Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Larianshill]

Clickbait channel that promised that Kathleen Kennedy would be fired a billion times.

 

[Cryomancer]

Clickbait or not :

Rumor: ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ Retail Pre-Order Sales Are “Piss Poor”​

https://thatparkplace.com/rumor-dragon-age-the-veilguard-retail-pre-order-sales-are-piss-poor/

 

[Jermu]

YouTuber Doctor Disaster shared, “I have an acquaintance in the retail world, someone who runs nine stores that sells video games. And I am hearing that these ratios that we’re seeing in damn near every video released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, these ratios are correlating with piss poor pre-sales data

this is the shittiest source I have ever read

 

[mediocrepoet]

YouTuber Doctor Disaster shared, “I have an acquaintance in the retail world, someone who runs nine stores that sells video games. And I am hearing that these ratios that we’re seeing in damn near every video released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, these ratios are correlating with piss poor pre-sales data

this is the shittiest source I have ever read

Really? Well my uncle works at Nintendo and he says that the new Zelda game is also a Switch 2 launch title.

 

[Pink Eye]

Clickbait or not :

Rumor: ‘Dragon Age: The Veilguard’ Retail Pre-Order Sales Are “Piss Poor”​

https://thatparkplace.com/rumor-dragon-age-the-veilguard-retail-pre-order-sales-are-piss-poor/

Gaming "journalism" is a farce. The bastard didn't even do their due diligence by contacting the parities in question to verify the claim - like any actual sensible Journo would do. Do these fuckers do anything useful for my hobby besides churning out garbage guides, crap articles, getting their panties in a twist when gamers call out their entitlement, and generally acting as a marketing arm for big corpo.

I hate gaming journos so much - no substance, lacking critique, generally a waste on my sanity.

 

[thesecret1]

"What's that, your uncle works at Nintendo? They're rebooting the Mario franchise as a battle royale FPS, with female protagonist and an M rating? That's unbelievable, I need to write an article on this right now! What a scoop!"

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

YouTuber Doctor Disaster shared, “I have an acquaintance in the retail world, someone who runs nine stores that sells video games. And I am hearing that these ratios that we’re seeing in damn near every video released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, these ratios are correlating with piss poor pre-sales data

this is the shittiest source I have ever read

Here's the source btw

He's the alt-right Jim Sterling. Zero troonery, 100% cringe.

 

[dukeofwoodberry]

The game is getting mostly negative reaction from what I've been seeing. Early positive (or negative) momentum has a huge impact on a game's financial success. I can see a huge hate train coming from this game. I'm betting on a big flop. I

 

[countrydoctor]

I don't think it's going to be a disastrous flop like the last saints row, because for some absolutely inane reason, Bioware did manage to groom their own clique of shit eaters who came into the franchise with Cisquisition. Their standards are so low they will eat anything. Dragon Age subreddit is full of them.

 

[Old Hans]

I have my suspicions that this guy is not even a real doctor

 

[Tyranicon]

You can just check the best-selling and wishlist charts on Steam.

Horrible numbers for an AAA game about to come out. Diehard fans will cope with "but it's a console game," but it doesn't matter.

Steam is indicative of the popular reception for this.

Their YouTube trailers have been getting consistently ratio'ed.

The only positive thing most people are talking about is the hair tech, completely sidestepping how awful combat looks.

It's joever.

 

[Hedasd]

You can just check the best-selling and wishlist charts on Steam.

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Horrible numbers for an AAA game about to come out. Diehard fans will cope with "but it's a console game," but it doesn't matter.

Steam is indicative of the popular reception for this.

Their YouTube trailers have been getting consistently ratio'ed.

The only positive thing most people are talking about is the hair tech, completely sidestepping how awful combat looks.

It's joever.

It hit 200 2 days ago, it was satisfying to see that. It is also true that most of the fanbase are on consoles, mainly Playstation 5, but it isnt doing good there either. Its at 14 on Playstation pre-orders list and that horrible Suicide Squad game was number 1 for weeks leading up to release. This game is shaping up to be one big AAA flop with almost 9 years of development with various iterations. No wonder senior staff jumped ship between 2019-2021 and a Sims dlc designer rapidly climbed up the ranks to become the director.

 

[Old Hans]

You can just check the best-selling and wishlist charts on Steam.

View attachment 55114

Horrible numbers for an AAA game about to come out. Diehard fans will cope with "but it's a console game," but it doesn't matter.

Steam is indicative of the popular reception for this.

Their YouTube trailers have been getting consistently ratio'ed.

The only positive thing most people are talking about is the hair tech, completely sidestepping how awful combat looks.

It's joever.

Veilguard is like the joe biden presidential run of video games. the media wants you to think its the most popular thing ever, but in reality, it's empty parking lots full of used JEEPS

 

[Child of Malkav]

The game is getting mostly negative reaction from what I've been seeing.

Asmongold helped with that. Hopefully it'll destroy it. Hopefully.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

This game will definitely bomb. Veilguard is getting the same treatment as Suicide Squad, Concord, Saint's Row, Rings of Power, and various Disney live-action slop. It has no chance. The small group of deviants on r/DragonAge aren't going to save it.

 

[thesecret1]

Biodrones will lap it up, but there's not that many of those after Andromeda and Anthem culled the ranks. It's gonna bomb hard and finally kill the franchise.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

It's gonna bomb hard and finally kill BioWare.

ftfy

 

[thesecret1]

It's gonna bomb hard and finally kill BioWare.

ftfy

You think so? I think EA might give them one more chance to resurrect mass effect or something, since their brand somehow still isn't dead

 

[Daemongar]

Any thoughts on recent failures being a "shudder through the industry" type events? Any outside chance that people will come to their senses, rename the main character Mary, give her some large semi-exposed juggs, and as close as California-type developers can come to a heterosexual disposition?

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

It's gonna bomb hard and finally kill BioWare.

ftfy

You think so? I think EA might give them one more chance to resurrect mass effect or something, since their brand somehow still isn't dead

I guess it depends on how far the new Mass Effect is in development. Not sure if the Dragon Age team is working on it, or if it's another group within BioWare. EA doesn't fuck around though. The Dead Space remake was good and sold decently, but EA wasn't impressed and cancelled the sequel remake. It's possible they do the same with Mass Effect if Dragon Age bombs. Especially if it's similarly woke and out of touch with what the broader market wants.

 

[Butter]

Any thoughts on recent failures being a "shudder through the industry" type events? Any outside chance that people will come to their senses, rename the main character Mary, give her some large semi-exposed juggs, and as close as California-type developers can come to a heterosexual disposition?

The only Mary they know is Mary Sue.

 

[Semiurge]

Especially if it's similarly woke and out of touch with what the broader market wants.

Outside of RPGs, the wants of the broader market are simple - hot sloots to look at. They're thirsty for games like Lollipop Chainsaw, which got a remaster recently. Not too many mentions of it from gaming journos. The main character would make their forehead veins pop in a way that could be heard thousands of kilometers away, like the eruption of Krakatoa.

 

[Larianshill]

They're thirsty for games like Lollipop Chainsaw, which got a remaster recently.

I don't know...

That's better than Concord, but not by much.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

lul

Article: https://www.ign.com/articles/how-dragon-age-the-veilguard-the-sims-character-creator-ign

 

[Jermu]

“Character creators are extremely complex, and in many ways even more personal. It’s so important that players feel they can be represented and feel pride in that representation as they go through the creation process,” Busche says. “In particular, I remember we were struggling with some of our iconography, and we turned to each other and said ‘how did The Sims 4 handle this?’ While the technology and UI is quite a bit different, the underlying goals and lessons were quite similar.”

She adds that Maxis has a “tremendous wealth of knowledge when it comes to representing gender, identity, and the surprising number of localization issues that come along with that when you’re releasing in different regions and languages.”