'Dragon Age isn't dead because it's yours now,' former BioWare writer reassures fans: 'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'

'EA/BioWare owns the IP but you can't own an idea'

Isn't owning ideas the whole point of IP laws?

... So... Dragon Age is dead.

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.

Wyvern Era.

Drake Epoch.

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.

EDIT: I somehow missed the title.

Yes, you absolutely can own an idea, thats what patents, trademarks and copyrights literally are.

This is actually delusional levels of cope.

You can talk all you want about French revolutionaries and Camus, but at the end of the day, you didn't revolt against anything, you signed away your creative output to a soulless corporation for cash.

You could have found or founded a worker cooperative non profit, you could have copyleft your world and story and characters, you could have MIT or GPL liscensced the game code, and still sold the finished game for money, but nope, you did none of that.

"Evil corporation owns the IP, so it's not really dead"

Call the Star Wars fans, they're gonna love this

EA has killed one of my favorite franchises and they are just making this worse and worse.

God, the cringe…

The real Dragon Age is the friends we made along the way.

This is the first I've heard of this- did Veilguard do badly? I thought it was reasonably popular.

But you sure can sue over one! Am I right Nintendo?

Morrigan. You shall forever rule my heart. RIP.

Seriously though. Fuck EA.