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The Witcher 3’s New Expansion Has Me Wondering if BioWare Should Have Focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Rather Than Big New Games

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The Witcher 3’s New Expansion Has Me Wondering if BioWare Should Have Focused on Dragon Age and Mass Effect DLC Rather Than Big New Games

This is an opinion piece from writer Jess Kinghorn. IGN's opinion columns represent the personal viewpoints of the writer, drawing on their own experiences and research to explore the exciting world of video games.

Unless you’ve been camping out on some far flung space rock, you’ll have heard that EA shut down BioWare last month. 50 developers lost their jobs, and Mass Effect 5 was cancelled. It’s a disappointing end for the studio so foundational to the modern RPG.

BioWare’s final years were plagued by lengthy, troubled development cycles and messy final products. I’m left wondering what could’ve been – particularly when fellow genre titan CD Projekt Red continues to find success updating Cyberpunk 2077 and has even announced a new expansion to the decade-old The Witcher 3. Could BioWare have found a more secure future by developing expansions for its older, more beloved games rather than struggling on with Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Mass Effect 5?

Songs of the Past will be the third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and by the time it drops in 2027, the original will be 12 years old. I don’t know about you but back in 2015 I was going out of my gourd over every fresh revelation throughout Life Is Strange’s first season, and making Undertale my entire personality. Point being, that might as well be ancient in video game years.

0, plus its Phantom Liberty DLC, as well as the brand new Edgerunners Season 2 update, and it’s clear to see CD Projekt Red always has the long term success of its games top of mind.


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