The EA app and Origin are not necessary to play the new Dragon Age. There’s also good news for all Steam Deck fans
Dragon Age: The Veilguardwill not require you to have an EA app account.If you buy the game on Steam, you can get started without further registration. This has been officially announced by developer Bioware and publisher EA.
Recently, Sonycaused a stir with mandatory PSN accounts, as some Steam users were less than enthusiastic about having to create an additional account – especially as the PSN is not available in many countries and games such as Ghost of Tsushima were therefore blocked there.
The Veilguard obviously wants to avoid this kind of trouble. The only possible disadvantage: Dragon Age Keep is now a thing of the past.
At home on Steam
On X (formerly Twitter), the official account of the role-playing game shares the following message:
We’re making great progress towards our fall launch date, and can confirm early that DragonAge: The Veilguard is going all-in on @Steam features!
⚔️We’re verified on Steam Deck.
⚔️We’ll be Steam native – meaning the EA App will not be required to play the game.Details on…
– Dragon Age (@dragonage) July 25, 2024
We are making strong progress towards our fall release date and can confirm early on that Dragon Age: The Veilguard is fully committed to Steam features! We are verified for the Steam Deck. We will be Steam-native, meaning the EA app is not required to play. Launch details to follow later this summer
The fans in the comments react with delight to enthusiasmto the news that the EA app is not exactly popular. In the past, an Origin account (the predecessor, so to speak) was required to launch Mass Effect and Dragon Age
Dragon Age Keep, the program with which your in-game decisions were transferred from one title to the next, is of course also history. It was already known that in The Veilguard you had to manually indicate which story branches you had taken in Inquisition
An exact release date for The Veilguard is still unknown, but according to the latest tweet we expect it to be announced sometime in August. Fall 2024 should mean a period between early September and late November, if you stretch the definition a bit.
