Dragon Age News Thread

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Caitie ghildirthalen
Y'all I'm so excited. This giant nerd has his hat!
www.nexusmods.com/dragonageinquisition/mods/3408

Creepy @bunnyrose448
Can I say and no hate, but why do modders always come to the rescue?
@biomarkdarrah @bioware

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
2 reasons:
1. They are willing to sacrifice things that we aren’t always
2. They have the time

On the sacrifice front:
A lot on mod hairs clip more than the hairs we make. Personally, I think they are worth it...

Craig @craign471
Is that #1 usually "pay," amongst other things?

seb hanlon @hanlsp
Often it’s “this thing has to work in _all these situations in the game_ on all _X_ platforms for all _Z_ possible combinations of options”

And (just like a dev) if you can make different simplifying assumptions, you can get different (better?) results.

Ask a game dev @askagamedev
The most famous example of this is probably long hair. We have to make the long hair look good (i.e. not have clipping issues) for every head and every body with every wearable helmet in the game. Modders don't have to do that

Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod
"Action item: Evaluate the appropriate percentage of murderous."
#overheardintheoffice

Matthew Goldman @sergoldman
I love our workplace quotes When I'm dealing with people outside of work I have to monitor what I'm saying. Quotes like that get serious side-eyeball

Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod
I've been tweeting "overheard in the office" quotes since 2010, and they are absolutely at their best when taken entirely out of context by people who weren't there Smiling face with open mouth and smiling eyes Reading back 11 years of them never fails to bring me great joy and laughter!
twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apentapod%20%23overheardintheoffice&src=typed_query&f=live


Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod (Dec 2, 2020)
"A weekly 1 hour meeting with 10 participants is a staff month spent ... that’s three hot tubs full of Pabst Blue Ribbon!"
"Can we get that as the official scoping metric of the project?"
"Just use an acronym - ask for justification for the cost in HTPBR"
#overheardintheoffice

Matthew Goldman @sergoldman
Ha! I made your list!

Imperator Furiåsa @devilkitten
I got my 5 year service award from BioWare yesterday, but I thought something was missing on Varric, so I fixed it.

Doe @artbydoe
I go by Doe, I'm an Concept Artist, Illustrator currently working in Video Games at Bioware. Here are some of my older works, Artstation and Instagram links, cheers!
artstation.com/doe
instagram.com/artbydoe/
#conceptart #illustration

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
This shirt doesn’t have the message on it I thought it did... does anyone remember the DLC it was for?



Chris Brodbeck @brodbeckchris
Dragon Age 2 Expansion (?!)



alannah 🗡Crystal ball @alannahmurch



Mary Kirby @biomarykirby
I tentatively want to say Wildervale was where the Temple of Mythal plot was going to be located when it was part of Exalted March? We had Starkhaven, Estwatch, and the Temple of Mythal on the crit path.

Mark Darrah @biomarkdarrah
That’s what I’m thinking but I DO NOT remember us working on a DLC with that name...
@mike_Laidlaw did that morph into Exalted March?

Fernando Melo DiscoBabaloo
I don’t recall that :/ here’s the Exalted March one though

Emily (aka Domino) Taylor pentapod
"Let's say we have a questgiver who asks you to do something like dig up their boyfriend's grave."
"..."
"...I don't know why I chose that example..."
#overheardintheoffice

Sheryl Chee @sherylchee
It's very hard to think of examples without going to exhumation of a dead loved one, okay?

Natalie @heartimecia
games industry peeps, mods are asleep.

what is the dream you want to achieve in this field someday? doesn't matter if you haven't gotten a real opportunity to do it yet; if you're still working toward it; if it seems impossible. i want to know what ur heart is carrying u toward.

John Epler @eplerjc
To help build games that make people's lives better. That make them feel seen, that make them feel like they belong, and that make them feel like they matter.

user
It'd be cool if you guys open sourced it & put it on GitHub/Lab or something!

matthew goldman
That WOULD be cool!

jay ingram
MATTHEW

BioWare @bioware
My people had a saying long ago: "The healer has the bloodiest hands."

Artist paletteChristina Kraus - @elbenherzart

new concept art

Matthew goldman: 'meet me on the streets of minrathous'

BioWare Gear Store @biowaregear
CAN YOU GUESS THE NUMBER ONE COMMENT AND REQUEST WE GET AT THE GEAR STORE?
If you guessed anything to do with shipping, you are spot on.
We've got a couple of updates to talk about today on the Gear Store Blog.

gear.bioware.com/blogs/news/adding-new-shipping-countries

ADDING SHIPPING COUNTRIES
We are in the process of opening up the Gear Store to all world-wide fans of the BioWare games and the gear we create for them. This is a rather complex process for enterprise level shipping. So, it's not quite as simple as creating a label and slapping it on a box when you are doing shipping at scale. Because of that, we are going to be adding countries in controlled segments. The plan is to add a targeted group each week. This week, we are adding a lot of the European countries. If we don't have too many issues, we will keep rolling out a "continent" each week until we are completely set up for world-wide shipping. Our goal is to have full world-wide shipping capabilities in place within six weeks.

If you ever want to see if your country is available to receive shipments, please check out the full list of countries on our Shipping Policy page.

IMPROVING OPTIONS AND SERVICES
Right behind adding more countries, improving shipping costs or adding more shipping options/services to the store, is a frequently requested improvement. If adding more countries is complex, adding new services and influencing costs is probably one of the most difficult and perilous aspects of running an eComm business. There are so many ways to mess things up in the attempt to make things better. So we are spending lots of time looking for and vetting new shipping partners. It's all well and good to say, "lets just select the cheapest shipping option", but if the new service costs less, but ends up having tons of lost or damaged shipments - then we have a whole new issue on our hands. In either case, you, the customer aren't happy....but typically folks are even more upset when they don't get their item or it arrives damaged.