Electronic Arts has confirmed that the PC version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard will not require the EA App on Steam. This will please a lot of Dragon Age PC fans. A lot of EA games required Origin and the EA App when they came out on Steam. However, the new Dragon Age game will be a Steam native game.
The big question now is whether the game will require an EA account. Yes, the game won’t be launching the EA app when starting on Steam. However, we still don’t know whether it will require an EA account for online play. The Steam store page does not list an EA account as a requirement. Things could change though as we saw a similar thing with EDF 6.
In this new Dragon Age game, players will enter the world of Thedas, a vibrant land of rugged wilderness, treacherous labyrinths, and glittering cities steeped in savage combat and secret magics. Now, the fate of this world teeters on a knife’s edge.
Players will forge a courageous fellowship to challenge the gathering storm. Friendship, drama, and romance will abound as you bring striking individuals together into an extraordinary team. Become the leader and light the beacon of hope in their darkest moments.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard will be powered by the Frostbite Engine. In June 2024, EA shared a video featuring 20 minutes of gameplay footage from it. So, be sure to check it out.
EA and BioWare plan to release the game this Fall. And although there is no specific ETA on when it will come out, EA claimed that it will share more details about its launch later this Summer. My guess is that we’ll get a release date announcement at Gamescom 2024.
Stay tuned for more!
We’re making great progress towards our fall launch date, and can confirm early that #DragonAge: The Veilguard is going all-in on @Steam features!
⚔️We’re verified on Steam Deck.
⚔️We’ll be Steam native – meaning the EA App will not be required to play the game.Details on…
— Dragon Age (@dragonage) July 25, 2024
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I could be wrong but the odds of "Bioware" making a good game are somewhere between slim and none. Best not to expect too much.
Expect less than nothing and sometimes with todays gaming industy you get surpriced 🙂 Glad its a zillion good games in the backlog as that type of game seems to be an endangered species now that many caught the political canser
lol probably the first piece of universally positive news about this. Im still trying to be positive for it because at this point the only out right "bad" bioware game is anthem and I didnt even look twice at that.
mass effect andromeda was really bad too.
it gave me tons of content in terms of bugs and glitches
to be fair, I found it “fine” and “tolerable.” it wasnt nearly as good as the previous entries, it had some interesting ideas, mechanics and potential but i’ve played much worse games that I wouldnt have even bothered to finish.
The last truly great game from Bioware was Dragon Age: Origins in 2009. EA bought Bioware in 2007 but it was too late for them to meddle very much in that game. After that you see the EA rot beginning in Bioware and the beginning of the end of a once great Developer just like EA has done to so many Developers.
When the 2 co-founders left Bioware in 2012 and the real talent started leaving that was the end. What's left is just a pitiful hollow shell of Bioware imo.
Mainstream gaming sites will probably hype the new DA game though so don't be fooled. Hell, PCGamer gave DA2 a 94 saying:
"The best RPG combat ever. Not gamings best story, but maybe its best storytelling. Darker, sexier, better."
What a damn joke.
everyone originally from bioware isn't there , like any of them.
Id argue that Mass Effect 2 is another game of super high calibur but its also in that window before enshitification begun.
The devil you say! Making it easy for people to use the products they buy? What kind of decadence is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rahBCfRdVac
the day it is available it will be so bad and so woke that the absence of EA App will be the least of the worries
Great to hear.
Too bad it's dogshit though.
They need more time to improve the writing for the gay-only relationships we can have in the game. ⭐️😃
The last one even had some kind of zoophilia.
Will we be able to pick "minor-attracted" characters too?
Oh, wait, let me guess. Since it's Bioware…
The main character is going to be changed to look like Kamala Harris, right?
That article thumbnail is hard to look at. Has Dei written all over. Ew.
https://media0.giphy.com/media/IlrJzZUIX6Fa4lqcXp/giphy-downsized-small.mp4 T
The gameplay trailer was so lackluster that I just don't care at all about this game…
LMAO, even EA has no confidence in their game so they chose other means of selling it.
Some good news from this clusterf*ck.
Looking at that screenshot they should have keept the EA App forced approach, then they would had something with some credit when they claim its utter failure wasn't due to wokeness…
F*k this game.
This will be on game pass in a couple of months after it fails.
Great, though I'm not interested in the game at all. I think it'll be similar with DSR, native Steam, EA Account is optional. They should get rid of this abomination called EA App once and for all.
Lol when the likes of EA and Ubisoft pull things like this you know they know it's going to be garbage as well