Casey Hudson returns to BioWare

What exactly Flynn has done for Mass effect ? Ina  productive way i mean ? 

I don't really give a damn about him being a sympathetic guy. I want my video games to be good, that's the only thing I care about.

I liked Mass effect andromeda, but it terribly lacked some visions for the universe. No interesting conflicts, no interesting villains and tension, a story way too light with its tone. The angara feel terribly close to humans with their civilization, and their design is quite bad to be honest. They look like stuffed animals. The Ketts are really boring, compared to the Geths in M1 while we didn't know much about them. 

Mass effect 1 and Mass effect 2 were good at least with that. Whether about the tension, interesting conflicts and races

Reddit had nothing to do with it. Patrick Weekes used to post (no, not under his real name) at the Penny Arcade forums, and would sometimes drop behind-the-scenes tidbits. He revealed that Casey's idea for the ME3 ending wasn't peer-reviewed like normal (besides conferring with Mac and having him do the actual writing chores--ergo, the notes), which is why it wasn't that great. Nothing disparaging, but it blew up and spread, and Patrick got outed. Sure as shit, Patrick denied it and doesn't do that anymore. Long live Patrick.

Anyway, welcome back, dad. 

I remember that story breaking and shaking my head at the stupidity of things. I agree it was a non-story in the end. 

But it was far from a lie, which is the problem. People were revoking money donated to Child's Play because of the confusion regarding the Retake Mass Effect movements original post. 

Things were fixed later sure, but how can you not criticize the over-zealousness of people in that instance? I don't blame journalists doing that...I blame fans for making a mistake and then getting petulant at Penny Arcade for calling them out on it. 

You're posting on a forum about a game that wouldn't exist without Casey Hudson.

One of the most ridiculous and cringeworthy posts I've ever read on these forums. You could have been a writer for Andromeda with material like that.

Which was again, a lie.  Or at least, a gross exaggeration.

www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/23/why-childs-play-stopped-taking-donations-from-retake-mass-effect/#41926ccd308b

Quite the opposite. Mass Effect was put on ice because of Andromeda disaster of a reception. The return of Casey Hudson is the type of thing that can put Mass Effect back in EA's plans. And that's even the most important aspect of his return.

If MEA2 was announced yesterday, I wouldn't have been excited at all. The main reason being that I don't think Bioware has the talent to make an awesome game. Casey Hudson changes that as well.

So Mass Effect is saved twice. 

Tone it down please.

Okay, when did the upheaval occur when just about every lead was bailing on Andromeda? There were 12 lead changes and quite a bit of developers and artistic talent all leaving because of lack of direction or job security past the next quarter. I know when EA took over BioWare. I was happy that it happened after seeing Interplay go broke... then I discovered EA on the internet. Nothing good. So, when the doctors and leads left, that was EA replacing BioWare with EA-hires. Not in 2008. Am I right?

Aaryn Flynn is one that replaced the doctors when they went to retire, back in 2012. And Aaaryn Flynn worked in BioWare since Neverwinter Nights.

And many lead changes happened because many senior developers wanted to do something new, with different studios. So EA primarily promoted already existing BioWare developers from senior to leading positions. It was really a generational change within company, not EA putting their people in BioWare.

Which is already silly thing to claim since BioWare is EA, so BioWare people are EA people.

BioWare would have been broke long ago without it either.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't honestly. EA has that reputation, which is partially deserved, but most of the time the studios hang themselves and EA just so happens to be there to open the trapdoor...