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People got real fighty over the inclusion of things like race and gender topics and who those might or might not be in the game. It got rather political, which isn't supposed to be allowed outside General Mayhem so it got moved. Hopefully this one can be more about the game and less about someone's feelings of the politics of it.
Interesting, I guess there is a lot of hate for this game. Outside of the topics you mentioned (which I will not touch on), this game seems like a generic RPG lite mobile game with a really terrible story. I assume this is why the concurrent players on Steam have been dropping like a rock. People expected Dragon Age game - not this. If they just used a different brand / name for the game, maybe the reaction would have been slightly better?
Maybe, I haven't looked into it in depth yet. DAI wasn't one that was worth a full price buy for me, so this one probably won't be either. I'll look into it later when it is cheaper and decide if I want to buy or not. If you are interested, I look at a reviewer that you find has similar tastes to you and see what they say. Because it has become a fighting point over politics (not just on Hardforum) there's accusations of the larger gaming media artificially gave it higher scores. However it is also clear there's a smear campaign going on with some Youtubers and user reviews, so I wouldn't trust that either.
New peak low of 34,000 concurrent users. Meanwhile Farming Simulator 25 is hitting 125,000 concurrent users, how fucking embarrassing
New peak low of 34,000 concurrent users. Meanwhile Farming Simulator 25 is hitting 125,000 concurrent users, how fucking embarrassing
This one is a given because of the poor performance of Veilguard and the fact that BioWare probably won't survive Mass Effect 5's likely failure.
There is also some extremely cringey dialog throughout the game. Though its not as if its in every conversation. From what I understand, your not wrong. Unfortunately, a couple of these issues really do have a negative impact on the overall game for people. I could probably tune Taash out for the most part but I think my bigger issue is that it lacks replayability for the same reason Andromeda does. It's dialog options are so vanilla that you can't tell them apart. Dragon Age The Veilguard even takes the problem to whole new level by making it so you can't be an asshole to anyone. You can't be mean or disagree with your companions a whole lot.
It wasn't moved, it was deleted. People kept breaking rules 1 through 4 and the mods weren't going to waste their time trying to clean it up and tell people to behave themselves. I created a new thread in Soapbox to focus on the more political discussion surrounding the game.
They earned it.
At that price its probably worth a playthrough based on what I've seen. Though if you don't agree with the obvious alphabet mafia crap then I'd avoid Taash in the game as long as you can and skip through all her dialog. Without anything resembling player choice its replay value is probably minimal at best. The combat probably isn't good enough to keep people coming back to it.
Minrathous will give you the better ending.
What he said.
Could you unpack that a little?
A really fun game with excellent combat mechanics, staggering production values, and ultra smooth gameplay?
You are coping hard. I don't know why.
I know this is a tough concept for you to grasp, but responsibility for a product ultimately comes down to the direction of the person at the top. No matter how many people there are on a project or in a chain the final decisions almost always come down to one person. Corinne Busche is the game director of Dragon Age The Veilguard. Outside of directives handed down from EA and its investors, she's the one primarily responsible for that game's direction. (It's even in her title.)
AAA games are routinely 200-300 million dollars to make now. I'm actually surprised the game didn't cost more given it took 9 years to develop the game and it was scrapped and restarted multiple times. Given what was known about the game prior to launch, the sales figures aren't all that surprising to me. We've seen an absolute myriad of failures this year for similar reasons. This wasn't hard to predict.
I've already covered the basic math before, but the short version is that a game that costs 300 million dollars to make will need to sell 5 million copies at $60 with no discounts just to break even. Like with films, this doesn't account for distribution costs or marketing. It's likely that the break even or profitability point is well north of 5.5 or even 6 million units. Given its performance thus far, Dragon Age the Veilguard is a flop. It's not on Concords level or anything but its far from being successful. I do imagine that it will pick up some sales over the holidays but I don't think it will ever break 2 million units sold given that estimates put it at around 621,000 copies sold across all platforms.
