Beginning with Baldur's Gate and running through series including Neverwinter Nights, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect, and Dragon Age, BioWare has built a reputation as a studio that creates great characters and tells great stories. But David Gaider, who has design and writing credits on just about all of them, said on Twitter that attitudes toward writers at BioWare had soured prior to his departure in 2016.
Gaider said writing is "undervalued" because everyone thinks they can do it, and in the game industry in particular it seems secondary to disciplines that require "real skills" like art or programming.
