EA apparently turned down a Dragon Age trilogy remaster pitched by BioWare, denying the series the same treatment that the publisher's original Mass Effect releases received a few years ago.
That's according to an interview between YouTuber MrMattyPlays and ex-BioWare producer Mark Darrah (via Eurogamer), in which Darrah says that BioWare suggested remastered versions of Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and Dragon Age: Inquisition, to be released as The Champions Trilogy.
According to Darrah, though, EA is "against remasters", and while he doesn't exactly know why, he wryly says it's because the publisher "basically seem[s] to be against free money". Given EA's championing of loot boxes in the likes of EA Sports FC, I'm not sure about that, but I see his point.
According to Darrah's interview, BioWare's resources were split between the upcoming Mass Effect 4 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which was released last year to an initially positive but eventually largely indifferent reception. That's another reason no trilogy remasters were made, Darrah says.
There's also the fact that while all three Mass Effect games were made in Unreal Engine 3, all three Dragon Age games constituting the series' original trilogy were made with different engines, so remastering them would...
