BioWare Producer Cameron Lee [has left] the Company

You mean in the last 4 years? I don't find anything unusual at all about how many employees have left since 2012. In fact, unless there's a lot more we don't even know about (and I'm sure there is), I'd say their turnover is spectacularly low.

Good luck Cameron. Congradulations to you and your wife

Back during Dragon Age Inquisition development, Cameron almost had to leave BioWare too because he wasn't sure if he could renew is working permit (he is Australian if I remember correctly). Canadian immigration law limit to 4 years consecutive years how long you can work here (well there, but I'm Canadian so).

When you got a lot of employees then there will always be turnovers as people are comming and going.

BioWare has something like 800 employees.
A 'healthy' staff turnover is around 160/year (15%).

Unless people have evidence that turnover is wildly above that,
it is not possible to extrapolate an assessment of corporate health on the basis of occasional individual departures, even senior ones.

To do so without supplemental evidence is illogical 'tin foil hat' thinking.

Ha. Fair point... 

It's only brain-drain if they aren't hiring equal or greater talents.

Despite frequently trashing them as fools and idiots, our community also tends to put the BioWare staff on pedestals, as if they are supremely and uniquely qualified to make these RPGs. They seem to believe that every individual that leaves is an irretrievable production loss. That just isn't the case.

Remember, these are the people that have been giving us outdated character creators and other such lovelies for years, despite our vociferous begging. A little new blood rarely hurts, and stagnation rarely helps.

As SofaJockey pointed out upthread, their turnover isn't statistically out of the ordinary or unhealthy. It's our fixation on it that makes it seem as such.

All true about hate\admiration and worshiping "old gods", however there is a bit more to it. Sure, when BW started it was a small indie company making very special niche RPGs (when I was very young I could not understand the fun of scripted dialogs in BG in comparison to huge fun and control over your personal party you could create in IWD, for example). In a small company every single person is important - BW would not even exist or would dye instantly without Doctors, right? Later, when the company became really big, and they got more people, and we, players, were unable to put a "face to the work" anymore, there still were big names that could at least give an illusion that the general direction of the development of their games remains the same. And now that names a leaving.

They tried to "outsource" their books before, for example. Remember "Deception"? That is what happen when you treat your creative staff as "workers for hire". If you replace a brilliant coder with a mediocre one, you will need twice more time for production and at the end can get an "outdated character creator" at worst. But if you take a brilliant writer and replace him with a mediocre one, you will kill the game, where writing is everything - aka BW games.

No, Cameron was not a writer, I know that. But he (and others who left) was from that creative staff. Sure there are more creative people out there. And new ideas are good. But to me they are good only if they improve what we have, when the base remains the same. Would it be the case? Time will tell. So far I am skeptical.

I can't really compare, but I've read stories of Canadians crossing the border because of overly long waiting times and subpar options for care. It was from reputable, unbiased news outlets, so I doubt it was "news with an agenda". It was old news, though, from years ago.

I'm thankful I have good coverage, at present. (Life can always surprise you.) With my health issues, I'd be in trouble (and excruciating pain) pretty quickly without my assorted health issues being actively managed. Too many people don't get the treatment they need and deserve.

I got intrigued by a BBC article about Danish culture and started reading up on Denmark, a bit. It sounded like a very pleasant place to live; imperfect like all places, but very pleasant.

My unusual health situation would make life difficult virtually anywhere other than a few cities in the US, until healthcare catches up with me. (I have to be near doctors who understand my genetic connective tissue condition, and they are very few at present.) If that weren't the case, though, there are so many places I'd love to visit. I definitely wouldn't be living in the city in which I currently live, if I were totally free to choose.

Always in the back of my mind are the millions of people who live with conditions like mine, or similarly unpleasant ones, and have no access to health care. It keeps things in perspective. More countries than not have no infrastructure whatsoever, in terms of helping the sick. It makes for an impossibly difficult life.

Two things I recall about Cameron's time on Dragon Age Inquisition with real pleasure.

1. How rubbish he was in gameplay demos, particularly against Bears.
2. A masterful handling (diplomatic but resolute) responding to a Russian media interviewer asking for a 'gay toggle' to remove all gay content.

The Russian media outlet deleted the interview video a few hours after publication.

The gist of the conversation was:

Interviewer: Can you toggle off the gay content, we don't like that in Russia.
Cameron: People have choices to play different races, classes and orientations so people elect to play their way. 

The look on Cameron's face was priceless, he was very polite but it was clear the interview would be short, and it was.