da4, 8 YEARS AFTER DAI

No way this game launches in 2021, especially with the pandemic and work from home policies stifling development. At best, I'm going with late 2022. Early 2023 being the most likely. Yeah, nearly 9 years
of waiting sucks, but they (BioWare) need all the time they can get at this point.

Whatever year they initially announce, expect it to be delayed until the next.

Damn there is a blast from the past.

Right now this excercise is rather...I don't want to say pointlesss but based on the little information we do have its gonna be 2022-2023. And since Anthem released in 2019 this makes a lot of sense.

Yes it sucks that we've had to wait this long. Yes it sucks that they tried something different with Anthem. But at the end of the day I don't care when it releases...I just care about the state it releases in. And of that I highly doubt its gonna be a bad game.

So? That's a decision for leadership to make in weighing the pros and cons of shifting development from a new IP that is a gamble after MEA's poor reception to something that is likely to sell well and get a lot of pre-orders. They could have put it on the back burner.

It is so very disappointing that it took 10 replies to get this.

Leadership weighed the pros and cons and they didn't want to take the risks of abandoning a project that was in development for years and start a new game from scratch that had no guarantee of being received any better just because it has an established IP slapped on it.

I think it's gonna be late 2022.

That's my feeling too. That's likely the earliest we're likely to see it anyway.

At one point there were three teams for BioWare.  Edmonton had the Dragon Age/Anthem teams and Montreal had the Andromeda team.  I am not sure what you mean by "saved" either.

The Mass Effect 3 team moved to Anthem right after Mass Effect 3: Citadel.  During the crunch months they moved people from Dragon Age 4 to help with Anthem, but moving people for a couple of months is different then moth balling a project that has been in development for years.  BioWare generally had a rotation for their people in Edmonton and they just moved people around as needed between the projects and plenty of people worked on both franchises.  As far as I know they moved people from Anthem to help finish Andromeda for they did a temporary move of Mac Walters to the Andromeda team and he was working on Anthem at the time.

I doubt they consider any hours potentially "lost" with pre-production for that is what it is for, experimentation and prototyping to see what works and doesn't work.  If the entire concept doesn't work they go back and start over.  I doubt Dragon Age 4 is the first game to have that fate.  Its when a game going into full blown development when cutting content or making massive changes gets expensive.

Edit: According to AskAGameDev they believe 50%+ of games make it out of pre-production. Link

So trying to read beyond two levels of editorializing.  Fine they moved people from Dragon Age to Andromeda, but Dragon Age was cancelled before being moved to Anthem according to that Kotaku article.  So they weren't moved to save Anthem they were moved because their game no longer existed which I think says more about what Dragon Age was then what was happening with Anthem.  Also reading what the developers were describing that Dragon Age game would have crashed and burned just like what people say happened to Anthem, personally it sounded like a project that would have had a lot of development hell.  It was a Anthem version of Dragon Age where it was all multiplayer which the funny thing is what a live service game is so if they are removing the multiplayer only aspect of the game it means it probably will be less live service now.

Oh Hi, Dutch.