The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt seriously scared EA, BioWare, and Dragon Age III

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[The Witcher 3](/games?search=The Witcher 3): Wild Hunt was announced on February 5, 2013, and everyone was excited about the news - almost everyone. [The Witcher 3](/games?search=The Witcher 3) will be released on NextGen consoles and high-performance PCs. The reputation of the Polish company CD Projekt Red implies that the game will be of the highest quality; this is, of course (from a marketing standpoint), considered a threat to many games - in particular, games of the same genre, such as the upcoming RPG from BioWare [Dragon Age III](/games?search=Dragon Age III). Literally a few days after [The Witcher 3](/games?search=Ведьмак 3): Wild Hunt was announced, we received a report from our reliable network of insiders that EA and BioWare are indeed concerned about the release of their [Dragon Age III](/games?search=Dragon Age III). We were told they are now in a difficult position and will do everything possible to ensure that [Dragon Age III](/games?search=Dragon Age III) is released by the end of 2013, as they do not want their game to be released in 2014 alongside [The Witcher 3](/games?search=The Witcher 3). BioWare typically adheres strictly to their game release dates - however, many fans of the [Dragon Age](/games?search=Dragon Age) series believe that such haste and fear of overlapping releases may affect the quality of the final product, and this could ultimately make [Dragon Age 3](/games?search=Dragon Age 3) worse simply because the developers panicked. Fans of the series hope that this will not happen.

EA and BioWare are well aware that when they released [Dragon Age 2](/games?search=Dragon Age 2), the game fell far short of The Witcher 2. Now they hope to win back the favor of their franchise fans with the third installment of [Dragon Age](/games?search=Dragon Age). EA has invested a lot of time in marketing - and they are convinced that the franchise and the overall concept appeal to RPG fans. EA is also well aware that an improper release date could be a mistake that would cost them significant sales.

The release of [Dragon Age III](/games?search=Dragon Age III) is expected sometime at the end of 2013. [The Witcher 3](/games?search=The Witcher 3): Wild Hunt is slated for release around mid-2014. Currently, neither date is officially confirmed.

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