BioWare has taken to X, "The Everything App" to announce that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has gone gold and finished development. While a faintly anachronistic concept in an age of digital distribution and day one patches, it's a show of confidence from BioWare that the nine-years-in-development game has indeed reached the finish line.
Beginning development in 2015 under former series lead Mike Laidlaw and with the code name "Joplin," the fourth Dragon Age game was formally rebooted in 2018, allegedly to fit EA's then live service-centric strategy. The game we now know as some from layoffs.
With all that Sturm and Drang, we at PCG found it easy to be pessimistic about The Veilguard. But while not all of us have been fully won over by its more actionized direction, the game's had an impressive showing over a hands-on session. The final game will tell for sure, but right now Mr. Market's pretty (Iron) bullish on The Veilguard.
So it's encouraging, particularly in an era of endemic last minute game delays, to see BioWare make this confident statement that The Veilguard is arriving on time. We'll find out for sure if the long wait has been worth it on October 31.
