Could you substantiate that claim?
Sawyer said: "When I started at Interplay in 1999, there were zero women in development," says Sawyer. "The number of female game developers has gradually gone up from year to year. Fallout: New Vegas had about half a dozen women on the project, which isn't really that much, but it was the most I had ever worked with. The game industry doesn't have a history of being particularly welcoming to women, so I'm glad that is changing, even if it's not happening at a rapid pace."
You would think that they would invite Vault Dweller to write something due to his work with Age of Decandence, or maybe invite Styg to develop some combat system due to his work with Underrail. Instead, they hire Carry Patel to promote diversity. What a joke.
It is absolutely mind-boggling that you bring up that quote as if it's anything to go by. What is the idea here, that you feel threatened that women can find employment with Obsidian? That Obsidian has been becoming less and less of a boys club? That for every woman they hired, they have skipped a far more qualified man?
So, Sawyer himself personally hired Carrie Patel because she had a vag and no other accolades to her position? Good to know, thanks for the confirmed first-hand insider intel. Now, would you care to list the names of every other woman employed at Obsidian as well? Or do you have a beef with Carrie Patel in particular?
Would you also like them to consult with you the next time they are out to hire somebody?
For worse, definitely. Let’s see: tank MMO, card games, shitty expansion cut in half with shitty writing, etc. You make it sound like it is a good thing, but if the price to keep Obsidian afloat is this decline mess they could just as well file for bankruptcy.
So you are seriously positing that Sawyer, only recently promoted to the position of Design Director within Obsidian, had the exclusive and executive influence to decide to go with the tank MMO and the card game? Nope, boy, that decision lies with the top people. It is on Feargus more than anybody else.
Another awful linear game with trashmobs and bad encounter design, but great art. Sounds like PoE allright.
It sold well and we all know Sawyer had a big role in tying up the loose ends. Sort of the same deal with PoE.
You mean, a great game with cool reactivity and writing if you can ignore the awful popamole combat system, FPS engine made by Bethesda and tons of bugs.
Yup, it was Sawyer again. Bethesda offered them the freedom of building their own systems but no, evil Sawyer insisted on using Bethesda's framework. He had the freedom to build a new Fallout game from the ground up but refused. That Sawyer, man, that Sawyer. It's like he's the defacto leader of Obsidian, these days.
You mean, he bought and secured the company’s future by taking free money on KS under false pretenses and delivering a popamole isometric game. That is not an accomplishment, by any means. Harebrained Schemes did the same thing with less money. The truth is that Obsidian is looking more and more a poor cousin of Bioware. The only reason they don’t become another Bethesda or Bioware is because they didn’t get the big contracts.
It is just hilarious that you bold that part. Makes it sound like none other than Sawyer himself again is some kind of swindler, a con man. TOOK FREE MONEY, YOU SAY, NO SHIT!
Well, like it or not, PoE delivered what it promised. And for anyone with at least some familiarity with Obsidian, it was clear as day what they would deliver. From day one, they said the game would focus on combat and would also have some nice flavour text and choices. They certainly delivered in spades. Perhaps some people should have been less busy being excited and more attentive to what was being said. Then again, there were idiots who actually (not wished, but) expected the Obsidian KS game to be turn-based with a straight face.
Overall, you seem to have serious issues with women and even more with coming to terms with the fact that Sawyer isn't running the company. Feargus is. Perhaps you should think about why you are so obsessed with scapegoating Sawyer to the exclusion of everybody else and try to gain some perspective.
