With “Dragon Age” and “Mass Effect”, the portfolio of Electronic Arts includes two successful franchises. But as the former bioware veteran David Gaider has now revealed, the publisher consistently had a clear preference and preferred only one of the two brands.
As well as “Dragon Age” as well as “Mass Effect” Among the most successful franchises from Electronic Arts, who have sections both commercially and with critics over the years and also have loyal fan and humans.
Above all, the “Mass Effect” trilogy is seen by many as one of the best sci-fi-RPG series of all time and also “Dragon Age: Origins” Had a significant influence on the genre. But now the former bioware veteran David Gaider revealed an internal unequal treatment. He stated that EA always preferred one of the two brands.
“Dragon Age has always been on the end” since Origins “
Like Gaider, who worked for Bioware for almost 20 years until 2016 and worked as a senior author on all “Dragon Age” games except “The Veilguard”, now in a post Bluesky revealed, “Dragon Age” was only in second place behind “Mass Effect”. “When I was at Bioware, EA always preferred Mass Effect, her marketing team just liked it more. It was modern, action -packed,” said Gaider.
And the former author even went one step further: As he revealed, it was apparently so badly ordered internally that the franchise has been in the start of the hiring: “With Dragon Age you never really knew how to deal with, and if Dragon Age section better than Mass Effect, excuses for Mass Effect. In my opinion, Stand Dragon Age has always been shortly before.”
Overreaction to feedback and criticism caused differences
After Gaider had made the preference public, a user also reacted and wanted to know whether “the fact that they didn’t know what to do with there was (was) that every DA game was different?” Gaider replied: “Partly. I would say that the main reason was that the bioware teams were poor in dealing with overreactions during my time.
According to Gaider, the preference by EA was also responsible for the fact that the “Dragon Age” games were so different: “And then the influence of EA was added, yes.” With “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” If the last part of the role -playing series was only released last year, the big ones could However, do not meet expectations And developed into a flop.
The last “Mass Effect” part lies with “Andromeda” Almost eight years ago and here, too, the game could not build on the success of the first games. Bioware is currently working on “Mass Effect 5” and only did some for that at the beginning of the year basic changes carried out within the studio. There were also several layoffs, so that current not even 100 employees be employed.
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