BioWare to Maintain Balance Between Licensed Titles and Original Franchises

BioWare CEO, speaking on originality and licenses, Ray Muzyka recently stated that the company will maintain a balance between licensed properties and original franchises in future projects. He explained that there are benefits to developing games from both sides, noting their work on Star Wars KOTOR as well as their new IP Mass Effect.

“Both choices have their own unique appeal,” Muzyka told Joystiq. “In the end, both are ends of the same spectrum, since successful new intellectual properties become licenses. In the case of Star Wars… so it really wasn’t confining when we considered the freedom available in the Knights of the Old Republic setting, some 5000 years before the movies.”

“Creating new intellectual property is literally creating your own fiction and is a lot of fun as we are starting from scratch for new IPs like Mass Effect or Dragon Age,” he continued. “We love working on both types of properties and you can expect both kinds from BioWare in the future.”

Very little is known about Dragon Age, the game which is said to mark the studio’s return to the hardcore PC RPG arena. As announced earlier, the studio is working on a number of titles, including a Sonic RPG, the Mass Effect sequel, as well as an unannounced MMO.