- Former Dragon Age Lead writer and creator David Gaider says it’s “unlikely” the beloved RPG will have a future at EA
- However, I would be open to working on the series again.
- Gaider would return to the roots of the series and make a “dark and dangerous” game
Dragon Age Creator and former narrative lead David Gaider doesn’t think the beloved role-playing game (RPG) series has a future at EA, but he’d be interested in working on a new game if given the chance.
Speaking to PC Gamer, Gaider said it’s “unlikely” we’ll ever see another Dragon Age game made by BioWare under EA’s control and explained how, while working at the studio, he always felt like “we were always just a breath away from the [current] project is archived.”
“What happened is we kept releasing games and they would sell a lot better than they thought, and that surprised them,” he said.
Dragon Age: Veil Guard was the exception, which underperformed for EA. However, it was also reported that the publisher had been pushing BioWare to incorporate live service elements into the game, but when the studio stuck to its RPG roots, CEO Andrew Wilson called it a mistake.
Gaider suggested that the mass effect The series was EA’s golden child, and even if it didn’t sell as well, the team “had excuses, because it was an action-oriented game. They thought it should sell more. It was more inventive.”
While Gaider believes Dragon Age is dead under EA ownership, I’d be interested in taking on the series again and returning to what made the dark fantasy series so beloved in the first place.
“If you had asked me that in the past, I would have said not at all. That I had already served my sentence,” he said. “I left the Dragon Age team before leaving BioWare. After Inquisition I left, I went to [Dragon Age’s creative director] Mike Laidlaw and I said, ‘I’ve told all the stories with wizards and dragons and what do you have that I have in me.’ And I could keep going, but if I keep working on this, it will become routine, and I think that would be a disservice to the team. “So I should step aside and let fresher voices rise. I don’t know if it was the right decision, but it seemed right at the time.”
He added: “I like challenges. So if by some strange alignment of the stars, someone were to hand him the Dragon Age The franchise came back to me and said, ‘Bring this baby back to life,’ that would be difficult, but I think it would be an interesting thing to do. To get back to the basics of what you did Dragon Age attract so many people in the first place. And go somewhere dark and dangerous, and do things that bother people. “I think that’s what I’d like to do with it.”
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