Bioware just announced it’s canning another 50 employees, including Mary Kirby, and I’m just miserable about what that means for the state of the games and the future of the studio.
Other notable employees laid off are Jon Renish (Technical Director) and Tim Griffith (Narrative Programmer) and Mary Kirby being a Narrative Director. They are laying off senior staff with decades of experience at BioWare.
Who wants to bet after making Mary synonymous with Varric even after laying her off they are going to use Varric as their main promotional material 🖐️
emet-selch is a very very very similar character to solas dragonage, except way farther along on the timeline of what the character does. like the ffxiv expansion shadowbringers was (imo) the equivalent of both inquisition + dragon age 4, and now tomorrow the expansion “endwalker” is dropping, which will be sort of like playing dragon age 5 and maybe 6 put together, and so being that spoiled with actually getting to know what happens to that sort of character much much further down the storyline has been very fun. I’ve said this whole year that getting to play FFXIV actually gave me closure about Dragon Age that I might never actually get (just because…. forget about DA4′s release, the problem is who can say when that series is actually going to end. 20 more years?) anyway FFXIV ends tomorrow, the end of emet’s character story will be in endwalker. and it will be written by a woman who adores the character she made, who knows how to make endings feel fulfilling and emotional. I love dragon age but trying to think about actively waiting for it when I could just be playing FFXIV that has a similar character who is written along such similar lines…. like yeah there’s no contest right now. I’m still like “wow 2 cakes! yum” and will enjoy both if da4 ever comes out, but it’s been almost a decade since inquisition came out and emet-selch has luscious tits and thematically coherent writing that makes you gasp and cry, AND it’s like 3 games later compared to where we left solas
anyway I’m going offline until I’m done playing the end of that game, and this is what I was thinking about
also I love he is Big and size diffence has saved my life thank you for your time
IDK how you read the Bioware dev discussion of the FFXIV plot, but when the lead narrative director is all “People are bad at metaphors, and also weirdly obsessed with making Emet-Selch not evil”, and then writes what he has Solas’ minions doing in the story that he wrote in Tevinter Nights…wait and see, but…
