Most of the content of Dragon Age Central has been developer posts to the official Dragon Age forums, first opened in May 2004. But all things must come to an end, and these forums were shut down on 2nd November 2009, the day before the game’s release in North America.
Since I haven’t had time to add much other content to the site for most of 2009, I’ve decided to also shut down Dragon Age Central as it was, leaving it here as an archive.
The new Dragon Age Central is now a much simpler (and fully automated) website dedicated to making developer posts to the new official forum (on Bioware’s social site) easier to find and search through.
It’s been interesting running this site, and in a way I’ll miss it... but hopefully I’ll be too busy finally playing the actual game to care :)
Dragon Age Central
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Forum posts were made by game developers. Please do not take posts out of context. While these individuals will have special insight into certain game-related questions, they are by no means the final authority. Please read the full topic and all its replies before forming an opinion. Remember, all things are subject to change.
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Source: Gone Gold; PS3 on Nov 3rd
Date: Friday, 23 October 2009 09:23PM
Dragon Age: Origins has gone gold. The PS3 version will also now be released on the same day as the other platforms: November 3rd in North America.
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Title: Preorders
Date: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 06:15PM
The game has been available for pre-order for some time now, but with the release drawing nearer I’ve now added a page to this website with preorder links for the game. You can also find other Dragon Age-related products for sale there.
Check out the ‘Buy the game!‘ link on the left. If you were planning on buying the game, please support Dragon Age Central by using one of our links. |
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Title: New Release Date
Date: Saturday, 08 August 2009 12:18PM
The release date has been pushed back a little over 2 weeks from October 20th (all platforms) to November 3rd in North America and November 6th in Europe on the Xbox 360 and PC. The PLAYSTATION3 version will follow later in November.
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Thread: Are there half-elves? [+6]
Date: Friday, 29 May 2009 04:19PM Ah! Yes, there are two types of potential content, as I see it: "add-in" content, which expands the current game, and "add-on" content, which adds on content after the end of the game. Add-in does expand replayability of the game -- but the weakness, by its very nature, is that it requires someone to replay the game to get at the content. It's only useful so long as someone is either still in their first-run throught the game or willing to replay. Add-on has more use for people who have already played the game, but has its own challenges from a timeline perspective. Adding origin stories would strictly be "add-in" variety content, just to speak in purely theoretical terms (and not to suggest that we're creating this sort of DLC). |
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Thread: Preorder questions [+15]
Date: Friday, 29 May 2009 02:48PM
How about now?
Yes, October 20 2009 is the official release date for Dragon Age: Origins. So go reserve your copy at your local store. 
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Title: Release Date
Date: Friday, 29 May 2009 10:25AM
October 20th: release date confirmed! It was first revealed in this pre-E3 teaser trailer. - edited on Saturday, 30 May 2009 07:51AM -
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Thread: Gametrailers "Pre-E3 Dragon Age: Origins trailer [+6]
Date: Friday, 29 May 2009 04:17AM
That is your first glimpse at our brand new trailer, made for us by the fine folks at Blur. This is just your first taste of the coolness that will be coming as part of E3 next week. Not only will there be the cool new trailer, there will be all sorts of great news, interviews and gameplay from E3.
There will be something cool happening here on the BioWare Dragon Age: Origins website as well. This is just your first taste of E3 and the coolness Dragon Age: Origins will be bringing. October 20th. Hmmm... how about that. |
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Thread: Dragon Age Copy Protection Announced [+12]
Date: Monday, 25 May 2009 11:21PM Of course I didn't because the original press release says that we aren't using SecuROM for Dragon Age: Origins. I can say it again if it wasn't clear. We are not using SecuROM for Dragon Age: Origins. |
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Thread: How about a demo? [+1]
Date: Saturday, 16 May 2009 03:42AM
Since people don't want to let this go DESAPITE us saying this multiple times, I'll say it agin.
We have no plans for a demo. Sorry. LOCKDOWN! |
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Thread: Questions. :) [+3]
Date: Thursday, 14 May 2009 01:35AM
I think the estimate is sitting at 80 hours. You'd have to get Evil Chris to verify that, though.
These things. Fully playable starting chapters of the game that vary according to your race (and sometimes class.) and affect how the world views you (and vice versa.)
Single Player only.
This depends a lot on which difficulty setting you play on. If you enjoy weeping in frustration, try nightmare. If you just want to see the story, try casual. If you like something in between, there's normal and hard.
Duncan! (He's the same guy narrating the "Join Us" video.)
Second half of this year.
The player character is not voice-acted.
Man, this would take me a week to answer. I'm going to point you here instead. |
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Thread: Two years of DLC? Interview [+3]
Date: Thursday, 14 May 2009 01:13AM Is there some reason that we couldn't have full expansions as well as DLC? Perhaps I'm missing part of the assumption that this is based on -- which clearly must be where DLC is us forcing you to spend money on things that you don't find worthwhile, right? Presumably stuff that we are now busily cutting out of the game so we can get you to pay for it later, am I warm? 
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At this point, we have not yet made an announced regarding the availability of a download version.
It's a pretty good bet that Dragon Age will be available online, but specifics are still unclear. |
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Thread: Preorder questions [+15]
Date: Wednesday, 06 May 2009 02:51PM
Basically correct. We are still putting the finishing touches on the full pre-order campaigns and when we have a more definitive list of things such as versions, retailers, etc we will make a more comprehensive list available.
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Thread: Two years of DLC? Interview [+3]
Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 04:57PM
I haven't seen anything like 'there will be no expansion packs' anywhere. |
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Thread: If Steam distribution worked well for Mass Effect, can we expect Steam support for DA:O? [+0]
Date: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 04:30AM
We have no word on any digital version of Dragon Age Origins. When we do, we will make it known.
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