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BioWare on Dragon Age Changes, Past and Future

[Aug 09, 2011, 9:54 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

IndustryGamers recently spoke with BioWare co-founder Dr. Ray Muzyka about Dragon Age II, and the discontent of some fans at the changes in the RPG sequel compared with Dragon Age: Origins. Dr. Ray points out that these changes helped introduce a wider audience to the series, but also talks about making changes based on user feedback in upcoming Dragon Age II DLC, and presumably Dragon Age III. Here's an excerpt:

"We’re working on future projects in the Dragon Age franchise," he acknowledged. "We have some more DLC plans, that actually address some of the feedback from some of our core fans. I think that’s going to be really satisfying to fans who liked DAO and DA2. We haven’t announced Dragon Age III formally at all, but we can say we’re definitely thinking about future products. There’s some cool stuff in the works there."

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Re: BioWare on Dragon Age Changes, Past and Future

Aug 10, 2011, 17:43

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Verno wrote on Aug 10, 2011, 10:25: It's a strange form of public posturing, as if admitting weakness will harm the IP or something. I don't really understand the mentality either, gamers eat up humility in developers and publishers when they bother to show it. I'd love a job where I didn't have to take any responsibility for my mistakes and my bosses would tell customers that they simply didn't get it. I'd be far more willing to buy Dragon Age 3 if they had admitted they misunderstood what people liked about the original and simply released the game too early. Instead we get a bunch of half hearted apologies that are equal parts audience blame. Just like politicians... If a plan (game) doesn't work out as planned, start finding people to pass the buck to. And you're 100% right, a healthy bit of post-fuck up introspection and the honesty to say "Yup, we fucked up, we thought we knew what you wanted but we were wrong. We'll try better in the future" goes a long way in my eyes to providing hope for the next attempt. I do not expect every game to be perfect and I do applaud trying to do new things (god knows we're sick of the same pedestrian pap sequel after sequel), but I do expect that blatant information should be acted upon, not ignored.

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