EA & BioWare Aren't Making Any DLC For Xbox RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard

"Now shifted entirely to the next Mass Effect"

by Ben Kerry 6pm

EA & BioWare Aren't Making Any DLC For Xbox RPG Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Dragon Age: The Veilguard might look like a big old return to form for EA and BioWare, but it looks like the team has no plans for any DLC at this stage. In a new interview piece with Rolling Stone, the outlet mentions that "there are currently no plans for downloadable expansions" to The Veilguard; BioWare confirmed to the website.

The reason for this? Well, it looks like the next Mass Effect is going to take up all of BioWare's future focus. Again, Rolling Stone says "the developers’ full attention has now shifted entirely to the next Mass Effect as their current project". Sounds rather definitive, then!

Given EA's typical push for live service, we're a little bit surprised by this, although perhaps we shouldn't be. The team's ethos with Dragon Age: The Veilguard has been to switch back to what longtime developer BioWare is good at - an approach that seems to have reaped plenty of rewards for both developer and publisher.

Here at Pure Xbox, we've certainly been happy with this development switch up. After the disappointments of Mass Effect: Andromeda and Anthem, Dragon Age: The Veilguard feels like a real return to form for the Canadian developer. For more of our thoughts on this brand-new Xbox RPG, check out our full review down below.

What do you think to this approach from EA & BioWare? Talk to us about it down in the comments.

[source rollingstone.com, via pushsquare.com]

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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LadyCharlie
6:02pm

Major AAA studio puts out a complete game at launch??? Without fleecing customers for more cash later?
What a time to be alive!

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Ryu_Niiyama
6:04pm

So is this the end of Dragon Age?

Mass Effect 5 has been in pre-production for a while now so I'm happy that the team will officialy enter the production phase.

Or course not. They expect it to do poorly. They just needed it out the door for a tax break.

And that's honestly no surprise as Dragon Age has maintained being a one hit wonder. How they've release as many bad games after the first was so good, I'll never understand.

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Ryu_Niiyama
6:15pm

@InterceptorAlpha While I am not a fan of the series past origins, I thought that veilguard was selling well…

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Balaam_
6:24pm

Fantastic news. I’d like to see more of this, honestly. Put out a finished product in good shape, then end it

No half baked dlc, no tacked on low effort wave survival/roguelite modes to squeeze a few extra bucks out of everyone. This is the best possible news for dedicated achievement hunters—no need to worry about any potentially awful achievements being shoehorned in after you’ve already 100% the game and moved on!

@Ryu_Niiyama Where did you get that? You don't normally cut off DLC from a game that is doing well.

Marketing was completely botched by GameStop's magazine shutting down.

Then you had the articles about the low preorders for the game.

None of which point to anything particularly promising.

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Ryu_Niiyama
6:34pm

@InterceptorAlpha So I say this with the caveat that I am not really following the game but the devs seemed excited and were thanking the fans upon release. Could be PR but I assumed that meant the game hasn’t flopped out of the gate. Since I haven’t finished Inquisition I am waiting n Veilguard to get down to the bargin bin.

No DLC isn’t necessarily bad if they told a complete story. The series and its extended universe has been around for a while so they be done done. Honestly I wish more companies would do that instead of letting the story mutate and get stretched until it doesn’t connect to the original game anymore. (A complaint I have with DA as a whole.)

I haven’t played it so I don’t know.

It’s a disaster. Veilguard should close BioWare for good.

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VoidPunk
6:48pm

They aren’t making money from it so that makes sense.

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abe_hikura
6:57pm

@Ryu_Niiyama It apparently EA best "day one" on steam beating Jedi Survivor. Friend reports its "topping" the PS Store charts, so seems to be doing well enough there.

Seem to recall the director before launch saying it wasn't going to have DLC because he felt the Trespasser DLC for 3 "should have been part of the base game"

I have no faith anymore in gamers making out extra dlc is a bad thing for a single player game making out it's a COMPLETE experience which It probably is without the added bonus of dlc to extend the game just crazy to me my own opinion haha 😂

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Lrapsody
7:06pm

Lol shame, but I suppose we'll have to manage

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Lup
7:18pm

That's cool. Read an article saying preorders were good. Just need to see if "good" equals what EA/Bioware were expecting.

@Ryu_Niiyama

Thanking fans is general PR. Most developers do. Even those of the ill-fated Concorde. So that's hardly a metric to go by

Witcher 3 told a complete story and still had DLC. The DLC was harolded as better than the base game itself. As was Phantom Liberty, but the bas egame had a washboard of issues, so we'll ignore that one lol. The original Dragon Age did as well. So unfortunately cannot agree on this point.

If a game does well, a developers supports it. They don't abandon it.

And I don't know about you, but if a game is good and I like it, I definitely want more. Not to be told, sorry no DLC. But at least they had the decency to let people down at the beginning unlike Spiderman.

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