DA Day and Game Awards 2021

here's the blog post

Joining our Community to Celebrate All Things Dragon Age!
December 4, 2021
We are blown away that all of you celebrate Dragon Age Day every year and appreciate everyone that does. Dragon Age Day launched unofficially by fans, for fans, in the Fall of 2018 by Teresa “ImaSithDuh” M, with a small team of founders also including Angela Mitchell, Savvy B., and Alistair SM James, as well as former participants Ghil Dirthalen and Andrastini. We really appreciate the team behind Dragon Age Day for bringing us all together while supporting inclusivity and accessibility with a contribution to Able Gamers charity in the process!
This day belongs to you, our awesome community. In that spirit, we want to celebrate with you as fellow fans while spotlighting your unique and imaginative contributions to a world we all love. All-day we’ll be showcasing your amazing original creations on social, dropping new Dragon Age™ merch on Dark Horse Direct, Gaming Heads, and the BioWare Gear Store, as well as giving away plenty of gift cards. Tag your posts on Twitter using #BioWareGiveaway for a chance to win. Apex Legends™ has also gotten in on the fun with a Dragon Age themed Highland Ravager Weapon Charm available to EA Play members to claim anytime between December 2, 2021, and January 4, 2022.
Additionally, the Dragon Age Day team will be hosting events including charity rewards on sale from Dragon Age fan artists, 24+ hours of Twitch Livestreams all day today, writing, art & meme prompts and challenges, and videos spotlighting personal insights from the Dragon Age fan community (this year’s question: “Who is your favorite Dragon Age Companion/Character, and Why?). You can also view the full list of activities here.
We are continuously amazed by the passionate, diverse, inspiring, and creative community that has come together to join us in the land of Thedas. We are humbled by the ways in which you have expanded and celebrated the world of Dragon Age. From captivating fan fiction, beautiful character art, and cutting-edge cosplay to themed weddings, birthdays, tattoos, and even baby names, the world of Thedas has extended beyond the games and is now its own living breathing place embodied by all of you. We can not thank you all enough for your continued support and love for the franchise. It is what inspires us each and every day to continue to build new worlds, characters, and stories for you to explore.
Speaking of building new worlds and stories for you to explore, we want to let you all know that we’re still hard at work on building the next single-player-focused experience for Dragon Age. We’re excited for next year when we can talk more about what we’re working on. Until then, we’ll leave you with two new short stories from the world of Dragon Age!
-The Dragon Age Team
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but the link to the 2 short stories is broken currently

link working new stories and art up www.ea.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-day

Of course depending on when they want it out we may not even get anything till ea play of 2023...

Ugh I need a drink *sips water*

Holy cow, they've already raised over $14,000 for DA Day.

I just want to know what the damn game's called.

The news was clear and encouraging.

They said the same last year. 

Lol.

Can't wait until this time next year when we're in the exact same position.

With all the reboots and changes to the game over the course of 5 or 6 years, I fear that is what we are going to get (a game that feels rushed and undeveloped and unpolished).

Anthem was seven years in development, so a long dev time does not seem to do them much good. Several times, their problem has been that they either didn't know what to do with their game or they tried something that they couldn't make work and then crunched 18 months straight to make sure there was some product to sell come the deadline, and crunch tends to produce delays as the constant strain makes people work less effectively.

I don't know, but the two reboots they had so far (as far as we know...) don't say "there is a clear vision for this game" to me. That doesn't mean that it's certain to be awful in the end, just that products that go through such a hellish dev cycle generally tend to be. But maybe they'll surprise me.

Alternatively there was a clear vision initially but then either it didn't work or someone high up didn't like it, so they began again. This is where losing the Senior Creative Director (twice) is worrying because they are meant to be the one supplying the overall vision for the project. The first time the Senior Creative Director left was around the time of the first reboot, so it would seem that was why they left, because their original vision was being abandoned and they didn't believe in the replacement vision. Then the person appointed to replace them decides to leave some 3 years later but the management are confident that their vision can still be realised. Again, that suggests that there was a difference of opinion over the "vision" and the Senior Creative Director found their position untenable.

Of course, this is pure speculation and the "mutual decision" may have had nothing to do with the vision for the game but something unrelated to it. In which case, the management's confidence in still being able to maintain the vision is probably justified, particularly if they are a fair way towards realising the final product and the rest of the creative team have been working to that vision for some time.

Let's examine those two reboots though shall we?

Reboot one was to turn the game from a relatively small sounding game centered on heists ( think grand theft dragon) into a game which sounds much more in keeping with what we have seen from Dragon Age. Then of course Anthem happened which also led to them essentially stopping work from the sounds of it.

Reboot 2 comes from a media leak which basically just parroted everything that bioware has been telling us and continue to tell us for years. That it will be Singleplayer game typical of what has come before and all the 'reboot' was them dropping mp and maybe ls elements.

Either way the games direction has been clear, broad strokes wise, for years.