With recent news of DA4 going single-player only, how has your opinion of the games potential change

The live service was never really described in detail if I recall.

If it had gone forward I would have liked it to include free SP updates along with whatever MP content was released. If that had happened I would have no problem with a live service. If it was just MP I most likely wouldn't have been interested in it. I've never really enjoyed the combat in the DA series.

So I voted no change.

The possible upside to this is that hopefully this will mean more resources will go to the SP portion of the game, instead of being moved to other projects. But who knows what will go on internally at Bioware.

I don't know who these 26 optimistic people are.
It won't be as technically bad as Andromeda or Anthem was, but it will be another shade of bland, narratively, as every one of Bioware's games this past decade nearly.

A tiny bit less pessimistic? More because I just hate getting bothered with multiplayer content when I'm sitting down to play than because I have any real expectations for the game. The goofy cinematic trailer and promotional art have already alienated me pretty thoroughly.

Dinosaurs, flying castles, dumb-looking weapons that shoot energy arrows, ugly tight video gamey costumes that look nothing like real armor or clothes...

It's insane how good the Sacred Ashes trailer looks in hindsight.

And yet you post regularly in forums dedicated to their games.

Huh... and yet Andromeda is only beaten by ME2 and nothing can beat Inquisition. One bad game in Anthem and the horrid ME3 ending, Bioware has been doing well.

TBF I don't understand anyone who continues to hang around a place if they are fundamentally disinterested and/or hostile towards the topic.

Never have. 

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I'd... seriously question wherever you got those stats, since you're putting them forth in such an objective light. In my eyes, ME3's ending beats out Andomeda's story and writing in their entirety by a country mile, and Inquisition is a cobbled-together Frankenstein's Monster of a game that might scrape together a spot above Andromeda and below DAII at the very bottom of the recent Bioware food chain, and even then mostly because of the trilogy its in.

Haven't played Anthem, so can't comment on that.

As for the 'why are you here if you're so disgruntled with Bioware' debate, this forum encompasses discussions about more than a dozen Bioware games, at least six or seven of which are widely beloved RPG classics. I don't see that being disappointed with Bioware's performance these past ten years should mean that you're not supposed to be a part of the discussion if you are or used to be seriously attached to their content and like to discuss it.

I myself am hugely unsatisfied with the direction Bioware has taken and the quality of their work since after ME3, but whenever I play either Mass Effect or Dragon Age trilogy, or for that matter Kotor or Jade Empire or Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate, then this is as good a place as any to discuss or vent or express thoughts and feelings about those things, and I definitely enjoy that even if the new games are far from promising and I don't mind saying so.

And besides, there's nothing wrong with holding them to previously achieved standards. You do want good games, don't you? I'm sure Bioware would love it if their lackluster products and marketing generated nothing but positive responses because everyone with taste just minded their own business, but that's really not how a market is supposed to work.

I'm pretty sure the whole point of forums in general is for sad, lonely weirdos to be belligerent about stupid shit that doesn't matter, in order to distract from deep dissatisfaction with their own personal lives.

The question we should all be asking isn't "Why are you here?" but "Why am I here?".

Maybe we should all go get some fucking friends and then we'd all finally understand and appreciate multiplayer games more.

I voted no change.

I always assumed that DA4 would be a SP game so this article confirming that didn't change my expectations at all really.

What I will say about the recent news is that development for this game seems to have been an absolute shit show so far (from my tinfoil hat, armchair critic, fandom lurker perspective)

2 reboots, multiple departures, constantly changing project scope behind the scenes... doesn't look like its going well.

I also reckon that DA4 will release in 2023 at the latest (as of late EA have them on a release schedule of 1 game every 2 years) so DA4 will likely be rushed, even though it will be almost 10 years since DAI came out.

I expect DA4 to be a bit better than DAI & thats about it.

My opinion hasn't changed yet, at least not until we know more about the overall plot and companions
especially for Dragon Age companions make the game for me, I'll need to look at them and listen to them for the entire game so they need to be interesting at least.

Indeed, it's an objective truth that Anthem is one of the greatest games of all time - possibly the greatest.