Dragon Age 4 Reportedly Has 'No Chance' of Releasing in 2022 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 21 January 2022 / 1,942 Views
Electronic Arts and BioWare announced the next entry in the RPG series, Dragon Age, at The Game Awards 2018. Not much has been heard about the game since its announcement.
Insider Tom Henderson via Twitter has heard from a source with knowledge into the game's development and that there is "no chance" Dragon Age 4 will release in 2022.
"A source with knowledge of EA's plans has said there's 'no chance' that Dragon Age 4 will release in 2022," Henderson said.
A source with knowledge of EA's plans has said there's "no chance" that Dragon Age 4 will release in 2022. pic.twitter.com/gFgBYvBmET
— Tom Henderson (@_Tom_Henderson_) January 20, 2022
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Take your time. As a Dragon Age fan, but someone who has grupes with both DA2 and DA3...a good 4th entry is worth the wait.
Sad. Dragon Age Inquisition is probably my most played Gen 8 console title...
that good huh?
I've played nearly 1k hours on it through various builds and classes and Story elements. I find it very relaxing to play and usually do a playthrough a year. But there are a few issues with it for sure, ignore some of the more obvious fetch quests, stick to story linear missions and you should be golden.
For 2014 it was fantastic.
I did recently replay Dragon Age Origins... Maybe I should do the whole trifecta.
It keeps coming up on my GP suggestion list but I always scroll past it. Maybe I should check it out.
Didn't see that coming... not.
It's been 8 years already, what's another one to get it right, now it's not GaaS.
At this point EA doesn't have much going for them for the next few years.
No new C&C, no new DA yet, no new ME in sight. All they have really going for them is their sports games, but even fans of those are wising up to the lack of meaningful content/quality.
lol, the stuff packs honestly feel like watered down versions of their otherwise great expac packs from the Sims 2-3.
Sims 4 modding community honestly has more fanfare going for it compared to the modding community for EA's other IP's, so I guess there's that.
I just hope it comes out before Microsoft or Tencent buys them up.
lol, could happen
I mean, EA has already run Bioware into the ground lmfao, so I dont think Microsoft buying them would make much of a difference.
I think being swallowed up by a bigger company, where the quarterly and fiscal year impacts of even their biggest games are much less significant, would be good for EA.
Even if Microsoft or Tencent just took a sizeable position in EA, maybe 10-20%, and told them "we don't give a shit about quarterly results. Just make good games" that would
probably do the trick.
The unfortunate reality for publicly traded companies is that they're all chasing results on quarterly and fiscal year timelines. If all you have is a handful of big game releases each year, and you push one into the next fiscal year, your results look terrible. For bigger companies like Microsoft and Tencent where they have a ton going on, it doesn't even move the needle if Battlefield is delayed into the next fiscal year. That's what it takes to make good games at the AAA level.
And when it does, likely be a broken mess of either a mediocre game or a bad one. Inquisition was mediocre. 2 sucked. Origins are amazing. Bioware has not put out a good game in more than a decade. EA has destroyed that studio.
