Live BioWare interview today!

By Robert Purchese Published 26 January, 2010

Bossman Ray Muzyka answers to you.

BioWare's big boss Dr Ray Muzyka will be answering Eurogamer readers' questions live on the website today.

Be here at 5pm GMT to see what he has to say. Or be here from 4pm GMT to submit questions to the BioWare co-founder, general manager and co-CEO.

Muzyka joins Eurogamer on the eve of European Mass Effect 2 release. And the accolades for the PC and Xbox 360 space opera can come no higher, as Eurogamer awards the role-playing game a 10/10.

Editor Tom Bramwell called the game "utterly essential" and said this series could become the most important in BioWare's history. Considering that BioWare created Knights of the Old Republic, Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age and Jade Empire, those implications are eye-popping.

But Muzyka's influence on the world of RPGs does not stop at BioWare: having been acquired by EA in 2007, the good doctor now finds himself as the senior vice president of EA's entire RPG/MMO Group, which presides over Mythic Entertainment.

With Mass Effect 2 on our doorstep and Mass Effect 3, more Dragon Age and Star Wars: The Old Republic on the horizon, few come bigger than BioWare's Dr Ray Muzyka.

Have we made him sound important enough now? Because he is, he really is.

Obviously demand for this one will be sky-high, so get your questions in early and make them count.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Phattso #1 2 years ago

    If my copy of ME2 doesn't arrive in time: [intimidate] WERE THE FUCK IS MY GAME?!

    If my copy of ME2 is in my hands: [persuade] WILL YOU MARRY ME?

  • ChthonicEcho #2 2 years ago

    Sounds like the perfect opportunity to ask him a very specific story-related issue that has been haunting me. Alas, it's potentially spoiler territory, so it's a no go.

    Still, that should be a great interview.

  • Shikasama #3 2 years ago

    Sorry but this will be like every other Eurogamer interview ever carried out.

    We will learn nothing and have to spend an hour reading corporate PR bullshit. That's what happens when you interview someone that important.

  • darleysam #4 2 years ago

    Crofto, it sounds like you two need to settle "Dog Rape Gate" once and for all. It's a scandal that threatens to drive a serious wedge into your once-burgeoning friendship.

    I mean, I can only assume that's the reason for such unbridled hostility towards a man whose job (and otherwise transgression) is to write words about games.

    edit: oh well.. that went fast.
    Edited by 1 at 26/01/10 @ 15:34

  • telboy007 #5 2 years ago

    Sounds like the perfect time to ask about that Turian in the toilet?

  • Hunam #6 2 years ago

    Maybe ask him why the marketing for Dragon Age was disastrous?

  • Jocho #7 2 years ago

    Speaking of Turian on the Toilet - where were all toilets on the Normandy, or anywhere in Mass Effect for that matter? Surely they must do those things *somewhere*. Or are the humans the only species that needs them, so the galaxy ignore them for practical reasons? I sure don't want to smell the citadel, if that's the case. ;)

  • darleysam #8 2 years ago

    You know that big double row of cryochambers or whatever they were called on the middle deck?

    That's just a nickname.

  • Machetazo #9 2 years ago

    Talitha/Subject Zero? Will the former play any part in the new game?
    Edited by 2 at 26/01/10 @ 22:00

  • MrTeatime #10 2 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:59:18 03-01-2012

  • Phattso #11 2 years ago

    It's interesting to see the comments in here. Bioware is a company with well over a decade of quality games behind them - if you don't want a PR answer, don't ask a question that is clearly not going to get a non-PR answer. For my part, I have a million questions about the older games they've made that are unlikely to be of any concern to stock market watching PR skunks. :)

    As to what's coming up in the future, I'm happy to just wait and see rather than badger people like this relentlessly and then complain when they give neutral and non-committal or evasive answers..

  • MiniAmin #12 2 years ago

    Can we get a new Jade Empire? Please?

  • ChthonicEcho #13 2 years ago

    @Jocho

    The Normandy in Mass Effect 2 has toilets. You, as a Captain, get your own, even.

  • RexRunti #14 2 years ago

    Do you feel guilty for making every other game developer in the history of game developers look bad? Have Bioware ever made a bad game? If I keep sucking up to you will you give me a job? A SW:TOR beta key? No? Where's that bloody Dragon Age content then?

  • Shikasama #15 2 years ago

    Just for the record I'm way open for being proven wrong.

    I just don't think that an interview with a relatively small, geographically restrictive website is goint to provide much in the way of major reveals.

  • Phattso #16 2 years ago

    Again with the "major reveals". Perhaps we just have a fundamentally different viewpoint on interviews. For my part I like to learn a bit about the person and, if I know their softography, gain some insight into that.

    Any 'major reveals' will pop up on all the news blogs anyway, no need to trawl an interview for them. I just want to, you know, have some interesting questions answered by a dude whose company has made some of my favourite ever games of all time.

    He's a person, not a fucking headline generator. :)

  • darkmorgado #17 2 years ago

    I want to ask for this perspective on the DLC leak, but as others have said I doubt it will be an "acceptable" question

  • Machetazo #18 2 years ago

    Phattso, your interview would flow like that, if you had booked a timeslot with an interviewee, for a face-to-face/over the phone chat. I don't doubt it'd be a great thing (even though I'd probably end up having to read the result in EDGE's centrespread feature), but really, this isn't as formal. It's not really an interview, because questions are just submitted, in hopes they'll be answered, so that in a community like that of EG, any manner of subject might come up, and that's fine in this format, I think, and actually, that's a benefit over one reporter preparing their notepad and recorder, and that very structured way.

    Also, from EG's perspective, I don't believe they complain, if they are sourced as the origin of several new headlines. My point, as I stumble towards it, being that it should be of value to all the participants, and I think that currently, by and large it is. The guest appearing here and chatting with fans and the community is nice, I think. It's good to have a more casual, anything goes (within reason) outlet that people who make the games we enjoy can spend a short time talking with us. Part of the venture being that people submit what they will, in hopes it might be answered. ;)
    Edited by 1 at 28/01/10 @ 12:02

  • Phattso #19 2 years ago

    Don't get me wrong - I like a juicy bit of info as much as the next gamer. What I was reacting/objecting to was the barrage of posters above that seem to think this interview will have no merit because forward-looking questions will get a standard PR response.

    They probably will - so ask better questions. Which is what I intend to do. :)

    I have notepad open with a dozen questions I'm going to be spam-submitting that I'd genuinely like to know the answer to. And none of them are about games not already released. ;)

  • darleysam #20 2 years ago

    Ask questions about the game and its design, which actually is interesting. Don't just go "WHEN ARE YOU MAKING MASS EFFECT NATAL? WILL MASS EFFECT 3 BE A PS3 EXCLUSIVE" then whine next time when you don't get the answers you want.

  • Shikasama #21 2 years ago

    Phattso, when you are served in a restaurant do you ask the waiter about his life story and the motivations behind his lifestyle choices?

    A pithy analogy I know, but I don't see how knowing 'the person behind the games' serves any point whatsoever. WHy do people want to know, in an interview with one of the most important people in games development, about something he released years ago? You sound like you think you are one of the 'enlightened ones' for not being too concerned about say, the Mass Effect trilogy, the DLC policy for future games, the Star Wars MMO.

    Also, everyone should remember that the questions will be very specifically vetted. There will be some topics that he has already refused to answer questions on. This is pretty standard for any corporate interview.

    Corporate is the word here. He is a corporate cog in a corporate machine and ANY interview with him is a PR excercise. Just because his corporate machine makes some great games doesn't make him any less of a Steve Jobs or Phil Spector.

  • Shikasama #22 2 years ago

    At any rate, the interview is today so here's hoping I'm proved wrong

  • darleysam #23 2 years ago

    Bad analogy. You're not asking the waiter about what their menu plans are for the next year, or if he's considering a job offer for another restaurant.

  • Phattso #24 2 years ago

    Who was talking about life story, Shikasama? You're putting words into my mouth. I want to know a bit about the person/people behind my favourite games ever. What're the working conditions now, for example? They used to be well known for running it almost like a family business, is that still the case?

    I'm not pretending to be an 'enlightened one' in the slightest - but I'd much rather have the above question answered than ask about what DLC they have planned for Mass Effect 2.

    And of course it's a corporate appearance, nobody is so naive to believe otherwise. But that doesn't mean there's not an opportunity to ask interesting questions and get interesting answers. But if all you want to do is sit there and bitch about how he's a corporate shill, rather than compose some valid questions, then who cares what you think anyway? Eh?! Eh? WHO!? ;)

  • Phattso #25 2 years ago

    And, to reiterate, my original point was that people who think this interview has no merit purely because he'll give (necessarily) corporate answers to certain questions are dicks. I think it has great merit, and I look forward to seeing what questions the great EG massive pose.

  • Johnhost #26 2 years ago

    I want to know if Dragon Age or Mass Effect will every support multiplayer or co-op? Are we going to see The Old Republic on Xbox 360??

  • Poorandugly #27 2 years ago

    I want to know if Dragon Age is planned as a trilogy like Mass Effect is, and if so what the time table looks like for those releases.

  • Phattso #28 2 years ago

    I want to know if there's a romance option for the Mabari Warhound in Dragon Age: Awakenings.

    /serious face

  • darleysam #29 2 years ago

    I want to know why this rash won't go away, even with the cream the doctor gave me.
    ಠ_ಠ

  • TOOTR #30 2 years ago

    Its past 4pm now! Whats going on? I want to know how much development team cross over there was between Dragon Age and Mass Effect2 (if any) as they both were mostly developed at the same time. In fact if the Eurogamer journo's could do side by side interviews with both development leads on those titles that would be fannytastic.

    Also, I want Buz to have a question answered again :)