Bioware has a lot to be proud of over the past year. With the release of Dragon Age: Origins and Mass Effect 2, the Canadian developer is in a position to release even bigger titles that consumers are clamoring for. A new Star Wars RPG titled The Old Republic, a new Dragon Age and of course the long awaited finale to the Mass Effect trilogy are all in the works.
Rob Bartel, principal designer at BioWare, has discussed the success that previous games have achieved, citing Dragon Age: Origins as the highest selling title to date for the studio. This places sales figures above every other game out there, including Mass Effect, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire and Baldur’s Gate.
“Dragon Age was an extremely successful title for us – last November it was the single most globally successful title we’ve put out to date,” he confirmed at EA’s recent European showcase.
“This is one of our two primary IPs in the Edmonton studio in Canada, and then we’re working on the Old Republic down in Austin. So Dragon Age is a very big part of what we do and for what the future for BioWare will hold for sure.”
[Thanks MCV]
2 Comments
July 12, 2010
Congrats well deserved!
July 15, 2010
I love Bioware, all time favorite developer. Dragon Age and Mass Effect have been such amazing games and there is still much more growth for both of the franchises. I dislike MMO's very much cause they are not real RPG's, repetitive mindless farming with no real story and no audio dialog nor does your actions change the world around you. The Old Republic will be an RPG with MMO qualities, graphics could be better tho but I will not hesitate in buying it. KoToR made me a Star Wars fan since I wasn't before I played 1-2.