Predictions for DA4's Release Date - A New Poll!

I put Fall 2021 with a pessimistic heart.

I'm looking forward to Greedfall.

I hate it that I have to do this...again...but you leave me no choice. I would have really preffered this poll to align with the financial quarters that game companies (or at least EA) seems to do.

Because that really is my best guess. As much as I would like the game to come out Q4 2020...especially with TVN Nights coming out that same year...the increasing evidence is that TVN is more an appetizer for us to wait rather then a teaser at this point. So yeah...Q4 2021 I honestly put as the release date at this point. So late 2021 or early 2022 in RL terms.

But if all goes well I am going to have two HUGE new games to keep me more then occupied. I mean I seem to overestimate such things but with the prevlance of live service these days they might be ALL I play. Really starting to get hyped for Breakpoint (don't let me down Ubisoft) and then Assassin's Creed: Likely Vikings is coming out soon. Hopefully by then DA 4 will be out...of course there is always old games to fill in the void too. And then Greedfall, Avengers, and Fallen Order are 'bubble games'.

What's appealing to you about Death Stranding?

With how Ubisoft is doing their Live Service for Assassin's Creed and maayyybbbbe Breakpoint (a model I hope BioWare emulates in one way or another...we'll see if I am right about how Breakpoint works.) I really doubt we'll get anymore then one AC game before DA 4 comes out. They'll release it, do a year or two of support of its LS, then release another game...so that would put the next AC game after 'Valhalla'out in 2022 or 2023 and again I'd be shocked if DA 4 wasn't in our hands by then.

And we'll have DA 4 before ES 6 most likely.

It's just so... weird. I have to try it!

AC has never gone more than 2 years between releases, and they've been developing 2 at a time for a while now, just staggering the releases. With ~13-14,000 employees, they're large enough to have quite a few projects in the works. So I expect the Montreal-led Vikings game out late next year, then the Quebec City-led game out either the following year (2021), or late 2022 at the latest.

As long they're not released in the same time-frame, I'll be happy.

Same

If it's easier, just pretend it's Q1 & Q4...

I voted for 2024 because I don't want to get my hopes up like I did for an, ahem, Fall 2020 release date. That'll be the ten year(!!!) anniversary of DAI and the fifteen year anniversary of DAO.

If it comes sooner than that, at least I can be pleasantly surprised instead of miserably disappointed.

How does 3 Bioware studios only manage 2 games in 5 years?

In comparison, EA has shut down 6 Bioware subsidiaries in 5 years.

Could it be EA mismanagement and micromanagement?

Tbf it’s also partially Bioware management’s fault, if they’d had a coherent, reasonable vision for MEA or Anthem their dev cycles would not have been that same kind of hell. EA is absolutely hindering them further, though, especially with things like insisting they use Frostbite, which certainly contributed to the dev hell.

I suspect that BW might start expanding their staff in the new offices...but its still interesting to see those numbers, I would've personally thought they were larger.

Feb 2023, im thinking next gen an no wanting to put out on base xb1 an p4 like DA:I with last an current.

Only game i really got my eye on the now is Rebel Galaxy Outlaw, Death Stranding tbh, for me, looks boring AF an no doubt i'll check out cyberpunk

Being released firmly in the next-gen cycle is definitely a positive.