Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

🐉Melissa ⚔️Davidson 🐲 deedlite
All I'm saying is future me would forgive me if we went into the future just to steal creatures from my future self. Hell, she would probably lend a hand in the heist.

Well, I think it's obvious that with everything that is happening now in Bioware, this is just some mistake or and early placeholder for the "distant" future but then again, I remember very well what Walmart did last year with unexpected leak of announcing RAGE 2 on their shop and I believe that atleast 90% of people including me though that it was fake. And it suprisingly wasn't. So while all this sounds really ridiculously, maybe it isn't that far fetched for near/notsofar future. And as OhDaniGirl mentioned, DA devs made fun of it but didn't actually denied or dismissed it directly soooo... us naive optimist can have a really small hope that it can be true. And as Iron Bull said "It could happen that it will come out in 2019. It won't. But it could." 

I've been updating his kotaku profile nonstop since monday morning

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier
Also wanna highlight this important section of the article - please read: kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351

It’s the equivalent of the game show ‘here’s what you could have won’ moment.
You have a concept that while it no doubt would have changed was at its core exciting from a sp rpg POV.
Anthem with dragons (is no doubt coming from unhappy ex devs) but that doesn’t mean there’s not horrible sp sacrifices being made at the altar of the god of live services.

Given how speculative the article is about how the heck DA4 is actually going to look like I think we're doing ourselves a disservice when we deem anything we've read as either not happening anymore (in some form at least) or 100% supposed to happen as it was described to us if Morrison was still Joplin. Projects like that rarely do, even if it's smooth sailing from start to finish, especially that what we got was super-vague anyhow.

We just don't know at this point and likely won't know, because sure as heck current devs aren't going to confirm or deny anything, especially if doing so risks betraying anything specific about current incarnation of the project that they technically have to officially pretend has not been revealed (only teased, not announced).
Eh, I don't know whether those were even ex-devs - if you read the sentence carefully, the "Anthem with dragons" is merely, and I quote: 'rumor among BioWare circles'... which, for all we know, may just be us, fans or people like Schreier, with some contacts inside the studio. I mean, according to the article itself, when that description was put in front of current BW devs, they dismissed it outright.

Honestly that was a bit underwhelming. The article makes it sound like the reboot had as much to do with needing to reassign most everyone to Anthem as it did with live services. Beyond speculation, it also really doesn’t give us any indication of how much has actually changed and it sounds like some employees were indicating there could be a lot of carry over.

I could see either a teaser or just an early concept video like they’ve done before.

I wouldn't count on much. What I'm curious about NOW is how many auxiliary content we're going to get - what is the state of books, comics or other side-projects? 

This was my second question.  What, if anything, are they going to do to tide us over until the next game?  Hopefully something.

Very different, but both good.