Did EA Delay Dragon Age III

<p>During Electronic Arts announced yesterday that a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;key game” has been delayed from fiscal year 13 to fiscal year 14&period; For those that don’t understand business jargon&comma; that means that a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;key game” has been delayed from coming out by March 31&comma; 2013 to sometime after&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Michael Pachter seems to think the most likely candidate for the delay is <em>Dragon Age III&period; <&sol;em>Pachter is a financial analyst who is sometimes right&comma; sometimes a master of math and research&comma; and sometimes simply making an educated guess&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His stated that the development team that would have been working on <em>Dragon Age III<&sol;em> had been pulled off the project in order to work on <em>Star Wars&colon; The Old Republic&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He explained his theory this morning to those with a financial mind&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When we spoke with the &lbrack;EA&rsqb; CEO&comma; he added the color that the game was expected to slip because the team had been pulled away to work on another important project&period; While we don&&num;8217&semi;t know what the game is&comma; the only game that makes sense is <em>Dragon Age 3<&sol;em>&comma; as it is developed by BioWare&comma; the same studio that produced the <em>Star Wars<&sol;em> MMO&period; It seems obvious to us that the BioWare team responsible for <em>Dragon Age 3<&sol;em> was asked to place development of that game on hold and work on Star Wars&comma; to ensure that the latter game launched before the holidays&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pachter states that a team has been pulled off of a mystery game to work on another game&period; Another solution may be that the team that was working on <em>Dead Space 3<&sol;em> has been pulled to work on the next <em>Medal of Honor&period; <&sol;em>Let’s say that <em>Dragon Age III<&sol;em> is indeed the delayed game&period; Perhaps the dev team was pulled to work on <em>Mass Effect 3<&sol;em>&period; Whatever the case may be&comma; BioWare is keeping a lid on which game has been delayed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>BioWare has been hiring for <em>Dragon Age III<&sol;em> as far back as last May and has been pretty open about the future of the series&comma; discussing it with fans at April’s PAX East expo&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Since a chief complaint about <em>Dragon Age III<&sol;em> was the feeling that the game was rushed and full of recycled content&comma; perhaps delaying the third game in the series will add the needed polish the game needs to win back fans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;5908522&sol;is-dragon-age-iii-the-game-ea-just-delayed">Kotaku<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;