'Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now,' former BioWare writer reassures fans: 'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'
'Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now,' former BioWare writer reassures fans: 'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'
... So... Dragon Age is dead.
But DA isn't dead. There's fic. There's art. There's the connections we made through the games and because of the games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea, no matter how much they want to. DA isn't dead because it's yours now."
In a subsequent post, Chee wrote, "So someone just reposted my thing saying they'll write a giant AU [alternate universe] and that's what I'm talking about.
So, Dragon Age is not dead in the sense that you can still occasionally commission DeviantArtists for DA art, and you can still freely write DA fanfiction and not make any money off of it.
... And someone can make yet another medieval fantasy world, maybe actually turn it into an actual profitable and thus widespread IP ... assuming you've quite considerably changed the basic concepts and don't use any actually named characters or groups.
Wyvern Era.
Drake Epoch.
Dragon Age is dead, add yet another notch to EA's IP/Studio murder count.
They'll probably manage to finally kill Battlefield / DICE this or next year.
EDIT: I somehow missed the title.
Yes, you absolutely can own an idea, thats what patents, trademarks and copyrights literally are.
This is actually delusional levels of cope.
You can talk all you want about French revolutionaries and Camus, but at the end of the day, you didn't revolt against anything, you signed away your creative output to a soulless corporation for cash.
You could have found or founded a worker cooperative non profit, you could have copyleft your world and story and characters, you could have MIT or GPL liscensced the game code, and still sold the finished game for money, but nope, you did none of that.
Yeah you can. Ask palworld what it’s like being sued for how your character moves.
EA has killed one of my favorite franchises and they are just making this worse and worse.
EA has been doing this crap since '98 and still people keep buying it
One?
yes. its one of my favorites.
"Evil corporation owns the IP, so it's not really dead"
Call the Star Wars fans, they're gonna love this
The real Dragon Age is the friends we made along the way.
God, the cringe…
I was pretty disappointed that they dont take into account any of your decisions besides like two from the past games. I was replaying all of them so when it came out I’d have a good file to pass to the game but when I found that out I didn’t feel like getting it anymore. I’ll probably still grab it if it goes on sale for like 20 bucks because it still looks fun.
As a long time fan - it was fine. It was just... fine. People rage against it but gamers rage against everything. It's not Inquisition. Inquisition is the best IMO personally. However, Veilguard was worth playing, I think it wrapped up the story fine, I thought the ending did do a fair job wrapping up all of those loose ends, I feel like it ended the story. However, it came out closer to Assassin's Creed in terms of my personal fun level. If horrible is Anthem and Top level is RDR2, it came out at Assassin's creed.
So yeah, pick it up on sale. I'd say it was a solid $40 game.
As one who played every Dragon Age game, this expresses much of how I feel as well.
After such a long wait I wanted another Origins or Inquisition, but I got something else and it was a fine, forgettable, C+ entry. A game that wants you to wave a giant foam finger instead have thoughtful choices, but at least it delivered an ending.
Gamers raged because there was a trans person in it or something and Steve Bannon created a circle pit of stupidity that made the word “gamer” synonymous with “worst loser in the fucking world.”
This is the first I've heard of this- did Veilguard do badly? I thought it was reasonably popular.
Reasonably popular, 1.5 million copies, means it didn't make all the money so it's a complete failure to AAA publishers.
It missed the predicted revenue by 50%, so might as well be carthago
It “engaged” 1.5 million players. That includes EA Play and Game Pass, so actual sales are even lower.
Yeah sounds about right.
But you sure can sue over one! Am I right Nintendo?
Morrigan. You shall forever rule my heart. RIP.
Seriously though. Fuck EA.
Isn't owning ideas the whole point of IP laws?
What he meant was that you can copyright poop but you can’t copyright the idea of poop.
You can trademark the word poop though