Dragon Age: Inquisition: Another Disaster of 2014?
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Rather than just casting a stone in The Elder Scrolls Online's direction, Forbes has expanded their predictions for "video game catastrophes" in 2014 by adding Dragon Age: Inquisition to the short list. Here's why:
All the hopeful signs point to a great single-player RPG; but there's plenty of reasons to worry that this will not be the case, if only because of BioWare's recent problems at bat.
Of course, for BioWare to salvage its good name and restore its brand, Inquisition needs to be a great game. It must be head and shoulders above anything they've done in years, and stand up to the competition The Witcher 3 in particular. EA and BioWare need to hit this one out of the park. They simply can't afford another disaster.
EA in particular, especially with the SimCity and Battlefield 4 debacles fresh in gamers' minds, needs something remarkable to win back trust and confidence.
If Dragon Age: Inquisition isn't an incredible game, the fallout will be huge. Financially, it may not be the calamity of a failed MMO like The Elder Scrolls Online. But EA risks more damage to its reputation and BioWare risks falling into obscurity.
