I guess we should consider ourselves lucky ...

Choosing to announce a Diablo mobile game at Blizzcon (and nothing else) was an... interesting decision.

While I expect there'll be a new mobile DA game down the line, or companion app, hopefully BW will take a page out of Bethesda's playbook and make sure to announce their main game first before talking about their mobile offerings.

I'm curious to see what BW will do though. Is HoDA still going on?

Yeah, if their announcement was 'here is the new full game we are making, and here is a companion mobile game you can play immediately!' I'd be ecstatic. If Blizzard had announced Diablo 4 AND a mobile game to go with it, well, this thread would not be here.

A "Live Service" game isn't necessarily a negative thing. They pointed out that DLC is considered live service for example, and Fortnite's shown you can do some cool things in that format. It's all in the implementation and we'll just have to wait and see. Casey (among others) did offer some reassurance a while back though that the next DA game will be a DA game.

Casey Hudson @caseydhudson
Some weird stuff going around about how our future games will be influenced by Anthem.
Of course when we do a Dragon Age game it will be designed from the ground up based on what Dragon Age should be.
Same with Mass Effect...

Reading lots of feedback regarding Dragon Age, and I think you’ll be relieved to see what the team is working on. Story & character focused.
Too early to talk details, but when we talk about “live” it just means designing a game for continued storytelling after the main story.

It's a shame they never finished that - we got more talking darkspawn in Awakening, sure, but I still wanted to know what was up with THAT talking darkspawn.

It's one thing to not want to release a huge game for a franchise like diablo, it's another to give people a mobile game and except them to be satisfied...

If you don't have a big game to go along with the mobile spin off, just don't release anything unless you want huge hatred directed at you. As horrible as it is to say, for the public opinion it's better to have nothing rather than a little spin off that can be played on cellphone.

Yes, it is. That’s why I said it’s good that we already have one.

Less chance of a 2019 EA press conference where they announce a mobile spinoff called Dragon Age: Synonym for Eternity, y’see.😜

Bumping this because I keep seeing people here and elsewhere saying “Oh noes, the secret announcement is a Dragon Age mobile game.”

WE ALREADY HAVE ONE GUYS

It's not IMPOSSIBLE, but Heroes of Dragon Age is already heavily monetized and is in desperate need of new DA-related content in order to produce its own new content. Y'see, nearly all of the characters in HoDA are based on characters from the games, books or novels.

Remember Legends of Dragon Age? That was a fun game. I would have paid money for a full game of that.

I'm predicting a wicked grace card game...