Report: BioWare wrests Dragon Age 4 away from EA’s online-multiplayer mandate ~ USA Latest Games

Enlarge / Some good Dragon Age news, at least from our perspective. (credit: EA / Sam Machkovech)

As it turns out, EA's recent bloodbath over online BioWare multiplayer games was larger than we thought. And in today's case, a behind-the-scenes report seems to offer good news on that front.

After yesterday's official confirmation from EA that "Anthem Next" was no more, Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier has arrived with news about another dramatic change to a BioWare game: the unnamed Dragon Age sequel (which we'll call Dragon Age 4 for convenience's sake) will be a single-player game.

Uh, what?

The way Schreier tells it, EA as a publisher is now "allowing" the Dragon Age 4 team to "remove all planned multiplayer components from the game"—and that use of "allowing" implies that this was a butting-of-heads between who wanted online components in this famously single-player RPG series (EA) and who didn't (BioWare).

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