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Blair Brown (DA:I/ME:A/*secret*/Anthem) leaves BioWare for Respawn's Star Wars title

AntiMacro

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After 6 years with BioWare, acting as Associate Producer on Dragon Age: Inquisition, Mass Effect: Andromeda, and a Producer on Anthem, he's leaving to join Respawn to work on their Star Wars game.



Liked watching his video streams on game development and the ProducerHax podcast he used to do with Billy Buskell. Shame to see BioWare lose another talent though.
 
SageShinigami

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Did the *something else* get canceled? Or was it just in concept stage? They've barely got the people for what they make as is.
 
Kalentan

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Asbsand said:
It must've been DA4 which got rebooted before Mike Laidlaw left and now has pre-production in the works.
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Really hope rebooted just means system wise and not story wise. Cause the Trespasser DLC ended perfectly into DA4. Like it would be horrible if they squandered the massive potential the ending afforded.
 
ItWasMeantToBe19

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I mean, he could have just wanted to make this game instead.

Bioware's gonna be in good shape if Anthem does well and Bioware's gonna get closed if Anthem somehow megabombs.

We don't need to read too deeply into Bioware right now, all of their staff are on Anthem.
 
Asbsand

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Kalentan said:
Really hope rebooted just means system wise and not story wise. Cause the Trespasser DLC ended perfectly into DA4. Like it would be horrible if they squandered the massive potential the ending afforded.
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Edit: I wrote information which I can't confirm. I remember seeing tweets about Alexis Kennedy no longer being involved with DA4 and his work being discarded, but rechecking his Twitter, I could not find these messages.
 
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SofaJockey

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In tech companies, tenure is typically 3-5 years.
Yet for some reason when a known individual changes job it is seen that the game they may be associated with is 'in trouble'.

The truth is more likely to be the reason why other people change jobs; they got bored; another opportunity for advancement came up; their family circumstances changes, that sort of thing.

A piece of news, but hardly a 'story'.
6 years is pretty reasonable service and now he has moved on, good luck to him.
 
Vic Damone Jr.

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Kalentan said:
Really hope rebooted just means system wise and not story wise. Cause the Trespasser DLC ended perfectly into DA4. Like it would be horrible if they squandered the massive potential the ending afforded.
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Yea, the setup was great and got me hyped. They're missing a great opportunity following it up with DA4 so late:/
 
Nirolak

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Kalentan said:
Really hope rebooted just means system wise and not story wise. Cause the Trespasser DLC ended perfectly into DA4. Like it would be horrible if they squandered the massive potential the ending afforded.
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Mike Laidlaw's impression was that they were rebooting the gameplay and live service part of the game as opposed to throwing out the plotline thus far.
 
MrConbon210

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EA is such a confusing company to me. Between people at Respawn leaving, Bioware teams getting fired, directors switching around. It's hard to keep track of what's going on over there.
 
SageShinigami

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rras1994 said:
Mark Darrah, Executive Producer, has already stated on twitter that DA4 won't be announced at E3. Given that Anthem is coming out in March 2019, it's unlikely that they'll want to shift the spotlight away from Anthem.
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Huh. I didn't realize this. Not surprised, but I didn't realize there was confirmation it wasn't going to be there.
 
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