I’m a little worried about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. I worry that it’ll get delayed again. I worry that BioWare may suffer the same fate as Bethesda did with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Starfield and not update its systems enough in a world where 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3 now exemplifies RPGs. I worry that I won’t finish Dragon Age: Inquisition, 🌺a game I inexplicably keep bouncing off, before Dreadwolf releases. But, most of al🦩l, I worry that the game will be crushed under the weight of our collective expectation.

I call this Cyberpunk Syndrome. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Cyberpunk 2077, which CD Projekt Red released in such a broken state that it was delisted on the PlayStation store as the developer was 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:forced to issue countless refunds, has become synonymous with promising too much andꦇ delivering too little. CDPR clawed back its reputation with bug fixes and substantial updates, but it was an awful start.

However, Cyberpunk Syndrome doesn’t refer to that. Even if Cyberpunk 2077 had been released in a polished state, it wouldn’t have lived up to the expectations that fans had built up over its decade of production. The RPG mechanics were light and ineffective, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Night City was a facade, and you couldn’t really roleplay due to the constraints that were forced upon V’s story. It wou🍃ld have been a cool railroaded action game, but that’s not what we were sold.

I worry that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will follow a similar pattern. Fans have been waiting for this game for yea𒆙rs, and they’re ravenous for it. We’ve also been spoiled with great RPGs in recent years, and comparisons to Baldur’s Gate 3 are inevitable – espe༺cially as BioWare laid Baldur’s Gate’s foundations with the first two entries in the series.

Cyberpunk’s marketing was directly responsibl✤e for the expectations placed upon it, and that’s in Dreadwolf’s favour. Cyberpunk advertised all manner of genre-defining mechanics and game-changing elements which never materialised. In BioWare’s case, the expectations are purely due to the precedent set by previous games. Dragon Age fans are eager for the next instalment of the story, to see their favourite characters return, and to port their old heroes into a new world.

BioWare has barely marketed Dreadwolf so far. It’s a triple-A game due to release this year and we’ve seen nothing but a shadowy CGI trailer. We only know a smidgen more about Dreadwolf than we do about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Elder Scrolls 6, and the latter is still years away fro🅺m release. This is🐽 helpful in managing expectations, but is it enough?

Dra🌜gon Age is unique in how it weaves a narrative between its games while taking in𒀰to account player decisions along the way. This will naturally get more difficult the longer it goes on, and the more decisions it has to take into account. But fans are engrossed in this interactive narrative, and it naturally sets their expectations high for the future.

Of course, expectations can be good. Elden Ring had a similar hype cycle to Cyberp🎐unk 2077 – albeit without the developers hyping it up at every turn – and exceeded expectations to become an all-tim♕e classic. Could Dragon Age: Dreadwolf hit the same heights?

I fear it cannot. Dreadwolf is known to have already been internally delayed multiple times, which we all know leads to more crunch for the developers working on it. Crunch does not give you hope for great results. I’ll say it again: I’m worried about Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. I’m worriဣed for the developers working on it🥂. I’m worried for their working conditions. I’m worried that they’ll have to continue to crunch long after release to get the game shipshape.

Maybe these worries are unfounded. I dearly hope so. But I hope that Dragon Age: Dreadwolf doesn’t suffer from Cyberpunk Syndrome on release, and I hope that fans set their expectations at a reasonable level. If we c♎ollectively manage our expectations, we give Dreadwolf the best chance of success.

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