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

NecroLord

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The troons are waking up...

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Looks like someone's gonna get banned...
It's Resetera after all.
 

Swen

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I think the initial day 1 purchase sales can't make a game a success.
But that's the metric mainstream media looks at. Nobody cares if Underrail is an indie darling or a sleeper hit, Baldur's Gate 3 was a massive success because it sold like hotcakes in spite of it being a genre people are supposed to hate. It's sort of what happened to Legend of Grimrock when it came out: it's a game people think they despise, but since they sold it as a shiny new little thing, people went to it en masse.

But these are still sales over month or the whole year that make it a success. It gets sold over word of mouth, youtube videos, reviews from players, streamers, foren, real engagement in social media that discusses the essence of the game and qualiity. Not launchtrailers.
Games are released in a weekend window because they really rely on the initial hit of a day one purchase, surely they can congratulate themselves over x copies sold in a year, but i'd say half of what makes a game a success is based upon that first weekend. It can make it or break it. See Concord. They killed that game just because it didn't sell over two or three days after release.
Sure BG3 was a success at launch. But that's also part of because it's a quality game.
BAAAAAASSSSEEEEEEDDDDDDDD!!

Knew you loved my game, even my biggest haters will become my fans as foretold by the great chud prophecy.
 

Shaki

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BAAAAAASSSSEEEEEEDDDDDDDD!!

Knew you loved my game, even my biggest haters will become my fans as foretold by the great chud prophecy.

DATV is a far more groundbreaking game tho, it single handedly pushed the Overton window when it comes to wokeness in games, now every game that doesn't have a bodybuilding troon giving you 10 minutes long unskippable sermons to which you can only answer "Hell yeah troon power!", will seem not woke in comparison. We're entering new era, where even gay bear isn't shocking anymore, because every accusation of wokeness will be answered with "Cmon, it's not that woke, stop overreacting, have you seen new Dragon Age? Just be happy this game isn't that bad".

Yeah, I'm already starting to look back at BG3 fondly, I'm starting to miss gay bear, vampire and squid, after seeing the horrors beyond human comprehension that Bioware brought upon us.
 

jaekl

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I still hate baldurs gate 3 just as much as I did when I first heard about it and saw the cast of homos and uggos and no matter how bad it gets, I pledge to keep hating it with all of the strength I have in my heart for the rest of my life.
 

Ryzer

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