Dragon Age: The Veilguard - A woke disaster? Yep!

[Adolf Von Merkel]

The problem with 1.5sales is not about the sales, a games can undersell.
The problem is that is a 10 years in the making Game that sold 1.5m.

 

[Mettaur]

 

[Schnoz]

They really did own the chuds with that one, huh?

 

[Hermiöne Granger]

That jason schreier shill can go fuck himself.

 

[Gossip Avoider]

I have already seen defenders of this game cope with “the Nazi chuds on YouTube made regular gamers pass on the game”-I kid you not.

Good, if true.
If some YouTube grifters can out propagandize the entire gaming press, then the end for them is closer than anyone could hope.
Shinji Mikami will be revenged.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Bioware was so smug about ME3's endings when the game launched yet it still haunted by them. They effectively financially wrecked the company as you can't easily make a sequel afterwards. This wouldn't be a problem if the company was competently staffed but it wasn't.

Conceptually I have no problem with this, if handled competently. I respect a studio drawing a line under a franchise and moving on to new ideas.

The problem is Bioware had no other ideas, (except Anthem lol,) so they ended up having to milk Dragon Age and shit out a terrible Mass Effect spin-off with Andromeda instead.

That pre-rendered image made them at least a few extra million selling to microsoft.

And that's worked out great for Microsoft so far, with how well Starfield was received. Does that DLC shotgun reload yet?

For some context Dragon Age Inquisition sold 12 million copies. Baldur's Gate 3 sold 15. It sold only 10% of what BG3 did.

This needs to be mentioned much more in regards to Veilguard's sales. 1.5 million copies still sounds like a lot out of context, but when you compare it to its peers it really hammers home how badly this flopped.

I have already seen defenders of this game cope with “the Nazi chuds on YouTube made regular gamers pass on the game”-I kid you not.

They did the same when Netflix's Cowboy Bebop live-action slop got cancelled. It's weird how we're supposed to be this tiny minority who don't matter compared to the Modern Audience, yet we have enough influence to sway normies who don't even follow gaming news.

Also, didn't 'chuds' get mad about the optional bear sex in Baldur's Gate 3, too? Didn't seem to stop that game doing gangbusters.

 

[Weltraumfürst]

That jason schreier shill can go fuck himself.

I still think it's funny how his name literally translates to "person who screams/cries" in German.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

1.5m still feels too much by a lot.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

1.5m still feels too much by a lot.

It includes free and promo copies of the game given away with video cards.

 

[Overly Serious]

1.5m still feels too much by a lot.

Some people have very low standards.

 

[Tanner Glass]

1.5m still feels too much by a lot.

Dragon Age and BioWare used to be respected names that commanded some level of respect - combined with how cheap, easy, and effective advertising is counts for a lot.

On top of that - 2024 wasn't a year swimming with games. Elden Ring DLC and Balatro were on many people's GOTY lists and Astro Bot was on the top of many.

 

[Jace on ice]

I was actually surprised DA got snubbed at the game awards.

It was never going to win best RPG because of Metaphor but I thought for sure it would win the accessibility award.

I mean this crap is ultra ultra woke. It has accessibility options for color blindness, deaf people, trigger warnings, an arachnophobia toggle.

 

[ZMOT]

There's some strong evidence at this point that EA as a company is downsizing due to losing the FIFA license.

that's a myth, no idea why people still repeat it.

the fifa license isn't worth the money they asked for, which is the main reason EA ditched it. they just license the names from the clubs directly, so all that changes is the name on the cover which they didn't need anyway:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/11/03/ea-sports-fc-24-has-sold-even-better-than-first-thought-19771839/

https://www.psu.com/news/ea-sports-fc-25-was-europes-best-selling-game-sales-across-pc-and-console-rose/

if EA is downsizing (apparently they didn't even fire those idiots, they just moved them to other studios) it's for the same reason everyone else is: poor economy and post-covid bloat.

 

[Mola Ram]

The problem with 1.5sales is not about the sales, a games can undersell.
The problem is that is a 10 years in the making Game that sold 1.5m.

To put this in perspective, if GTA 6 only sells 1.5 million copies after having been in development since at least 2015, it has the potential to crash the entire industry.

 

[SpellforceFan]

To put this in perspective, if GTA 6 only sells 1.5 million copies after having been in development since at least 2015, it has the potential to crash the entire industry.

All the more reason to pray that it somehow happens.

 

[Mola Ram]

All the more reason to pray that it somehow happens.

I really can't imagine it happening. Even if it leaks the game is total woke dogshit there are too many GTA-addled zombies who will gobble it up in record numbers, giving it some ridiculous sales total for the first weekend that no amount of subsequent lowered enthusiasm can counter.

But you never know.

 

[LazyLizard]

Dragon Age and BioWare used to be respected names that commanded some level of respect - combined with how cheap, easy, and effective advertising is counts for a lot.

On top of that - 2024 wasn't a year swimming with games. Elden Ring DLC and Balatro were on many people's GOTY lists and Astro Bot was on the top of many.

a platformer, a card game and a dlc were up for GOTY, that is how sparse 2024 was of games, they could not have dropped it in a better year and they still flopped so hard.

 

[Mister Fister]

This movie is less gay than the Veilguard

 

[moocow]

That jason schreier shill can go fuck himself.

I'm surprised people still bother to engage with (or quote) him. He's an obvious propagandist, long detached from reality. He absolutely knows he's full of shit and lying through his teeth, but he's paid to do so (by various parties) and does favors for industry shitheads to enrich himself, so he does it cheerfully.

I wrote him off long ago when he proclaimed everyone attracted to the slender, giant-tittied Sorceress in Dragon's Crown was a pedophile (because she's 16 years old in canon) and wouldn't let go despite people explaining that huge tits are indicative of adulthood. That was my first hint that he knows he's a liar and is just being compensated for it. He has done nothing to dispel that impression since then.

 

[Mettaur]

I'm surprised people still bother to engage with (or quote) him. He's an obvious propagandist, long detached from reality. He absolutely knows he's full of shit and lying through his teeth, but he's paid to do so (by various parties) and does favors for industry shitheads to enrich himself, so he does it cheerfully.

It's primarily because he still manages to break stories because he has such a good working relationship with devs at studios. Like he broke the stories about ME:A and Anthem's internal development issues and he'll probably end up writing one on DA:V too.