Why did "BioMark" leave Bioware?

I don’t know but I wish him the best.

I don't think it's fair to give anyone side-eye if after more than two decades they decide to do something else.

Congratulations. You proved that if you scour the internet, you can find a whole five or so articles about high profile departures from other companies.

That doesn't disprove my material point about the BioWare fandom being paranoid, and if anything it just proves that this kind of turnover is common, and nothing to freak out about.

But yes, turnover by Bioware on its own isn't something to fret over. There's plenty of reasons people can leave. You really need more information than that to start forming conclusions imo.

Also I think the turnover at Blizzard will help them. Blizz has been stagnating for a while, there's studios at Activision that used to help Bungie with Destiny that suddenly have some free time and I think Blizz will benefit from them having more outside help. Also turnover can lead to fresh ideas. We'll see

I think it's time though that Bioware fans drop the mentality that they're being treated unfairly in the gaming media. That shtick got old a while ago

I think its more of the YouTubers that are the problem now instead of the articles.  I think most places have cleaned up their reporting to remove a lot of the baseless speculation on when a developer leaves which was my problem.  Now just looking at things on YouTube with the departure of Andrzej Zawadzki from CDPR there isn't the online feast like there was when Mark Darrah left BioWare.  I don't know what Andrzej Zawadzki did at CDPR  with the title of Lead Designer, but to me that would have been a significant departure from the studio.  I just shows that internet journalism is more about what attracts the eyes so they pick and choose stories that will get people interested for I didn't see many places cover Andrzej Zawadzki departure as they did with Mark Darrah.

Yeah, I have started to have a very low tolerance for gaming channels on YouTube so I am slow to subscribe and quick to unsubscribe.

Yeah, I do agree that Kaplan is the bigger loss to one studio versus the others.  In fact I would say his loss could be the same as when the Doctors left BioWare.  I do agree that his leaving isn't the biggest news, but I think one of the Cyberpunk leads leaving the company would have had some newsworthiness because of all the work going on.  Going back to BioWare I think it would have been about the same as when Chris Schlerf left BioWare Montreal for Destiny 2 for it was months before people really found out.  Its just odd that nobody seemed to care that someone who worked eight years at CDPR has left, but just someone leaving BioWare demonstrates something such as the standard turnover.

One of my favorite things to remember when someone leaves BioWare is what happened when Christina Norman left BioWare.  When she was promoted to Lead Gameplay designer for Mass Effect 2 the negativity around her promotion was the typical "BioWare is doomed", "Mass Effect is doomed", "the gameplay will suck because the guy from Mass Effect 1 is gone" style.  Then when she left for Riot Games it was the reverse and that "BioWare was doomed" etc because she left.  To me its the circle of narrative people want to say about BioWare while in reality normally people that take over have worked with the leads for years.  The only real exception is with Chris Schlerf for he was hired for Andromeda and then left and I think the story in Andromeda tells that story pretty well.

If he's smart, he'll ignore any such queries. Saying anything negative about his former employers will only burn bridges and make other companies he might want to work with in future think twice. If he says there were no problems, and that he parted with BioWare amicably for personal reasons, basically nobody who cares will believe him.

For some reason the internet has this thing with BW devs leaving, where people will link articles for validation and scream "See! I told you! X developer is leaving! BW is truly dead and gone now!"

It's a phenomenon that's been going on since at least Andromeda came out, and something that I haven't seen people worried\angry about for any other dev studio (aside from the biggest names, like Kojima leaving Konami for example). Aside from the fact that the games industry (unfortunately) already has things like mass layoffs of hundreds of devs, I've always been of the opinion that a "healthy" studio should be able to replace the old guard with new people at some point, otherwise studios wouldn't survive more than one generation. Whatever problems current BW has can't be simply attributed to old devs leaving, but many people seem to think so.