I think we’re all mourning BioWare right now, even if most of us saw it coming and the OG team has been long gone anyway. It still hurts.

But one thing I can’t help but worry about is the Dragon Age Keep.

Dragon Age is and will forever be my favorite game series and my comfort game. I’ve been playing these games for years, and I fully intend to keep doing so for many more.

But I’m genuinely worried about what might happen to the Keep now that BioWare shuts down completely.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you think EA will eventually shut down the Keep? And if so, is there any way to back up our different world states or preserve them somehow?

After another bought of thinking of on Dragon Age my mind went to the David Gaider quote about Dragon Age always doing well but was always shy of getting axed.

Now I do like all the Dragon Age games. Unpopular opinion I know. But despite that I would have liked to see what Dragon Age would have become without so much interference. We probably wouldn't have gotten DA2 because that was made purely because EA wanted a game to fill in a quarter that SWTOR slipped but still. It would have been interesting.

EDIT: Fuck how is this post on the day BioWare died?

I hope this post won’t be deleted by moderator. Please, I’m asking, you not to remove it. I want the developers to read this, rather than having it get lost within another thread.

BioWare has a "Black Codex"—a sort of "Bible" that contains information about what comes next. Could someone share this information with the fans? The fans deserve to know what’s in it.

I remember a couple of years ago I was thinking for a good medieval fantasy RPG. So my dad recommended to me Dragon Age Origins. Made by the same people who made a game we both liked, Knights of the Old Republic.

I fell in love. It took me a few tries to finally get past a certain point and complete the game (as well as a guide), but I eventually did it.

And I replayed the shit out of it for the next several years. Trying out different origins, different play styles, different romances, all that stuff. It's the game I have the most hours clocked in to than any other. And with the help of mods to help fix the bugs and restore content that was meant to be in the game but wasn't, my play experience has been even more enhanced.

After Veilguard ended up being a mess and it looked like the Dragon Age franchise was cooked, one of the things that brought me comfort was that I'd always have Origins. I can play that game from the base game to Awakening to Witch Hunt and get a complete and satisfying story and journey. Sure there are a few loose ends like Morrigan's ominous words about Flemmeth in WH, but for the most part it's pretty open and shut.

No matter what happens, I'll always have Origins. It's brought me so much joy in the past, and it will hopefully continue to give me joy in the future.

But most important, Dragon Age helped teach me to be a better person.

I don't want to get into the details, but... I used to be homophobic as a teenager. I didn't understand gay people, and I thought it was wrong and unnatural.

Due to its gay inclusion, Dragon Age helped me realize that no, it's not wrong, and there's nothing wrong with being gay and made me realize how shameful that mindset was.

Dragon Age saved me. Maybe not physically, but it helped save my soul and made me the more tolerant person I always should have been. I'm a hardcore LGBTQ ally now, and I refuse to let those people down.

Thanks, BioWare...thanks for the game.

Thanks for making me a better person.

the first one I modeled after the sword on the da:o collector’s edition sword and the cousland laurel. the other is the thorn of the dead gods with marjolaine’s recurve. done by kayleigh keyser at unhallowed gallery in bham, al. I love them sm and had to share!

I'm sure many of us are shattered to see BioWare go, I just wanted to turn the frown upside down, and take a minute to appreciate all the stories and adventures we got to have throughout all these games (and books!). I'm so glad I got to experience this amazing universe, and it has become my most favorite fantasy world setting of all time. I'm sad to know there will be no more stories for us to experience, lose ourselves in, and romances that break our hearts... 💔

I would like to use this post to share our favorite AO3 fanfics of the franchise, give me your best picks! One of my favorites is Daughters of Andraste by SageFic, featuring dual protagonists (Trevelyan cousins), Lavellan as the inquisitor's best friend, and ofc a paramour for each of them :) While the games may be over, the fanfics is what kept me engaged with the universe when I'm away from my PC, and some of them are written so well, they may as well be canon! I'm planning to even write my own fics to keep the fanbase alive, I refuse to give up on this universe ❤️‍🩹

Please share your suggestions in the comments! Let's keep it SFW, but feel free to DM me titles to more NSFW stories 🔥

With the sad news of BioWare's closing, it's very possible that the Dragon Age Keep will cease to be hosted by EA. This would directly inhibit our ability to replay Dragon Age: Inquisition with any world state besides the default, locking us out of not only our previous choices, but entire different questlines of content.

Does anyone have any leads on preserving this ability? I would love if this thread could be used to discuss our options, and maybe coordinate our efforts.

Edit: Good news! u/Daimon_Guardian has apparently been working on a local version of the Keep for more than a year already.

Is anyone else going to be doing a full playthrough of all 4 Dragon Age games as a sort of send off, after this news about Bioware closing?

I don't think I'll ever stop playing Dragon Age games but I've been wanting to do a full franchise playthrough. This just seems like the perfect (albeit sad) reason to. In memoriam of all the brilliant, good, bad and tragic in this series.

Bioware is dead, long live the fandom! If there will not be any more Dragon Age content being released, what stops us from making our own games in the engine of Origins?

I finally made it to Inquisition and you have no idea how thrilled I am that I’m able to jump. I just jump around everywhere.

The Architect is actually kinda cool! I just feel likenhis whole thing was wasted , I really feel like saving him sould have done something to the darkspawn, but it feels like Bio forgot they had a dude.

Even with the use of mods that people have pointed out for keeping choices throughout games, the art and voice acting and storytelling is going to be lost. If anyone who knows how can archive that, they should before it's gone forever. I doubt I could learn this in that time.

Feel free to write about Inquisition as well. I’d be interested to read it, but i don't played Inquisition yet:(

In Origins, I romanced Alistair—a really cool guy, and it was interesting to watch the relationship unfold.

In DA2, I wanted to romance Fenris, but im the second act, I was tired of putting up with him

he doesn't change at all throughout the story. I think he's a total jerk.

In the end i was left alone. I think I'll try to romance Isabela or merrill in my second da2 run and morrigan in dao

Was really hoping to get some of the merch when I got an email saying stuff was back in stock the other week, only to find what I wanted had already sold out. Curious how long the store will remain around for.

okay, so let's assume that the current server outage is permanent and is a result of the servers being fully shut down in the wake of the announcement (this is not confirmed yet, just using the worst case scenario). does anyone know any non-nug dependent mods that let you just pick up all the schematics at once at the start? losing the ability to import saves is huge of course, but i am also concerned about this as the hunt for schematics really sucks.

I'm on my new run and I just replayed DAO and DA2. Went to play Inquisition. Everything worked normally. I made a character and started the game. Then when I saw my character in action I didn't like the hair mod I was using (too shiny), so I deleted the character, closed the game and chose a different hair mod. Launched the game again and went to start a new game and it wouldn't let me import my custom world state. It jumped straight to default.

Like what the hell? It worked like 30 minutes ago, I thought.

So, obviously I thought it's a mod/Frosty issue. Nothing worked. Launched from EA App directly. Nope. Exhausted every possible fix including reinstalling the game. Nope. Default World State.

I am supposedly connected to the servers (multiplayer works as well), but it suddenly just refuses to import the Keep choices.

Does anyone else also currently experience this? Is it a server issue? Am I cooked?

Been playing a campaign of Daggerheart set in the Dragon Age universe, and I got a Commission done for the character

Art Credit: https://x.com/nurabelmax/status/2107891631491809700

In other threads people on console say that it still works and those on PC say it doesn't.

Hey, so, in light of the news, I fear that it's time to very quickly try to get my hands on any physical DA media I don't have yet but might want. Since I haven't touched the comics at all and the novels only barely, which ones are the most recommended reading to try to order?

I do have a decent collection already, but I want to fill the most crucial gaps now. The obvious stuff like both World of Thedas volumes and the art books for DAI and DAV I have, as well as the collection of the first five graphic novels (that I haven't read yet), it's everything else where I'm still unsure.