Dragon Age News Thread

Lots of logo slap. And the quest for Dragon Age's N7

V@ SidheLives
Hey @patrickweekes! Hoping you can resolve a disagreement between me and my DA friends. Tyrdda Bright-axe: is it pronounced Tier-duh or Trid-uh?

Patrick Weekes @patrickweekes
Sorry to cause even more disagreement, but because I am annoying, I was going for ‘TEER-thuh’, because in Welsh, the double-d takes a “th” sound.

I will add, however, that I am not to be trusted in matters of pronunciation even, perhaps ESPECIALLY, regarding characters I was allowed to name.

He's the community manager for Bioware/EA. I figure it was worth post the tweet here.

Dragon Age - World of Thedas

Hrungr @hrungry
Just a quick reminder that in two weeks ... Dark Fortress Issue #3!

www.darkhorse.com/Comics/3002-349/Dragon-Age-Dark-Fortress-3

Nunzio DeFilippis @ndefilippis
Oh, the end is coming, all right ... #DragonAge #DarkFortress #TheEndIsNigh

EA earnings call transcript
www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2021/05/12/electronic-arts-ea-q4-2021-earnings-call-transcrip/

BioWare mention part:

"Question: And then just lastly, I'm not sure if you'd be willing to bite, but on any developments or progress you'd be willing to talk about as it relates to maybe the out-year pipeline in several of the titles that you've disclosed and discussed in the past.

Blake Jorgensen -- Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer:

Well, I'll start. What I would say is in our guidance, you know we're traditionally conservative. So in our guidance for Battlefield, we have a lot of expectations, a lot of excitement, but I would tell you we don't have a number that is unachievable there. I think we clearly can achieve it and we hope to exceed it because we know that the Battlefield title is going to be very strong.

Apex, we've seen growth year -- or quarter-over-quarter basically since it started, and we have high confidence that the team can continue to do that even before the mobile product comes out. And mobile obviously will accelerate that. And I think as we said earlier, we don't have a giant number in there for mobile this year because we don't -- it's hard to predict exactly when it goes live and monetizes. So I think we're -- if you look at our forecast, it's a large forecast, probably the biggest that we've ever done.

But I would say there's still conservatism in that forecast around both mobile, Battlefield and other titles where we are all focused on trying to grow them. I can't remember what your third question was, so I apologize.

Andrew Wilson -- Chief Executive Officer:

It was around out-year content and would we buy from that.

Blake Jorgensen -- Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer:

Yes.

Andrew Wilson -- Chief Executive Officer:

So what I would offer is I think that what we talked about earlier was we had been recruiting amazing talent into the organization from across the industry. We feel really, really good about our best strength both in the context of mobile and the context of our HD organization, and you've also seen us growing in really good ways in Asia. We've talked about a college football game. We've talked about a state game.

We've talked about a new game from Motive. We've talked about new packs. We've talked about a number of new FIFA titles from our mobile group and new mobile titles in Asia. I would tell you that we still feel really good and really strong about all of those.

They are tracking as we believe they had, including a new title coming out of BioWare. So nothing new to give you beyond that other than we still feel very confident in our outgoing -- our out-year portfolio. And we also have some other things that we're kind of incubating that we think will further add to them in the years to come."

No mention of DA, ME, DA4, MELE or next Mass Effect by name. I assume the "new title coming out of BioWare" is DA4.

Good catch. Doesn't say much, unfortunately. It just points that we aren't getting a Bioware title in 2021, not that it's coming, necessarily in 2022. Just that it's on track. If it were on track to release in 2023, it's on track to release in 2023. If it were on track to release with the heat death of the universe, it's still on track. Obviously, there is a huge span between the two.

andarateia andarateia
I just noticed @christiandailey's new banner. Look familiar? It's the Blood Dragon Armor from #MassEffect, based off the armor of the same name from #DragonAge. Love it when two of my favorites collide!

I could be wrong, but I think this was, at some point, Wil Wheaton's favorite system...

Nunzio DeFilippis @ndefilippis
It’s now 8 days from the end of the current #DragonAge saga with Issue 3 of #DarkFortress and it’s time to see how things were going for #AutumnTheMabari
Christina Weir @furukawaheinz @atiyehcolors @blambot @darkhorsecomics

Matthew Goldman @sergoldman
Cosplayin' a tarot card! Very nicely done.