Following the layoffs that weren’t known 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 basic 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 opportunity of getting extra of the sequence going forwards, given big swaths of the parents who labored on Veilguard and a number of earilrer entries within the case of some at the moment are now not working at BioWare.
“So a cool French lady dropped a cool quote from Camus on me at this time: ‘Within the midst of winter, I discovered there was, inside me, an invincible summer time.’ (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 concurrently my nation rockets to fascism does not really feel like a coincidence.”
However DA is not lifeless. There’s fic. There’s artwork. There’s the connections we made by way of the video games and due to the video games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP however you may’t personal an thought, regardless of how a lot they wish to.
DA is not lifeless as a result of it is yours now.
— that different author (@thatotherwriter.bsky.social) 30 January 2025 at 02:44
“We’re going by way of it proper now. It is loads, in every single place,” the author continued, “however DA is not lifeless. There’s fic. There’s artwork. There’s the connections we made by way of the video games and due to the video games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP however you may’t personal an thought, regardless of how a lot they wish to. DA is not lifeless 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 time, then it is achieved it is job, and it has been my best honour to have been part of that.”
It is a beautiful sentiment, particularly in an business whose company varieties are seemigly extra keen – or joyful – than it is ever earlier than to throw the whole lot and everybody into the solar within the identify of income if each sport is not the form of uncommon runaway success that may make doing so unpalatble even to the soulless investor varieties corportate varieties usually reply to.
