Overview

• BioWare proposed both remasters and remakes for the first three Dragon Age games, including a retroactive “Champions” trilogy and an external Origins remake.
• EA declined to fund the initiatives, arguing that studios must absorb additional work within existing budgets and citing an institutional reluctance toward remasters.
• The trilogy’s games were built on three separate proprietary engines—Eclipse, Lycium and Frostbite—making a unified update far more complex than recent Unreal-based collections.
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard underperformed expectations by engaging about 1.5 million players in its first two months, prompting BioWare to downsize and reassign staff in early 2025.
• With resources redirected to Mass Effect 5 and limited studio finances, Darrah concludes that an official Dragon Age remaster or remake is unlikely to materialize soon.