{"id":1300608,"date":"2026-04-07T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BGw2yjHzFiN5CNuRsgpHCc"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T12:20:25","slug":"it-takes-anthems-spot-former-dragon-age-producer-mark-darrah-thinks-the-original-version-of-dragon-age-4-would-have-released-in-february-2019%e2%81%a0-a-compromised-game-but-likely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/it-takes-anthems-spot-former-dragon-age-producer-mark-darrah-thinks-the-original-version-of-dragon-age-4-would-have-released-in-february-2019%e2%81%a0-a-compromised-game-but-likely\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It takes Anthem&#8217;s spot&#8217;: Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah thinks the original version of Dragon Age 4 would have released in February 2019\u2060\u2014a &#8216;compromised&#8217; game, but likely better received than Veilguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>In response to a viewer question for a 200k subscriber Q&#038;A on his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah got into the fine details of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/qY3VcbDBbdI\" target=\"_blank\">what it might actually have looked like<\/a> for BioWare to release Joplin, its initial pitch for a fourth Dragon Age, and whether he thinks it would have been better received than last year&#8217;s The Veilguard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do think that Joplin&#8217;s gonna live as this mythological game in a lot of people&#8217;s memories,&#8221; Darrah said. &#8220;The ways that a Joplin happens are basically in a world where it ships in 2019, February 2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qY3VcbDBbdI\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;It takes Anthem&#8217;s spot. In that world, that is a game developed on a pretty tight timeline. Not from the ship [date] of Inquisition\u2060\u2014I suppose it&#8217;s more than four years, almost five. But still, pretty tight timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Most public knowledge of Joplin comes from an April <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-past-and-present-of-dragon-age-4-1833913351\" target=\"_blank\">2019 Kotaku report<\/a> from Jason Schreier. Joplin entered preproduction in 2015 after the release of Inquisition&#8217;s Trespasser expansion.<\/p>\n<p>It was reportedly intended to be a smaller scale, but deeply reactive game centering on spies and heists in the setting&#8217;s then yet to be explored Tevinter Imperium.<\/p>\n<p>Joplin was paused in 2016 so its staff could assist in the development of Mass Effect: Andromeda, then canceled outright in 2017 so they could help with Anthem.<\/p>\n<p>Development on Dragon Age 4 was rebooted into a live service project codenamed Morrison, which would eventually be retooled back into the singleplayer Veilguard.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear whether Darrah is saying that Joplin &#8220;takes Anthem&#8217;s spot&#8221; in the sense that Anthem is canceled entirely in favor of a new Dragon Age game, or if he&#8217;s picturing a scenario where resources are split between the teams, allowing a delay on Anthem while the smaller scale Joplin is able to release in that early 2019 window.<\/p>\n<p>The latter seems more realistic, given the head of steam BioWare had on Anthem, but of course it&#8217;s all academic at this point: Anthem took priority as EA was devaluing singleplayer games and BioWare in particular in the late 2010s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s gonna be a compromised game for sure,&#8221; said Darrah, but he still thinks it would have been better-received than Veilguard, with a caveat: &#8220;We&#8217;ll never know, and it&#8217;s very easy to pretend like it definitely would be yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"224b0e4e-b75f-4378-995b-847d3cbcd406\" 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\/08\/it-takes-anthems-spot-former-dragon-age-producer-mark-darrah-thinks-the-original-version-of-dragon-age-4-would-have-released-in-february-2019e281a0-a-compromised-game-but-likely-bet.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=\"224b0e4e-b75f-4378-995b-847d3cbcd406\" 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<br \/><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\/it-takes-anthems-spot-former-dragon-age-producer-mark-darrah-thinks-the-original-version-of-dragon-age-4-would-have-released-in-february-2019-a-compromised-game-but-likely-better-received-than-veilguard\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to a viewer question for a 200k subscriber Q&#038;A on his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah got into the fine details of what it might actually have looked like for BioWare to release Joplin, its initial pitch for a fourth Dragon Age, and whether he thinks it would have been better received than last year&#8217;s The Veilguard. &#8220;I do think that Joplin&#8217;s gonna live as this mythological game in a lot of people&#8217;s memories,&#8221; Darrah said. &#8220;The ways that a Joplin happens are basically in a world where it ships in 2019, February 2019. &#8220;It takes Anthem&#8217;s spot. 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