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Post by Gileadan on Feb 24, 2022 7:16:52 GMT
Who is Corinne Busche and why do people expect her to be the target of backlash? I'm quite out of the loop apparently.
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Post by apollexander on Feb 24, 2022 7:53:51 GMT
Who is Corinne Busche and why do people expect her to be the target of backlash? I'm quite out of the loop apparently. She is from the Sims as a designer and seemed to be in the Anthem Next team for about a year and a half. According to her twitter profile, she is a transwoman and seems to often post to support the LGBT community.
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Post by ajensis on Feb 24, 2022 9:01:27 GMT
I'd rather just hope that the vast majority of people have matured up (and/or the so-called 'neckbeards' moved on to something else) than make an issue out of it prematurely. Why are we spending time on an imagined backlash? Anyway, with that outside person (Grubb or something) saying that the game is on track, I'm not worried about Dailey leaving - although he did seem like a nice fellow. I hope he's found something fun to sink his teeth into
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Post by midnight tea on Feb 24, 2022 9:51:20 GMT
Who is Corinne Busche and why do people expect her to be the target of backlash? I'm quite out of the loop apparently. She is from the Sims as a designer and seemed to be in the Anthem Next team for about a year and a half. According to her twitter profile, she is a transwoman and seems to often post to support the LGBT community. ...we have WAR starting in Europe in fullness yet it's not unfathomable some lowlifes will be more outraged about someone daring to be trans. I want out of this planet.
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Post by Sanunes on Feb 24, 2022 14:44:40 GMT
She is from the Sims as a designer and seemed to be in the Anthem Next team for about a year and a half. According to her twitter profile, she is a transwoman and seems to often post to support the LGBT community. ...we have WAR starting in Europe in fullness yet it's not unfathomable some lowlifes will be more outraged about someone daring to be trans. I want out of this planet. You can see some politicians yesterday pandering to those lowlifes with legislation put forward yesterday. So it doesn't surprise me at all that people care more about that then a war in a different country.
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 24, 2022 15:15:49 GMT
Dragon age 4 is "in great shape".
Yeah, yeah.... looking back at Bio posts from yore, Anthem, Andromeda were in great shape too. Actual facts said it was all BS.
Dragon age is "in great hands". OK.... but can they produce anything worthy? Andromeda?... Anthem? I should clarify. I'm sure "great hands" are very competent people... some exceptional, I bet. But, without management direction, crap is produced... and one cannot blame "great hands".
These positive spinoramas are old hat that eventually proved to be all marketing spin. I want to stay grounded and I do hope that Bio will lay a golden egg with DA4. It's been a long time since I played a DA:O or a DA2 game. I'd rather wait until Q4 2023 launch to fall in love with a wonder of a DA game, once again.
Then, again, we now have the Russia vs Ukraine war. I anticipate Western Europe and North America hit with further economic disruptions and inflationary pressures which may impact game development. EA , you know, does have studios worldwide.
Sigh......
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Post by colfoley on Feb 24, 2022 18:10:02 GMT
It is probably possible to be concerned about a great many things to varying degrees. Like I am concerned about Ukraine, mortified even, but I'm also concerned my favorite game franchise will be stuck in development hell.
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Feb 24, 2022 19:27:28 GMT
colfoley I think what Tea meant is that some people will care more about Corinne being a trans woman and throwing around hate than actual tragedies like the current situation in Ukraine. I'm fine and understand people being concerned about how the game is coming along, but the fact that there are people throwing hissy fits over individual dev's gender and sexual identities is kinda bonkers.
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Post by gervaise21 on Feb 24, 2022 19:59:38 GMT
but the fact that there are people throwing hissy fits over individual dev's gender and sexual identities is kinda bonkers. I think that someone only suggested that might be the case in the future, not that it has already happened (with DA4 anyway). Still, it is sort of predictable, particularly if they don't like some aspect of the game. However, so long as people don't make the criticism personal, then it shouldn't be assumed that is the reason for the complaint about the game. As part of the leadership team, they are going to get flack if it doesn't live up to expectations. I'm going to stay positive, though, until something happens to alter my stance.
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Post by Solas on Feb 24, 2022 20:10:51 GMT
Mark Darrah vid on his YouTube Channel: Why I'm not worried about Dragon Age 4 (DAO edition)
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Post by eaglepursuit on Feb 24, 2022 20:24:51 GMT
Who is Corinne Busche and why do people expect her to be the target of backlash? I'm quite out of the loop apparently. She is from the Sims as a designer and seemed to be in the Anthem Next team for about a year and a half. According to her twitter profile, she is a transwoman and seems to often post to support the LGBT community. Interesting. I hope she pushes the throttle hard on inclusion
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Post by colfoley on Feb 24, 2022 20:43:01 GMT
colfoley I think what Tea meant is that some people will care more about Corinne being a trans woman and throwing around hate than actual tragedies like the current situation in Ukraine. I'm fine and understand people being concerned about how the game is coming along, but the fact that there are people throwing hissy fits over individual dev's gender and sexual identities is kinda bonkers. But that's kind of ridicilious isn't it? Sure I am sure someone has this opinion somewhere in the great unwashed masses of humanity...but how many of them are BioWare fans? And to dismiss any concern over this issue as being 'neckbeards' seems more then a little short sighted, and indeed this has even crystilized my concerns on this subject... Now I love BioWare more then probably a good many people even, Dorian is one of my favorite characters, I really liked his personal quest and then also really like Krem. BioWare is also, to go to the larger point I suppose, one of the few companies that truly engages in what I call 'genuine diversity' where a wide scale of world views and perspectives are ultimatley respected and explored. And even in the final analysis I doubt this will change, BioWare just has way too many moving parts. But then it might change. And it might go in the heavy handed statements and arrogance I see around here. And I do get some of it, talking about politics around here or any current social issue is always a risk (though I am doing my darndest to keep this strictly to how this may effect BioWare/ DA 4), so its hard to talk about these issues with any depth. But then why say anything? Why wring ones hands over what some nebulous groups of 'neckbeards' will be thinking about this decision in the first place? And while I feel BioWare is very welcoming to someone even with my politics what happens if that will change in the future? What if I get looped into the 'neckbeards' because I have concerns and issues over this whole thing? Because I am just as nervous about the rights of everyone including individual women? Now again I doubt this will happen, and BioWare can engage in allegory a lot easier then most because they play in an alternative medeval fantasy world, but it is just going to be another thing to keep in the back of my head given her twitter bio until the game does come out and we can see the results for ourselves.
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Feb 24, 2022 21:01:27 GMT
John Epler @eplerjcTrying to figure out how to do that thing where you record yourself updating your twitter profile but giving up because I am, at my core, an 80 year old man. But anyways! A small piece of personal news. Yes, I mean the Arby's thing. Went to look, and his profile now says that he is the Creative Director on Dragon Age. Congrats to him!
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Feb 24, 2022 21:06:10 GMT
Wait...now I'm confused.
I thought Corinne's new title - Game Director - meant that she was the Creative Director (and they'd just changed the name of the role). If John is the Creative Director and Mac Walters is the Production Director (or whatever it was - it had Production or Producer in it, I think...)...what does the Game Director do?
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Feb 24, 2022 21:07:08 GMT
Good for him on the Creative Director label. Still confused, though: Arby's thing?
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Feb 24, 2022 21:10:28 GMT
Wait...now I'm confused. I thought Corinne's new title - Game Director - meant that she was the Creative Director (and they'd just changed the name of the role). If John is the Creative Director and Mac Walters is the Production Director (or whatever it was - it had Production or Producer in it, I think...)...what does the Game Director do? Creative Director = narrative & art, Game Director = mechanics, systems, and integration with narrative elements, and Producer = deals with The Man, The Suits, and The Media?
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Post by dadithinkimgay on Feb 24, 2022 21:11:33 GMT
Good for him on the Creative Director label. Still confused, though: Arby's thing? He also updated his profile to include Arby's in it. Lol. This is his full bio: "Creative Director on @dragonage. Regular Arby's regretter. Ask me about STALKER. He/him. Settler. ADHD. #blacklivesmatter"
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Feb 24, 2022 21:12:09 GMT
Wait...now I'm confused. I thought Corinne's new title - Game Director - meant that she was the Creative Director (and they'd just changed the name of the role). If John is the Creative Director and Mac Walters is the Production Director (or whatever it was - it had Production or Producer in it, I think...)...what does the Game Director do? Creative Director = narrative & art, Game Director = mechanics, systems, and integration with narrative elements, and Producer = deals with The Man, The Suits, and The Media? Works for me.
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Post by AlleluiaElizabeth on Feb 24, 2022 21:14:26 GMT
Ah. I only ever get the jalapeno poppers from Arby's, and I never regret them, so I can't say I stand with him on that. Creative Director = narrative & art, Game Director = mechanics, systems, and integration with narrative elements, and Producer = deals with The Man, The Suits, and The Media? Works for me. Is there an Overall "Director" position that she and Epler report to? Is it Weekes? I haven't kept up.
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Post by QuizzyBunny on Feb 24, 2022 21:34:04 GMT
Congratulations Mr Epler to the promotion!
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Post by luketrevelyan on Feb 24, 2022 21:55:18 GMT
Interesting, so they did end up naming a new Creative Director after all. Odd they didn't say that in the blog post but maybe it is a rapidly evolving situation.
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Post by river82 on Feb 24, 2022 22:03:07 GMT
Mark Darrah vid on his YouTube Channel: Why I'm not worried about Dragon Age 4 (DAO edition) "I believe EA is going to give them the space to do that. I think that EA learned lessons from Mass Effect Andromeda and from Anthem and from the Mass Effect trilogy remaster and from Jedi Fallen Order and all of those lessons will help Dragon Age"Hope so
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Post by colfoley on Feb 24, 2022 22:06:58 GMT
GO EPLER!
Hearty congrats.
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Post by Little Bengel on Feb 24, 2022 22:21:29 GMT
Ayo, Epler's rising.
Nice.
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Post by smilesja on Feb 24, 2022 22:32:51 GMT
I'd rather just hope that the vast majority of people have matured up (and/or the so-called 'neckbeards' moved on to something else) than make an issue out of it prematurely. Why are we spending time on an imagined backlash? Anyway, with that outside person (Grubb or something) saying that the game is on track, I'm not worried about Dailey leaving - although he did seem like a nice fellow. I hope he's found something fun to sink his teeth into Lol I can already see the clickbait Youtubers saying how Bioware is doomed because they have her. XD
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