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Chris Avellone ‏@ChrisAvellone 5m5 minutes ago

I have officially left Obsidian Entertainment to accept a sudden opening as the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.
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Chris Avellone ‏@ChrisAvellone 4m4 minutes ago

(The first part is serious, but much love and well wishes to my fellow devs, good folks one and all.)

Wonder where he's headed next?

 

[5taquitos]

Unexpected. Wonder where he'll turn up?

 

[Zaptruder]

Where's he going to end up? inExile? Or in some corporate company with much higher pay and much less dignity?

 

[chadskin]

Unexpected. Wonder where he'll turn up?

Amazon, Wargaming, Hololens are my guesses.

 

[Durante]

Oh wow.

I hope he doesn't leave gaming, that would be a massive loss.

 

[exmachina64]

Wow, didn't see that one coming.

 

[Nibel]

Damn, this is huge.

Hope he sticks around.

 

[Enduin]

So much for his expected Obsidian Kickstarter game.

 

[JMDSO]

I give him one school year, tops.

 

[Impeccable]

Saw this coming from a mile away.

 

[Patryn]

Wasn't Obsidian hinting at a new Kickstarter with a new Avellone IP a while back?

Or was that just wishful forum thinking here?

 

[webrunner]

if it wasn't for fallout having JUST been announced and probably out this year I'd be like "I hope he's going to bethesda!!!!"

 

[Jon of the Wired]

I believe Chris Avellone is also one of the owners of Obsidian, so I wonder what's happening with that? I guess he could either continue to own his share without working there, or more likely, the other owners could buy him out.

 

[ilium]

Didn't see that coming! D:

Wonder where he will end up...

 

[Vincent Grayson]

I sure hope he goes back to actively writing games, perhaps at a dev with more/better resources.

 

[glaurung]

Well, he finished work on Pillars of Eternity. Time to move on.

I hope wherever he went to, we will know about it soon.

 

[Diprosalic]

maybe he goes to Bethesda to show them how to make good video games.

 

[FACE]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

 

[5taquitos]

Amazon, Wargaming, Hololens are my guesses.

Reading it again, I wonder if the Hogwarts joke actually means he took a teaching gig.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Ain't that a kick in the head.

 

[cirrhosis]

I'd guess InXile would be the destination

 

[JDSN]

Wow, maybe to start his own thing, tho id be okay with a producing job on Fallout 4.

 

[hemtae]

Holy shit.

Well this is depressing.

 

[Jon of the Wired]

Saw this coming from a mile away.

Yeah, he's seemed a bit restless lately, and it wasn't clear that he's had a major role in any Obsidian projects for a while.

 

[Mivey]

I'm guessing he wants to work full time for the new torment game. At least inXile would throw a lead position at him, if he showed any interest.

 

[Mifec]

Well this sucks...

 

[Kiko]

I also go for InXile

 

[Durante]

if it wasn't for fallout having JUST been announced and probably out this year I'd be like "I hope he's going to bethesda!!!!"

It would be pretty wild to play a Bethesda game with a handful of Avellone-written

Spoiler

good

characters and the rest as we are used to.

They could make it a plot point, like only a handful of people in the world actually have a soul or something.

 

[water_wendi]

Will be interesting to see whats next for him.

 

[Renekton]

Does this guy also have wanderlust/restlessness, or did I mistake him for Ron Gilbert?

 

[BrassDragon]

Wild speculation: maybe he got snatched up by the Disney/EA Star Wars behemoth. It's one of his loves and there must be a lot of gaming stuff in the pipeline.

 

[Xater]

So much for his expected Obsidian Kickstarter game.

Yeah, this is kinda bumming me out.

Wonder where he will go.

 

[Falk]

Wonder where he's headed next?

Are you blind it says Hogwarts.

God damn.

edit: nm wasn't wearing my glasses.

 

[Big Green Anus]

I only know him from Fallout New Vegas(console gamer) and I really enjoyed his writing in that game.

I wish him the best in his future endeavors.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

go to inxile and help on torment pls

 

[His Majesty]

Seeing how little he had to do with PoE it is not too surprising. Hope he moves to inXile. Or just go independent.

 

[Jhriad]

Suddenly I'm less excited for further Pillars of Eternity written content.

 

[Denton]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

God dammit, never thought this would happen, ever. Really curious what he wants to do next.

 

[marrec]

Hope he does just as well at his next gig. Obsidian is less without him, but they still got tons of talent.

 

[Raticus79]

Defence Against the Dark Arts

Secret Sorcery?

(Not sure if that would make any sense, but it rang a bell)

 

[Pakkidis]

WHAT! Easily one of, if not the best writer in the industry today.

 

[Duffman]

There's still enough time to fix the writing of Fallout 4.

 

[Jigorath]

No

NO

NOOOOOO

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Wow. Some lucky company will surely snatch him up.

 

[Sulik2]

I bet he will go to inXile.

 

[Terra_Ex]

Damn. Didn't see that coming. Hope he ends up somewhere worthy of his talent.

 

[Ghostmaster]

Well Harry Potter is owned by Warner Bros. so maybe they are really gearing up to go head to head with EA.

Or maybe he just got a teaching job.

 

[Ralemont]

Huh. Well, it sounds like an amicable split, at least. Here's hoping he stays writing video games.

 

[Enduin]

Suddenly I'm less excited for further Pillars of Eternity written content.

Why? He didn't really write any of it in the first place from what we've heard.

Curious to see where he goes. He is a co-founder of Obsidian so I would assume he owns some major share of the company. If he is going to another company I wonder what exactly they can offer him compared to the company he's part owner of.

 

[adj_noun]

Wait what why what how noooooooooooo