News Posted February 17, 2012 Posted February 17, 2012 Drew Karpyshyn, the veteran BioWare writer who has worked with the studio since games like Baldur’s Gate 2, has announced via his personal blog that he is leaving BioWare and the gaming industry altogether. Karpyshyn is leaving to focus on … Continue reading » Read the full story at starwarsmmo.net...
DarthParametric Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 He wasn't the TOR lead writer. Far from it. In fact, I'm not sure he actually contributed any significant content to the base game, as he was still working on ME2 at the time. I suspect his involvement won't be seen until future major content (major patches/expansions) rolls out in the next 12-18 months. He was the KOTOR and Mass Effect 1 lead writer, and co-lead writer for ME2 (with Mac Walters).
adamqd Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 IIRC He wrote the Jedi knight class story in tOR. He will be missed, as we all know KotOR and its amazing Story is why a majority of us even come here. Hopefully we'll see more great novels now.
DarthParametric Posted February 19, 2012 Posted February 19, 2012 Ah, my bad, seems he did work on the JK. Makes sense I guess, given the ties with the Revan novel. Based on all the other classes though, he wouldn't have been the sole writer. Seems they distributed bits of each class to a number of writers from what I have seen/read.
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