- Previous Dragon Age lead writer and creator David Gaider says it’s “unlikely” that the beloved RPG will have a future at EA
- However, he would be open to working on the series again
- Gaider wanted to return to the series’ roots and make a “dark and dangerous” game
Dragon Age Creator and former narrative director David Gaider doesn’t believe the beloved role-playing game (RPG) series has a future at EA, but would be interested in working on a new game if given the chance.
Speaking to PC Gamer, Gaider said it’s “unlikely” we’ll ever see another Dragon Age game made by BioWare under EA’s control, explaining how while working at the studio it always felt like “We were always a breath away from [current] project is shelved.”
“What happened is we kept releasing games and it would sell way better than they thought it should and it kept surprising them,” he said.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard was the exception, which performed worse for EA. However, the publisher was also reported to have pushed BioWare to incorporate live-service elements into the game, but as the studio stuck to its RPG roots, CEO Andrew Wilson called it a mistake.
Gaider suggested that Mass effect the series was EA’s golden child, and while it didn’t sell that well, “the team got excuses because it was an action-oriented game. They thought it should sell more. It was smarter.”
While Gaider believes Dragon Age has died under EA’s ownership, he would be interested in picking up the series again and returning to what made the dark fantasy series so beloved in the first place.
“If you had asked me that earlier, I would have said absolutely not. That I had done my time,” he said. “I left Dragon Age team before I left BioWare. After Inquisition come out, I went to [Dragon Age’s creative director] Mike Laidlaw and I said, ‘I’ve told all the stories of wizards and dragons and what have you got in me. And I could go on, but if I keep working on this, it’s going to be rote, and I think it would be a disservice to the team. So I should step aside, let fresher voices rise’. I don’t know if it was the right decision, but it felt right at the time.”
He added: “I like a challenge. So if someone, by a strange alignment of the stars, gave Dragon Age franchise back to me and said, ‘Breathe life back into this baby,’ it would be a tough one, but I think it would be an interesting thing to do. To go back to the basics of what is made Dragon Age appeals to so many people in the first place. And go somewhere dark and dangerous and do things that will make people sad. I think that’s what I’d like to do with it.”
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