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Following the disappointing sales of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, it’s looking like BioWare’s fantasy IP won’t be making a comeback anytime soon. Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider believes that the series may be dead, and the game’s poor commercial performance–according to EA’s expectations–was likely the final nail in its coffin.
“Throughout the entire time I was there, we were always one breath away from the project being shelved,” Gaider said to PC Gamer. “The thing that happened is that we kept releasing games, and it would sell much better than they thought it should, and it kept surprising them.”
Gaider added that Mass Effect was treated as EA’s favorite child, even if they didn’t sell as well as early Dragon Age games did. The writer added that Mass Effect was seen as a “slick, modern RPG” that was easy to sell, whereas Dragon Age was perceived to be an “old-fashioned” story-focused RPG, and any success it experienced was deemed to be a “fluke” by EA.
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But would Gaider ever consider returning to the franchise? Absolutely, he said, so long as he was handed the keys to the IP and it wasn’t produced under EA. “I think that’d
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