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Dragon Age maestro says EA always spoke about a hypothetical 'nerd cave' full of diehard RPG fans who would "always show up," so you "didn't have to try and appeal to them"

Maybe they were right, but they shouldn't have said it

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Former Dragon Age lead writer says being at BioWare was "glorious," but under EA it "surrendered more and more of its independence until we got to where we got to"

David Gaider recalls the storied RPG developer's good and bad days

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Dragon Age legend says even if he didn't leave BioWare 9 years ago, he still would have dipped over EA's live service Dragon Age push: "What a devil's contract that would have been"

David Gaider wasn't hanging around for the Thedas battlepass

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Ex Dragon Age writer worries more fans are tying their identity to games and hoping to see games fail to prove a point: "See what happened to them? See how their game sold?"

"They're very determined suddenly to see your game fail as a sort of a lesson to others who would make games of the same type," says David Gaider

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"There's nothing about JRPGs that requires them to be made in Japan," says ex Dragon Age writer, speaking nothing but facts – and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 just proves it again

"It's not a Japanese RPG, it's a Japanese-style RPG. And so that can be made anywhere"

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Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'

Truly exceptional games don't just appeal to their audience, David Gaider says, they expand it.

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Ex Dragon Age writer says Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 prove publishers wrong on how successful RPGs can be "when the game is good," and "what's possible when a game is given time to cook"

"They appeal very, very strongly to that one audience, but it's so strong that it ends up growing that audience," says David Gaider

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Former Dragon Age lead David Gaider would love to make an RPG at his new home, but "our last hope to keep the studio alive" comes first – and it looks like a very promising roguelike

Malys is a slick roguelike deckbuilder from folks who can't help but put a little RPG in everything

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Former Dragon Age writer praises Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 as "beautiful," saying it's "kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs"

BioWare veteran David Gaider is enjoying the new turn-based RPG

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Dragon Age creator says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is 'kind of to JRPGs what Baldur's Gate 3 was to CRPGs'

David Gaider's among the spellbound for Sandfall's latest hit.

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One of the best RPG narratives ever told could have gotten a sequel from Dragon Age's creator if a single publisher had the good taste to throw money at it

Someone put me in charge of videogames. I'll sort this right out.

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'EA always preferred Mass Effect, straight up': Dragon Age creator reveals that his and Mass Effect's team 'didn't get along' at BioWare, as EA played favourites with its children

Two households, both alike in development (in fair BioWare, where we lay our scene).

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Former Dragon Age writer claims "EA always preferred Mass Effect" when he was at BioWare, and the RPG series "was always just shy of the axe since DA Origins"

"They never quite knew what to do with DA"

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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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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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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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Dragon Age lead writer shares the heartfelt process of creating Inquisition's Dorian, says his 'story is not MY story, but it's also not far off'

"It allowed me to SAY something. That felt good. It felt right."

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The best Dragon Age Origins character was nearly cut content before a writer’s pigeon trauma saved her: "The pigeons used the HVAC like some kind of sex den. Angry, ugly pigeon sex"

What did pigeons ever do to you?

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Dragon Age: Origins lead writer says Shale was saved partly by his real-life burning hatred for pigeon poop: 'I wrote like the angry, angry wind'

"I hated those pigeons SO SO MUCH".

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Dragon Age 2 lead writer says fan-favorite Fenris "probably deserved some re-examining," even if he "turned out better than he had any right to" following the RPG's tight turnaround

David Gaider says he "struggled, at first" to write Fenris

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Dragon Age creator admits "honouring previous game choices" is "a sucker's game" because "you will never be able to deliver divergent plot"

"It's a question of resources, and there's never enough to go around"

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Dragon Age: Inquisition was supposed to see your Origins character return for what would have been the most excruciating choice BioWare ever concocted

I don't know if I could have made the call.

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Dragon Age creator reveals that one of the RPG series' most iconic characters was originally cast thanks to a rendition of Baby Got Back

Morrigan likes big butts and she cannot lie

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Akon's 'Smack That' and Morrigan from Dragon Age: Origins have a shared history, according to her writer, who cast her off a 'beat poet rendition' of the song

Get on the floor. Gimmie some more.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard was being imagined by BioWare's art director before Inquisition was even out, but this 10-year-old concept art makes it look like a very different RPG

The art director was quick to create ideas of what "cool things might come next"

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