History Trivia / DragonAge

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, ''VideoGame/DragonAgeDreadwolf'' has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest DAD would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.'' Since the covid pandemic Bioware has delayed the release date several times. Even though they confirmed that the game was in Alpha later 2022, they still hesitate to announce 2023 as the release year, making it possible that it will take 10 years between the releases.

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, ''Dragon Age: Dreadwolf'' has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest DAD would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.'' Since the covid pandemic Bioware has delayed the release date several times. Even though they confirmed that the game was in Alpha later 2022, they still hesitate to announce 2023 as the release year, making it possible that it will take 10 years between the releases.

** ''Dragon Age: Dreadwolf'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumors indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards. The development was then [[https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-ditch-live-service-features-and-be-singleplayer-only/ reportedly]] overhauled ''again'' in early 2021, concurrently with [=BioWare=] giving up on the ''Anthem Next'' reboot, axing live-service elements from DAD and turning it into a more traditional single-player RPG.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki The Dragon Age Wiki]].

* TheWikiRule: [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki The Dragon Age Wiki]].

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, ''Dragon Age: Dreadwolf'' has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest DAD would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.'' Since the covid pandemic, Bioware has delayed the release date several times. Even though they confirmed that the game was in Alpha later 2022 they still hesitate to set 2023 as the release year. * PermanentPlaceholder: A common thing in the series, especially in regards to naming things. For instance, the name of the setting, "Thedas", was an acronym ("The Dragon Age Setting") used by the devs to refer to the world while they thought of a proper name for it. Fast forward to a few years later, and nobody even considered naming it anything else.

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, ''Dragon Age: Dreadwolf'' has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest DAD would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.'' Since the covid pandemic, a release date in summer 2023 is more likely.
* PermanentPlaceholder: A common thing in the series, especially in regards to naming things. For instance, the name of the setting, "Thedas", was an acronym ("The Dragon Age Setting") used by the devs to refer to the world while they thought of a proper name for it. Fast forward to a few years later, and nobody even considered naming it anything else.

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, Dragon Age 4 has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest [=DA4=] would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.'' Since the covid pandemic, a release date in summer 2023 is more likely.

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumors indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards. The development was then [[https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-ditch-live-service-features-and-be-singleplayer-only/ reportedly]] overhauled ''again'' in early 2021, concurrently with [=BioWare=] giving up on the ''Anthem Next'' reboot, axing live-service elements from ''[=DA4=]'' and turning it into a more traditional single-player RPG.

** The first iteration of ''Dragon Age 4'', codenamed "Joplin", [[https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351 was to be]] about a group of spies in the Tevinter Imperium and would center on [[TheCaper heists]], which would have a lot of variability and StoryBranching, depending on how you approached them[[note]]presumably in the vein of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''[='=]s SuicideMission[[/note]]. "Joplin", however, was canceled in October 2017 (when [=BioWare=] ordered all hands on deck to salvage ''Anthem'') and rebooted as "Project Morrison" a.k.a. "The Dread Wolf Rises". The supplemental comics ''ComicBook/KnightErrant'' and ''ComicBook/DragonAgeDeception'', both of which focused on heists, were probably leading up to "Joplin"; but tellingly, ''Deception'' was CutShort to just three issues (instead of the usual five) right around the time of the reboot.
** "Project Morrison" was intended to have far larger multiplayer and long-term monetization components than previous [=BioWare=] games, as part of EA's mandates to enforce their "Games as a Service" philosophy. According to Jason Scheirer, it was what drove the series' creative director Mike Laidlaw to leave the company in 2017. In the final years of TheNewTens, the great success of games like ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'' despite being fully single-player and lacking live-service components, along with the utter failure of the live service and multiplayer-focused ''VideoGame/{{Anthem}}'', discredited EA's widely-mocked views on single player games as a passing fad. According to anonymous [=BioWare=] developers, in the final days of 2020, shortly before the announcement of [[UpdatedRerelease Anthem Next]]'s cancellation, EA not only allowed, but ''ordered'' [=BioWare=] to completely remove ''Dragon Age 4'''s multiplayer components, making it the company's first fully single-player game since ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' in 2011.

** ''Dragon Age II'' was rushed by EA to meet a deadline of Spring 2011, even though the team were barely recovering from releasing ''Origins'' 18 months prior, and were still supporting it for much of 2010 with DLC such as the ''Awakening'' expansion. Some sources even claim that, not counting pre-production (which by all accounts was also very brief), the game was developed in the span of about ''8 months''. This led to the streamlined combat, poor level design and rushed third act, which all contributed to the game's mixed reception.

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, Dragon Age 4 has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest [=DA4=] would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022,'' eight years after ''Inquisition.''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first iteration of ''Dragon Age 4'', codenamed "Joplin", [[https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351 was to be]] about a group of spies in the Tevinter Imperium and would center on [[TheCaper heists]], which would have a lot of variability and StoryBranching, depending on how you approached them[[note]]presumably in the vein of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''[='=]s SuicideMission[[/note]]. "Joplin", however, was canceled in October 2017 (when [=BioWare=] ordered all hands on deck to salvage ''Anthem'') and rebooted as "Project Morrison" a.k.a. "The Dread Wolf Rises". The supplemental comics ''ComicBook/KnightErrant'' and ''ComicBook/DragonAgeDeception'', both of which focused on heists, were probably leading up to "Joplin"; but tellingly, ''Deception'' was CutShort to just three issues (instead of the usual five) right around the time of the reboot.
** The "Dread Wolf Rises" iteration of the game was intended to have far larger multiplayer and long-term monetization components than previous [=BioWare=] games, as part of EA's mandates to enforce their "Games as a Service" philosophy. According to Jason Scheirer, it was what drove the series' creative director Mike Laidlaw to leave the company in 2017. In the final years of TheNewTens, a couple of game releases discredited EA's widely-mocked views on singleplayer games as a passing fad:
*** ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'''s great success and acclaim despite the game being fully single-player and lacking a live-service component. It vastly outperformed EA's expectations.
*** ''VideoGame/{{Anthem}}'''s utter failure, despite being a multiplayer game and its heavy live-service component, which the higher-ups at EA believed it would be so highly successful they had a decade-long plan for it.
*** According to anonymous [=BioWare=] developers, in the final days of 2020, shortly before the announcement of [[UpdatedRerelease Anthem Next]]'s cancellation, EA not only allowed, but ''ordered'' [=BioWare=] to completely remove Dragon Age 4's multiplayer components, making it the company's first fully single-player game since ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' in 2011.

* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, Dragon Age 4 has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest [=DA4=] would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022.''

*** According to anonymous [=BioWare=] developers, in the final days of 2020, shortly before the announcement of [[UpdatedRerelease Anthem Next]]'s cancellation, EA not only allowed, but ''ordered'' [=BioWare=] to completely remove Dragon Age 4's multiplayer components, making it the company's first fully single-player game since ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'' in 2011.

*** According to anonymous [=BioWare=] developers, in the final days of 2020, shortly before the announcement of [[UpdatedRerelease Anthem Next]]'s cancellation, EA allowed [=BioWare=] to completely remove Dragon Age 4's multiplayer components, making it their first fully single-player game since ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'' in 2011.

*** According to anonymous [=BioWare=] developers, in the final days of 2020, shortly before the announcement of [[UpdatedRerelease Anthem Next]]'s cancellation, EA allowed [=BioWare=] to completely remove Dragon Age 4's multiplayer components, making it their first fully single-player game since Dragon Age 2 in 2011.

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumors indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards. The development was then [[https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-ditch-live-service-features-and-be-singleplayer-only/ reportedly]] overhauled ''again'' in early 2021, concurrently with [=BioWare=] giving up on the ''Anthem'' reboot, axing live-service elements from ''[=DA4=]'' and turning it into a more traditional single-player RPG.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first iteration of ''Dragon Age 4'', codenamed "Joplin", [[https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351 was to be]] about a group of spies in the Tevinter Imperium and would center on [[TheCaper heists]], which would have a lot of variability and StoryBranching, depending on how you approached them[[note]]presumably in the vein of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''[='=]s SuicideMission[[/note]]. "Joplin", however, was canceled in October 2017 (when Bioware ordered all hands on deck to salvage ''Anthem'') and rebooted as "Project Morrison" a.k.a. "The Dread Wolf Rises". The supplemental comics ''ComicBook/KnightErrant'' and ''ComicBook/DragonAgeDeception'', both of which focused on heists, were probably leading up to "Joplin"; but tellingly, ''Deception'' was CutShort to just three issues (instead of the usual five) right around the time of the reboot.

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumors indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards. The development was then [[https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-ditch-live-service-features-and-be-singleplayer-only/ reportedly]] overhauled ''again'' in early 2021, concurrently with [=BioWare=] giving up on the ''Anthem'' reboot, axing live-service elements from the game to turn it into a more traditional single-player RPG.

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumors indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards. The development was then [[https://www.pcgamer.com/dragon-age-4-will-reportedly-ditch-live-service-features-and-be-singleplayer-only/ reportedly]] overhauled ''again'' in early 2021, concurrently with [=BioWare=] stopping work on the ''Anthem'' reboot, excising live-service elements from the game to turn it into a more traditional single-player RPG.

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Trespasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumours indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards.

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* DevelopmentHell: As noted in TroubledProduction below, Dragon Age 4 has had a tumultuous development history. In [[https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2019/10/29/electronic-arts-ea-q2-2020-earnings-call-transcrip.aspx?source=awin&awc=12195_1574357127_67873b39928acde2d529e1a7fdc590cd&utm_source=aw&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=78888 an earnings report presented to investors]], EA COO[=/=]CFO Blake Jorgensen admitted the earliest DA4 would conceivably be released is ''Q2 2022.''

** ''Dragon Age 4'' hasn't even had its release date revealed and already rumors are concerning about the game. As mentioned below, Kotaku has unveiled that the game underwent a massive reboot around late 2017 that would have followed up on the sequel hook from the ''Tresspasser'' expansion, but that got cancelled and rebooted. Development would then be halted so that the ''Dragon Age'' team could help try and scrap together ''Anthem'' in time for its Spring 2019 release. Several rumours indicate that Casey Hudson even went against EA's wishes when showing the ''Dread Wolf Rises'' trailer at the 2018 Game Awards.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first iteration of ''Dragon Age 4'', codenamed "Joplin", [[https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351 was to be]] about a group of spies in the Tevinter Imperium and would center on [[TheCaper heists]], which would have a lot of variability and StoryBranching, depending on how you approached them[[note]]presumably in the vein of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''[='=]s SuicideMission[[/note]]. "Joplin", however, was canceled in October 2017 (when Bioware ordered all hands on deck to salvage ''Anthem'') and rebooted as "Project Morrison" a.k.a. "The Dread Wolf Rises". The supplemental comics ''ComicBook/KnightErrant'' and ''ComicBook/DragonAgeDeception'', both of which focused on heists, were probably leading up to "Joplin", but tellingly, ''Deception'' was CutShort to just three issues (instead of the usual five) right around the time of the reboot.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Age_Wiki The Dragon Age Wiki]].
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The first iteration of ''Dragon Age 4'', codenamed "Joplin", [[https://kotaku.com/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351 was to be]] about a group of spies in the Tevinter Imperium and would center on [[TheCaper heists]], which would have a lot of variability and StoryBranching, depending on how you approached them[[note]]presumably in the vein of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''[='=]s SuicideMission[[/note]]. "Joplin", however, was canceled in October 2017 as Bioware ordered all hands on deck to try and salvage ''Anthem,'' and rebooted as "Project Morrison" a.k.a. "The Dread Wolf Rises". The supplemental comics ''ComicBook/KnightErrant'' and ''ComicBook/DragonAgeDeception'', both of which focused on heists, were probably leading up to "Joplin", but tellingly, ''Deception'' was CutShort to just three issues (instead of the usual six) right around the time of the reboot.