Dragon Age creator David Gaider doesn’t think any new games in the long-running fantasy series will be made following the flop of 2024’s Veilguard.
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Three months after Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched, publishers EA revealed that the game had “underperformed” and missed its sales target but “almost 50 per cent” with just 1.5million people paying for the action role-playing game compared to the estimated 3million.
In a new interview Gaider, who was the lead writer on the original Dragon Age game as well as 2011’s Dragon Age 2 and 2014’s Inquisition before leaving BioWare in 2016, has said it’s “unlikely” that a new game will ever be made.
“Throughout the entire time I was there, we were always one breath away from the project being shelved,” he told PC Gamer. “The thing that happened is that we kept releasing games, and it would sell much better than EA thought it should, and it kept surprising them.”
‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’. CREDIT: Bioware
“They never knew what to do with it,” he continued. “So whenever a Dragon Age game sold well, we got [told] that it was a fluke.”
And while Gaider thinks EA is done with Dragon Age, he’d be up for making a new game. “I do like a challenge. So if, out of some weird alignment of the stars, somebody handed the Dragon Age franchise back to me and said, ‘Breathe the life back into this baby’, that’d be a tough one, but I think that’d be an interesting thing to do. To go back to the basics of what made Dragon Age appeal to so many people in the first place. And go somewhere dark and dangerous, and do things that will make people upset. I think that’s what I would want to do with it.”
Following the release of The Veilguard, BioWare confirmed that their attention had moved onto a new Mass Effect title, while Veilguard game director Corinne Busche quit the studio.
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