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u/Zuraj 8h ago

After veilguard its for the best honestly

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u/TheEmperorsWrath 8h ago edited 8h ago

The only part of Veilguard that received a positive reception, the final act, was mostly made by the Mass Effect team. Once Bioware realized how poorly development was going, they got the Mass Effect team over to Veilguard. The rest of Veilguard, the bad parts, were made by the Dragon Age team.

The Mass Effect team and the Dragon Age team have had a conflict for years. When management brought the ME team in to work on Veilguard, they immediately clocked that it's a bad game and tonally inept. Still, they seized control of the ship, excluded the Dragon Age heads, overhauled the game as much as they could in the final stretch of development, and according to that article Jason Schreier wrote, they were the main reason Veilguard was just mediocre rather than an unplayable catastrophe

So, I'm really not sure it is for the best :/

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u/Zuraj 8h ago

That is true but if after 6 years it was still in early development that is usually a death touch anyway.

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u/SagittaryX 1h ago

From what we know it wasn’t in development till after Veilguard shipped. Everyone was pulled to that project to finish it.