Dragon Age: The Veilkeeper didn’t do well. The game didn’t sell the millions Electronic Arts wanted, BioWare did cut to the bone in the months since, and now the RPG powerhouse is a unique game studio working exclusively on a new Mass effect. What is the future of Dragon Age look like? Does he even have one? The show’s former producer, Mark Darrah, has no hope.
“The problem is that I don’t know who at BioWare would offer a Dragon Age», Darrah, who left BioWare in 2021 after 23 years at the studio, recently said FRVR (via PC gamer). “So the other option is that someone else within the EA organization decides to offer a Dragon Ageand what I expect if they tried to do that is that someone at BioWare would essentially become one of those people jumping under the vents to tear that person apart. I suspect this won’t happen for various reasons.
He pointed out that EA currently controls many dormant IPs, and mentioned the publisher’s sprawling size and how its annualized sports franchises dwarf one-off hits. “I think this happened because of EA’s complicated relationship with shipping games,” Darrah said of how long it took. Sail guard to possibly ship. “Someone once described EA to me as a video game hedge fund that they wished they didn’t spend so much money on. And I think that remains true.”
The veteran producer does not paint a promising picture of Dragon AgeThe future of , even that of BioWare for that matter, as EA prepares to close its leveraged buyout from a consortium of investors, the largest of which is Saudi Arabia. “If you invest in Saudi Arabia, do you want a Dragon Age game to exist? » he asked rhetorically. “I could say yes and no… do you want BioWare in this world at all?
BioWare would certainly be far from being the first EA acquisition subsequently ruined.