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I bet that the popularity of Baldur's Gate 3 has probably also put this game at risk. It's probably pretty hard to justify the cost of marketing a 2010s style Bioware game when Larian's RPG model has been such a massive hit.
I can just picture the leads at EA coming in and making another demand to change Dreadwolf after the release of Baldur's Gate.
It's gotta be a nightmare working at Bioware. A bunch of ghouls making you start from scratch because of whatever trends reach them.
Like if the Dragon Age IP was free to work with, there'd be so many good fan games people would make for free. There'd be awful ones too, but it's better than having some CEO call you up and say, "The game needs to have a bear-fucking scene, it'll be popular. What's the big deal? Just rewrite the story."
It's so silly too, because if they just let the game come out as-is, even if it is overshadowed by this much better game, it would at least either make money or not be that big a loss, and then the next game can start with a clean slate with lessons learned. Sure, make changes that can be reasomably made, but sometimes a game just won't be the best out there - and that is fine for a publisher that large to take the occasional L.