A former Dragon Age boss says he felt his team was "jerked around" by EA, but that BioWare's corporate overlords weren't really interested 🌞in Mass Effect either.
In a new video, former Dragon Age executive producerღ Mark Darrah explains how, in 2017, he witnes🧔sed a BioWare first: In the "final push" towards the release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, he led a "final team" that came on to help the series' black sheep get out the door. Unfortunately, it seems that wasn't a decision Darrah was particularly happy with.
"My feeling at the time," he explains, "was the Dragon Age team was feeling jerke♛d around. We were feeling like we were getting no support from BioWare or EA, which was basically true."
He maintains that moving senior leadership away from a project - in this case the game that would eventually become 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Dragon Age: The Veilguard many years later - was an "incredib𒈔ly dangerous" strategy that stemmed from EA being "disinterested" in BioWare.
That disinterest didn't last too much longer, however. Darrah says that EA wasn't "particularly interested" in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mass Effect: Andromeda, "because they had little to gain from the success of Andromeda and little to lose from its failure." In fact, the company "had a lot more incentive for BioWare to move onto th🌠e next thing that they could tie themselves to."
That "next thing" was Anthem. While theoretically that loot-shooting service game cou♏ld have become a major BioWare cash-cow, it failed utterly, grind♏ing to an abrupt halt barely a few weeks after launch.
BioWare initially discussed rebooting the game, but those plans were eventually abandoned in favor of a return to the single-player RPGs that made its name - last year's Veilguard and the upcoming 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mass Effect 5.
BioWare remains responsible for many of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best RPG games out there.
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