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hawke & amell

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zevran. nothing more nothing less.

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Sorry Alistair

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Johanna and Emmrich as young mourn watchers gives me Most Chaotic Lab Partners energy

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My brain for the whole of January: what if Lucanis but Gokushufudou Way of the Househusband Some screenshot redraws and other things Starring: Lucanis as Tatsu, my Rook Eranto Aldwir as Miku, Spite as Gin, Viago as a Former Yakuza Boss, Viago's Snake as Yakuza Boss' Dog, Assan and Manfred as random animal neighbors and Strife and Emmrich as Rook's adoptive parents(?) for some reason.

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A fanart of Dorian, from Dragon Age: Inquisition, done as a birthday gift for a friend.

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Not all lovers are soulmates, not all soulmates are lovers

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Via @companionquest: It’s just so interesting to me to see everyone drawing the default Hawke designs far far more than I ever see original Hawke designs!

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Just having some fun playing dress up with my favorite Magister (pre-Veilguard)

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Origins, elf mage!

I got another question because I love being nosy.

What was your FIRST dragon age game and race/class/personality (if da2)?

I’ll go first, for me it was Origins and elf mage

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David Gaider: "If I really dig into my empathy, I can kinda see the thinking here. Like, let's say you don't actually know much about games. You're in a big office with a bunch of other execs who also don't know much about games. What are they all saying? "Live games do big numbers!" "Action games are hot!" Your natural response? "We should make more action games, and all our games should have live service!" Cha-ching, right? Then some uppity devs spoil your buzz by saying "that doesn't apply equally to all games" or "we have an established IP with an audience that has certain expectations". You frown. You go look at their sales. Good, sure, but not as spectacular as live service and action games! Profit's great, but what's the point if you're not #1 in the charts? If you're not making headlines? If the devs can't make it work, this is THEIR failure. This, after all, is the future of gaming! Eventually, you're going to ask yourself why we (the company) even bother with those other games. Like single player games. It's a question you've asked aloud before. The fans bristle, but you're not here to supply every audience what they want. You're here to make money and increase share value. Maybe I'm being unkind. There are certainly all sorts of lessons a company could learn from a game like Veilguard (I still haven't played it, so I'm going off what other people have said), but "maybe it should have been live service" being the takeaway seems a bit short-sighted and self-serving. Not that there's any shortage of that, when it comes to deciding why a game doesn't do well. For the anti-woke crowd, for instance, there are woke games that do well and woke games that do poorly and only the ones that did poorly did so *because* they were woke. Says more about them than the game. My advice to EA (not that they care): you have an IP that a lot of people love. Deeply. At its height, it sold well enough to make you happy, right? Look at what it did best at the point where it sold the most. Follow Larian's lead and double down on that. The audience is still there. And waiting. ❤️" [source thread]

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User: "Maybe they can sell the IP to Larian. Or someone else who would treat it respectfully." David Gaider: "I suspect Larian is, smartly, done with working on third-party IP. You do all that work, and the IP overlords do little more than dictate the minutiae and make your life difficult and then you have to cut them a huge slice of the proceeds too? Not a lot of studios are going to bite THAT hook. [source] I know you said SELL the IP, but there's no way EA will relinquish its hold on an IP that could potentially do big numbers. In their ideal world, a studio takes it on, does all the work, and they rake in the cash. Giving up that kind of potential would require BIG money... and who would buy it?" [source]

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DRAGON AGE 2

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Hey you should totally recruit me. Yeah I've spent the last year in a solitary confinement cell hopped up on my own imbalanced brain chemicals and talking to cats about magic theory. I'm definitely not going to go monkey mode on the first templar who looks at me funny. I totally remember how to be a human. *grabs Warden-Commander's hand* I Love You.

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MAGE NERDS!

This definitely happens, doesn’t it? I think they’d be really gracious at first when being amended/corrected, but eventually it all goes to hell…

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this wasnt even supposed to get this detailed-- just some fan service for myself that got out of hand

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Its actually hilarious how many things the warden saw in person back when everything was a mystery, and understood mostly fuckall shit nothing because we were busy conscripting. We found Andrastes ashes. We talked to Brother Genitivi. The guy who sold us discount merch is probably the first dwarven mage in centuries (idk). My wife birthed an old god. There's at least 10 centuries-old questions I probably found answers to in the deep roads, but I am just a little man and ultimate cosmic knowledge is not my problem.