In 2021, Mass Effect fans were rewarded with a modern remaster of the first three games in Mass Effect Legendary Edition. However, fans hoping for a similar remaster of the original Dragon Age trilogy may be disappointed to hear that it was already “softly” pitched to EA and rejected.
Mark Darrah–an executive producer on the first three Dragon Age games before leaving BioWare–shared that revelation during an interview with MrMattyPlays on YouTube (via Eurogamer).
“One of the things that we pitched at one point pretty softly–so pitch is a massive overstatement–was to kind of retroactively rebrand the first three games as if they were a trilogy [and] call it the Champions trilogy,” said Darrah. “EA’s historically been–and I don’t really know why–but they’ve even said this publicly. They’re kind of against remasters … It’s strange for a publicly traded company to basically seem to be against free money, but they seem to be against it.”