It's kind of interesting to watch how many different articles spinning off from the interviews I did during the Kickstarter, where I never spoke at all about Veilguard, can be spun ever so slightly to make it seem like I was speaking about Veilguard. 🤔 - ThreadSky

davidgaider.bsky.social • 20 days ago

It's kind of interesting to watch how many different articles spinning off from the interviews I did during the Kickstarter, where I never spoke at all about Veilguard, can be spun ever so slightly to make it seem like I was speaking about Veilguard. 🤔

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knight1029.bsky.social•14 days ago

Some people desperately want the narrative to be "Creator of Dragon Age HATES Veilguard".

Its quite weird.

samurailink.bsky.social•20 days ago

I can see hundreds of shitty articles already!
"David Gaider Dragon Age lead writer refuses to talk about Veilguard"

ragnarok-in-a-box.bsky.social•12 days ago

No need for me to rehash my opinions. 🤣

In the midst of major fan backlash, you were there to remind fans of your work on the prior games. That meant a lot to me. Thank you.

I stand by the statement that the series just wasnt the same without your involvement. Your vision matters.

anonymous1967.bsky.social•20 days ago

The times I have given interviews to the media, I experience how my words are used as putty by the reporters to shape whatever story they wanted to tell, and it sounds like it goes further with you when you have fans or antifans who will use your already-shaped words to support their own opinions.

davidgaider.bsky.social•20 days ago

Some of the interviews have been pretty good, actually. But there's an entire industry of websites nowadays which just grab the articles from other sites and then twist & regurgitate them as their own and with their own spin.

davidgaider.bsky.social•20 days ago

Cue the sudden resurgence of folks who've made it their entire personality to hate Veilguard breezing into my replies. "Stop defending Veilguard!" I... didn't? "Gamers just want good games!" Yes, if you read the interview beyond just the title... that is in fact what I said. 😅

zaznayka.bsky.social•20 days ago

"People just want good games" they scream while complaining about a perfectly good game.

proficiency.bsky.social•20 days ago

Veilguard is not a good game though. Unworthy of BG2 and DAO legacy.

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

Between you and Mark Darrah I see a lot of articles about BioWare/EA the RPGs they made being compared to Larian/BG3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. Neither of those games are developed under a shitty AAA publisher, like EA or Ubisoft.

I'm going to be blunt about this.

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been playing BW games since before EA bought them. BW has not been the same since Ray and Greg left in fall of 2012. As a player, I could see the difference in quality. I will play a game I'm in love with for 100s if not over a 1000 hours. I can not tell you the number of runs I've done

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

in either ME or DA until DA:I and ME:A. DA:I, never got through a 3rd run. ME:A, I barely got through once and forced myself to actually beat it. If I wasn't a ME fanfic writer I would have quit about 20 hours into it like I did Starfield. Lucky for me, I didn't buy Starfield, used Game Pass PC

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

Games need to be more than an ocean wide but have the depth of a puddle. That's most RPGs published by AAA publishers like EA and Ubisoft, which are the two worse companies right now releasing shitty RPGs.

Because of how much I didn't like DA:I, ME:A, seeing the mess SW:TOR turned into

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don't trust BioWare to make a good game. DA:O and DA2 sucked me in, played for 100s of hours. DA:I didn't suck me in, I found the design equal to a single player MMO with lots of nothing to do in spots and zones that could be skipped completely.

Forcing myself to beat is isn't how I enjoy games

kira9259.bsky.social•19 days ago

It is not even about titles, sometimes I scroll through the comments and wonder whether people forgot how to read, even if the titles says one thing they write about some other nonsense that is not even related to the topic.

bluexthunder.bsky.social•20 days ago

But you see you did talk about Veilguard by not talking about Veilguard! So the internet does what it does best and makes stuff up. I’m sorry this happened to you but people really like latching on to things for no reason as it gets them to feel important or something.

proficiency.bsky.social•20 days ago

While I agree with you 100% in this matter, I would like to remind you that this space is a bubble. Unless you think the audience within this bubble is enough to sustain you then I have nothing else to say.

davidgaider.bsky.social•19 days ago

And... what does this space being a bubble have to do with what I said, exactly?

proficiency.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'm sorry, English is not my first language, the summary is this:

You wonder why people don't understand what you mean, I say because you're surrounded by people who always agree with you and understand you, but a lot more people out there don't. I say, don't get stuck in this bubble.

proficiency.bsky.social•19 days ago

Because everything you say about RPGs is going to be connected back to BioWare.

BioWare hasn't been Okay since Andromeda and folks want to know what happened to BW since then.

I personally think Mass Effect is the beginning of the rot. Mass Effect is what made BioWare/EA abandoned us RPG player.

darklord28.bsky.social•20 days ago

Love it when people pretend they are this deep psychological masterminds that read people's true meaning behind words like a book instead of taking things at face value. Smh. So sorry this happens to you.

davidgaider.bsky.social•20 days ago

Meh. If I was worried about it, I wouldn't have done so many interviews to begin with. It's just interesting to watch unfold in completely unsurprising fashion.

darklord28.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah, I understand. It still a little bit frustrating.

corbynred.bsky.social•20 days ago

It's been so frustrating. They just don't want to read the articles and want to blame you for something they hate (and most didn't even play in the first place).

datfreakyderp.bsky.social•20 days ago

How can anyone blame him for DA:V when he left BioWare years ago and had zip to do with it. That's like getting pissed off at Drew Karpyshyn for the ending of ME3.

corbynred.bsky.social•20 days ago

Because they read a headline and don't read the articles and just want to moan about DA:TV for the sake of it.

davidgaider.bsky.social•20 days ago

And also because they see me talk about "games" or "RPGs" and assume the only thing I could ever talk about, the only reason I'd say these things, was Veilguard. They're pretty single-minded.

thetrevelyan.bsky.social•20 days ago

This ever present and rising devotion to hate, all around, sometimes just utterly terrifies me.

mefcorv.bsky.social•1 day ago

I think that's a bit unkind. The work that you and others did created people who loved the DA franchise so much they wanted more rich writing, meaningful choices, interesting companions, and political intrigue that characterized DA....can you really blame them for being disappointed by Veilguard?

davidgaider.bsky.social•18 hours ago

All I'll say is that it's quite the choice to dig up a post I made three weeks ago complaining about how interviews I'd given were being spun to make it seem like they were about Veilguard when it wasn't mentioned at all... in order to complain about Veilguard? 😉

mefcorv.bsky.social•16 hours ago

I'm late to the game in just finishing; I'm normally a rabid DA fan but have been pretty busy doing legal defense and trainings on the ongoing horrors. My timeline has far too high a law-nerd to game-nerd ratio, so I tried to search out who was talking about it. Mea culpa I guess!

zeeejay.bsky.social•20 days ago

I know you’re probably used to it by now, but god damn I feel bad because it must be so annoying to have any statement made spun into “FORMER BIOWARE DEV SAYS”. It just strikes me as very grubby, nasty work.

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