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[Enad]

Ericander77 wrote...

Has anyone acquired the world of thedas yet? If so, please do tell if you found something that may be DA3 related

Mine just arrived, I'll post anything I find.

[Steppenwolf]

There's nothing in it that explicitly hints to the story of Inquisition or the characters therein as far as I can tell. I haven't yet scoured every single line of text, but I have gone through the collector's version front to back, reading most of it along the way.

[DragonMage95]

I've heard that the timeline has something DA3 related, i'll have to check it out when I get it.

[hahagirl727]

serenai wrote...

Allan Schumacher:
This guy stopped by my office to make sure #DA3 was going well. I may or may not have shown him a reveal of the game. pic.twitter.com/1aPFN8s6tZ


https://pbs.twimg.co...AMgGH.jpg:large

Okay I'll admit it, that was me in disguise....

[Fredward]

Wow. Lots of fowl jokes going on in this thread.

[Lobos1988]

well... we see excitement slowly begins to turn into bitterness and zynical responses... might be a sign for Bioware not to go too far with the information silence...

[ElitePinecone]

Interesting.

E3 is in Los Angeles, as usual.

Edit: since I suppose this is a Twiter thread:

Jessica Merizan ‏@JessicaMerizan 20 Apr
HEY FRIENDS - I'm looking for @dragonage superfans local to LA! If that's you, comment YES on the post: https://www.facebook...2024845031133 … PLZ RT!

Modifié par ElitePinecone, 21 avril 2013 - 10:28 .

[Commander Kurt]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Interesting.

E3 is in Los Angeles, as usual.

Edit: since I suppose this is a Twiter thread:

Jessica Merizan ‏@JessicaMerizan 20 Apr
HEY FRIENDS - I'm looking for @dragonage superfans local to LA! If that's you, comment YES on the post: https://www.facebook...2024845031133 … PLZ RT!

For those who may be wondering (I was wondering), Jessica is a bioware community manager. And that is interesting.

Now I'm just waiting for the post where they're looking for DA superfans in Luleå... Shouldn't be long... 

[ElitePinecone]

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe 17 Apr
More layoffs at BioWare. My friend, Nathan Plewes who worked there 13 years is out. Wow.

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe 17 Apr
@[user] yeah, round one was the temps. Round 2 the project. My guess is round three will be the studio.

[Fast Jimmy]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe 17 Apr
More layoffs at BioWare. My friend, Nathan Plewes who worked there 13 years is out. Wow.

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe 17 Apr
@[user] yeah, round one was the temps. Round 2 the project. My guess is round three will be the studio.

The studio? Huh. That sounds ominous. 

[LolaLei]

Worrying.

[sandalisthemaker]

Oh my... this does not bode well.
Not at all.

[LolaLei]

"Round 2 the project" ... making cuts to the game itself is extremely concerning.

[sandalisthemaker]

LolaLei wrote...

"Round 2 the project" ... making cuts to the game itself is extremely concerning.

Yeah. All those tweets about how this game is going so well, and how its going to blow us all away etc.
I was so excited, but now I just have this horrible sinking feeling...
I feel bad about the layoffs, don't get me wrong, but I really hope the game doesn't suffer from all this.

Modifié par sandalisthemaker, 21 avril 2013 - 01:55 .

[Fast Jimmy]

LolaLei wrote...

"Round 2 the project" ... making cuts to the game itself is extremely concerning.

Well, I'd say if they are cutting guys who have been at Bioware for 13 years, they are past Phase 1 and are already into Phase 2. After all, 13 years is hardly a temp. If this Tweet is really what's going on, that is. 

[ElitePinecone]

Some more context:

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe
I will say that the people in the Edmonton office worked really hard to keep as many people as they can.

I believe by 'project' he meant project team staff, as opposed to contract staff. The 'phases' tweet seemed to be his own summary of what he thought was going on, replying to someone's question.

(It'd still affect the game in the long run, I suppose, but it's not 'project' as in 'today we're hacking out levels x, y and z)

Also, Mr Plewes was an associate producer, last on the ME3 MP team overseeing that part of the game. Only one layoff from the DA side of the Edmonton team has actually been confirmed, we don't have any other information.

[LolaLei]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Some more context:

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe
I will say that the people in the Edmonton office worked really hard to keep as many people as they can.

I believe by 'project' he meant project team staff, as opposed to contract staff. The 'phases' tweet seemed to be his own summary of what he thought was going on, replying to someone's question.

(It'd still affect the game in the long run, I suppose, but it's not 'project' as in 'today we're hacking out levels x, y and z)

Also, Mr Plewes was an associate producer, last on the ME3 MP team overseeing that part of the game. Only one layoff from the DA side of the Edmonton team has actually been confirmed, we don't have any other information.

I believe Ryan said a few people had been layed off when he was let go, via a tweet. Gimme a sec and I'll see if I can find it again.

[Fast Jimmy]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Some more context:

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe
I will say that the people in the Edmonton office worked really hard to keep as many people as they can.

I believe by 'project' he meant project team staff, as opposed to contract staff. The 'phases' tweet seemed to be his own summary of what he thought was going on, replying to someone's question.

(It'd still affect the game in the long run, I suppose, but it's not 'project' as in 'today we're hacking out levels x, y and z)

Also, Mr Plewes was an associate producer, last on the ME3 MP team overseeing that part of the game. Only one layoff from the DA side of the Edmonton team has actually been confirmed, we don't have any other information.

Do we know if these layoffs happened today, or on Friday and people are just now Tweeting about it?

[LolaLei]

ElitePinecone: here we go

Ryan Loe: "So, I found out today that Friday is my last day at BioWare. Nothing to do with performance. Just belt tightening. I'm not the only one."

[LolaLei]

Fast Jimmy wrote...

ElitePinecone wrote...

Some more context:

Ryan Loe ‏@ryan_loe
I will say that the people in the Edmonton office worked really hard to keep as many people as they can.

I believe by 'project' he meant project team staff, as opposed to contract staff. The 'phases' tweet seemed to be his own summary of what he thought was going on, replying to someone's question.

(It'd still affect the game in the long run, I suppose, but it's not 'project' as in 'today we're hacking out levels x, y and z)

Also, Mr Plewes was an associate producer, last on the ME3 MP team overseeing that part of the game. Only one layoff from the DA side of the Edmonton team has actually been confirmed, we don't have any other information.

Do we know if these layoffs happened today, or on Friday and people are just now Tweeting about it?

Well, according to the first tweet it happened on the 11th of April, then again on the 17th. Dunno if there's been anymore though.

[ElitePinecone]

Mr Loe was unfortunately laid off about a week ago, and apparently some more people were only told a few days ago. Nobody's giving much more information than that, at least about Bioware devs.

(There were also some much larger layoffs in EA generally over the last few weeks - whole mobile studios have been shut down and many layoffs at EA Motreal, EA Galway in Ireland and an EA studio in India.)

[LolaLei]

ElitePinecone wrote...

Mr Loe was unfortunately laid off about a week ago, and apparently some more people were only told a few days ago. Nobody's giving much more information than that, at least about Bioware devs.

(There were also some much larger layoffs in EA generally over the last few weeks - whole mobile studios have been shut down and many layoffs at EA Motreal, EA Galway in Ireland and an EA studio in India.)

There's an EA in Ireland? I totally didn't know that!

[ElitePinecone]

It seems likely that the reductions at Edmonton are related to the layoffs across other areas of the company, but I doubt we'll ever get accurate information about how many have been affected in Bioware. It certainly doesn't look like the studio is shutting down.

For example, this April 17 article and other previous reporting says EA Montreal, Brazil, San Francisco (that was "Bioware Social", who made Dragon Age Legends), Los Angeles, India and the Playfish studios were either shut down completely or had staff cuts in the past two months. It seems to be linked to financial performance, and cost-cutting measures.

[LolaLei]

Oh, I doubt they'd shut BioWare down. At least, not any time soon.

[Enad]

Really sad to see good people at Bioware loosing their job. It's also troubling to hear this because of how it may affect the game. Why would EA do this mid-project?? Let these people work and then, if they must, cut them after the game has been released.