“At least your load times are great”: Dragon Age The Veilguard director showed the game to EA’s CEO only to immediately “get walloped right off the edge and down into a pit and die”

Dragon Age: The Veilguard Darkspawn enemy, a large sekeletal-like humanoid figure wearing shiny dark armor.

In some capacity, BioWare has been working on Dragon Age: The Veilguard — the soon-to-be fourth game in the fantasy RPG series — for nearly 10 years. In active production, the developer has spent 200,000 hours playtesting the game's PC version, dedicated an untold number of hours to recording 140,000 voice lines, and, apparently, allotted a few more hours to an embarrassing meeting with the heads of its publisher, EA. 

In a new IGN feature, Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reminisces about a 2023 meeting with EA president Laura Miele and CEO Andrew Wilson.