Warren Spector, the developer famous for working on some of the greatest games of all time, is mad. Really, really mad. Like so many others, he’s been hit hard by the news of EA’s closing BioWare, and two weeks later he’s still reeling. Now he’s calling for senior heads to roll in an industry that only ever seems to punish the creatives they stifle.

Two weeks ago, as news broke about the closure of BioWare by the now-Saudi-owned EA, the usually cordial Spector posted on his LinkedIn that he was driven to cursing by the news, describing the “devastating historical event” as “utter bullshit.” He noted that he’d like to see the “folks in suits” losing their jobs, asking them to consider, “what do you contribute to gaming? What price do you pay for failure?” and declaring his wish to see those people on the unemployment line, not the developers who “do the real work.”

Over the last fortnight Spector’s mood has only worsened. Noting that he’s very aware of the scale of layoffs across the whole games industry, he explains that “for some reason, BioWare hit me on an emotional level that nothing had before.” He adds, “I felt gut-punched.”

There were those who, after the news broke that the studio behind Baldur’s Gate , Dragon Age , and Mass Effect would be no more, argued that the studio’s best days were already clearly behind it, and that it made business sense to close what was left of the once huge studio given the commercial failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard .

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