Casey Hudson returns to BioWare

Is he going to have to destroy our world to save his?

Hurray for Hudson!

Now shut up, sit down, and work on some DLC!

Out with the old (bitching), in with the old (bitching)...

Well would you look at that, everyone who was bashing on ME:A while wearing rose-tinted glasses on ME3 is now bashing on ME3. I'm so confused as to what their actual opinions are...

Holy Hopeful Gullibles.

The direct line to why the ME franchise is in its current state can be directly traced to Casey and Mac and their decision to end the trilogy the way they did.

Massive negative fan reaction caused the pseudo-mea culpa EC. The parent company stock (EA) tanked by a third following all this. The "team" with Casey and Mac, then came up with the bright idea to abandon the MW, since they burned it down with the endings. Amidst the still continuing controversy, Casey "left" for Microsoft.

In the ensuing void, Biower kept the Andromeda idea, and after 2 years or so of dithering about on it, put Mac in charge, and we all know how that turned out. Again, high expectations corporate-wise met with tepid at best reviews and financial performance.

Trace it all back to the endings decision.

High expectations all around, unmet. I've never heard or seen anything that references a magnificent ending to an otherwise great trilogy.

Anyone think a good line on a resume is "Director, Mass Effect 3 endings", or "Lead Writer, Mass Effect 3 endings"?

Think game developers talk amongst themselves about how good the Mass Effect Triology ended, or for that matter, how good the whole Andromeda idea turned out?


And now, lots of people seem excited the person chiefly responsible for all this is back.

I wish him and Biower well, but if the past is any predictor of the future, buckle up, and prepare for hopes and expectations to be built high, then cruelly dashed.

Andromeda's development cycle to be more precise, Ste100. I hear you. Also, Hudson left in the middle of this so I'm not sure how to accept a "quitter" coming back. That's my personal, salt-filled opinion.

Trust but verify. He probably learned 'something' from the ME 3 ending but until we see the fruits of that labor in future BioWare products...maybe DA 4 since we don't know how far along ind evelopment it is, but unlikely Anthem since BioWare seems to have a handle on it, but until we see what BioWare does under Casey's leadership it will be hard to trust. 

Called it years ago.

True but previous ME and DA games were smaller and shorter, but more compact and refined. Maybe later games had more quantity over quality. Thats why i like those older games more.

I hope they return to their old formula. I don't see myself replaying DAI and MEA a third time, i'm planning second playthroughs, but can't bring myself to do it (just yet).

Also i'm hoping Casey will bring a new dialog system for MEA DLC because what we have now is... not very good to put it politely. Or make a true expansion where some time passes (and characters mature), contains the quarians (and other races), some other unsolved mysteries and replaces the dialog system with more extreme options added. New quests solveable in more than 1 ways with different outcomes. Some new base managment.

There are detailed planets already waiting to be filled with content. MEA has so much potential still.

This thread is probably in the wrong section. Edmonton will be focusing on Anthem, which is also Casey Hudson's baby and also the big card BioWare is betting on, and now Hudson can make sure that Anthem won't share ME's fate.

Wow. So Casey didn't have a right to make his own life choices? He was beholden to a company like a fucking indentured servant or some kind of slave? He had no rights as a human being to leave BW and do something else? Your comment is wrong on so many levels and it's completely unfair. Not looking to argue. We agree on most everything, but this comment just really strikes me as some serious bullshit thinking because it is in no way Casey's fault that things fell to shit when he left. Frankly that would fall on the one leaving now which I 100% believe is why he is leaving. He should have been on top of it. And frankly, I think it speaks volumes about who was actually always on top of these things and why that someone is coming back. Also might be the real reason why he left in the first place and why so many followed him. One can only guess but given what we have heard about MEA's development cycle, that thing was a clusterfuck of the highest proportions if true. My guess is people happily talked to Jason because they wanted that to be the news so that it would get fixed. 

AND if Casey's leaving causes bioware to fall apart on MEA and Anthem then BW has bigger problems than Casey's leaving and my guess is what we are seeing here is exactly why casey left.  That company should have been able to manage 100% without casey. To even suggest or imply let alone outright call him a quitter is bullshit. He was not beholden to any of these games. Nor should he be held accountable for the clusterfuck that happened when he left. A well run company would have found people to handle things and things would have gone smoothly anyway. Clearly BW has not been a well run company for a while. But be certain of one thing - deciding to leave a job where he was for almost 20 years doesn't make him a quitter. It makes him an independent human being who is not an indentured slave to some silly job and who also has free will to decide what he wants to do and when he wants to do it. Welcome to free societies.