It's a good list for any Larian employees to pick up. If anyone is scanning the forum they can just pick up Niara's posts and use them as a to do list.
Everyone might already know that the ToB's NPCs were Bioware forum members. Frozen-yakman made it into both IWD2 and ToB. Gromnir Il-Khan still posts on the Obsidian forums.
Funny you should mention Bioware – you’ve probably heard that Anthem has been discontinued and plans for the follow up scrapped, there is talk that Bioware might not be around in a few years if they don’t turn things around and totally nail it with DA4 or the ME sequel. Anthem launched to very mediocre reviews but many players jumped on because Bioware devs promised they’d be active in the forums around how they were building things out and keep the community engaged to get direct feedback on what players wanted. But they didn’t do any of that, it was radio silence… and now look at them.
Man that is so sad. I'm from Edmonton (well, for awhile) and it was cool to have a good game company there. One of the guys I did Computer Science with even ended up working there.
I still think Kotor was their last great game.
I'm also from Edmonton. I've met the old Bioware crew (back in the day when EB Games first arrived, and BG2 came out, the BioWare team took us store employees to the studio to check things out as a celebration of the grand opening of EB Games and of the game launch. We got a sneak peak of the locked door where they were making Jade Empire at the time).
My best friend works with Zezchuck's brewery company. Doctor Greg Zezchuck left gaming all together and is now a master beer brewer. Fucking love that man. When Dr. Myzuka left after Mass Effect 2, that was when "Bioware" was no longer the same company.
