Bloomberg: Dragon Age 4 Will Now Be A SP (Non-LS) Game

I always enjoyed Mass Effect multiplayer, but Dragon Age was weird.

Listen, i'm trying so hard to pretend i'm sad they axed the live service and multiplayer from DA4 but my mind, body, and soul is just, right now, thinking

My experience with the multiplayer in Dragon Age was definitely ruined by the bugs and issues that were there at launch.  Not to mention the looter approach for loot drops.

Lol, completely unrelated but having grown up on Thundercats and Sega, I always read your name as Linkso-Carina. It just occurred to me that that's wrong. 

It would have been nice, for its one of those things that might have been good if the problems were not there.  For me the biggest sin a game can have is making me feel like I wasted my time so when the MP match has to be abandoned due to the key not dropping or regularly having total party kills on the final boss on the lowest difficulty I don't stick around for long.  I did try and go back a couple of times, but the lobbies were pretty much dead at that point with long waits for groups to form.

The one thing I wish BioWare had done with all of the MP approaches (I include Anthem) is not being so focused on groups having to be four people in size.  I probably would be playing some form of BioWare MP if they had allowed for solo or smaller groups, but its that feeling of wasting my time again for its hard to complete solo (or at least for me).  The ability to scale is why I am still playing The Division 2 for sometimes I am playing solo or small groups of friends, but I am able to complete my missions the majority of time while not in a max group.

As someone who has absolutely zero interest in playing online, this can only be a good thing.

While some games have done the live service deal really well - such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and kept the core of the single player experience going beyond the original release, most of it is just a way to take things away from people who aren't going to pay extra for more content.

I just wanna state it - a few years ago I remember Casey Hudson saying that Anthem was experimental, that's why it didn't follow the Bioware formula exactly and moving forward we should expect existing IP's to remain the same as they've always been. The marketing for DA4 now feels so insidious - they were marketing a multiplayer game when they were aware we all expected a singleplayer game based on their previous word. I'm not blaming the devs, obviously. It's not their decision to make. And it doesn't matter now that it's singleplayer again. And to be fair, I'm not anti multiplayer. I would've played it either way. I just don't appreciate being mislead and lied to.

Ever since the move from multiplayer to singleplayer they've been so quiet. I'm guessing they had to restart on a lot of things (rewrites and such) so they don't have much to show. It's still puzzling to me how many times DA4 has been rebooted. It can't be a good sign :/ I'm hoping for the best but keeping my expectations in check

Multiplayer was going to be the focus this time around, lets not kid ourselves. There's a reason why the title of this thread is "DA4 is going to be SP game now" opposed to LS such as Anthem. There's a reason why they decided to repivot and stopped marketing altogether. I highly doubt the story wasn't rewritten to accommodate that change and I also doubt the game wasn't somewhat rebooted. My opinion, guess we'll know in a couple of years.