Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider doesn’t believe there’s much of a future for the franchise he helped create.
David Gaider worked on several of the Dragon Age titles. He was attached to the project until 2014 and served as lead writer for Dragon Age: Inquisition. Since then, the series has continued, with the most recent edition being 2024’s Dragon Age: The Veilguard, developed by BioWare. Now, he’s explaining why he doesn’t believe the series has much of a future with Electronic Arts.
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David Gaider Says Dragon Age’s Future Looks Unlikely
Speaking with PC Gamer, Gaider revealed he doesn’t see a future for the franchise. He also says that during his time working on the franchise, he felt they were always one wrong move away from the series being put on Ice.
“From Electronic Arts? Unlikely. Throughout the entire time I was there, we were always one breath away from the project being shelved. The thing that happened is that we kept releasing games, and it would sell much better than they thought it should, and it kept surprising them.”
Furthermore, he says he would be open to taking control of the franchise if possible. If he were to regain control, he says he would take the series to a darker place.
“If, out of some weird alignment of the stars, somebody handed the Dragon Age franchise back to me and said, ‘Breathe the life back into this baby’, that’d be a tough one, but I think that’d be an interesting thing to do. To go back to the basics of what made Dragon Age appeal to so many people in the first place. And go somewhere dark and dangerous, and do things that will make people upset. I think that’s what I would want to do with it.”
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Yeah because BioWare is trash and should have been closed years ago Andromeda, Mass Effect collection, Anthem, then Dragon Age all flops pull the plug! EA especially now under new ownership needs to get back to what made them them EA BIG. SSX, NBA Street, and a Def Jam successor use Verzuz name or Rolling Loud also UFC needs to get back to Undisputed 3 gameplay. If anything else a GTA clone. Apex should be killed too