But DA isn’t dead. There’s fic. There’s art. There’s the connections we made through the games and because of the games. Technically EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can’t own an idea, no matter how much they want to. DA isn’t dead because it’s yours now."
In a subsequent post, Chee wrote, "So someone just reposted my thing saying they’ll write a giant AU [alternate universe] and that’s what I’m talking about.
So, Dragon Age is not dead in the sense that you can still occasionally commission DeviantArtists for DA art, and you can still freely write DA fanfiction and not make any money off of it.
… And someone can make yet another medieval fantasy world, maybe actually turn it into an actual profitable and thus widespread IP … assuming you’ve quite considerably changed the basic concepts and don’t use any actually named characters or groups.
Dragon Age is dead, add yet another notch to EA’s IP/Studio murder count.
They’ll probably manage to finally kill Battlefield / DICE this or next year.
… So… Dragon Age is dead.
So, Dragon Age is not dead in the sense that you can still occasionally commission DeviantArtists for DA art, and you can still freely write DA fanfiction and not make any money off of it.
… And someone can make yet another medieval fantasy world, maybe actually turn it into an actual profitable and thus widespread IP … assuming you’ve quite considerably changed the basic concepts and don’t use any actually named characters or groups.
Dragon Age is dead, add yet another notch to EA’s IP/Studio murder count.
They’ll probably manage to finally kill Battlefield / DICE this or next year.