Oh boy. It's like shooting yourself in the dick. Good luck with that, Bioware. I'll still be here when this goes belly up. Not so sure about Dragon Age, though.

Great...

I don’t care about gay or trans people just don’t make it forced for the sake of trying to be all like, “Look at how inclusive we are, buy our game!!!”

Just make the game and don’t brag about it being in the game. It feels like you’re just trying to get attention.

Hopefully it will cost them all their jobs.

Get woke go broke.

Force political, social views, gender diversity, girl power, no boobs, no ass, transgender, inner beauty/outer fat and fugly, metrosexual males to force agendas down our throats, catering to SJWs = fail.

Imagine my surprise.

Ok, thank you for letting me know not to buy this game.

Sick and tired of politics and "diversity" in video games.

Why are they already talking about this instead of the game's story or gameplay? This why I hate Bioware they're like the Polygon/Kotaku of developers.

essjaydoubleyous taking over our games!!!!!11

No one cared the Tomb Raider was a woman. No one cared that Kratos was played by black men. No outcry over RDR2's cast. No boycott's of Portal 2 because you play a woman.

It's easy to call gamers bigots (and I'm sure some are, albiet a very minor minority) jist because you catch backlash on lazy characters. You can tell when a character is added to a game so they can tick their boxes and get brownie points which is what people hate. Add your politics, your diversity and whatever else, no one gives a shit. Just make sure it makes sense and is done in a realistic manner for the scenario. We had a lesbian friend a bit ago saying how much she hates this inclusion shit because it paints an unrealistic portrait while at the same time usually bases their sexuality as being main trait.

They are just people. These devs need to just putting politics and diversity on a pedastal, make them like everyone else and get on with it instead of trying so desperately trying to "take a stand".

Nobody cares. Just make a good story,focus on Solas and bring back that lovable dwarf Varric.

We’ll see. Dragon age 2 tried to force homosexuality into your character. Try say something kind to Anders the mage iirc and it says something gay.

EA never learn

Yeah, that's what fantasy land with Gods, magic, elfs and demons is missing - real world politics and «diversity», right?
Because it worked so well in World War II and Space Opera settings! /s

Good, I hope you can only play as a black, gay, jew.

At least we know that we are not the target audience.

Politics are expected to be in place in a series like this. Nothing wrong with that unless it is so obviously one sided and over-the-top mirroring modern day issues that it becomes a political sim more so than an actual game.
And about the other...the diversity and inclusion movement vehemently excludes 90% of the population because 90% doesn’t agree with their opinions and jump on the bandwagon to sing kumbaya. I believe the real issue is that no one wants to be preached at. We get that the developers will undoubtedly create a “character X” that will be a homobeastietransmorphian, but the motivations for the game itself should not be about a platform for pushing this concept in the real world.
We enjoy a good fantasy tale. Let it be as such.

Misleading shit article. That dev spoke common sense. If artists strongly believe in something, ofcourse they might put that in their art. Dragon Age has always been 'political'. If you don't think so then you haven't been paying attention.

but the community here will lap this up because of the clickbait. This is the kind of shit that makes gamers look stupid and just hurt you when there are many valid cases of 'sjw'

God damn! Do any of you dumbasses read the "story"? The "author" is just some dumb f' up who is using trigger words to rile you all up. It's not even an article, it's a lazy "yeah so here's this guy's Twitter account". The damn series has always been political and diverse. It's just that right now those things are a hot button issue with you all, so you spam out with the slightest whiff of it.

So it will be identity political aka not political at all. That’s easy for me to skip, especially when that’s coming from the “narrative” director. I don’t mind diversity but when it’s one of your “selling points” then you must a shallow, boring person. It must be the remnants of the andromeda team lol.

"...there is a difference between possessing a philosophic point of view, which permeates one's work, and having a tactical axe to grind which usually requires the artificial manipulation of character and usually results in shallow writing."
Albert Maltz, author and playwright.

Female lead confirmed

Diversity is perfectly okay, no one is disputing that (well some might but that's a whole different topic), but the second you make whatever your project is forced to talk about/include topics like that, it goes downhill. If the only reason I should buy your game is because it's diverse, you didn't do your job correctly. It should be a normal, hardcore Dragon Age game that just happens to feature diversity/politics, not a diverse/political game that happens to include Dragon Age.

Also, stop pandering to groups and movements that don't even buy your games. Look at Andromeda and how horribly that turned out. If you alienate your core audience to please a side that won't even buy your game, you lose.

Well there goes my hype. I was actually a bit excited for it. Then I remembered BioWare is a shell of its former self. They don't care about story anymore unless it shows off their massive PC boner.

Pedophiles getting exited already for this one.

Dragon Age - Home.... At least it was before I fucked everything up. - EA 2018

"Celebrate Diversity"

Every time I make a diverse opinion known to someone who spews such nonsense, I am far from celebrated. It is a stupid, illogical bumper sticker.

It's a good thing I've never played any Dragon Age, so I won't be pissed with this and I can keep ignoring this game.

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it should be ok as long as it's not forced.

to be fair Bioware has been doing this kind of thing long before the she infestation. however it remains to be seen how it's handled this time around. will it flow with the game or feel like pandering. I don't mind games tackling real world problems or having diversed characters, what I do mind is when it's pushing some BS agenda

Anti SJWs always getting triggered

MAKE THEDAS GREAT AGAIN!!!

I'm dead serious. Dragon Age Origins is the best of the series and its time DA goes back to basics.

oh thx for saying it in advance. No buy for me

I like Dragon Age so I will be buying it day one. Not everything I enjoy is made by people I agree with or like . That would be boring really .

celebrate diversity? The game itself is diverse, why do they keep pushing for bs on top?

We already knew Dragon Age was dead. I think they're just trying to bury it now.

Didn't these clowns learn from the failure of Andromeda. Oh well, this just means the price will drop really quickly just like with andromeda. I'll pick it up then.

So the antagonist will look and act just like Trump, his army of evil soldiars will be white male right wing Christians. The protagonist will be a black/latino/native/arab tranny liberal with on leg who identifies as a dolphin and uses its trusty aborted fetus as a weapon. Gonna go ahead and skip this one

Leave it to a leftist to act like they have a monopoly on "celebrating our diversity and differences." Typical leftwing nonsense. People aren't bigots bc they reject big government socialist policies and programs. In fact, the people playing identity politics are the real bigots. Oh, the irony.

The diversitards are always working hard to find a slight where none exists.

Youtube will crash soon.

Lmfao dead in the water already.Forced politics and diversity don't sell, haven't ya heard?

62 million genders incoming.

Then I guess this will be another game like Tomb Raider and Last of Us that I will never buy. I don't play video games for political or diverse BS. If I want fictional entertainment full of BS like that I will watch CNN.

I think people should be more worried about Dragon Age Dread wolf rises, released with a ton of broken bugs, day 1 patches and a day 1 DLC.

To the Narrative director:

Thanks for the warning. This will be another Bioware game to skip :D

Guess I'm not getting into Dragon Age.

Another one bites the dust.

Just don't force it or just do it just to do it because that never works. Origins had depth and there was diversity along with racism but it all serviced the story and was a really good game. But when you have to announce it you just seem superficial IMO.

If it were anyone else I'd probably give them the benefit of the doubt but with EA being EA and Bioware being what they are now I just have no interest. We'll see but there's so many great games out and coming that have my attention.

If this is true....I'm amazed they're ALREADY talking like this.

Can't wait to not buy it

And I thought Andromeda flopped hard.

Oh FFS! (rolleyes)

These cancerous regressives have turn video games from an art form and entertainment into a propaganda piece for their agendas.

Hope this means poofter dragons lmao or dragons in drag.

We have entire generations programmed to be a liberal fagget loving, tree huggers,.. Liberal agenda is working.

Diversity that’s fine.
Politics I can’t stand that crap.
People gonna dread this game🤪

"...will be political..."
And like that, ya lost my interest.
Hard pass.

Ahhh...RPG's of the future will be epic! /s Pick your political faction, choices are ''left'' or ''not right''. Pick your class, choices are ''safe'' or ''triggered''. Pick your gender, choices are ''infinite'' or ''I identity as a being that has already beaten this game so I'm returning it''. LOL

Good, I like to know these things in advance

The Drag age lol

To be fair BioWare RPGs have always featured very diverse characters and leaned heavily on political storylines so this is nothing new at all. TBH the political stuff in DA bores me even more than the real life version does but that's the way the series is so put up or shut up. If the new game is good I'll put up with it.

I spent lots of time over and over playing the co op dragon age, i loved it but the devs really anmoyed me with the lack of content.

It really upset me to be honest about that online dragon age to the point i felt in the end we all got screwed out of money for a game that was never going to be given content.

Won't be making that mistake again, I want them to come out and state they are promising to deliver DLC for there next Dragon age.

And that'll be a hardpass for me. No thanks EA, I'm not interested.

as long as its not so heavy handed with the left is great and the right is bad promoting reverse racism like in life is strange 2 thats fine. Show politics of the times, both the good and evil of all sides of politics. No side is completely innocent and both sides can be be racist, righteous, etc. Take a look at people as individuals and not as collectives based on the color of their skin or their beliefs.

Looking just at his twitter profile, its going to be hard to believe he can step back and take a more objective look at people as individuals.

Dragon Age: Dread Wolf Rises Will Be review bombed and memed to hell, says me.

As a gay gamer: let games please be about games.

Reading more into this i have to say it's not ok. Giving gamers options within the context of video games entertainment is one thing and forcing dividing politics is a whole different beast with a ugly face.

I fear Dragon Age will be blighted with first class liberal red lirium.

Seriously that Dragon Age is worried about it? SERIOUSLY???? DA was a game i REALLY DO LOVE....the best rpg ever in my opinion....BUT ITS SEEMS IT LOST ITS FOCUS!!!!! why dont you guys worry about making a good story??? this winning generation ruins so many nice stuff to use a game to make us accept their ideas!!! The game is just a game.... not some sort of tool of convinience