Blood, Sweat & Pixels: The DA:I Chapter Summary

I don't disagree with the profitability of the title. What I disagree with is the health of the franchise, in terms of future market performance. I think, while these titles can be considered successes on various levels, they ultimately did a disservice to Bioware as a developer and DA/ME as franchises. They're not games that gamers particularly like or remember. They've grown to be sort of indifferent titles, that gamers may pick up on sale, some months down the line, where sales of the games won't matter to the publisher. I think that DA4 will be the Rage 2 of the DA franchise. Or the Mirror's Edge Catalyst etc. That's how I see it with the gaming public's waning interest in Bioware titles. That's my concern and how I see it. And I do understand that internally, the cost of manpower and talent drop off may not phase a big corporation like EA, as long as a release is made to fill in their FY projections, but I do think it comes at a cost to Bioware and future market performance. And I can't shake that feeling.

Isn't free-floating anxiety about DA a better fit for the Skepticism tread?

Still, it's a reasonable position. I don't personally care to expend any mental energy thinking about whether or not we'll be playing DA5 in -- 2028? -- but there's a significant chance we won't be, sure.