YongYea's take on Kotaku's Andromeda Development article

That doesn't make sense though.  It's saying that a person is thorough in one article, and then in another dealing with the same company, where they already have sources they just ask some random person with no direct knowledge of the subject matter. 

Also, the Kotaku article doesn't say people familiar with Bioware, it says people familiar with Bioware's plans, two completely different things.  That doesn't even mean that the people he's talking to don't work at Bioware, it just means that they aren't the people directly in charge, or making the final decision.

For example, I'm pretty far up in my company's Finance department, so I know when we're getting a new investor, when we're planning on acquiring new companies, etc before most people.  Once we tried to create a module that failed, so we were planning on scrapping it and acquiring/partnering with a company that specialized in it.  Obviously this is something that the CEO, CFO, General Counsel and others on the leadership team would be planning, and I wouldn't get full details until I was actually given a list of companies to vet.

So if I became a source for an article about how my company was going to scrap this module and look outside the company for help, I would be a person familiar with my company's plans.  However, I am not a direct source because I am not on our leadership team.  Also, I wouldn't be able to say it as a certainty because I am not the one making the final decision.  I would just be able to say unless we somehow get our module to work, this is what is going to happen.