BioWare co-founder Greg Zuschuk has spoken out in defence of EA, saying the mega-publisher doesn’t force changes onto developers but rather gives them enough freedom to make their own mistakes.
In an interview with Games Industry, Zuschuk explained that his experience with EA had been a largely positive one, though the greater resources that became available through EA were slightly overwhelming at first.
“The best analogy I use, in a positive way, is EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself,” he revealed.
“It was really interesting because we really made all the choices we wanted to make ourselves; these are all things we wanted to try. And that’s something to remember – while we were independent we didn’t have quite the resources we had as part of EA, and then we got to EA and it was like “wow we can do all this stuff.” We had to be really thoughtful about what we wanted to focus on.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games