Maybe in part? I'd say the biggest reason was that, while I was there, the BioWare teams were bad at overreaction. They'd take the feedback/criticism to heart - both our own and the fans' - and generally fixed that but also overcorrected. And then there was EA's influence on top of that, yes. - ThreadSky

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davidgaider.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Maybe in part? I'd say the biggest reason was that, while I was there, the BioWare teams were bad at overreaction. They'd take the feedback/criticism to heart - both our own and the fans' - and generally fixed that but also overcorrected.

And then there was EA's influence on top of that, yes.

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lunkensko.bsky.social•59 days ago

Every BioWare fan can pretty much attest to that. ME2 was everything that was good about ME1 tripled down on, but everything that didn't quite land completely gutted from the experience.

And not always to its betterment.

deckard-red.bsky.social•59 days ago

Now that you say that it’s very easy to look at the differences and understand how the overcorrections happened. I wonder how much blame I’ve put on EA has actually also been leadership decisions at BioWare. Though I think the short release schedule between Origins, Awakening and 2 has to be EA

allanshoe.bsky.social•59 days ago

2 was also accelerated to buy SWTOR more time. Originally slated as a smaller project, but then successfully convinced us it needed to be named "Dragon Age 2" which then meant we were concerned about scope being too small, and then and then.

Despite that still some of my favourite companions! <3

deckard-red.bsky.social•59 days ago

Oh that is interesting, I had forgotten SWTOR was that old. I think DA2 has so much god about it, telling a longer story in one location is such a great concept I’m surprised it hasn’t been done more since. You get to see so much character progression that way

bloodymorning.bsky.social•59 days ago

Part of this must also be the fact that we had a different protagonist in the DA games vs the ME trilogy. I like the way the DA games are all different and have a different gameplay, visual, and musical identity.

Thank you, David, for giving me some of the best games I've ever played.

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