After the long-awaited release and subsequent underperformance of, developer BioWare is now looking towards the next game in the series, the prospective.
Unfortunately for BioWare, a string of disappointing or underperforming titles, starting with in 2017, followed by the particularly disastrous, and then, most recently,, has left fans with some doubts regarding the studio's capabilities in developing another game that can live up to the best of what the series has to offer.
While there have been promising updates for , the development troubles of the studio's last few games don't inspire much confidence., released in 2019, came as part of an industry-wide push for live-service games, a format which BioWare, a developer of mainly single-player RPGs, was not well-suited for.
And while didn't fail quite as badly as 2024's, it was still a disastrous release for the studio. Similarly, also suffered from that same live-service push, which was hugely responsible for the game's troubled development, and contributed heavily to the issues in the game's full release.
While there are plenty of reasons to doubt BioWare's capabilities at this point, the next game at least has one advantage compared to -it's (presumably) not going to face the same kind of development issues.