Dragon Age: Inquisition Pre-Release Thread

[Wirdschowerdn]

If EA wants to have every single game breaking new markets, then they have unrealistic expectations. Not every game can be a Battlefield or Sims, and if they want to, then they better start laying off thousands of people, because nobody *can* do that, no matter how hard Bioware & Co. will try. That's just not how the markets work. You can't please and reach everyone, and never will.

EA is just too big and too greedy for it's own good. Firms of that size with an ever perpetual hunger for reaching out more people will eventually become disfunctional and break.

 

[markec]

2 million units sold within the first 2 weeks. Considering DA2 had a very short development cycle (12-14 months), this definitely was very profitable. But short development cycles do not suite Bioware well (remember the fan backslash and butthurt), and Bio recognized that, hence DA3 will have to sell a bit more with it's 3 year development cycle.

"One million copies of Dragon Age II were sold within two weeks of the launch, faster than Dragon Age: Origins. Within two months of the launch, the game sold-in "over two million copies", meaning that over two million copies have been distributed to retailers. The sales rate of the game has been decreasing fast since its release, selling in later weeks less than what Origins sold in the same numbers of weeks after launch."

Taken from Wikipedia.


The large initial sales were made by fans of the first game and then sales just stopped, since people who was interested in the game already bought it and the game was so shitty they generated poor word of mouth meaning that noone else wanted it.

 

[Angthoron]

If EA wants to have every single game breaking new markets, then they have unrealistic expectations. Not every game can be a Battlefield or Sims, and if they want to, then they better start laying off thousands of people, because nobody *can* do that, no matter how hard Bioware & Co. will try. That's just not how the markets work. You can't please and reach everyone, and never will.

EA is just too big and too greedy for it's own good. Firms of that size with an ever perpetual hunger for reaching out more people will eventually become disfunctional and break.

This is something EA does not understand. Their plans seem to involve buying studios that are relatively big in the field that currently interests them and where they have little presence (See BioWare for RPG, Westwood and Maxis for strategy), then "simplify" the gameplay to expand the potential user bases. It works in some genres, and it certainly fails in others.

 

[Sabriana]

Didn't Pepsi-man grantly announce that the 'game of the future' is the MP game? He seems to be obsessed with it, even. I guess it's the best game form that allows the milking of the customer, coin by coin. Not even DLC can top that, because the player isn't confronted within the game by buyables.

My guess is that DA3, and any other game/company EA gets into their greedy squeeze will feature MP in the future. Personally, I won't touch MP, I'm a dedicated RPG SP. I don't even know how it worked out in NWN, because in all those years I simply ignored the MP/Co-op.

They (EA) are not satisfied with medium, but steady sales. They want it all. Right now! They want the ~10 mill Skyrim crowd, and turn them all into MP-buy bullet by bullet-gimme your money zombies. That's what they want to turn the RPG into, imo.

 

[Volourn]

Taken from WIKIPEDIA.

L0LZ

'Nough said.

 

[Sabriana]

Yeah, markec. Don't you know that the wiki is only true if it states good things about Bioware? Jeez, some people...

 

[Commissar Draco]

Woman speaks the truth don't be yelous Pretty Princess.

 

[Ion Prothon II]

Inb4 Sabriana furiously proving he/she/it is not only a man, but also a true 2009 oldfag.

 

[Sabriana]

Nah, I need not proof anything. My mom gave birth to a female child (two actually), and that's good enough for me. Proving I'm am male would be rather difficult, and a lie to boot - perish the thought.

Although, I could do a female to male transgender, hypothetically. I always wondered how that works. Do they stitch stuff on below, and simply slice stuff off above? Ouch. Even the thought about that hurts.

And how would the stitched on stuff work as the real stuff does? Do you blow it up like a ballon? That'll give a whole new meaning to 'blow job', wouldn't it?

 

[Infinitron]

Sabriana is a true Codexer.

 

[DalekFlay]

Although, I could do a female to male transgender, hypothetically. I always wondered how that works. Do they stitch stuff on below, and simply slice stuff off above? Ouch. Even the thought about that hurts.

And how would the stitched on stuff work as the real stuff does? Do you blow it up like a ballon? That'll give a whole new meaning to 'blow job', wouldn't it?

Your clit is a little undeveloped penis, bro. I mean sis.

 

[Roguey]

Nah, I need not proof anything. My mom gave birth to a female child (two actually), and that's good enough for me. Proving I'm am male would be rather difficult, and a lie to boot - perish the thought.

Although, I could do a female to male transgender, hypothetically. I always wondered how that works. Do they stitch stuff on below, and simply slice stuff off above? Ouch. Even the thought about that hurts.

And how would the stitched on stuff work as the real stuff does? Do you blow it up like a ballon? That'll give a whole new meaning to 'blow job', wouldn't it?

You know there's a whole internet out there where you can look this stuff up. But I can tell you that most transmen opt not to have this surgery because it's more trouble than it's worth.

 

[curry]

you guys are falling for a troll

 

[Sabriana]

you guys are falling for a troll

Oh realy? Who's the troll? Unless you are trying to incite. In that case, not a good performance.

 

[Menckenstein]

Nah, I need not proof anything. My mom gave birth to a female child (two actually), and that's good enough for me. Proving I'm am male would be rather difficult, and a lie to boot - perish the thought.

Although, I could do a female to male transgender, hypothetically. I always wondered how that works. Do they stitch stuff on below, and simply slice stuff off above? Ouch. Even the thought about that hurts.

And how would the stitched on stuff work as the real stuff does? Do you blow it up like a ballon? That'll give a whole new meaning to 'blow job', wouldn't it?

You know there's a whole internet out there where you can look this stuff up. But I can tell you that most transmen opt not to have this surgery because it's more trouble than it's worth.

More trouble than it's worth = a hilariously pathetic looking sex organ with little to no function even with high end implants

M2F for the win, epic for the win.

Suck it down F2M freaks.

 

[Sabriana]

And the meat-head winner is.....

Fill in the blank yourself.

 

[Oriebam]

how do make my cock bigger

 

[Grimlorn]

They expected far more than what they got. They cancelled the DA2 expansion because it did so poorly. They were aiming to enlarge Bioware/EA's market, hence the birth of the "awesome button". However, due to the ineptitude of quite a few people, they managed to not only lose what they had, but failed to attract the 'casual console crowd'.

I bet there was crying and hand-wringing when they saw that Skyrim pulled in the money hand over fist. Now they are looking at Bethesda's Skyrim for inspiration. Even though thinking about a Bioware/Bethsoft hybrid is very scary, it also could be interesting to watch.

Even for a non-MMORPG fan like me, a global subscriber base of only 2 million and dropping steadily, for a game that cost many million to make sounds like a major bust. Weren't they even talking of going to 'free-play'?

r00fles!

Is it still trolling when you become the troll?

 

[Sabriana]

I just checked, and they are doing some fancy dancing around the MP issue. So my guess is, they'll include multi and the shit-ware Origin. Thank you, but no thank you. Keep it, because Origin will not touch my computer as long as my computer shall live.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Rumor: Dragon Age III a Next-Gen title, moved into 2014.

No shit.

 

[Sranchammer]

Rumor: Dragon Age III a Next-Gen title, moved into 2014.

No shit.

Great news! Now the devs will have even more time polishing it up to make the best GOTY ever!

 

[curry]

They'll need extra time to make day one DLC content that needs to be bought separately.

 

[Larendav]

KKKotaku also released this. I think that site would be the last one that I trust.

 

[Data4]

They need the extra time to get the dogfucking just right on their day 1 beastiality DLC.

 

[aris]

If EA wants to have every single game breaking new markets, then they have unrealistic expectations. Not every game can be a Battlefield or Sims, and if they want to, then they better start laying off thousands of people, because nobody *can* do that, no matter how hard Bioware & Co. will try. That's just not how the markets work. You can't please and reach everyone, and never will.

EA is just too big and too greedy for it's own good. Firms of that size with an ever perpetual hunger for reaching out more people will eventually become disfunctional and break.

This is something EA does not understand. Their plans seem to involve buying studios that are relatively big in the field that currently interests them and where they have little presence (See BioWare for RPG, Westwood and Maxis for strategy), then "simplify" the gameplay to expand the potential user bases. It works in some genres, and it certainly fails in others.

Only that EA did not do that with bioware. Bioware was doing itself, long before EA came into the scene, starting around the time of KOTOR and NWN, and what we see today is just a continuation of that strategy. Except for shorter development cycles (but more man-resources), little changed as far as I'm concerned with bioware when EA took over.