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[schalafi]

Of course I'd like to see it go on and on, but I imagine Bioware has a plan to make just so many and then go on to something new. It's just that there were so many questions I had after finishing DA:O and DA2, that were not really explained in the games, that I'm hoping there will be a final DA game that brings answers and conclusions that will bring closure to all the games.

The Morrigan and god baby questions, what happened to them? Where did Hawk and the DA2 characters   go after the end of the game, and will we ever see any of these characters again in perhaps, DA4?

I'm hoping that there will be a game, whether it's DA3, or maybe even DA4, that will bring everything to a conclusion and that answers a  lot of questions that I have about The DA episodes,  and the characters we've come to know.

[David Gaider]

schalafi wrote...
Of course I'd like to see it go on and on, but I imagine Bioware has a plan to make just so many and then go on to something new.

We'll keep making them as long as there's someplace left to go and more stories left to tell in the DA universe. Sometimes people seem to conflate the marketing for Mass Effect with Dragon Age's, in that they assume DA is a trilogy... but it's not something we've ever said or even suggested. That's strictly Mass Effect.

BobSmith101 wrote...
Depends on how well it does. If it
does worse than DA2 I can see them pulling the plug because it means
that people don't care about the franchise anymore in general.

If future Dragon Age games do as "poorly" as DA2, then we'll be able to keep making them for some time. This is not to suggest there's nothing to improve, or that everyone was happy with DA2, but no game's success is rated by how negative fans on the Internet can be about it... just as success is not rated by how positively fans on the Internet can rave about it. Despite how much fans would like that to be true, I'm sure.

FaeQueenCory wrote...
Technically.... there are only 100 years
in the Dragon age... so Dragon Age games have to be contained in those
100 years... and we're already in about the halfway mark....

From my perspective it might get a bit weird if we left the Dragon Age itself, yes. But, then again, Baldur's Gate II didn't go anywhere near the city of Baldur's Gate. So who knows? Plans change constantly in the game biz. Currently we have only our intentions, but no idea how they'll pan out in the years to come.

Modifié par David Gaider, 11 juin 2012 - 05:07 .

[John Epler]

eyesofastorm wrote...

David Gaider wrote...

If future Dragon Age games do as "poorly" as DA2, then we'll be able to keep making them for some time. This is not to suggest there's nothing to improve, or that everyone was happy with DA2, but no game's success is rated by how negative fans on the Internet can be about it... just as success is not rated by how positively fans on the Internet can rave about it. Despite how much fans would like that to be true, I'm sure.

What a sad, sad thing for a person who creates pieces of entertainment to brag about.  

I would argue that, in this case (as well as in many, many other cases) the arguments regarding sales and profitability are not ones that we start, but come about because the idea that games are a business is anathema - right up until it proves a particular point, of course, in which case those are the very things we need to be worried about.

We're not sitting here, thinking 'okay, exactly what features do we add/cut in order to make the most possible money in the shortest possible time', but yes, there is a business side to these things. It's not our primary focus, but it does have to be something we're aware of.

But if people want to keep bringing up the point that DA2 was some kind of colossal financial disaster, then we're going to keep countering it. You're allowed to see it as a sad, sad thing - but I'd argue that, if people didn't keep using it as an argument, we'd never even talk about it. Not to get all schoolyard here, but we're not the ones who started talking about it.

[Allan Schumacher]

eyesofastorm wrote...

What a sad, sad thing for a person who creates pieces of entertainment to brag about.  

He's not really bragging about it.  A game like Planescape: Torment has almost universally massive positive praise for it, but frankly it didn't sell all that well.  It made a profit in the long run, but that was after several years.

A game like Call of Duty has large swaths of people that apparently dislike it, yet it still sells in droves, so more sequels get made.

In fact, the entire entertainment industry is filled with high quality stuff that isn't that popular, but lower quality stuff that is ridiculously popular.


There's no doubt that part of DA2's success came off the heels of DAO's success though.  Some of the fan reaction to ME3 is probably going to affect our future games in the short term too.  Though there's not much we can do about that now aside from trying to make sure our future games are sufficiently kick ass to keep people coming back for more.

[Allan Schumacher]

I like to think the DLC did a good job of reflecting on some of the bigger criticisms. I actually don't work on the DLC directly (I was working on the expansion pack), but I'm glad you saw it that way.

The only unfortunate thing is that DLC attach rates are smaller than all of the owners of DA2, so not all see it. Have to get it right from the get go for future games.

[Allan Schumacher]

Hahahahaha.