The Veilguard Faced Turbulent Development, Says Studio Head

Dragon Age: The Veilguard has just been released and is already off to a great start. It’s been blowing up on social media and has received nonstop buzz online. At the moment, it has a Mostly Positive review rating on Steam. This game has been wanted by Dragon Age fans for a long time, as Dragon Age: Inquisition was released in 2014, making it a whopping 10-year wait for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. It’s been said that the climate was pretty dire when development first started out and trying to create a new game while trying to cope with a worldwide pandemic was incredibly difficult.

The latest game in the Dragon Age franchise had been in development for years by 2020 and was in deep water by that point. It had been rebooted from a single-player game into a live-service game with heavy multiplayer elements, a component often seen in recent EA games, including games like Anthem. It’s said that some employees within the company were referring to the next Dragon Age game as “Anthem with dragons,” which is never a good sign. Once Gary McKay took over in 2020, he was determined to make sure that the same mistakes were not made when creating Dragon Age: The Veilguard. In the coming months after he took over, he began to meet with some of the leadership in BioWare and EA and made the decision to take Dragon Age back to single-player.

This information comes from a report made by Jason Schreier over at Bloomberg, where Gary McKay’s thought process behind this game was explained in detail. For McKay, it made perfect sense to revert the game back to singleplayer, as games like Anthem didn’t succeed, but Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a huge hit with fans of…