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Bioware claims refuted

Muzyka sets the record straight.

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Last week speculation was rife that the decisions of Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk to leave Bioware were down to negative feedback from fans following the recent releases of Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Former Bioware man Trent Oster told NowGamer: "The last time I met up with [Greg], I felt his exhaustion. "Punch out, eject, get the hell out", was my suggestions to him and it hit closer to the mark than I had realised. I also think the Mass Effect 3 fan reaction and the Old Republic fans negativity was just too much."

"You have to love games and you put your heart into them to create them. To have the fans creating petitions against the work is pretty hard to take, especially when you've spent the last few years crunching overtime to try and ship a game. It can be hard to shut off the overwhelming negativity the internet spews forth, especially when it has your name or the name of your company in it."

But it appears that Muzyka doesn't share the opinions of Oster, and he took to Twitter to set the record straight: "I respect/revere fans, because they speak with deep, honest passion. Journalists speculating on ill-founded rumors should reassess approach."

He then added: "Good websites demand clarity and credibility - lesser ones enable ill-informed individuals to make stuff up about other people."

So, if we want to know why the Bioware co-founders left the studio, I guess we'll have to wait for the memoirs.

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