Mac Walters, lead writer for Mass Effect 2 and Mass Effect 3 and creative director of Mass Effect, has left BioWare after 19 years with the company: Mac Walters has left BioWare after 19 years with the company. Walters was the production director for the upcoming Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (opens in new tab), but it looks like the project will have to proceed without him. Walters announced his departure for a new ranch in a post to LinkedIn (opens in new tab) late last week (via Eurogamer (opens in new tab)).

"Late last year, I decided to leave BioWare," Walters wrote, "The past 19 years have been a life-changing experience, and my LinkedIn career history shows that I served as Production Director for exactly one year, from January 2022 to January 2023. After serving in this capacity, he is listed as having left the company.

It is difficult to know exactly what this means for the development of Dragon Age: how it will affect the development of Dreadwolf is unknown. In an interview with BioWare last year (opens in new tab), Walters described the role of the production director: "You have a vision for the product and you help support it: ...... But on the producer's side, you also have the responsibility to figure out how to support the team in creating that vision." To me, that seems like a necessary role until the game hits the store shelves, rather than a job that you finish in the middle of development and go home. If so, this could be a bit of a speed bump for Dragon Age development.

I contacted BioWare for clarification on what this means for Dragon Age: I contacted BioWare to clarify what this means for Dreadwolf.

The entire Mass Effect series (and its remaster: Walters was the project director for "Mass Effect" in 2021: Walters is a longtime BioWare employee and one of the studio's veterans who left BioWare in recent years. in 2020. Casey Hudson and Mark Dollar, responsible for Mass Effect and Dragon Age, left (open in new tab), and Dollar's successor, Christian Daley, resigned last February (open in new tab). no matter what BioWare says, it is hard to believe that all of Dragon Age's development is going as planned. It is hard to believe that all of Dragon Age's development is proceeding as planned, no matter what BioWare says.