I think Netherrealm Studios did this with Mortal Kombat 9. It brought back everything that made the originals so great after years of rushed and mediocre games. They actually listened to their fans on twitter and the forums, they put in little easter eggs like the hidden fights that show they care about it, they returned to a 2D fighting style instead of a 3D fighting style, and they actually encourage criticism on the forums to see what they can improve on which leads to actually intelligent discussions on their forums. In fact, MK9 actually reached one million sales in 3 weeks and that didn't include any of the special editions, just the regular game itself. They showed how they went back to appeal to the fans and made a great game that attracts both long-time fans and newcomers to the fray.

Dragon Age 2 on the other hand shows all the signs of what NOT to do with your series. They reused the same environments again and again, they removed all sense of roleplaying that you could possibly have in order to streamline you into the character EABioware wants you to be instead of how you want to be, the companions are less interesting overall since you don't learn as much about them or their motivations, and Inon Zur stated the game itself was rushed. I even saw how all the glitches and bugs were on a file called README which basically showed EVERY bug in the entire game which included nearly 100 of them!! EABioware knew about the game breaking bugs yet chose to release it as is. The company showed they only care about money since they packaged ME2 if you bought DA2 and they released countless amounts of DLC (look at this link and see how this is only DAY ONE DLC!!!http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Downloadable_content_(Dragon_Age_II)) and they said the only reason they made the LI's bisixual is because it was cheaper. That showed they only care about money and not about the fans which shows in the BUTTON AWESOME LOLZ fast combat with ludicrous gibs, instant teleporting enemies, nightmare mode which only makes the enemies damage sponges instead of actually making me think tactically, and no descriptions for items like "Ring" or "Amulet" makes this one of the worst games I've ever played. Finally, the devs on the social site are some of the worst devs I've ever met. They run the site like a totalitarian state, anyone who shows even so much as a hint of dislike to DA2 is perma-banned, they perma-ban you without so much as a warning, and they only allow people to praise them as the supposed divine beings they are. This showed when a forum user tried to report a spam thread where a troll was basically stating the anyone who criticized DA2 was a [censored] troll since DA2 was the best game ever. When other threads that basically were the same but instead criticized DA2 they were immediately closed but when a spam thread insulted DA2 haters yet praised DA2, the dev said it wasn't spam and to "svck it up, princess." Do I even need to go into detail about how rude and bad this looks on the company itself. Shame since I've been playing their games since Baldur's Gate 1 but now I'm ashamed to have even liked that company. The death of Bioware is a shame but at least there are companies like CD Projeckt who actually care about the fans.

You hit the nail right in the head on that one. I still like Bioware as a company but DA2 is unacceptable for a developer of Bioware's status. I'll be getting ME3 regardless of what happened with DA2 but any future Bioware games I will read the reviews for the game throughly before I make the mistake of automatically preordering it. Not to mention I won't get it if they don't fix the problems with DA2 or in fact the series itself.

Do you think BioWare's finished, as far as capturing the interest of its older fanbase goes, then? The modern gaming industry is probably too young to find examples of what I'm about to ask for, but have any gaming companies done what BioWare's doing and then went back and tried to fully and whole-heartedly appease those that were disappointed? In other words, do you believe we will ever see BioWare revert to their older style... or at the very least revert to past levels of quality (the copy and paste complaint about DA II really puts me off)?

Personally I'm done with BioWare until they stop dikeing about with TOR and give the KotOR series the attention it deserves.