George Smith - Raid Designer Leaves SWTOR

Transferred. People are acting like he was let go.

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I was only referring to him no longer working on SWTOR. He can be anywhere he wants in EA/Bioware, the fact is, he's no longer here...and I don't see his departure as a loss in any way for us.

Because a designer does not build an operation all on their own.

Without resources allocated to new operations projects, new operations do not get built - no matter how good or bad the designer is at their job.

And when nothing new has been released in a year, with nothing new on the horizon, the fact that an operations designer is leaving to pursue opportunities elsewhere in the company just reinforces what many already believe, and that is that the current management of SWTOR has no intention of creating new operations anytime soon, if at all.

If they were planning to do so, they wouldn't want to lose a lead designer - it would be like having the intent to create new PVP maps, and losing the designer responsible for creating new PVP maps.

And even if they have the intention to create new operations, and the change in roles and organization was simply George finding a 'better' personal opportunity, losing a key resource required to build new operations is not a positive for those wanting new operations.

Doubt it, but if this was true, I would buy this instantly.

There, fixed it for ya lol just a couple letters off

lol, I'm having this very discussion with a friend of mine (about what his job is). He thinks it would take them a team of 4-5 minimum for new Ops...I disagree. I think 1-2 people working on Ops could easily deliver the amount of content that George has delivered the past 2 years...we're only talking about TWO ops...there's no way I think you can justify more than 1-2 people with results this anemic.

As for that last part...damn right it's a bad sign.

Hopefully he's someplace in which he's actually able to design new content. Good for him.

it all depends on what takes the time in raids, and what resources of general content they use, chances are they mostly utlize general content developers, and have a small number of people whose job is mechanics

One more piece to add to the puzzle, there really is a strong indication that we will never receive another operation.
I'm not angry at George because he is not the reason why the raiding was abandoned. I remember watching him running TFB with DNT on a dev stream and I wish him the best on his future projects.