And writing isn ' t a strictly collaborative effort . One talented writer will come up with better stories then ten runatthemill writers working together , every time . Adding more writers when there already isn ' t a lack of writers will not increase the quality and will possibly hurt it . IIRC though , there ' s a project lead and then a writer for different sections and slices of the game . Someone handles lore , someone handles characters . There was an interview with Bioware I think , where they put the concepts out on the table and individual writers took what they wanted to work on . It ' s down to the project lead then , to make sure it all fits coherently . But game stories are apparently far too large to just be one person ' s writing work . I think anyway , I ' m not sure of many bigger successful titles that were the work of one writer , but then again , I never really thought about it .