“BioWare Co-Founder Greg Zeschuk: EA’s Saudi-Led Sale Was ‘Final Nail in the Coffin’ for St” — what this page in the network covers. BioWare co-founder Greg Zeschuk has broken his silence on the studio’s closure last week, calling the move “kind of sad” and pointing to EA’s leveraged buyout by a Saudi-involved consortium as “the final nail in the coffin.” Zeschuk, one of the studio’s original doctor-founders, made the comments in The closure marks the end of a 30-year legacy that began with medical doctors Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk, who founded BioWare in 1995.
The studio became synonymous with deep storytelling and player choice, creating franchises that sold tens of millions of copies. Zeschuk’s remarks suggest that while the studio had faced challenges under EA’s ownership since 2007, the recent change in EA’s corporate structure—a leveraged buyout involving Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund—created conditions that made BioWare’s continued operation untenable. The full version stays on the original page, which this listing opens directly.