Following the layoffs that weren’t referred to as layoffs by EA and BioWare within the firm’s announcement of downsizing on the studio which lately launched Dragon Age: The Veilguard, one of many sport’s writers has shared a message for followers involved concerning the sequence’ future.
Sheryl Chee was one of many ex-BioWare workers moved over the Motive Studio as a part of the modifications BioWare common supervisor Gary McKay wrote are designed to create “a extra agile, targeted studio that produces unforgettable RPGs” – which is unquestionably phrases – because it shifts to engaged on Mass Impact 5.
Posting on BlueSky (thanks, GamesRadar), they’ve addressed DA followers who’re understandably feeling actually downbeat about the potential of getting extra of the sequence going forwards, given large swaths of the parents who labored on Veilguard and a number of earilrer entries within the case of some at the moment are not working at BioWare.
“So a cool French girl dropped a cool quote from Camus on me as we speak: ‘Within the midst of winter, I discovered there was, inside me, an invincible summer season.’ (I imply, who does resistance just like the French, proper?),” Chee wrote in a thread responding to a fan who’d posted: “Dragon Age dying similtaneously my nation rockets to fascism does not really feel like a coincidence.”
However DA is not useless. There’s fic. There’s artwork. There’s the connections we made by means of the video games and due to the video games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP however you’ll be able to’t personal an concept, irrespective of how a lot they wish to.
DA is not useless as a result of it is yours now.— that different author (@thatotherwriter.bsky.social) 30 January 2025 at 02:44
“We’re going by means of it proper now. It is rather a lot, in every single place,” the author continued, “however DA is not useless. There’s fic. There’s artwork. There’s the connections we made by means of the video games and due to the video games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP however you’ll be able to’t personal an concept, irrespective of how a lot they wish to. DA is not useless as a result of it is yours now.”
“Somebody simply reposted my factor saying they’re going to write an enormous AU and that is what I am speaking about,” they added, “If DA has impressed you to do one thing, if it sparks that invincible summer season, then it is performed it is job, and it has been my best honour to have been part of that.”
It is a pretty sentiment, particularly in an business whose company sorts are seemigly extra keen – or comfortable – than it is ever earlier than to throw every little thing and everybody into the solar within the identify of earnings if each sport is not the sort of uncommon runaway success that will make doing so unpalatble even to the soulless investor sorts corportate sorts typically reply to.