I can criticize BioWare all I want because I was there. I was there for Dragon Age: Origins, the game that introduced me to RPGs and remains my favorite game to this day. I was there for Mass Effect, where I fell in love with Shepard. I was there for Dragon Age 2, and I vividly remember the disappointment of it feeling more like Mass Effect than Dragon Age. But I stuck around for the writing and because it was made by the people who gave me a game I loved. I was there for Mass Effect 3 and its lackluster ending. I was there for Inquisition, watching devs leave the studio in droves, feeling that pit in my stomach but desperately wanting to be wrong. I was there for the Dreadwolf teaser. One minute of practically nothing, and I still wanted so badly to believe BioWare was coming back with something great. And I was there ten years later, watching the first Veilguard trailer and realizing the IP I loved was dead. So don't fucking tell me I don't know what I'm talking about. I watched this studio go from making some of my favorite games of all time to this. I have every right to criticize what it's become.