@ Ariel
"OMG Mac, that was you?! I was also there, and that's what I remember best about Gordon Walton. Some person would stand up and ask, "Can we have (some really stupid or frightfully imbalanced idea)?", and Gordon would just say, "No."
Seriously, I will never forget that. I do see BioWare losing him as a very bad sign."
Yep that was me, I was asking for Phat Lewet, IIRC.
BTW, I was wearing my full Clan Morrison dress tartan to that meeting. I even had my pic in PC Gamer! I took my sword too, but had to check it at the door to the convention center. To fly my sword to Austin, I had to sign a form stating that it was an "unloaded weapon". Only in America, right? So I tried to tell the guard in Austin that it was unloaded but he wasn't buying into that. :) He asked, "Is that a real sword?" I said, well, it's not REAL sharp... He took it from me, but didn't spot the sgian-dubh (black dagger) in my sock! So, I was armed and dangerous and COULD have PK'd Gordon but I let him live.