What is your ideal + your realistic expectation for the release schedule of future Dragon Age games?

I don't care how long it takes them, as long as we get good games. One thing for sure though - Bioware needs to stop experimenting and start actually producing. You can't experiment for 4 years and only produce in just 1 year. If the duration of your production is so short - even if you found the right formula when experimenting, you don't have enough time to implement it properly.

Bioware still calling themselves experimental, especially the DA4 team, which has been referred to as a "pirate ship" makes it seem like they haven't learn from their past mistakes. I don't have confidence in a good DA4 if the release date is in 2022, considering how early they are in development. 2023 at the very least, but even then oddly enough (after 9 years) seems to soon.

The thing about your ideal world, is it's not actually unrealistic. Sequels are usually far easier to make - you already have the tools, the design and the story, so a lot of the foundation is already there and you can build off of that. The problem begins when you start to experiment (diverge), you change engines or you don't have a clear vision.

Ideally they will release next Fall and then release every 2 years after that to ensure a more continuous story ala Ubisoft but less frequently.

Also, kill anyone that wants to keep having cliff hangers.

Realistically, think DA4 will release next year but it will probably fail to live up to expectations and the Franchise will die.

Can't remember if it was David Gaider or Mike Laidlaw who brought this up, but one of them talked about the troubles of having the DLC's be the point to which teases for the next game are revealed. On one hand, you have the potential of generating hype and speculation about what's to come, but on the flip-side, you also make it so that players don't truly get the REAL story unless they buy said DLC.

While I can see DA4 ending various plotlines (such as the one with Solas), I also wouldnt be shocked if it created new ones; maybe even in DLC.

They already have too much as it is, and quite honestly, I'm hoping that they'll get rid of as many as they possibly can because they have a lot. It's generally best not to go all Game of Thrones and make your story as clunky as possible. Hell, A Song of Ice and Fire is even worse in this regard than the show that's based off of it. I really hope that they don't plan on creating more plotlines. At least, by DA5 (if they ever get to that point, which I think they will) they should have everything from DA1 and DA2, at the very least, wrapped up. So here's hoping that that's the case.

Don't overthink Anthem. As you said its now being worked on at the BioWare Austin studio so any work on the game will be independent of BioWare Edmonton just like when BioWare Austin was given The Old Republic, after the game moved to Austin BioWare Edmonton did nothing with it again.

With Dragon Age "4" I am expecting a 2022/2023 release and after that is too far into the future for any BioWare product. What BioWare adds or doesn't add really seems to depend on what the online community is demanding of them instead of what the studio thinks is good for their games. So even if you think its a bad idea, if enough people are demanding that BioWare do something I wouldn't be surprised if they make a drastic change to implement it or that major changes happen to the games based on that feedback. The problem BioWare Edmonton has had since they were purchased by EA is that they seem to fall into the category of having "eyes bigger then their stomachs" so they have massive elaborate plans and have to rush and make massive cuts to the game to get it to ship on time. So I would hope the next games are going to be scaled back a little so they don't have to make such drastic changes from their initial vision.

With "live service" nobody really knows what it means, BioWare has said that every Dragon Age game (and all but Mass Effect 1 in that IP) will have qualified as a "live service" game and their vision of what "live service" means is that its content that can be added or changed to the game without having to download the new content. So don't have the hopes of more DLC or other content like that, it would be probably multiplayer weekends or having rotating missions for a mission table type of content where its just game variables being rotated.

I mean they did say already that the game was going to be just like your typical...Dragon Age game in terms of companions and SP in a blog post but as far as the speicifics they almost have to tell us once the marketing kicks in so...2021 we should know.  

I call mid-late 2023, the last game for Bioware before closure. At least until then I have BG3 to keep me company.

I expect the next DA game will have replay value like the previous da games and the ME trilogy. That is the #1 reason why I like those games. I get my $60 worth and then some. It's also the reason why I have so many playthroughs.

As far as when the next da game releases and future da games? If the rumors of an ME trilogy remaster are true, and it's released in 2021, I would say the next da game might release late 2022. If a remaster doesn't happen, then I guess the next da game would release late 2021. For future da games, I would say 2030/31 and beyond.

I think da4 will be the last da for good

I believe sales will be good and reviews solid but the competition will be stronger

Say it comes out in 3 years. That’s 3 more years where we are looking at games costing 70+. There’s no sign that income for most will match the cost increase

If it goes up against Witcher 4, elder scrolls it gets wiped out on name recognition. BioWare has a great fan base but it’s dwarfed by those and there’s going to be other players (I fully expect the dungeons and dragons franchise to have something to rival da. I’m seeing it more mainstream than ever before or something unexpected (Harry Potter, stranger things, game of thrones etc)

Do we really think ea will keep BioWare going another 7+ years after da4. I got the impression After the ea showcase that BioWare is just another toy and may not be as highly regarded by ea as we think