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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.
That depends entirely upon the company that could potentially purchase the IP. Company culture differs greatly between different corporations. You have no idea how one company's c-suite would guide development in comparison to how EA had done so in the past. There's also plenty of examples where execs have not chased trends, and instead have found success in their own niche way, such as Larian, FromSoftware, Paradox, etc.
I disagree. I think they would absolutely be considering selling off unprofitable or mothballed IP's in the wake of the huge debt they incurred when that private equity fund acquired EA. That's par for the course for how private equity operates.