Georg Zoeller Leaving Bioware

[hatterson]

I figured this would be of special interest to the community here.

According to his Google+ Georg Zoeller has decided to leave BioWare.

I can't link to the status because it's not fully public but the quote is:

Quote:It's time to say goodbye....
Friday marked my last day in the office at BioWare. After almost a decade and spending almost quarter of our lives in Canada and the US, my wife and I have decided to take on an exciting new adventure on the other side of the world -Singapore. It's been an honor to work on so many amazing games with so many talented people and good friends, you will be greatly missed.

[SLi]

Read that on a German SWTOR site. He's confirmed it now has he?

It wouldn't seem like an ideal time to be leaving SWTOR, he did seem to be the one person from Bioware at least engaging with the player community. It makes me wonder what is going on behind the scenes, as well as the extent of the subscription losses.

We all have to do what we have to do though and family comes first, always.

[hatterson]

He was actually seen as a significant issue by a decent part of the community.

He had a very adversarial relationship with us theorycrafters and had a very open attitude that we couldn't show his team anything they didn't already know because they were the source of the info and all our data mining, theorycrafting and simulating didn't mean anything because we didn't have the full source.

[Masterkiller]

(07-11-2012 01:01 AM)hatterson Wrote:  He was actually seen as a significant issue by a decent part of the community.

He had a very adversarial relationship with us theorycrafters and had a very open attitude that we couldn't show his team anything they didn't already know because they were the source of the info and all our data mining, theorycrafting and simulating didn't mean anything because we didn't have the full source.

This exactly. From my viewpoint he had the stance where he didn't want people looking into his black box because we'd find issues/bugs/problems in that black box. Instead of welcoming the community to work on it, he took a very hardlined "we are the developers, you are only gamers, you can't possibly know more than us". That's just my opinion on his stance, and that sort of stance can really alienate some of the brightest members of the community.

[Kaedis]

Just going to have to inject a /glee into this. Bioware can only be better for his absence.

If you can't tell, I was REALLY not a fan of Mr. Zoeller.

[kashya]

(07-11-2012 05:33 PM)Kaedis Wrote:  Just going to have to inject a /glee into this. Bioware can only be better for his absence.

If you can't tell, I was REALLY not a fan of Mr. Zoeller.

Why do I feel like I was watching the wizard of oz and the house just fell. *que singing*

[Masterkiller]

(07-11-2012 11:48 PM)kashya Wrote:  

(07-11-2012 05:33 PM)Kaedis Wrote:  Just going to have to inject a /glee into this. Bioware can only be better for his absence.

If you can't tell, I was REALLY not a fan of Mr. Zoeller.

Why do I feel like I was watching the wizard of oz and the house just fell. *que singing*

LOL that's awesome...

[Xzyzz]

Usually when people leave themselfs - its because the company gave them 2 options.

1. Leave for yourself or
2. We begin the process to fire you.

It give them a chance to save face around the industry and leave on their own vs being fired.