It must be a live service, like Anthem, because apparently that is what players of sprawling single-player RPGs actually want. It must become one of EA's increasingly bland titles, built on the Frostbite engine, an engine never intended for RPGs, and using the framework for Anthem no less. The next Dragon Age must fit the 'games-as-service' mold. It could earn EA some major brownie points also.īut no, that is not to be. that game could win awards and pull BioWare back from the brink. A highly reactive RPG with a great narrative, real player choices, major consequences and varying endings, with hopefully decent combat and other RPG systems, well. A really great, single-player Dragon Age (hey, go ahead and tack on some MP, nobody would care) could sell ten million copies. Unlike Joplin, this new version of the fourth Dragon Age is planned with a live service component, built for long-term gameplay and revenue.'Īnd this, dear readers, is why we can't have nice things. 'A tiny team stuck around to work on a brand new Dragon Age 4, code-named Morrison, that would be built on Anthem’s tools and codebase. Then, finally, in no small part due to the fact that Joplin didn't have any kind of multiplayer focus and didn't fit the 'games-as-service' model, it was canned. Then the deeply troubled Anthem once again put the brakes on Dragon Age work. Then along came the deeply troubled Mass Effect: Andromeda, and BioWare had to pull the Dragon Age 4 team to help with that. It would also focus less on fetch quests and be more contained overall than its predecessor. The game's focus would be on creating player choice and the consequences of those choices, with a reactive world that changed based on what players did.

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