Glassdoor Reviews

If this is an ex-AW guy, then the project director he's hating on is Richard Taylor, another guy who's been hogging a much-desired "project director" position (he also did Dungeon Siege III).

Occam's razor suggests she received that position because she's the most experienced Pillars of Eternity writer they have on the project. Nothing shady there.

 

Male employees are stealing flights of stairs? How the fuck does no one notice, have they got lots of lifts and escalators go upstairs on? Fucking weird.

 

I thought Patel wrote the Council of Stars quest.

If so, she is the natural pick for lead narrative designer, as that is the sort of thing Pillars of Eternity should be about.

 

That would be Eric Fenstermaker. The other main writers are Carrie Patel and Olivia Veras.

 

The Maker of Fensters is no longer at OE.

 

The more detailed list is on Obsidian's forum:

• Josh Sawyer - Game Director and Lead Narrative Designer

• Carrie Patel - Narrative Designer
• Paul Kirsch - Narrative Designer
• Megan Starks - Narrative Designer
• Kate Dollarhyde - Junior Narrative Designer
• Eric Fenstermaker - Narrative Design / Contract Writer
• Tony Evans - Writer

• Bobby Null - Lead Designer
• Dave Williams - Lead System Designer
• Jorge Salgado - Area Designer
• Jeff Husges - Area designer
• Nick Carver - Junior Designer
• Matthew Perez - Designer
• Olivia Veras - Designer (Area Design and Writer)
• John Cotto - Designer ( Area? Intern?)
• Brian Heins - Senior Designer

• Robert Nesler - Art Director
• Dimitri Berman - Lead Character Artist
• James Chea - Character Artist
• Ian Randall - Junior Character Artist
• Sean Dunny - Lead Environment Artist
• Demi Warren - Environment Artist
• April Giron - Environment Artist
• Hector Ezpinoza - Environment Artist
• Kelvin Nakamura - Environment Artist
• Kazunori Aruga - Lead Artist
• Lindsey Laney - Artist
• Mitch Loidolt - Artist
• Aaron Dubois - Senior VFX Artist
• John Lewis - VFX Artist
• James Melili - Effects/VFX Artist
• Matt Hansen - 2D Artist
• Br Guthrie - Concept Artist

• Shon Stewart - Lead Animator
• Antonio Govela - Senior Animator
• Amor Santos - Gameplay Animator
• Nina Huynh - Technical Animator
• Seth McCaughey - Senior Animator
• Zachary Spurlock - Junior Animator

• Adam Brennecke - Executive Producer & Lead Programmer
• Roby Atadero - Programming
• Brian Macintosh - Programming
• Kyle Swaim - Senior Tools Programmer
• Tim Truesdale - Senior Graphics Programmer

• Justin Britch - Lead Producer
• Katrina Garsten - Associate Producer
• Alec Frey - Associate Producer

• Justin Bell - Audio Director
• Zachary Simon - Sound Designer
• Adam Lehwald - Junior Sound Designer
• Robert Thayer - Audio Design Intern

• Andy Artz - Quality Assurance Engineer
• Kevin Bellardi - Quality Assurance Analyst
• Steven King - Quality Assurance Lead

 

That's PoE 1? Regardless, you can't promote people that aren't around anymore. Fence Marker isn't there.

 

Nope, but the list was made in January.

 

I don't disagree as long as she or anyone else at Obsidian never ever write Durance. I looked at the banters she wrote for him between the barbarian and the rogue for the White March and it was awful. She didn't get his voice at all, and Fenstermaker and Sawyer thinking that was "good enough" is proof that no one there should be allowed to touch an Avellone character, they just can't do it.

Edit: I had forgotten that Fenstermaker wrote all of Durance's banters and interjections in the base game which I enjoyed quite a bit (interesting to note: that's largely where all the humor comes from, Avellone's Durance is really dour), however my point still stands considering he's not a full-time employee and he still rubberstamped Patel in the White March.

Olivia pulls double duty as an area designer, so she already has more than enough to do as is. Plus while Kana wasn't bad, he wasn't exactly great either.

Additionally, you two are having a misunderstanding. Fenstermaker is a contracted writer, he isn't an official full time Obsidian employee. No time for being a lead, just Eder.

 

Obsidian quit working on Armored Warfare more than a year ago, and the time for disgruntled employee reviews would have been then. That particular review is from 23 March 2018, just a few weeks ago. Gee, I wonder if Obsidian currently has a game that's about to release and would be letting go of unneeded staff as development winds down.

Though I guess I shouldn't be surprised you would leap to Sawyer's defense so desperately.

 

It is way too early for Deadfire layoffs. They're crunching away.

 

"""overtime"""

 

I thought the whole point of planned DLC was so the studio wouldn't lay off all the staff the instant the game was done

 

Not to mention that, as an Obsidian game, Deadfire is going to need all hands on deck for several months after release for the patches

 

Hey badler, Anthony Davis, care to comment publicly on these negative employee reviews without approval from your CEO?

 

Feeling pretty confident all the "wah they won't listen to MY ideas and they ignore MY talent and MY genius and instead promote their idiot friends *stomps feet*" is just Millennial whining. Josh once mentioned at badgame that Obsidian once hired a Millennial who hit every single stereotype on the checklist, so there's probably more where he came from.

t. Millennial of course

 

Yeah they will do it... at the same time they also will parade around in nazi uniform, giving away drugs and calling for dog's genocide. Smart PR move.

 

Obviously, I can't really talk about these kinds of things without getting myself in trouble. So... no.

That said, I found it interesting that one of the reviews used my move from production into design as some type of knock against the company. I can guarantee that person never actually asked me why I made the switch. I'm pretty sure nobody else has moved out of production and into another role.

 

Glassdoor is cancer. Even if some of these reviews are from actual developers, they are still probably 50/50 with troll reviews, u cant except objective review from bitter worker who was kicked out, or left... Its never Black and White situation, and there is bigger possibility that bitter worker will want to shit on previous company on internet anonimously, than dev who left on good terms who dont care about writing positive reviews on internet about his previous company. So you dont have even good comparison. Developers can easily find out about company with few phones with actual people, non anonymous faggots, its not big industry.

 

Fairly understandable. Infinity Engine + other 90s RPGs died out partly because people were sick of them (sure, hundreds of thousands of people weren't -- the same 250k people who went and bought Arcanum or the Throne of Bhaal). Josh Sawyer was sick of making them (Icewind Dale II was sort of his final word on the subject) as were most of the other developers (including Tim Cain) to varying extents.

As currently constituted, this style of game makes it extremely difficult to balance combat driven gameplay (Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale) with interactive role playing driven gameplay (Planescape: Torment). Combat systems will always override role playing systems or the reverse, rendering each other superficial.

 

When the Obsidian story is made into a major motion picture or prestige cable drama, do you think Dan Harmon would make a good Feargus (imagine him without the beard)?

 

Josh didn't want to make yet another linear combat crawl, but he was disappointed that The Black Hound and then Fallout 3 were canceled. It wasn't that sales decreased on these things, but as Josh put it back in 2010

 

Personally I was joking, Infinitron or someone did the "mention your name with a link to get your attention" thing, and I thought it was funny in context. Obviously it would be insane to actually expect you to seriously comment on it

 

Turns out numales and dangerhairs don't make good coworkers.