Jaws of Hakkon, the new DLC for BioWare's Dragon Age: Inquisition, was released on Tuesday across Xbox One and PC--but not PlayStation 4. Now, BioWare has confirmed that the new expansion will eventually come to Sony's new console, though executive producer Mark Darrah asks PlayStation fans to be patient.
We can not discuss when Jaws of Hakkon will be coming on other platforms
— Mark Darrah (@BioMarkDarrah) March 23, 2015
@NiNiALexandra25 it will come. Hopefully you can be patient.
— Mark Darrah (@BioMarkDarrah) March 25, 2015
Jaws of Hakkon's timed-exclusive release for Xbox One and PC is part of a special deal between Microsoft and BioWare owner Electronic Arts. Microsoft also has an agreement with Activision that ensures all Call of Duty DLC is released first on Xbox.
Darrah went on to suggest that the EA-Microsoft agreement contains a clause that forbids BioWare from discussing the length of the Dragon Age: Inquisition DLC exclusivity arrangement.
@findingthesense @NarutoU001200 @AstroDuck79 you are correct. We are looking into options
— Mark Darrah (@BioMarkDarrah) March 25, 2015
So far, the Jaws of Hakkon expansion has been confirmed only for Xbox One, PC, and PS4. BioWare has not announced any plans to bring the DLC to last-generation consoles such as Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3.
In Jaws of Hakkon, players will "discover the fate of the last Inquisitor and the powerful dragon he hunted."
Set in an overgrown wilderness populated by the Avvar hunter people, the content will see players exploring an "ancient Tevinter fortress that hides a dangerous secret."
Gamers can also expect to face off against new enemies, and amass new legendary armor and weapons. Jaws of Hakkon concludes with a battle against an "ancient god of war bent on destroying the world."
The content is available now across Xbox One and PC for $15. For a closer look, check out the image gallery below.
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Okay really freaking really why isnt it on the 360 since i dont have any money for a one or get the game again. Really wow so i wasted 60 dollars for a game which there was no point of playing.
Bloodborne is out, nobody cares about more Inquisition padding.
Surprise-exclusive niche DLC for a niche game... Gangbusters! That's a system seller! /sarcasm
I love this game but this dlc better come out before Witcher 3 or I won't buy it. This exclusive bulshit is really annoying. They better not do any of this bulshit with the next Mass Effect or I ll boycott them forever. I'm not buying an Xboxone just so I can play a dlc a few weeks earlier.
I can't say when I'am going to play Dragon Age Inquisition again after I stopped playing it at level 27. I hate timed exclusives.
@Maj_Wood @rebfaction Oh yeah, you can't forget that Microsoft still has their sugar daddy (aka, Bill Gates) to get blank checks from.
@rebfaction that's Micro$ for yah as evil with DLC as google is with searching they get it ALL!
Doesn't matter. Us playstation folk are playin bloodborne right na.
the reaction from the PlayStation only players is making me giggle..am i evil?
@Stogin @geiasou The same reaction Xbox people had over Destiny. It sucks for PlayStation owners. On the positive side, at least they're getting it.
@geiasou No, it makes you just as childish.
What's the point in timed DLC? Not like people are going to buy a new platform and rebuy a game just to play some DLC?
@b1ank Plus, people are more apt to make snap judgments to buy these things when they are new and fresh as opposed to older things they've had time to think about.
@b1ank Also, DLC is no doubt a profit-sharing arrangement. More downloads = more profit for both parties. The company with the timed exclusive gets to ride the game's and DLC's initial popularity wave before more attrition takes place...gamers losing interest, moving on to other games, intertubes spoilers making people want to not bother, etc. It is not so much a way of winning the competition outright as it is a way to hamper the competition to gain an edge over them (or, if the other company sold more copies of the initial game, a way of hampering the other to make up the deficit).
@b1ank just the handful of people who will just happen to be buying an Xbox at that time i guess. but yea, you'd think such an overt moneygrab wouldn't pay well enough to offset your reputation as a company. nevermind EA's rep has been in the sh'tter for a while now.
@b1ank
"Never underestimate the stupidity of the masses"
- Some Roman guy probably
Got no issues with timed exclusivity or actual exclusivity because everyone wants to make money. But not being allowed to say when it's coming to PS4? What the actual? It's not like it's going to make people throw their PS4 copies in the garbage and then go out and buy an X1 and the main game just so they can play DLC. Just seems weird.
@adri2007 The main issue with not knowing the timeframe is, "do we have so much time between now and the release date that we might rather invest in another game to play during that time."
If it is only going to be a couple months, then one might wait.
However, if it going to be 6 months or longer, one might want to buy another game rather than wait and be bored.
A good part of the wait is cost for many people, like myself, that have a budget to keep and are not rich enough to plunk done $70-$100 on another game just to shelve it in a month or two when the $15 DLC releases. I would rather pay $15 now and wait 6+ months to pay for a new game if at all possible.
@plerpy
It makes perfect sense to me. MS paid for exclusivity. They don't want people thinking of buying it for another console to know how long the exclusivity will last. It defeats the point of paying for exclusivity.
@adri2007 How about spoilers? I want to enjoy the DLC without any preconceived notions or spoilers, but now, I'm forced to effectively cut myself off from anything gaming related if I want to keep that up. Which is an utterly preposterous thing to have to do, and does not endear me to either EA or Microsoft at all.
You are correct. At the same time, I dont understand the complain of some people since it will be available to them anyway at some point.
Not like it really matters. That info was only pertinent at launch. People are already entrenched in their individual systems or have a particular favorite. For me, I have both but favor playing on PS4 more. Had I heard about this at launch, I may have gotten the Xbox version, but right now it doesn't matter because I already got it for PS4. Plus, Bloodborne is out, so I'm set for awhile. Hope you Xbox guys are having fun with the DLC though. Can't wait to check it out eventually.
Discriminative marketing practice and folks here go "who cares, Bloodborne is out".
And then people gets surprised when companies dare to try abusive marketing stunts... seeing people's "reaction" against it...
To Agree on a DLC exclusivity is like to agree that you care more about money more than about the costumers that bought your game in a particular system. Last year was Bungie, this time is EA.
@Warlord_Irochi both years, Stockholm syndrome
Didnt Sony pull the same crud with destiny? Didnt really care about that so much because...well its destiny, but this on the other hand is a bit of a bummer.
@strothers101 don't worry about it, the dlc sucks
@strothers101
Some people just detest this practice of exclusivity regardless of what console it's on & plenty of people spoke up about it when Destiny did it, including myself. Take your fanboyism somewhere else, we're gamers here.
@CrouchingWeasel @strothers101 Agreed.
Additionally, I am so sick and tired of having new games spoiled by co-workers that don't care about other people and talk about the game in the breakroom at work.
I really do not enjoy eating in my car 6 months out of the year just to avoid hearing spoilers being discussed by those that got the release before me.
If I was the one who got it first, I would not be doing that to them. But, I am one of rare few 1% that think that way these days.
Lol...wow...you got problems...but then again, I'm a casual gamer so I guess I really can't understand how you feel...sorry.
Everybody just wait for a GOTY edition alright? PS4 players have Bloodborne (which looks fantastic and I should totally get that) to play though, until then I'll be playing Sunset Overdrive. Because I'd rather wait for a GOTY/Ultimate/Complete version of a game instead of getting screwed over dlc exclusives even if those exclusives never come over to the version of the game I plan to play (Xbox One)
@sonofdark18 What I will do I'll play the game now but maybe trade it in afterwards and wait for the GOTY edition
I understand full games as timed exclusives, but definitely not DLC.
That's good for me actually. I'm still working of finishing Mass Effect and haven't even started DAI.
Hell by the time I get caught up there will be a GOTY edition out lol.
Side note: shame on me for not getting into Mass Effect sooner!
is jaws of hakkon a standalone adventure dlc? or is it incorporated into the main game
No longer need to play this garbage game anymore though.....
Bloodborne is out
=)
So keep your DLC.
lol it's so good to see all the fans of shallow idiotic actions games getting peeled off fromDAI by the incredibly shallow experience that is bloodborn.
enjoy it, pal! we'll be over here playing RPGs.
Because holding down one button on nightmare is a more incredible experience? Dragonage does a lot of good things but combat is not one of them
@triple_hgame stay classy
@Deveroth Shallow experience that is Bloodborne? Maybe try playing it, or any FromSoft game for the matter, before commenting.
Just be aware guys that this was a deal made between Microsoft and EA, not Microsoft and Bioware. Bioware doesn't get a whole lot of say in the matter.
Kind of a stupid move on Bioware's part considering there's about 15 million more playstations out in the world than xbox's.
@poopoohed It's EA that made the deal. Bioware is just the dev team.
@poopoohed lmao...I would laugh at your fanboy math, but...poopoohed says it all :)
PS fans may as well boycott all Bioware games, if it has to come down to shady stuff like this.
@tarp_master Except BioWare isn't the issue. EA make the decisions for this just like Activision made the decisions for Destiny. Nothing (or very, very little) to do with BioWare or Bungie.
So maybe hold off on boycotting them for the moment.
Ponies think MS is low for making deals like this its just for a month and you get the same content unlike the deal Sony made with destiny to give xbox players less content in dlc's when they're paying the same price and not just for a month but a whole year
@clarens56 moneyhat=/= developmental assistance.
@clarens56 stopped reading at "ponies"
@clarens56 Where did you get a month from?
@clarens56
"Ponies" huh? So your mum left her laptop unlocked again hey? Halfwit.