Mass Effect: Andromeda has lost another experienced team member. This time, it’s senior editor Cameron Harris, who announced her retirement on Twitter :
I've decided to exit the video-game industry to return to Seattle for new opportunities there. I'll be leaving BioWare in mid-April.
— Cameron Harris (@camharr) March 4, 2016
“ I had a great time at BioWare, working with so many talented, passionate folks,” Harris continued i n a series of tweets . “I'm grateful for everything you taught me over the years. I wish all the best for my friends and colleagues at BioWare and across the games industry. You are some of the finest people I know. And to the fans especially: thank you for all of your enthusiasm and support over the past several years while I did this games thang. <3 Fin. And see y'all back in Seattle!”
Last month, Chris Schlerf, the former lead writer on Mass Effect: Andromeda , left Bioware to work for Bungie on Destiny :
Think MEA is really gonna blow people away; couldn't be prouder to be part of it, & excited like a lil kid to play the final when it's out.
— schlerf (@schlerf) February 16, 2016
“ Sincerely one of the best experiences of my career-I'm incredibly grateful to have worked w/ such talented & truly wonderful human beings,” said Schlerf on Twitter. Schlerf was originally introduced as the lead writer for Andromeda back in 2014 .
Two months ago, senior development director Chris Wynn also announced his departure from Bioware:
It is with a heavy heart today to say that I am moving on from BioWare and Mass Effect: Andromeda, and returning to the USA.
— Chris Wynn (@The1Wynn) December 22, 2015
It’s not just the Andromeda team that seems to be leaking staff. Back in January, 17-year Bioware veteran David Gaider, the man behind Cassandra, Dorian and a whole lot of the Dragon Age setting, left Bioware as well.
Some news: I must sadly announce that, after 17 years, today is my last day at BioWare. I'll miss my team, and wish everyone here the best.
— David Gaider (@davidgaider) January 22, 2016
Gaider moved on to become creative director at Beamdog , the company behind updated and mobile versions of both Baldur’s Gate games. (Gaider had originally served as a writer on Baldur’s Gate II. )
The exodus of longtime Bioware staffers and key Mass Effect: Andromeda team members is worrying, especially when considered along with the announcement that Andromeda would be delayed. All the same, it can’t rain all the time: longtime Bioware writer Drew Karpyshyn, who took a three year hiatus to work on his novel trilogy Children of Fire , recently returned to Bioware. (Yeah, it was to work on Star Wars: The Old Republic , but it’s still something.)
Mass Effect: Andromeda was supposed to come out in 2016, but has since been moved to an early 2017 release date.
