Dragon Age: Inquisition ditches the “3,” as slyly revealed during EA’s E3 press conference. This decision isn’t an attempt to make the name The Game Formerly Known As “Dragon Age 3” stick – EA Labels President Frank Gibeau tells IGN it’s a “tactical marketing decision.”
“There wasn’t anything that strategic about it, to be blunt,” Gibeau says. “We just wanted to draw more attention to the fact that Inquisition is an all-new chapter inside of the Dragon Age universe, as opposed to people expecting a follow-on to Dragon Age 1 and 2 in a literal, linear sense.”
The word “Inquisition” needs to stand out, Gibeau says, since that’s what this Dragon Age story is all about: “There’s a whole bunch of gameplay and features and big story choices related to how you go through this Inquisition that happens in the world.”