to the woke. They were wrong.
And how did that work out for you, David 'Gay'der? Ha, Ha. LOL!!
There was a lot of chaff flung around when using his Gaydar