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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9514211" data-attributes="member: 18">Very few BioWare people left "after the first" Dragon Age. No major team members.Indeed even after Dragon Age: Inquisition, almost the entire core DA team was still at BioWare. What caused people to start leaving was a combination of being forced to work on Anthem instead of DA4, and then DA4 being made into a live-service game. The live-service decision was reversed, which is how we got the very single-player DAV, but already quite a few people had left.The most major of those is David Gaider - essentially the "creator" of Dragon Age. But the problem is he created Dragon Age explicitly because BioWare didn't want to work with WotC, because they were hard to work with for various reasons.Other major people who have left, who worked on DA games are either working at other major game studios, or even already working for WotC - the leads at WotC's Archetype Entertainment are ex-Bioware, for example. I doubt they're going to want to abandon their sci-fi RPG to be forced to work on BG4, especially given they quit BioWare because they were forced to work on Anthem.So I don't think that's a realistic possibility. WotC could wait until Archetype puts out Exodus and then ask them to do BG4, but if Exodus is successful, that seems like it would be a dumb decision, because the smart one would be to follow up with an Exodus 2, rather than to scrap everything and start over with a new engine, new assets, totally different gameplay, etc. If Exodus is a flop, sure. But the problem here is Exodus is unlikely to be out until 2027 at the earliest. Some sites are claiming 2026, but this is baseless hype. If 2026 was realistic, given the sheer amount of info Exodus is putting out, we'd have seen some gameplay footage and at least know what sort of game it was beyond that it has Mass Effect-style combat and is an action-oriented RPG. I think 2027 or even 2028 is more realistic. And I doubt WotC want to wait that long before getting someone to start on BG4.</blockquote>

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