After nearly a decade of anticipation for the next installment of Dragon Age, the latest sequel, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, unfortunately failed to reach EA’s expectations. Subsequently, the game’s developer, BioWare, laid off staff members and became considerably smaller. Now, one of the voice actors from The Veilguard is sharing her dismay about the backlash against the game from people who she says wanted to see BioWare fail.
Alix Wilton Regan–who voices the female Inquisitor in both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard–recently told IGN that she loved the game and she suspects that The Veilguard’s haters were intentionally trying to bring it down.
“I feel absolutely devastated for BioWare as a studio that they got such mixed reactions to the game,” said Wilton Regan. “I personally thought it was a really strong game. I thought it was just BioWare being more BioWare. I also think a lot of people kind of wanted to see it fail, or wanted to see [BioWare] fail, either because they’re just really bad people on the interne–of which there are unfortunately many, as we have discovered… “People were attacking the game before it was released. It’s ridiculous. How can you judge a game, a book, a film, a TV show before it’s actually released? You can’t. It’s an idiotic stance to take.”
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like Dragon Age will get a sequel any time soon. EA shifted some of BioWare’s developers to other parts of the company, while leaving the remaining devs to tackle the next Mass Effect game.
EA chalked up The Veilguard’s disappointing response to an “evolving industry landscape.” BioWare wasn’t the only developer inside of EA to face layoffs. Earlier this week, EA shuttered Cliffhanger Games and canceled the AAA Black Panther game that was in development.