"We Were Getting No Support From BioWare Or EA": Dragon Age Team Felt Left Behind After Inquisition

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Joshua Robertson

Published May 6, 2025

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Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah has claimed that Dragon Age had been lacking support ever since the release of Inquisition.
Developers were regularly moved from the Dragon Age team to help ship other games, and that the return of Casey Hudson and focus on Anthem "starved Dragon Age out even further".
In the end, Darrah claims the trust between him, BioWare, and EA was severely damaged during this time, and that the BioWare we love was "digested" by EA's overall culture.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Age is a bit of a black sheep at BioWare. There can be no doubt about that after so many comments from former devs over the years. Just recently, Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider claimed that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect was always ꧃preferred by EA, and that the series has come close to being cancelled multiple times. It was apparently so bad that the Dragon Age and Mass Effect teams at൲ BioWare didn't even get alo♓ng.

From left to right: Male Hawke in Dragon Age 2, Lucanis in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and Solas in Dragon Age: Inquisition

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Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah has also been critical of BioWare and EA's handling of the Dragon Age franchise, and recently claimed that the team behind the series was being "jerked around" and "getting no support" after being shifted to help shꦦip Mass Effect: Andromeda back in 2017.

Darrah goes on to explain that even when Mass Effect: Andromeda shipped and his team returned to Dragon Age, the series was "still not getting adequate support", despite assurances f💞rom higher ups that it was incredibly important and that the team was going to "get what we needed". Unfortunately, that didn't happen either.

Dragon Age Veteran Says BioWare And EA Were Too Focused On Anthem

Anthem

You may recall that the next game released by BioWare after Mass Effect: Andromeda was the equally disastrous live-ser𓆉vice shooter Anthem. According to Darrah, both BioWare and EA were too focused on Anthem to give Dragon Age the support it needed, even going so far as to bring back Casey Hudson without Mark Darrah's knowledge.

After finding out about Hudson's return, Darrah sent some emails to the higher ups predicting that Hudsꦚon would have everyone turn their attention to Anthem and that EA would "starve Dragon Age out even further", despite previous assurances that the series would get the support it needed. Turns out, he was right on the money.

Eventually, a lot of the Dragon Age te☂am was shifted onto Anthem, including all the developers that Darrah took over to help on the shipping of Mass Effect: Andromeda. In fact, Darrah claims these developers were "lied to" and told that the Dragon Age team didn't want them anymore, which he says was a "complete fabrication".

Dragon Age was once again running without a leadership team, thanks to everyone being moved onto Anthem, and the Dragon Age project ended up shifting dramatically thanks to EA's demands that it be turned into a live service game. He claims that 2017 damaged the trust 🎃between him, BioWare, and EA, and that the studio had been "digested" 🌌into the overall EA culture. Sounds like we were lucky to get Dragon Age: The Veilguard at all.