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Jason Schreier for Bloomberg reports: 'Inside the ‘Dragon Age’ Debacle That Gutted EA’s BioWare Studio'

The latest game in BioWare’s fantasy role-playing series went through ten years of development turmoil. The failure of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, released in October, led EA to gut BioWare

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Jason Schreier: "NEW: What went wrong with Dragon Age: The Veilguard? Why was the writing so tonally inconsistent? Why did it feel so shallow? Why were there so few choices? Really, after ten years of turbulence, it was a miracle that anything came out at all. This is the story [link]:" [source]
Jason Schreier: "The fatal flaw for Dragon Age: The Veilguard wasn't just that it pivoted from single-player to multiplayer and back again. It was that after the second pivot, the team was forced to keep going rather than hit the reset button and take the time to create a new plan." [source]
Jason Schreier re: this old tweet from Casey Hudson: "Fun fact: when I first reported at Kotaku in 2018 that Dragon Age 4 was rebooted to become a live-service game, BioWare studio head Casey Hudson wrote this on Twitter. But it was not entirely truthful. In reality, the game was being designed around cooperative multiplayer, replayable missions, etc" [source] Casey Hudson's old tweet from 2018: "Reading lots of feedback regarding Dragon Age, and I think you'll be relieved to see what the team is working on. Story & character focused. Too early to talk details, but when we talk about "live" it just means designing a game for continued storytelling after the main story."

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Jaal has eight siblings.

We only know the name of one for sure: Koana [sister] (not counting Teviint, Baranjj, and Lathoul)

There's also Finn, who is either Jaal and Koana's brother, or brother to Jaal and Koana's cousin, Etta (this was unclear in dialogue; I'm thinking Finn is probably Etta's brother).

Whichever sibling Tseek and Beniska were referring to here, she's quite famous in the Resistance, especially for a Black Ops operative (whose names aren't generally well-circulated in most orgs, so either she distinguished herself first OR the Resistance's take on Black Ops is fairly unusual).

That's a lot, considering Jaal AND his sister both joined the Resistance in 2815 (three years before the events of MEA). I assume there's a pretty sizable age gap. But he's pretty graceful about it!

We don't know if Koana is the Black Ops Sister (the likelihood is no, considering she probably wouldn't be hanging around the family home if so, or if she was, Jaal might have made a point of introducing Ryder specifically to her/she might have made a point of scoping out the Pathfinder-alien when they visited) but if BW isn't gonna give us any more canon, then I guess we have to figure it out for ourselves.

Anyway, a story about how Jaal's Black Ops Sister got so famous within just 3 years could be pretty intriguing, as well as what it does to their relationship, and what her reactions are to her little brother's new posting.....

#once again I am: yelling about blorbos for my mental health#dw Jaal you're still the fan favorite Ama Darav#Although you'd better not slouch because Sahuna does not play#you might ask: are you writing down all the names of the Ama Daravs from in-game dialogue because no one did script extraction from MEA#to which I would have to say. yes.#and also how dare you come for me like this#counting Jaal and deceased Ama Daravs there are 19+ distinct family members mentioned in game (the + is Allia's unknown number of children)#needed: more angaran family time#jaal ama darav#mass effect: andromeda#mea#EDIT: also unclear: does Jaal count Allia's husband when he says he has 8 siblings? How does Angaran culture stand on this? citation needed
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I went full goblin mode last night and downloaded Andromeda because I was determined to have some vacation in my vacation instead of just parenting in another state, so now I’m running on four and a half hours of sleep but at least in this season of my life, add a bag of Sour Patch Watermelons and that’s what passes for a wild time.

Sylvia Ryder under the cut, I am filtering the tag because I don’t actually know anything about this game but I can add her to my list of OCs in about three months.

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