Summary
Mark Darrah, an executive producer on Dragon Age: Origins and director of Dragon Age 2 andDragon Age: Inquisitionhas disputed claims that Dragon Age is a niche series commercially.
In athread on Xwhere industry insider Shinobi602 was arguing with detractors about a perceived change in direction for Dragon Age, Darrah stepped in to discuss the successes of Dragon Age: Inquisition.
Dragon Age Isn’t A Niche Series
“Yeah I’m not sure where ‘[Dragon Age: Inquisition] is a commercial failure came from. [It’s sold] over 12 million at this point. It massively oversold EA’s internal projections. Oh yeah and was [game-of-the-year] in 2014,” Darrah posted.
The other titles in the Dragon Age series are no slouches commercially, either. Dragon Age: Origins has sold over 3.2 million copies and Dragon Age 2 surpassed 2 million sales in 2011. Dragon Age’s sister series Mass Effect has sold a similar amount of units but has done so with four games released to Dragon Age’s three.
“I literally got some chotsky [junk present] (I don’t remember what) from a csuite member because [Dragon Age: Inquisition] saved the quarter,” Darrahlater followed up.
Dragon Age: Inquisition also managed to secure the coveted game-of-the-year award from The Game Awards in a very competitive year. Inquisition beat out Bayonetta 2, Dark Souls 2, Hearthstone and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor to win the show’s biggest prize.
There is this perception among some that Dragon Age is a niche cRPG series that has never achieved widespread appeal and by changing some aspects of the series’ identity in The Veilguard, BioWare is somehow betraying the core fans of the series.
However, Dragon Age is a far more popular series than these people think and the series has adapted from entry to entry, purposefully being a less consistent experience than the aforementioned Mass Effect. The narrative spun by people eager to hate Dragon Age: The Veilguard doesn’t hold water.
Dragon Age: Inquisition
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Dragon Age: Inquisition is the third in the popular action RPG series from BioWare, and serves as a sequel to the events of Dragon Age 2. You must travel the continent of Thedas to seal the ‘Breach’, a kind of portal that is sending demonic enemies into the world.
