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Catherine Lewis

Former Dragon Age director says it's "hard to imagine" BioWare pivoting from "very progressive messaging to having the reverse" following EA's $55 billion buyout, and public perception not being "apocalyptically bad" if it did

Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Ex-BioWare veteran Mark Darrah – who served as a project director and executive producer on Dragon Age 1, 2, and Inquisition – has been discussing the potential impact of the proposed $55 billion buyout of EA, noting that it's "hard to imagine" the DA and Mass Effect studio shifting from "having very progressive messaging to having the reverse."

Assuming that the acquisition goes ahead, EA is going to be owned by investment firms Affinity Partners and Silver Lake, in addition to Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), and speaking in a new video on his YouTube channel (below), Darrah suggests that there could be "changes at EA in terms of structure, in terms of the games that they're making."

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