Dragon Age: The Veilguard was a dud, which is hardly surprising when studio execs demanded a live-service game, only to pivot mid-development and force BioWare to conjure a single-player RPG from the carcass of a misguided MMO. The aftermath saw the studio gutted, with all of its resources shifted to the next Mass Effect; in so many words, Dragon Age is dead.
But with murmurs that Richard Garriott might get his hands on the copyright for Ultima, and other series from BioWare's past—like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Baldur's Gate—continuing elsewhere, PC Gamer proposed a question to series creator David Gaider: what if you got the IP back?
"If you'd asked me that in the past, I would have said absolutely not. That I'd done my time," Gaider said. "But I do like a challenge. So if, out of some weird alignment of the stars, somebody handed the Dragon Age franchise back to me and said, 'Breathe the life back into this baby'? That'd be a tough one, but I think it'd be an interesting thing to do. To go back to the basics of what made Dragon Age appeal to so many people...
