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“EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself,” Zeschuk says (thanks,Time Extension).

It was actually a pretty successful run.

Star Wars: The Old Republic

“But you have to understand how to work within a big company.

And, for me, that was the end.

It was like, Oh, I dont like big companies.

Mass Effect

So I knew by year two that I was going to leave at some point.

I just didnt know when.”

Why doesn’t Zeschuk like big companies?

Dragon Age 2

As he explains later, “Big companies exist to exploit properties.

They exist to exploit games.

I dont like just operating.”

Dragon Age: The Veilguard reveal trailer screenshot showing a close-up of an elf�s stern face, a blade held up beside his cheek

Still, that’s not to say things couldn’t have been different.

But it needed to be like $2 billion a year successful.

But it didnt work out, so I was like, Ah, Im fine."

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What could have been.

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Jade Empire

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Erenshor

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A screenshot of the upcoming PS5 game, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

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