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[TAJ4Life]

From what I recently read it now seems DA3 is coming out 2014 and an expansion for DA2 has been cancelled.

Personally I think this is not fair, I love the DA series and DA1 had plentiful dlc especially Awakening which was well worth its price. If the DA2 dlc was going to be on par with Awakening it would have been very nice to have something more to play up until DA3 gets released even.

Bioware please could you release some more DLC for DA2 in the mean time, I've played DA1 around 6 times and just started my 6th game on DA2.

[David Gaider]

TAJ4Life wrote...
From what I recently read it now seems DA3 is coming out 2014 and an expansion for DA2 has been cancelled.

Personally I think this is not fair, I love the DA series and DA1 had plentiful dlc especially Awakening which was well worth its price. If the DA2 dlc was going to be on par with Awakening it would have been very nice to have something more to play up until DA3 gets released even.

Bioware please could you release some more DLC for DA2 in the mean time, I've played DA1 around 6 times and just started my 6th game on DA2.

Firstly, we've not announced an official release date for DA3. We've certainly said nothing about 2014.

Secondly, the planned DA2 expansion was indeed canceled... a while back, that fact being mentioned here on the forums by the Project Director Mark Darrah. Despite what some here might want to believe, the DA2 DLC did quite well thank you, and we were very excited to begin work on the expansion. The choice, as it ended up, was between working on an expansion or putting the extra amount of time and effort into DA3 that we felt it deserved. An expansion is a huge undertaking, after all, and we could not work on both projects at the same time. While you may not be seeing much DA stuff at the moment, trust that we're hard at work on it and making good use of the resources not doing the expansion freed up.

Some of the planned expansion story has been folded into DA3, so you won't see us commenting on the form it would have taken (or could have-- it's usually rare to have a project turn out exactly like it's planned). I'll miss it, myself, for a variety of reasons... and had we known ahead of time things were going to work out as they did, we might have done things a little differently in the DA2 DLC's (even though I thought they both turned out really well). But c'est la vie, I guess. Hopefully you'll agree the effort on DA3 is worth it when you finally get a look.

Modifié par David Gaider, 19 février 2013 - 05:20 .

[David Gaider]

TUHD wrote...
I believe that bloody 'Suck it up princess' stems from that time... (I still haven't forgiven you for that comment Gaider ^^)

As someone who claims to have the low-down on what these two are discussing, I'm surprised you don't know about this one. My "suck it up, princess" comment relates solely to someone who had posted a thread criticising something (I'm not even sure if it was about DA2-- might have been before it came out) and sent a message to me personally demanding that I ban someone who was "trolling their thread".

After checking it out, I saw the person was disagreeing with them-- politely, as it turned out, but insistently. They refused to leave his thread, and thus he got angry and wanted them banned. As we don't ban people for polite disagreement, pro-DA or anti-DA, I felt (and still feel) my response to him justified.

If you believe my comment related to other things, so be it. I think it's a bit like my comment about Twilight romance (which clearly means I love Twilight, obvs) or Mike's supposed reaction to DA2 reviews-- I have no idea where that came from-- in that it's something that gets referred to by others and then believed as gospel. If it makes you feel better, you can believe what you wish. Ultimately, DA3 will be the barometer regarding whether you think we've listened enough. It does seem like some don't even need to see DA3 to decide that's the case, but what can you do?

Me, I'm just hard at work on the upcoming game.

Modifié par David Gaider, 20 février 2013 - 01:04 .

[David Gaider]

mcsupersport wrote...
Take your time and get them as close to your idea of right as you can David, Gaider, please don't scrimp or shave off any more than you HAVE too. If that means working another month or two on the games, then beg, steal or borrow the time to get it where it needs to be. I would rather wait a bit longer for a game and get one that feels complete and whole rather than one cobbled together or half finished in feeling.

While I agree with your sentiment, your suggestion is made to the wrong person. I neither control Dragon Age as a project, nor do I have input into how much time it's given to bake.

I hope for the best in DA3..I saw so much potential in what was trying to be done in DA2 that just seemed incomplete. I hope you get the time to do what I consider better in DA3, and it is something you enjoy having your name on and the fans love when you release it.

Ideally, yes.

[Fiddzz]

Commander Kurt wrote...

Well, the "we decided to relocate our resources"-answer is rather obvious, but I guess the question is "Why?" What prompted that sudden relocation? Couldn't DA3 just wait for a few months longer if lack of manpower was the case?

I don't know anything about how these things work, mind you. It's just interesting to discuss the planning process.

I wasn't here at the time, but I would assume that it might have had something to do with the new engine and ramping people up on that was a better long term investment.