{"id":1209956,"date":"2026-02-21T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/QZVm2GFafYp7geN6PDgt9n"},"modified":"2026-02-21T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:30:52","slug":"theyre-very-determined-suddenly-to-see-your-game-fail-former-dragon-age-writer-calls-out-anti-fans-who-bet-on-games-failing-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/theyre-very-determined-suddenly-to-see-your-game-fail-former-dragon-age-writer-calls-out-anti-fans-who-bet-on-games-failing-before-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They&#8217;re very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail&#8217;: Former Dragon Age writer calls out &#8216;anti-fans&#8217; who bet on games failing before launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Former BioWare writer David Gaider, who worked on the likes of Baldur&#8217;s Gate 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the first three Dragon Age games (not including Veilguard), recently spoke out about an issue he dubbed &#8220;anti-fans&#8221; in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/games\/rpg\/ex-dragon-age-writer-worries-more-fans-are-tying-their-identity-to-games-and-hoping-to-see-games-fail-to-prove-a-point-see-what-happened-to-them-see-how-their-game-sold\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview with GamesRadar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve seen it happen time and again: A subset of players and content creators catch wind of some detail they don&#8217;t like in a project and make it a personal mission to spend the lead up to launch bashing the game as much as humanly possible.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they&#8217;ll claim victory with sales flops like Concord or Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and otherwise pretend like nothing ever happened when a targeted game <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/action\/assassins-creed-shadows-hits-2-million-players-putting-it-on-track-to-be-the-series-most-successful-game-yet\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviews and sells well<\/a>, like Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The difficulty is if, suddenly, you end up with anti-fans. Then they turn from what you want, fans who would go out and spread word of your game and get people interested,&#8221; said Gaider. &#8220;But if you get anti-fans, they sort of do the opposite. They&#8217;re very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail as sort of a lesson to others who would make games of the same type, right? And that, honestly, these days, there&#8217;s some element of that present in almost all fandoms, but it&#8217;s always sort of been there for RPGs in particular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaider went on to explain how he&#8217;s seen &#8220;fandom&#8221; culture exacerbate this problem. &#8220;More and more fandoms are making the things that they&#8217;re fans of integral to their identity, and if it&#8217;s integral to their identity, anything that affects it or insults it, insults them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So they are so invested in making it what they imagine that, like I said, if they turn into the anti-fan, suddenly it&#8217;s their personal investment in seeing that fail, or seeing the developers who made that decision be punished.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Gaider, this type of hostility is pushing a lot of game developers to minimize their public presence. That can have the adverse effect of making it harder for developers to interact with non-hostile players or find needles of genuine criticism in the hay bale of angry culture war comments.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the media and cultural environment that produces this behavior doesn&#8217;t seem likely to change any time soon. We&#8217;re even already gearing up for our next flashpoint. Alongside genuine concerns about <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/after-thousands-of-hours-in-destiny-i-had-serious-concerns-about-bungies-marathon-reboot-but-now-ive-played-it-my-worry-isnt-whether-or-not-it-will-be-good\/\">Marathon&#8217;s genre shift<\/a> from Destiny and well-earned criticism of Bungie <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/haunted-looking-art-director-livestreams-apology-for-marathon-theft-scandal-but-chat-is-merciless-would-write-an-original-comment-but-i-dont-see-any-good-ones-to-plagarize\/\" target=\"_blank\">plagiarizing from the artist Antireal<\/a>, a subset of players appears to have become invested in it failing financially in the mean-spirited way Gaider described.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"42e91851-3a80-49be-9cf1-613e3a6d310f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/theyre-very-determined-suddenly-to-see-your-game-fail-former-dragon-age-writer-calls-out-anti-fans-who-bet-on-games-failing-before-launch.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"42e91851-3a80-49be-9cf1-613e3a6d310f\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/dragon-age\/theyre-very-determined-suddenly-to-see-your-game-fail-former-dragon-age-writer-calls-out-anti-fans-who-bet-on-games-failing-before-launch\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former BioWare writer David Gaider, who worked on the likes of Baldur&#8217;s Gate 2, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and the first three Dragon Age games (not including Veilguard), recently spoke out about an issue he dubbed &#8220;anti-fans&#8221; in an interview with GamesRadar. We&#8217;ve seen it happen time and again: A subset of players and content creators catch wind of some detail they don&#8217;t like in a project and make it a personal mission to spend the lead up to launch bashing the game as much as humanly possible. Sometimes they&#8217;ll claim victory with sales flops like Concord or Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and otherwise pretend like nothing ever happened when a targeted game reviews and sells well, like Assassin&#8217;s Creed Shadows. &#8220;The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/theyre-very-determined-suddenly-to-see-your-game-fail-former-dragon-age-writer-calls-out-anti-fans-who-bet-on-games-failing-before-launch\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[291,748,34],"class_list":["post-1209956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-dragon-age","tag-games","tag-rpg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;They&#039;re very determined, suddenly, to see your game fail&#039;: Former Dragon Age writer calls out &#039;anti-fans&#039; 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