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'It takes Anthem's spot': Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019⁠—a 'compromised' game, but likely better received than Veilguard

It's unclear if Darrah is saying BioWare would have made project Joplin instead of Anthem, or that Anthem would have come later.

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Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't allowed to 'violate physics' yet

At least Dragon Age didn't have THAC0.

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As Anthem faces shutdown amid Stop Killing Games movement, producer says maybe we want to "sacrifice some things in order to get it so that games don't just vanish one day"

"I do believe in game preservation, and we're losing a lot of stuff right now"

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'I always knew it was going to go away eventually:' Anthem producer Mark Darrah gives his take on Stop Killing Games ahead of his own project shutting down forever

Darrah says that if we want to Stop Killing Games, there will be some tradeoffs—but maybe they’re worth it.

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks the studio failed to 'prepare' fans for how different Dragon Age 2 was: 'People look at it and they're like, well this sure isn't Dragon Age: Origins 2, which it isn't'

The best RPG spinoff ever made probably should have been called something different.

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'Veilguard is 4 games stitched together', says ex-BioWare lead Mark Darrah, and it might've been better to 'shut the project down completely' around 2017

Oof.

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'This year seems shakier than ever,' BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says, and live service games are a big part of the reason—but Grand Theft Auto 6 might force the industry to change

2024 was miserable, but somehow 2025 is even worse.

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Dragon Age: Origins was "intended as a standalone game" rather than the first in a series of RPGs, former dev says, meaning BioWare left "a lot of threads" it wasn't expecting to "come back to"

Some of those threads "kind of had to be abandoned," says Mark Darrah

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Mass Effect 5 devs should use Dragon Age: The Veilguard as a "scapegoat" so they can "get what they need" from EA, says former BioWare exec

"'We should steer away from some of these things, because look what happened'"

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'Eager to move on from failure': Ex-producer Mark Darrah thinks BioWare suffered spinning plates for EA, starving itself for talent as it ate itself alive: 'We weren't getting the people'

"Within EA, you're better off being 'one game at a time'."

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Learning EA passed on a Dragon Age Remaster "soft-pitch" has ruined me, because Mass Effect Legendary Edition proved how much it could do for the RPG series

Opinion | My kingdom for the Dragon Age Remaster known as "Champions"

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BioWare pitched a Dragon Age trilogy remaster but EA turned it down because it's 'against remasters' – 'It's strange for a publicly-traded company to seemingly be against free money' says series veteran

A remaster of the first three Dragon Age games was pitched to EA, but turned down because the publisher is "against remasters".

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Former BioWare exec Mark Darrah says the team working on the new Mass Effect game should 'scapegoat Veilguard as much as they need to to get what they need'

"To be frank the Mass Effect team is going to be able to point to The Veilguard and say 'we should steer away from some of these things, because look what happened'."

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Dragon Age wasn't meant to be a series, says former BioWare executive producer, and that's why Origins was full of storylines that 'had to be abandoned'

"Financial reasons" are why it spawned multiple sequels, unsurprisingly.

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Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah thinks Dragon Age remasters are the series' best hope for a future, but I doubt EA and BioWare even have it in them anymore

BioWare had floated the idea in the past, but it never went anywhere.

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An All-Time Great BioWare RPG Is Still Worth Playing Today, Even Without A Remaster

Another BioWare series could have gotten a remaster after 'Mass Effect Legacy Collection' but not having one shouldn't stop you from playing an already-great RPG.

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is "a strong signal" that players don't just want live-service games, BioWare veteran says, but GTA 6's success will be a real indicator of the industry

"If GTA 6 doesn't sell 70, 80 million copies or whatever GTA 5 sold, then that's going to signal something"

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Enraged Dragon Age fans are punishing EA for rejecting BioWare's remaster pitch by covering pixel art map Wplace in adorable threats

Oh no! I'm so scared, I guess

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EA Kills Hopes for Dragon Age: Origins Remaster — Former BioWare Developer Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Secrets on the Dragon Age and Mass Effect Series

During an interview, former BioWare developer Mark Darrah revealed that EA cancelled plans for a Dragon Age: Origins remaster and Mass Effect: Andromeda DLC, among other insightful behind-the-scenes stories on BioWare.

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BioWare apparently wanted to make a Mass Effect-style remaster collection for Dragon Age, but EA's not too keen: "It's strange for a publicly traded company to basically be against free money"

Ex-exec Mark Darrah says there was interest at the studio for a Dragon Age: Legendary Edition

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Mass Effect veteran says open-world bot flop Anthem gained momentum within EA because the pitch was "what if BioWare game but it could do FIFA numbers?"

It all makes sense now

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Anthem's former executive producer says BioWare was so good at telling stories that its original Anthem pitch convinced EA to greenlight a game it couldn't deliver: 'Maybe there wasn't anything behind the very evocative statement'

Never write a check you can't cash.

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"It isn't Destiny. It isn't Borderlands. It isn't Mass Effect": Ex BioWare lead says Anthem's vision for "the future of storytelling" struggled to come together because it had "no one really clearly saying what it is"

Mark Darrah opens up about why Anthem failed in a new YouTube video

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's outsourcing allowed the RPG's in-house team to stay "very focused on building that core," speculates former Dragon Age dev: "Everyone was able to synergize together"

BioWare veteran Mark Darrah says Clair Obscur has "very focused, very clearly delineated areas of outsourcing"

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New report details Dragon Age: The Veilguard's ugly failure through live service flip-flops, rewrites, and conflicts with Mass Effect

The last Dragon Age game we're likely to see for a very long while was in trouble right from the start.

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