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

[moocow]

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.

I meant more "people trying to argue with him and confront him." He's only good for citing (on the rare occasion he reports something interesting) and quoting (to humiliate him) without direct interaction.

 

[Observotron]

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.

I wonder how much of the article is going to be 100% un-biased facts about how the chuds killed Bioware.

 

[Mettaur]

I wonder how much of the article is going to be 100% un-biased facts about how the chuds killed Bioware.

It's most likely 90% going to be "EA killed this game" and 10% "The Chuds were also bad"

 

[Endless Torment]

If Schreier never went out of his was to antagonize people, talked politics, or attacked Dragon's Crown he would have been a universally well regarded journalist as he's the only game journalist who does anything resembling journalism.

 

[Snekposter]

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.

Doesn't he have a tattoo of some sort of loli succubus on him, or was that someone else who was bitching about that Sorceress?

 

[Ishtar]

I think we can safely say DA is a dead or at least comatose franchise. At the barest minimum, we are not getting another DA game for 10-15 years. Likely ever.

Mass Effect will be BioWare’s final chance. And I don’t think anybody is expecting a breakout success.

 

[Mettaur]

I think we can safely say DA is a dead or at least comatose franchise. At the barest minimum, we are not getting another DA game for 10-15 years. Likely ever.

Mass Effect will be BioWare’s final chance. And I don’t think anybody is expecting a breakout success.

I mean they already fumbled Mass Effect with Andromeda it would be remarkably stupid of EA to let them fumble it again.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

I think we can safely say DA is a dead or at least comatose franchise. At the barest minimum, we are not getting another DA game for 10-15 years. Likely ever.

Mass Effect will be BioWare’s final chance. And I don’t think anybody is expecting a breakout success.

It's optimistic to think Bioware Edmonton will be given eight or ten years to make the next Mass Effect game since it's still in preproduction.

 

[OutInTheRain]

It's optimistic to think Bioware Edmonton will be given eight or ten years to make the next Mass Effect game since it's still in preproduction.

I have a feeling Bioware will be told "You work on what we tell you to work on." At this point.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

I have a feeling Bioware will be told "You work on what we tell you to work on." At this point.

There's not even a point in keeping Bioware around. They're been an RPG studio forever, an action RPG studio since KOTOR. (No, don't talk about that Sonic game, I don't want to hear it.)

With the brand disgraced after MEA and DAV, and the talent gone, why even keep the studio around? You can't assign "Trick" Weekes to help write something at another studio because he'll add trannies and identity politics.

Just burn it to the ground and let them work on their resumes.

 

[Mettaur]

There's not even a point in keeping Bioware around. They're been an RPG studio forever, an action RPG studio since KOTOR. (No, don't talk about that Sonic game, I don't want to hear it.)

With the brand disgraced after MEA and DAV, and the talent gone, why even keep the studio around?

There's only a single logical reason I can potentially see for EA not shutting them down. They've already shut down so many studios over the years that they don't have a lot more they can task with making another game. So it's essentially just "It would cost more to make a new studio than fire everyone at this one and reuse it".

At the same time though EA has to know Bioware's name is poison and it's no longer valuable. They couldn't even sell Bioware to anyone, nobody would buy it.

 

[regalterry]

At the same time though EA has to know Bioware's name is poison and it's no longer valuable. They couldn't even sell Bioware to anyone, nobody would buy it.

They can just rename it to EA [insert name of random Canadian shithole] and call it a day.

Though, I think that regardless of what they do, the only way to salvage anything out of BioWare by this point is to shut the studio down, fire everyone and hand over Mass Effect to a studio with the mandate to make something that will actually sell.

If they get rid of the studio, the woke workforce will just scatter across the rotting body of EA and make it even more woke, if they keep the studio around, but fire everyone, they'll just attract new woke hires that are drawn to BioWare's "reputation".

There's really no winning move here unless EA is willing to put their foot down and take a stand against their pozzed workforce, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.

 

[Adolf Von Merkel]

It's most likely 90% going to be "EA killed this game" and 10% "The Chuds were also bad"

You forgot the excuse "Frostbite bad, poor BioWare devs would made great games if it was UE5".
They really want all engines to die

 

[Oliver Onions]

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:

Basically, yeah. I've never been a fan of FIFA games except for the odd multiplayer match, but even with the name gone you can barely tell the difference:

Maybe if there were competing titles in the genre it'd be different, but since Konami completely sank Pro Evo EA can do pretty much whatever they want because these games are the normiest of normie shit.

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.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the profit/player engagement for GTA V comes from GTA Online, so it really doesn't matter what they do with the campaign as long as VI has the same online component for people to fuck around in.

I have a feeling Bioware will be told "You work on what we tell you to work on." At this point.

If they are lucky they will get the Visceral treatment, but with the absolute state of the industry I think it's more likely EA will do what it does best and shutter them completely. They've had a decade to prove their worth and produced nothing but colossal flops.

 

[Tablet County]

I dislike bg3 because it is disrespectful to its source and is a bad game.
I am playing my second playthrough so i can show my friends the things they believe is good is actually shitty.

You sound like a miserable faggot.

 

[Mola Ram]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of the profit/player engagement for GTA V comes from GTA Online, so it really doesn't matter what they do with the campaign as long as VI has the same online component for people to fuck around in.

You're not wrong. GTA Online is a cash cow of breathtaking proportions, so much so that all single player DLC for GTA V was eventually cancelled because what would be the point? They even strip mined it for online updates, most notably the Doomsday Heist which would have been something focused on Trevor as an unwilling secret agent. That being said, in its first 24 hours -- when the online content was still months from release, and over a year away on PC -- it made over 800 million dollars, selling over 11 million units. Even without an online component, GTA 6 is going to be a monster.

 

[ZMOT]

to be fair, andromeda was produced by bioware montreal, not the main studio edmonton.
it wasn't even really a "bioware" studio, ea just slapped the label on it to fool people.

It's primarily because he still manages to break stories because he has such a good working relationship with devs at studios.

except blizzard for some reason, funny how that works...

because she's 16 years old in canon

no, it was much much worse and retarded.

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See, I don't think the sorceress's design is problematic because of her large breasts. What's problematic is that the character is explicitly designed to draw our eyes to her large breasts. They're exposed; they're jiggling; they're disproportionate. They're immediately striking. They're part of a lolicon fantasy, drawn to appeal to people who are interested in lolicon fantasies (and people who are interested in large breasts).

and when called out he doubles down, excusing his nonsensical claims with "fast moving video game message boards" (apparently it's ok to be retarded then) and some backhanded "you're all lolicons anyway"

While I generally try to make sure everything that I post on this rapid-moving video game message board is 100% correct, sometimes I don't do heavy research into lolicon culture before posting about it here.

I was under the impression that the woman with a youthful face and large breasts is lolicon fantasy. Plenty of people have felt the need to correct that. I submit there are people here who understand lolicon culture better than I. I am okay with that.

that little stunt puts him right in the "anime=pedo" camp, and we all know that's usually deflection from being actual sexpests.

not to mention trying to claim being the "only real gamer", implying everyone else is just outraged without reason, just like he would do later which is right out of the libshit playbook

One more thing: I'm probably the only person here who has actually played Dragon's Crown, and I have no interest in seeing it burn. It's a fun, interesting game that hope to buy and play and write about. Otherwise wouldn't care this much.

schreier is a slimey opportunistic weasel and exactly the type who 90 years ago would join the nsdap only after they won the election to propagandize. even the literal nazis despised those people: https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/goeb60.htm

 

[The Man With No Name]

If Schreier never went out of his was to antagonize people, talked politics, or attacked Dragon's Crown he would have been a universally well regarded journalist as he's the only game journalist who does anything resembling journalism.

Oh, do you mean his favorable coverage of Zoe Quinn's game Depression Quest? Surely he did this for only selfless journalistic reasons

Oh, I think you're actually talking about the time where he supposedly knew about the Big Bad Blizzard Rapes for years in advance, but didn't tell anyone. On account of, that it might be a good story for him to tell later! I guess those rapes weren't so dangerous after all, Mr. Schreier, since you didn't feel like talking about your inside scoop until after news had come out!

Schreier is journo cocksucker number 1, you don't hate journalists enough.

 

[Peaches the Wonder Cat]

At the same time though EA has to know Bioware's name is poison and it's no longer valuable. They couldn't even sell Bioware to anyone, nobody would buy it.

Maybe Microsoft? Phil is stupid enough to buy it, and MS loves the rainbow fag flag.

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The note from the patch site reads:

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Thank you all for playing Dragon Age: The Veilguard; we were so happy with the game’s stability at launch and hope you have enjoyed our Quality of Life patches since then. With the game being in a stable place, we are moving to monitor for any game-breaking bugs should those occur. Dareth shiral!

 

[Mettaur]

Maybe Microsoft? Phil is stupid enough to buy it, and MS loves the rainbow fag flag.

Microsoft wouldn't buy it. It's been revealed recently that the Zenimax deal was really turbulent as Microsoft went back and forth over if they wanted to buy them outright. And it caused the development of games like Fallout 76, Wolfenstein Youngblood, Quake Champions and Redfall. Essentially Zenimax ordered all of their studios to start making GAAS games to sweeten the deal with Microsoft. After Microsoft bought them reportedly Zenimax completely lost interest in these games and dropped support for all of them aside from Fallout 76 post launch.

With Bioware Microsoft would just look at the fact they haven't produced a profitable game in the last decade and go "You want money for this?"