I have none, just rumors I've read online. Scuttlebutt is BioWare was focused entirely on Veilguard and a lot of those workers are getting filtered into other EA projects. The dedicated team for Mass Effect 5 is rumored to be very small at the moment and I doubt it will increase after this dud.
When people like me say woke or DEI, I am speaking about poorly done or ham-fisted representation. Pushing politics to get government money (Dustborn), to get Internet good boy points/PR (Saints Row reboot) or just because the developers brain is so utterly rotten from their politics that they must include them in the most ham-fisted way possible even if it breaks previously established material (Veilguard). There are examples previously mentioned in this same thread of minority, be it sexual or racial, characters that are well written. People generally don't care about the race or sexuality of videogame characters or if the game includes politics. But anyone can tell at a first glance how the characters in this game are nothing more than the sexuality or race they claim to be. There is no complexity, no character arcs, no evolution, nothing that the player can chew on or ponder about. It's just so dull and lacking in creativity. People also hate it when they are obviously being preached to by a morally bankrupt company.
To be fair, good writing or not.. i don't want niggers of fags in my vidya. If i am playing some Cyberpunk game set in Detroit or something, fine. But i don't want them appearing in feudal Japan or some European/Asian fantasy setting.
Similar to how I define it when some leftist tard tells me "you chuds cant even define woke!!!". It's not just any diversity like they want to pretend. It's performative. "this is the most diverse cast ever!" "this is the first black Jewish non binary amputee lead in a major motion picture!" It's also used a shield from criticism. They rely on the Redditors to shout down any criticism of a product and blindly support it out of a hivemind fear of being called a bigot if the product is woke. What sucks for Hollywood and AAA game devs is that normal people are so tired of this bullshit.
Honestly, despite this, I still attest it exceeded what I THOUGHT it would get from sales.
the only way i see to save DA is for the next people who takes it after bioware collapses to retcon it "everything after inquisition is no longer canon, neither the game not the books or comics are canon"
It's not "sales", they explicitly avoided claiming 1.5 million sales, because they're including all demos, free copies for shills and gamepass instances, which by themselves give them close to $0 sold units.
