Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reportedly leaves BioWare
Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reportedly leaves BioWare
Update, January 20, 2025: Corinne Busche has confirmed her departure from BioWare, revealing that it was a "voluntary" …
The comments here are something else. This event is completely independent of the sales of the game (a game that probably did just fine). She's a director who left a company after 18 years at the end of a project, which directors often do, because that's the best way to accept a lucrative offer without burning bridges. 18 years is a long time to stay at the same company.
EDIT: Oh, apparently this departure is a part of some manufactured internet culture war drama. Allow this from Jeff Grubb to clear the air:
Corrine Busch, director of Dragon Age, really is leaving BioWare. But I don't think EA is closing BioWare Edmonton. Was told there is nothing solid about that part of the rumor.
In her letter, she said she is moving to a new team to work on a new RPG.
Just to give you all the timeline: Two people reached out to me directly with details about the story before I ever saw Grummz or whoever's tweets (I have all those blocked). Regardless, their posts contained lies to fuel a pathetic culture war, so I never would've felt good about crediting them.
some manufactured internet culture war drama.
Some rightists got triggered because the game didn't appeal exclusively to them. Of course they'd pick up a departure like this... sigh
I thought the game was pretty okay. The romance with the detective lady was a little disappointing. The difficulty fell off a cliff pretty early on as a mage with life drain.
The arc with whatstheirface and their mother not accepting them seemed pretty plausible to me. I've got a friend going through something like that now. Seeing something like that in media is meaningful to people.
The loyalty mission prompt was kind of meh. I can see that they wanted loyalty missions, but it felt like they struggled to fit them in.
Overall it wasn't quite the game I wanted, but it wasn't bad.
https://steamdb.info/app/1845910/charts/
About 1m estimated sales on steam, so probably 2m across all platforms, not bad - I wonder what her next project will be?
That's not a lot for a big game like dragon age, no?
Probably not what they wanted, no.
That's pretty bad for something as big as Dragon Age.
Ya people play video games to escape these politics. Glad to see this game fail miserably
The game is bad because of bad writing not because of politics.
BG 3 is even more "woke" and it's great.
Woke is fine if it doesn't break immersion. In BG3 it feels like part of the in game universe. In dragon age it feels like it was just forced in like "hey look how progressive we are" and it's just very tiresome
It reminds me of the runescape pride parade. The whole community was mad not because they are anti gay it's just not a place for blatant real life political stuff when we are all playing for the sole purpose of escaping real life
Because you apparently missed the parts of Dragon Age 1, 2, and 3 where you are involved in heavily ethical government decisions? And that's on top of the heavy messaging about abuse of power by mortal leaders that starts literally from the first few minutes of DA1.
Games with literal politics as integral parts of the plot, and the thing that melts these snowflakes is the existence of a gay person. Something that's only "political" if you're a complete piece of shit.
It's only recently that Italians have been considered "white." So the Super Mario Bros. series is political and woke I guess?
exactly, which is why politics free games like assassins creed and call of duty sell like hotcakes...
wait, Ass cree is a series about political intrigue throughout history and call of duty is about warfare as a result of political goals.
Are you sure people play games to escape politics?
Yeah I think video games are primarily used as escapism
You know people play cod because they like the 6v6 arcade shooter mode, not for the story or the campaign
Ya people play video games to escape these politics.
Speak for yourself
What's most laughable is they're clearly unaware of the political themes in the games they've listed as nonpolitical. I'm torn between them being an absolute doorknob that is outraged by whatever outrages their in group, or them being an absolute doorknob that only just began to comprehend the simplest of video game plots and is outraged every aspect doesn't match their myopic worldview.
What politics?
The entire series has some pretty heavy handed messaging. To be clear, I love the series.
Snowflakes are so upset that they have to see or interact with LGBTQ character(s) in video games, because to them their very existence is "political."
Same as saying a game is "political" because there's a black person in it.
It will undoubtedly turn many gamers off entirely, not necessarily because they’re unsympathetic to trans rights, but because they’re tired of being preached at.