Bioware are going to die and unfortunately I fear they may be infecting the rest of the industry when they do, as ex Bioware types get jobs elsewhere and insert their autism. Jennifer Hepler was involved in writing the excellent pointy clicky adventure Unavowed from Blackwell devs Wadjet Eye (thankfully Dave Gilbert and Ben Chandler made her wind her neck in) but what if some of the spergs responsible for Andromeda and its daftest parts go elsewhere and can't be kept in line? What if that Mandeep bloke ends up writing large chunks of Pillars of Eternity 3?
The thing is, they've already seen their status diminish as a result of their stupidity elsewhere. Hamburger Helper has gone from "I was involved with Beamdog and a popular gaming franchise" to the comparative table-scraps of Wadjet Eye, who remain a
miniscule studio entirely on purpose and who's official, full time staff is "3 and a half" that hilariously low overhead is why they work so well. Everything is minimal and because they're so small they don't need boat rockers, it'd have been far easier to throw her overboard if she started the same shit she did back at Beamdog who lest we forget climbed down pretty much entirely over Helper's shitty self insert writing and troon fapfic.
Manveer Heir fucked off to found his own studio with blackjack and hookers after ME:A tanked and he "left" Bioware Montreal (got shitcanned like the whole studio) but despite the fact its the easiest thing in the world to set up a company and announce projects with a little bit of artwork from a dude you commissioned he's been oddly silent and I
suspect its because he's a piece of shit nobody's really willing to work with and is the epitome of a diversity hire. We'll hear from him, eventually, but its going to be some god-awful indie project he's mostly had to do himself.
Various studios who play the "DIVERDITEEEEEEE" game are finding there's no fucking market whatsoever for their stupid political shitshows and by
god it hurts the bottom line hard.
Look in comparison where studios actually aim for realism in their diversity. Namely Rockstar and Rockstar North who got all sorts of flack from the usual screaming Diversity Crowd for not portraying L.A blacks as the totally noble
savages innocents they are by... hiring and interviewing former gang members to get the speech, slang and behaviour correct.
Even though I know it never really will.
