I 100% agree with you on this. Dragon Age was my most anticipated game of the decade and they severely let me down. Seeing what they had planned in the Art Book makes it so much worse. They had such an amazing game planned, a true sequel to my favorite story of all time, but it was scrapped for this garbage. We had so little player agency I don't know how they can seriously call this a Dragon Age game. The romances were bland and boring. There was literally no conflict or real tension between companions. Everything was so safe. It makes no sense since they were so proud of their M rating, but they did nothing with it. At least I got the conclusion I wanted between my Inquisitor and Solas. That's all I cared about by the end of the game cause they gave me no reason to care about my Rook or their relationships. I'm just disappointed by the journey they chose to reach that conclusion. It could have been so much better. And sadly, even if the next Dragon Age is good, I will never get the amazing story I was promised at the end of Inquisition. And I will never forgive them for stealing that premise to reboot the series into this safe, uninspired, and hand holdy trash.
Excellent excellent comment. Yeah it just plainly wasn't enough. And I'm more of a Mass Effect guy, (but I do love dragon age) and if they butcher Mass Effect I'm going to lose it lol
@podcastnowplus Yeah, I'm really worried about Mass Effect. I don't have much hope for it to be honest. But hopefully they actually take the feedback they are getting about Dragon Age and don't ignore it by saying it's just haters that made the game unsuccessful. The problems go far deeper than the DEI stuff. So I hope they don't just focus on that and ignore the more important feedback. But at least we have Exodus to look forward to. I'm super hyped for that one!
That’s also why video games coming out decades later is alarming, because it could come out being colossal failures for not meeting expectation standards.
But critics told me that Dragon Age Veilguard is a "return to form" so many times. It was even the best Bioware game for Eurogamer. Time magazine even proclaimed it as the GOTY
Didn't we already know this? This is due to the writing and disrespect to the fans. When you make a anything for anyone other than the fanbase it won't sell. Period.
Honestly, I’m not at all surprised. I played the game and it was ok at first. Then as I kept playing it just dragged. I will say the last mission was awesome but that’s about it.
Exactly my thoughts on it. It just became so repetitive and an absolute chore to play. Fight the same enemies, destroy blight boils/crystals, fight more of the same enemies. Last mission was pretty good, though I will say The God of lies and deception being fooled so easily by a fake dagger made by mortals was pretty unconvincing.
I enjoyed playing Veilguard, but it had those glaring remnants of being originally designed as some sort of multiplayer lobby game that was going to have daily login rewards; very repetitive, the world state was not allowed to change in any meaningful way, as is typical for MMOs.
I'm very surprised they were only expecting to sell 3 million copies. I for sure tought they were expecting the game to be a great sucess and sell around 10M. Kinda sensible they saw the trend and moderated their expectation. Still, 1.5M is not great, not super bad, just okay'ish. Kinda like the game. Makes sense
When you consider how Dragon Age Origins sold 3.2 million copies on Steam when it was a brand new, unknown IP back in 2009, DA2 sold 2 million and Inquistion a whopping 6 Million, then you realise that the measly 1.5 Million Veilguard managed is an absolute DISASTER! It means BioWare has alienated 4.5 Million Dragon Age fans with this release. This is the kind of herculian failure that results in studio closures. And this comes off the back of 2 previous failed releases namely Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda. Surely, this was BioWare's last chance at redemption in EA's sight, but instead they have now had 3 flops, consecutive! And this last one was a DELIBERATE alienation of existing Dragon Age fans in favour of pushing extremist woke agenda. I just don't see how EA can keep BioWare going after this.
To note: They didn't say 1.5mil SALES. That's 1.5mil PLAYERS, including those who played it on a subscription service.
Well, maybe if the story and writing weren't abysmal, it would have sold better, but what do I know?
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I 100% agree with you on this. Dragon Age was my most anticipated game of the decade and they severely let me down. Seeing what they had planned in the Art Book makes it so much worse. They had such an amazing game planned, a true sequel to my favorite story of all time, but it was scrapped for this garbage. We had so little player agency I don't know how they can seriously call this a Dragon Age game. The romances were bland and boring. There was literally no conflict or real tension between companions. Everything was so safe. It makes no sense since they were so proud of their M rating, but they did nothing with it. At least I got the conclusion I wanted between my Inquisitor and Solas. That's all I cared about by the end of the game cause they gave me no reason to care about my Rook or their relationships. I'm just disappointed by the journey they chose to reach that conclusion. It could have been so much better. And sadly, even if the next Dragon Age is good, I will never get the amazing story I was promised at the end of Inquisition. And I will never forgive them for stealing that premise to reboot the series into this safe, uninspired, and hand holdy trash.
Excellent excellent comment. Yeah it just plainly wasn't enough. And I'm more of a Mass Effect guy, (but I do love dragon age) and if they butcher Mass Effect I'm going to lose it lol
@podcastnowplus Yeah, I'm really worried about Mass Effect. I don't have much hope for it to be honest. But hopefully they actually take the feedback they are getting about Dragon Age and don't ignore it by saying it's just haters that made the game unsuccessful. The problems go far deeper than the DEI stuff. So I hope they don't just focus on that and ignore the more important feedback. But at least we have Exodus to look forward to. I'm super hyped for that one!
That’s also why video games coming out decades later is alarming, because it could come out being colossal failures for not meeting expectation standards.
But critics told me that Dragon Age Veilguard is a "return to form" so many times. It was even the best Bioware game for Eurogamer. Time magazine even proclaimed it as the GOTY
Didn't we already know this? This is due to the writing and disrespect to the fans. When you make a anything for anyone other than the fanbase it won't sell. Period.
Given how the game didn’t respect the predecessors I’m not too surprised it missed the mark..
Honestly, I’m not at all surprised. I played the game and it was ok at first. Then as I kept playing it just dragged. I will say the last mission was awesome but that’s about it.
Exactly my thoughts on it. It just became so repetitive and an absolute chore to play. Fight the same enemies, destroy blight boils/crystals, fight more of the same enemies.
Last mission was pretty good, though I will say The God of lies and deception being fooled so easily by a fake dagger made by mortals was pretty unconvincing.
They are veeeery sloooowly turning their massive ships away from the money-making mirage that is Live Service. EA, Sony, etc.
I guess gamers identified as non-buynary
I enjoyed playing Veilguard, but it had those glaring remnants of being originally designed as some sort of multiplayer lobby game that was going to have daily login rewards; very repetitive, the world state was not allowed to change in any meaningful way, as is typical for MMOs.
This game was half price in the uk 1 month after release, a good chunk of those 1.5 mill were probably bought on sale
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I'm very surprised they were only expecting to sell 3 million copies. I for sure tought they were expecting the game to be a great sucess and sell around 10M. Kinda sensible they saw the trend and moderated their expectation. Still, 1.5M is not great, not super bad, just okay'ish. Kinda like the game. Makes sense
I love the game it was really fun 😊😊😊😊
When you consider how Dragon Age Origins sold 3.2 million copies on Steam when it was a brand new, unknown IP back in 2009, DA2 sold 2 million and Inquistion a whopping 6 Million, then you realise that the measly 1.5 Million Veilguard managed is an absolute DISASTER! It means BioWare has alienated 4.5 Million Dragon Age fans with this release. This is the kind of herculian failure that results in studio closures. And this comes off the back of 2 previous failed releases namely Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda. Surely, this was BioWare's last chance at redemption in EA's sight, but instead they have now had 3 flops, consecutive! And this last one was a DELIBERATE alienation of existing Dragon Age fans in favour of pushing extremist woke agenda. I just don't see how EA can keep BioWare going after this.