Dragon Age is a bit of a black sheep at BioWare. There can be no doubt about that after so many comments from former devs over the years. Just recently, Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider claimed that Mass Effect was always preferred by EA, and that the series has come close to being cancelled multiple times. It was apparently so bad that the Dragon Age and Mass Effect teams at BioWare didn't even get along.
The past few months at BioWare have been chaotic, and from the outside, quite confusing. Here is what we can glean from developers and creators.
Dragon Age veteran Mark Darrah has also been critical of BioWare and EA's handling of the Dragon Age franchise, and recently claimed in a new video on his YouTube channel that the team behind the series was being "jerked around" and "getting no support" after being shifted to help ship Mass Effect: Andromeda back in 2017.
Darrah goes on to explain that even when Mass Effect: Andromeda shipped and his team returned to Dragon Age, the series was "still not getting adequate support", despite assurances from higher ups that it was incredibly important and that the team was going...
