Dragon Age Fans Are Absolutely Starving Right Now

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Part of my job as a journalist is keeping an eye on various fan communities to see what issues people are talking about, to find emerging stories, and to follow trends. The rest of my job, of course, involves sucking at video games and hosting weekly meetings with the rest of the SJW cabal to figure out how to ruin gaming by injecting even more politics into the medium. Next up on the agenda: does inverting the Y-axis mean you're a racist? The answer may surprise you... Anyway, one of the communities I naturally check in on a lot is the Dragon Age community. I love Dragon Age, even (or more accurately, especially) Dragon Age 2, but let me tell you - fans in the DA community right now are starving.

They shouldn't be, in theory. While launch is still years away, Dragon Age Dreadwolf has just had a title reveal, one that initially sparked a wave of fan theories, though these have quickly died down. The game is also getting an animated Netflix show, admittedly one given a rather low-key reveal, but after the success of Arcane hopes should be very, very high. And yet if you check out the Dragon Age sub, there's a whole lot of nothing.

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Over the past month, 12 of the top 15 posts are either cosplay or fan art. Of the other three, one is a poster from the Netflix show, another a trailer from the Netflix show, and the third a meta post asking fans not to gatekeep the new Netflix show. The more you scroll, the more this pace remains. Roughly four out of five of the most popular posts are cosplay and fanart. Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with cosplay and fan art. They are two of the main ways fans can show their love for a video game and can feel like