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Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider

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Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider

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It's not going to be as good as BG3, and I expect various excuses will be made about why.
- BG3 was in development for 6 years, had a huge budget, and a development studio with experience making RPGs.
  You can't expect a small, indie studio to match that when they've only had... Jesus 9 YEARS?!?!
  
  They took five years to balance the micro transactions to best serve the shareholders.
Last I heard, there were rumors that the scrapped squad based combat in favor of a God of War style action RPG.
If that's the case, lol RIP and good riddance.
- I wouldn't actually mind a "Grey Warden gets trapped in the Deep Roads" action spin off.
  From the OG Bioware.
- From what I heard, they were dropping from four companions to three, Mass Effect style, and wanted the combat to be more like God of War. So my fear is it’s gonna be like Andromeda, where you can’t control your companions’ abilities at all.
- I mean I always thought the world of dragon age was interesting enough to do any game style. But I do think it’s a bit of a mistake to not market it as an alternative to a traditional dragon age.
It's gonna suck so hard
They said full announcement this summer, so this is encouraging! It's completely 50/50 right now. Either it's going to just flop and that's it for Bioware - or they learned their lesson and it's going to rejuvenate the brand.
- BioWare has EA’s grubby fat fingers all up inside of it so I ain’t holding my breath. And I say that as someone who has a relative working for BioWare.
  
  Agreed, but I'll give it 50/50. I'm not going to call it dead before anyone even sees it, but I'm not expecting Inquisition levels either.
- Their last decent game was over a decade ago and I'm half convinced the only good they actually put out was either a fluke or just didn't have any competition to show how bad it was. No way are they turning it around now, sadly.
At this point, I won’t believe it’s actually coming out until it’s actually for sale. I also don’t have any high hopes for it being very good if it does come out.

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