{"id":28726,"date":"2023-05-07T03:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T02:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/david-gaider-claims-bioware-quietly-resented-writers\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T03:00:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T02:00:44","slug":"david-gaider-claims-bioware-quietly-resented-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/david-gaider-claims-bioware-quietly-resented-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"David Gaider claims BioWare &#8220;quietly resented&#8221; writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nFormer BioWare veteran David Gaider has criticised his former studio for its evolving approach to video game narrative, up until his departure from the studio in 2016, amidst the troubled development of multiplayer shooter Anthem.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a string of posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgaider\/status\/1653547888931393536\">Twitter<\/a>, Gaider said video game writing was &#8220;constantly undervalued&#8221; &#8211; even so at BioWare, which in Gaider&#8217;s words &#8220;built its success on a reputation for good stories and characters&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;[It] slowly turned from a company that vocally valued its writers to one where we were&#8230; quietly resented, with a reliance on expensive narrative seen as the &#8216;albatross&#8217; holding the company back,&#8221; Gaider wrote.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/david-gaider-claims-bioware-quietly-resented-writers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. 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