{"id":42754,"date":"2012-08-11T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=42754"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T09:32:36","slug":"bioware-co-founder-leaves-the-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/42754-bioware-co-founder-leaves-the-studio","title":{"rendered":"Bioware co-founder leaves the studio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bioware co-founder Greg Zeschuk has reportedly taken the decision to leave the studio, stepping down as general manager of Bioware Austin.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes via an EA statement given to German gaming site GamersGlobal, &#8220;When Greg Zeschuk announced the reorganization of BWA in May, he outlined his plan to return to his family in Edmonton for a much deserved vacation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Greg also announced the new GM of BioWare Austin and SWTOR, Matt Bromberg. Greg is still with EA. He&#8217;s now back in Canada, taking time off and thinking about new projects. No change with [co-founder] Ray Muzyka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked for further comment on the report, EA stated they were not yet saying anything further.<\/p>\n<p>Bioware Austin is behind the struggling MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic, which has seen a ton of lost jobs and the recent announcement that the previously subscription-based MMO would be going free-to-play.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"CVG\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerandvideogames.com\/362362\/bioware-co-founder-leaves-the-studio-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"SOE president praises Bioware\u2019s decision to make SWTOR free-to-play\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42424-soe-president-praises-biowares-decision-to-make-swtor-free-to-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOE president praises Bioware\u2019s decision to make SWTOR free-to-play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Star Wars: The Old Republic going free-to-play\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42243-star-wars-the-old-republic-to-add-free-to-play-options.html\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars: The Old Republic going free-to-play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Old Republic may go free-to-play\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39817-the-old-republic-may-go-free-to-play.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Republic may go free-to-p<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still staying with EA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":30843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[31,427,6042,175,813,6173,6172,921,1830],"class_list":["post-42754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-bioware","tag-bioware-austin","tag-ea","tag-electronic-arts","tag-greg-zeschuk","tag-matt-bromberg","tag-star-wars-the-old-republic","tag-swtor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42755,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754\/revisions\/42755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}