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"EA Always Preferred Mass Effect": David Gaider On Dragon Age's Unfair Treatment

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jack Coleman

Published Apr 14, 2025

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According to David Gaider, EA always preferred Mass Effect.
EA's marketing team didn't know what to do with Dragon Age.
Gaider believes Dragon Age was close to being cancelled before every single release.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age: science fiction and fantasy - symbiotic siblings or intense rivals? Many BioWaꦯre fans likely enjoy both series, but plenty of players have only played one or the other. According to David Gaider, lead writer on Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2 and Dragon Age Inquisition, Dragon Ageﷺ was always second-favourite to Mass Effect in the eyes of BioWare's parent company Electronic Arts.

In response to a post on , Gaider elaborated on EA's relationship to both games, saying, "While I was at BioWare, EA always preferred Ma🅷ss Effect, straight up their marketing team liked it more. It was modern, it had action. They never knew quite what to do with Dragon Age, and whenever Dragon Age outperformed Mass Effect, Mass Effect got the excuses. If you ask me, it was always just shy of the axe since Dragon Age Origins."

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While I was at BioWare, EA *always* preferred Mass Effect, straight up Their Marketing team liked it more. It was modern. It had action. They never quite knew what to do with DA, and whenever DA outperformed ME, ME got the excuses. If you ask me, it was always just shy of the axe since DA Origins. —

As someone who played both series at the time of their initial releases, Mass Effect🃏 always seemed to have a more focused marketing campaign. Both series essentially boil down to saving humanity, but Mass Effect's setting as the real world in the future is perhaps more marketable, i.e, saving Earth rather than Thedas.

In response to a co𒁏mmenter who asked if EA's confusion regarding marketing Dragon Age was one of the reasons each subsequent🎶 Dragon Age game was a lot different from the last, Gaider replied, "Maybe in part. I'd say the biggest reason was that, while I was there, the BioWare teams were bad at overreaction. They'd take the feedback/criticism to heart - both our own and the fans' - and generally fixed that but also overcorrected."

The future of Dragon Age appears bleak as BioWare 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:laid off many of the developers who worked on Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which in and of itself is a polarising title, praised by critics but lambasted by 🌠fans.

BioWare is currently working on Mass Effect 5 with a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:small team.