BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has looked back on his time at the company behind Dragon Age, Mass Effect and Star Wars: The Old Republic, and discussed some of the studio’s most notorious moments, as well as his relationship with mega-publisher owner EA.
Speaking to Simon Parkin on the My Perfect Console podcast, Zeschuk said EA had been a decent partner, despite some BioWare fans’ view that the studio’s buyout was the beginning of its end.
“I like to comment that EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself,” Zeschuk said. “And what I mean by that is you have to learn to work within the structure and I think we did quite well, if you look at the Mass Effect [trilogy that] came out of there. It was actually a pretty successful run.
“But you have to understand how to work within a big company. And, for me, that was the end. It was like, ‘oh, I don’t like big companies’. So I knew by year two that I was going to leave at some point. I just didn’t know when.