SWTOR Creative Director Abandons Ship

[Gimpymoo]

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/161851...republic_creative_director_leaves_studio.html

BioWare’s creative director on Star Wars: The Old Republic, Daniel Erickson, is leaving the studio after six years.

After BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk retired from the games industry early this month, Erickson’s leaving is another notable departure for the studio and publisher, EA.

Taking to Twitter, Erickson confirmed his departure and is open for any job opportunities.

"As part of leaving BioWare I'm officially starting a twitter account for job hunt and design thoughts."

He added that he’s also interested in moving towards mobile development, hinting that industry pressure to do so could be one of the reasons for leaving BioWare.

"When 90% of the industry is saying the exact same thing (social, mobile, FTP!) a huge number of people are going to lose that race.”

Erickson is one among many high profile studio departures to occur recently, with Muzyka and Zeschuk leaving BioWare as well as Cliff Bleszinski’s departure from Epic Games.

 

[wildman]

Both Major Starwars release were plagued by politics which lead lots of the lead designers to quit. SWG had the same problem and now SWTOR. I think its indicative the working on licence with material for LA is a royal pain in the ass ?

My honest opinion is he quit before he got booted. I can imgaine lots of heated discussion in the back room between Bioware devs and LA lawyers about what they could or couldn't do with their licence.

 

[ChrisJSY]

Absolutely.