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Former Dragon Age developers are not happy with EA CEO's suggestion that The Veilguard should have live service features: 'I'd probably quit'

Live service isn't the answer to everything.

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Days after EA CEO suggests players crave live service guff, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 boss says their single-player RPG made all its money back in one day

Amid Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformance, Andrew Wilson reckoned players seek "shared-world" features

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As EA hints The Veilguard's low sales could be due to a lack of live service elements, former Dragon Age lead calls out "silly" demands to "fundamentally change the DNA of what people loved"

"Just thinking out loud, of course"

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Legendary Dragon Age writer looks to Baldur's Gate 3 devs while giving EA advice after The Veilguard: "Follow Larian's lead and double down on that"

"The audience is still there"

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EA is predictably learning the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard's failure

EA blames the failures of Dragon Age on a lack of shared-world experiences.

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Dragon Age 2 director acknowledges "really fast rush" behind the RPG's development as the team tried to "jump on the grenade that was being placed in front of BioWare"

An MMO like Star Wars: The Old Republic is a pretty big grenade, after all

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No, Gaming's Worst Trend Would Not Have Saved The Most Overlooked RPG

'Dragon Age: The Veilguard' might have been better off as a live-service game, according to the CEO of the company that removed its live-service elements.

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EA has learned all the wrong lessons from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and it's going to be disastrous for the future of Mass Effect 5—if it even has a future

No EA RPG is safe from the publisher's obsession with live service.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard was loved by "those who played," EA insists, but "it did not resonate with a broad enough audience"

The RPG released into a "highly competitive market"

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It sure sounds like Electronic Arts thinks cutting Dragon Age: The Veilguard's live service components was a mistake

CEO Andrew Wilson said Veilguard "had a high quality launch and was well-reviewed," but failed to "resonate" with gamers who want "shared-world features."

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Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways'

Emergency stop.

PC Gamer

Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs

It was confirmed last week that "many" BioWare employees have been shifted to other teams within EA

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BioWare has reportedly lost at least half its staff, with fewer than 100 people left and the studio a ghost of its former self

Instead of killing the golden goose, what if you slowly starved it to death over more than a decade.

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30 Years Later, A Legendary RPG Maker Stands At A Dangerous Crossroads

Founded in 1995, BioWare created some of the best RPGs ever before falling on hard times. Here's where the legendary studio stands 30 years on.

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'Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now,' former BioWare writer reassures fans: 'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'

The future doesn't look very bright right now, but Sheryl Chee says Dragon Age is bigger than just videogames.

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'On a pirate ship, they'd toss the captain overboard': Larian head of publishing tears into EA after BioWare layoffs waste 'institutional knowledge'

A profit drop doesn't have to mean a closed shop.

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As layoffs reportedly hit BioWare, Former Dragon Age writer tells fans not to worry: "DA isn't dead because it's yours now"

Some developers may have moved on, but their story is still in your hands

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev slams EA's BioWare layoffs as "a short-term cost-saving measure" that "doesn't solve a long-term problem"

"Retaining that institutional knowledge is key"

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BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs

EA refused to acknowledge layoffs in yesterday's announcement about BioWare's downsizing, but they're happening.

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I'm haunted by the decline and fall of Dragon Age, and can't help but wonder how it came to this

A once-legendary RPG world now plunged into shadow

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Don't worry, Mass Effect 5 is totally fine, EA reassures as BioWare downsizes, moving 'many' employees to other studios

Electronic Arts won't say if any BioWare employees have been laid off in the restructuring, but at least one says they have.

Windows Central

BioWare studio undergoes restructuring, "We are turning towards the future and preparing for the next chapter in BioWare’s story"

BioWare studio members split into other teams within EA as development continues on Mass Effect 5.

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EA says Mass Effect 5 is now BioWare's "full focus" as it shuffles devs to other studios, with some reportedly facing layoffs following Dragon Age: The Veilguard's underperformance

"We don’t require support from the full studio"

PC Gamer

Is this the end of Dragon Age? Veilguard was good, but BioWare needed an all-timer, and I'm nervous about what's next

2009 BioWare isn't walking through that door.

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Former BioWare vet says the studio is focused on a single game 'for the first time maybe ever' with Mass Effect 5—and whether that's good or bad is anyone's guess

A narrowing focus.

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