DA Veilguard from a longtime player to Devs
I’ve got to say it straight: Dragon Age: The Veilguard is easily the best the series has ever been, and it blows Inquisition out of the water in all the ways that actually matter. Don't worry about t...
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Uh huh, and let the hugboxers, hug. The game was trash, and their dev team deserved to get fired. Fingers crossed EA sells off the IP to someone more capable, so that they can bring the franchise back to when it was actually good with games in the series prior to Veilguard.
It wasn't a problem of developers not being capable. A lot of the development team was the same as Inquisition. One of the writers was lead writer on Baldur's Gate 2. Reports from both within and outside of BioWare point to the higher-ups forcing it to be an online game meant for broad audiences, then having a change of heart after Anthem's failure and stripping online functionality without giving the developers time to adjust the mechanics and tone. I don't think EA handing it over to other devs would do the franchise any good if the higher-ups would still demand to make it less like Dragon Age.
Trick Weekes themself said that they didn’t have enough guidance to make good enough characters without direction. That sounds pretty incapable to me. The fact that they had a writer from BG2 doesn’t negate the ineptness of other devs and writers. Reports after the release from within Bioware from devs trying to save face after their game tanked, isn’t convincing anyone, sorry. If they had been hamstrung by management at EA, they had also made their own poor decisions as far as how they wrote the characters, dialogue, and story. One is not exclusive to the other.
What are you talking about? If EA sells the IP, they don’t have any input anymore into the franchise.
What are you talking about? If EA sells the IP, they don’t have any input anymore into the franchise.
I meant it as a hypothetical scenario of whoever the new owner would be. We see that a lot nowadays in game dev where the executives chase trends but can't deliver before that trend has ended or the specific market has become saturated.
If the IP were to be sold off, I would prefer it if it went to a smaller developer who scales it down. That said, I don't think EA is in the business of selling off their properties, so if a new Dragon Age were ever made (which I doubt), I think it would either be within EA or a licensed game.
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