Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has No Big DLC in Its Future

The just-released Dragon Age: The Veilguard is an RPG, and modern RPGs thin to beryllium 40 hours oregon way, mode more, if you play your cards right. But if you’re expecting to decorativeness the crippled and proceed the communicative of your Rook with immoderate post-launch adventures, you’ll beryllium disappointed to perceive that won’t beryllium happening.

Speaking with originative manager Jon Epler, Rolling Stone got connection there’s nary plans for Veilguard  to get immoderate expansions oregon DLC stories. With the crippled present retired (and doing pretty well connected PC, astatine least), BioWare “has present shifted [focus] entirely” to the untitled 5th Mass Effect game archetypal teased backmost successful 2020. That’s not to accidental Veilguard is wholly being abandoned, though: according to IGN, the workplace aims to springiness Veilguard quality-of-life improvements and tiny contented updates, the details of which are presently unknown. It astir apt won’t beryllium connected the extended level arsenic Larian’s sizable updates to Baldur’s Gate 3 five oregon six times, but it’s something.

Still, the deficiency of important DLC present is notable, fixed BioWare’s past with the format. Since the orignal Mass Effect, the studio’s enactment retired sizable post-launch contented for their games, galore of which person been precise good. Some of these person besides been beauteous important into mounting up the communicative for what’s to come: Tresspasser gives runway for Veilguard, Mass Effect 2: Arrival establishes Mass Effect 3, and Dragon Age II’s Legacy prepares you for Inquisition. (Even Anthem, however briefly, got post-launch worldly intended arsenic the archetypal of a three-act communicative that would’ve gone…somewhere.)

But again, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a sizable crippled regardless. At clip of writing, I’ve got astir 38 hours of playtime and inactive person plentifulness to do, and that’s conscionable successful the archetypal playthrough. You’ll get your money’s worthy if you instrumentality your clip and don’t effort to powerfulness done it, and if that’s not your jam, there’s always Metaphor: ReFantazio.

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