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[Mapocolops @Mapocolops]

Reminder:
- EA cancelled the Single Player Dragon Age 4 in development from 2015-2017

- Pushed them to create a live service Dragon Age because of trend chasing. They considered multiplayer the future of gaming, "nobody plays single player games anymore" except then Jedi Fallen Order released with huge success and they pivoted again.

- After 3 years of development on Live Service Age from 2018-2021, EA & Bioware decide to remove the Multiplayer component but instead of rebooting a second time they gave them 18 months to rip out all that live service work and have them make it a single player game AGAIN, at a significant disadvantage to meet expectations.

- Six years of wasted development now, when a lot of the series veterans had been laid off or quit out of frustration with EA along with numerous management and staff changes. Among these names are David Gaider, Mike Laidlaw, and later before Veilguard's release Mary Kirby. Her departure was an abysmal sign for the future of DA before this next game had even released.

- This resulted in the announcement of Dragon Age Dreadwolf in 2022, later renamed Veilguard which retained the scars of it's live service development when it released in 2024 and was never the true game Bioware would have given us if they hadn't been constantly fucked around.
We could and should have had the intended Dragon Age 4 before 2020, instead it took almost a DECADE for the follow up.

The worst things these companies do is trend chase something, with zero foresight on temporary trends. By the time you release that game public opinion has shifted. Rocksteady's Suicide Squad as a clear example of this too.
Just let creative people make something they are passionate about and stop putting them in boxes. Let developers make something real by giving them time and resources to deliver something memorable with a clear goal, not a post mortem example like Anthem on how not to develop a game.

EA has been fucking over Bioware basically since they acquired them. Issues with Andromeda, Anthem, Veilguard aside as yes all three have their issues and you'll even have people going back to Mass Effect 3/DA2/Inquisition with issues as well; a lot of this comes from a long long period of EA pushing Bioware into a corner and then watching them be a punching bag for it. It also comes from internal schisms within Bioware where there was a strange Mass Effect vs Dragon Age rift and David Gaider said they may as well have been two different studios with how the culture was different, plus the writers getting fucked over at every turn.

People taking the lowest hanging fruit possible and are gonna just say it was Veilguard, it was Anthem, it was Andromeda etc that sealed their fate when in actual reality it was a long list of issues going back 15+ years that led to the issues within those games in the first place.

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@Camilla_650 Yes

[Nick Calandra @nickjcal]

The fact that Microsoft acquired studios like Ninja Theory, Double Fine and Compulsion on the notion that they didn’t need to make blockbuster hits, wanted them to support Game Pass… and now new leadership is shuttering them for following that mandate… makes me really angry.

[kjngamer @kjngamer]

The ones who are majority negative about gaming are the worst thing to happen in the gaming community

Worse than console wars

Worse than Gamergate

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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@Cade_Onder Amc unseen screening showed gladiator 2 yesterday! Good movie Denzel owns every scene

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@SpencerAlthouse Breaking Fast

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@GermanStrands Dragon age!

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@Cade_Onder Wow you don't like spicy tenders?!? Ugh you aren't American

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@Cade_Onder I'm down! Let's move forward please!

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@GermanStrands Returnal

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@atrupar Shoutout to you and @Acyn doing the dirty work lol

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@GoldenJoysticks @BIGMODEgames @TeamAsobi @BalatroGame @BlackMythGame @CallofDuty @dragonage Astro Bot!

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@MightyKeef Get out of the hinterlands and it gets better. The other areas aren't as big and boring

[Pretty Thanos @LamarMF]

🎯 Leftists need to have a long term strategy.

🎯 Actual wins > symbolic losses

Also, “it doesn’t have to be genuine, it just has to get done”, is a bar, @msolurin

[Hutch @hutchinson]

The topic of God does not belong in public schools

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@GermanStrands Yes!

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@Toadsanime How do you find Twitter users on bluesky so fast?

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@IGN @AppleTV Oooh

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@letterboxd The Substance, The Wild Robot, Transformers One and Dune 2.