Whatever you think of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, it's clear that nearly two years after its release, the game is a failure. It didn't really set the world on fire, it didn't sell all that well, and it probably killed the Dragon Age series outright.
And everything we've heard from people close to BioWare suggests that the Veilguard team has a mountain to climb from the start, whether it's issues during development or the involvement of the game's publisher, Electronic Arts. However, Dragon Age creator David Gaider believes that Veilguard's failure is more a result of the latter than the former.
David Gaider believes Dragon Age: Veilguard was set up to fail.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Gaider said he wouldn't play The Veilguard himself because he knows too much about his feelings about it and “what's going on behind the scenes.” In Gaider's eyes, Veilguard was essentially a doomed project from the beginning. Because EA irreparably “disabled” BioWare.
“Electronic Arts put a lot of effort into it, quite frankly, in terms of setting it up to fail,” Gaider said. “From everything I've heard about the game, it seems like that's exactly what happened. It failed to deliver on a creative level. It failed to deliver on a sales level.
“That's one of the things EA likes to do. They need a certain level of sales, and if they don't meet that, it doesn't matter how good the game is. If it's underperforming, it's essentially dead.”
Gaider has gone on record several times in the past blaming EA for the fate of Dragon Age, claiming that the series had previously been treated unfairly due to EA's incompetence and preference for BioWare's other large RPG series, Mass Effect. We're not sure exactly what EA did to the Dragon Age team, but if Gaider is to be believed, they never had the chance to do so in the first place.
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October 31, 2024
- ESRB
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M Mature 17+ // Blood, nudity, sexual themes, language, violence
