'It nearly killed me': Why studio head James Ohlen left sci-fi RPG Exodus mid-development—and why EA crushing his Star Wars: The Old Republic reboot was the 'beginning of the end' at BioWare
… He doesn't criticise EA—he says it was no worse than any big, corporate bureaucracy, and that it wanted BioWare to succeed—but he says the departures of BioWare founders Muzyka and Zeschuk in 2012 removed the "giant shit shields" protecting him and other developers. …