Chris Avellone, who has worked on several RPGs at Interplay and Black Isle (Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2, Alpha Protocol, Fallout: New Vegas… now he’s helping Dying Light 2 among a few others), he would return to Obsidian (which he co-founded) – with one option.

Roughly half a year ago, Avellone told TechRaptor how he blames his June 2015 departure on Obsidian‘s leadership. The veteran developer still thinks similarly – on Twitter, he explained via multiple tweets how he would go back to Obsidian. (The first few sentences were before the official acquisition announcement!)

„[Phil Spencer,] if you ARE doing a deal with Obsidian Ent., I’d really, really look at Pillars of Eternity sales figures (which Fig has indirectly revealed this month, and tried to be cagey about it). Good devs there, terrible management – Hire the devs, fire the chaff at the top. The bridge [back to Obsidian] isn’t leading anywhere I’d want to go. I am sure it used to be a very nice bridge, very colorful, though, when it wasn’t ash-black. An exceptional bridge. Very… bridge-like. I’d add Obsidian routinely burns bridges… it’s why no publisher works with them twice. While Paradox worked with them on two occasions with Pillars of Eternity, they were fulfilling marketing rewards, not guiding PoE. And their next effort with Obsidian? Tyranny? As PDX said, =/ expectations.

If your executives don’t love games, and they only love the profit of them – that’s not my worldview as a developer. I would never work with them again as a result of that being their narrow worldview. I don’t hate [Feargus] Urquhart [the founder and current CEO of Obsidian] at all; I just have some valid objection to how he treats/ignores employees and his management style, esp. along gender lines. Scroll down: past the paid ad and intern (child-friend-of parent-friend-of-CEO) ad [and read the reviews].

If there were leadership changes, sure, [I would return,] and it would depend on the game (but there are some games they can’t do that I am free to pursue as a freelancer). The devs are good. I have high hopes for Project Indiana (Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky’s project) [which will be published by Take-Two’s Private Division label].”

So Avellone, if the game fits him, would gladly take a trip back to Obsidian if the Microsoft, the Redmond-based company, fires Obsidian‘s current leadership. It’s up to the „greens” at this point…

Source: WCCFTech