Dragon Age News Thread

Is this going to be available somewhere? Not that I want to see him cry, but I'm a big Dorian fan, so...

Yeah, David didn't say who he was doing the interview for, but hopefully it'll pop up on their channel or David will post a link when it's up...

"Objectively idiotic"? With claims like that you'd have to bring up some serious evidence.

So I ask for serious evidence and you say it's 'common sense'? It was 'common sense' that made people believe that it's the sun that moves around the Earth and not the other way around. Just because it's like 'common sense' to you, doesn't mean that it has anything to do with objective reality.

I mean, there's a reason why the strat they use is widely called "Apple strategy" - it's because it brought Apple zilllions of dollars. Bethesda has only proven that this strategy works for games too, given that Fallout 4 sold like freshly baked buns and that no - you don't have to show the product to the world when it's not finished, but keep it under wraps until it's prepared to be released.

Now, I'm not going to say that I'm particularly happy that we're going to have to wait and have little to go by, or expect for BW to keep their mouths entirely shut, given that they're well-known for their teasing and clues hidden here and there.... but they think it's a strategy that will benefit them - and given that they got themselves singed when they revealed too much about DAI during development, and with recent debacle around No Man's Sky (where, effectively, the game became a victim of over-hyped expectations based on what was shown or talked about during game's development) - at this point we have no serious evidence whatsoever to suggest that their approach is one that is 'idiotic'. It is nothing more than an uninformed assumption.

Apple didn't make zillions of dollars, since zillion isn't a real number. The only reason Apple makes it work is because of all the previous products they made. Their earlier stuff got advertised much earlier than they do now. Not to mention there is no real need to advertise since their new products are nearly identical to the previous product just with a few new things. 

Fallout 4 also sold nowhere near as well as another Bethesda game known as Skyrim, which they advertised much sooner than they advertised Fallout 4. Also quite a few people express regret in buying Fallout 4 because the little information shown didn't accurately portray the game to them. So Fallout 4 was a lucky gamble, and not one that will pay off again with that franchise. 

And no offense to Bioware, but they are no Apple of Bethesda. Recent events have lost a lot of goodwill among many of their customers, so they need to advertise more since it won't be taken on faith anymore. 

It's called tongue-in-cheek. Zillions simply means 'a lot' and if you have to address that, well... it either makes you look humorless or patronizing.

Anyway, it wouldn't be called "Apple strategy" if they didn't actively use it or others wouldn't be calling it like that and trying to copy it. And please - while their products don't necessarily change drastically from model to model, don't tell me that the whole Web wasn't abuzz when it was revealed that, again, Apple has decided to do something risky and removed traditional headphone jack.

Besides - you've sort of switched the goalpost here. Now you're arguing that the company doesn't necessarily has to announce far and wide that they're working on new product and ostensibly show it to the world thanks to reputation garnered with previous products.

As it happens, BW still has a lot of its reputation intact. And no matter how you're trying to spin it, DAI was a commercial success and judging from information on the Web players are eagerly awaiting MEA.

Also - Skyrim earned Bethesda 450$ in about a week of sales (7 million copies shipped in first week). Fallout 4 earned 750$mil in 24 hours (12 million copies shipped in first day). F4 broke even GTA5's record. So WTH are you talking about and are you sure you're not confusing Skyrim's total sales from 5 years it was with us? Add to that the fact that the market has changed significantly in those 5 years...

And whether there were unhappy customers doesn't matter - that happens whether the game is announced earlier or not. Aside from No Man's Sky which both me and PapaCHarlie9 brought (and which you didn't address) I acutely remember from Skyrim's launch time that there were people were unhappy with it as well, since the game didn't meet some their expectations (seriously, the problem doesn't lie with 'lack of information on the title', because actual, accurate information materializes either AFTER the launch or close to it, when feedback from reviewers and players begins to pour in) and that's despite game's announcement a year earlier. At this point you're just splitting hair on four.

Scylla Costa ‏@scyllacosta

New Mass Effect, Dragon Age Comics to Be Released in 2017 bit.ly/2dE20OP

Dark Horse will debut new comics in the worlds of both Mass Effect and Dragon Age, as well as several other projects related to the BioWare franchises, the publisher revealed today.

Ahead of New York Comic-Con 2016, Dark Horse has announced the comic book series Mass Effect: Discovery, the first issue of which will be available in spring 2017. Discovery's story is by Mass Effect Andromeda creative director Mac Walers, lead writer John Dombrow, and Jeremy Barlow, a writer on the Mass Effect: Foundation comic series/ Barlow will write Discovery while Gabriel Guzmán is on board as artist for the series.

Dark Horse will also release Dragon Age: Knight Errant in 2017. with the first issue going on sale on May 10 of next year. Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir will write Knight Errant, which will have art by Fernando Heinz Furukawa and covers by Sachin Teng Dragon Age Adult Coloring Book will go on sale February 8, 2017.

Mass Effect: Discovery is part of what Dark Horse is billing as the Mass Effect Andromeda Program, which, in addition to the Andromeda Galaxy-set Discovery, will also include the Mass Effect Adult Coloring Book, The Art of Mass Effect Andromeda, and Mass Effect Andromeda — The Poster Collection. The coloring book will be available on March 1, 2017, the Andromeda art book will be released on March 21, 2017, and the poster collection will be available for purchase in fall 2017.

A Dragon Age Adult Coloring Book will also be released by Dark Horse on February 8, 2017.

Take a look at both coloring books covers, with non-final art, below.

Yeah, there is no way I would buy that poster collection without knowing exactly what I was getting with every single image. FFS you can look on the back of a calendar and see every single month.

S. Kyra Rush ‏@mandolintiger
also, please tell me you'll actually publish Hard in Hightown...

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
we have discussed it

Well, I know what I want for Christmas. Coloring books and DA poster book, it's like I'm a kid again.

My first thought was this was probably going to be a story of a wandering Chevalier, like Michel de Chevin.

But honestly... I like the idea of a story about a Knight Enchanter even more.