Dragon Age: The Veilguard Says "Farewell" to Future Updates

Less than a week after Electronic Arts revealed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard has engaged only about 1.5 million players – indicating that the number of copies sold might be even lower – and fell 50% short of the publisher's expectations, it now seems BioWare is already preparing to move on, with the wording of the game's recent update strongly implying it will be the last.

Introducing a single quality-of-life change – the addition of recommended levels to side quests that players may receive at significantly lower levels – along with several bug fixes, The Veilguard's Patch 5 Release Notes open with the developers saying that "with the game being in a stable place, we are moving to monitor for any game-breaking bugs should those occur," suggesting that smaller QoL patches won't be a regular occurrence moving forward and will only be released in response to critical issues that could render The Veilguard unplayable.

What is even more interesting is that the update's introductory sentence ends with the words "dareth shiral," which, in the in-game Elven language, means "safe journey," or more commonly, "farewell," making the entire paragraph feel like the closest you can get to announcing there won't be any more updates without explicitly saying so.

While it is currently not 100% confirmed that Patch 5 is indeed the final one, it wouldn't be a surprise given that The Veilguard has contributed to EA's declining profits and a nearly 20% drop in the publisher's stock within just a few days – the lowest it has been since March 2023.

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