Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[MerchantKing]

I don't think the weekend will change anything. Starfield had 6-7 times the number of players at about 330k initially when releasing on a Wednesday. Baldur's Gate 3 had over 800k players when releasing on a Thursday. Fallout 4 released on a monday had almost 500kplayers on day one.

To put this further into perspective, Wrath of the Righteous had about 47k players on day one still as a smaller studio. Rogue Trader about 37k. Drag Age: Gay ol' Guard is barely over 60k as a mainline title released by a AAA developer. It's getting players barely better than a smaller indie studio. Bioware is dying and they will be going broke.

 

[kapisi]

It already got 20 times the players Andromeda had on its peak, so yeah, it's "a return to form". A return to form to position themselves in a lower place than idle clicker games I guess.

Andromeda was not on Steam on release

 

[gurugeorge]

The reason these trans writers failed to write a decent fantasy story is their imagination is fully occupied with the personal fantasy world they already live in.

Fantasy written by people who fantasize about being swordsmen will obviously be different to fantasy written by people who fantasize about being women.

Sense I get is that the game, and its target audience, are people who fantasize about having friends.

They knew what they were doing bringing in a Sims director. The slow movement from CRPG to lifestyle simulator will be slow, but they'll get there. Just got to get rid of those icky, vestigial CRPG appendages that are still hanging around so people can plunge right into what they really want, which is less game, more magical friendship funtime.

And I'm not totally against that. But they can do it on their own dime, so to speak. I don't want them twisting my adventure sims into their magical friendship sims.

 

[Falksi]

62 and climbing.

I'd guess plenty of those are haters buying, leaving a bad review, and then requesting a refund.

Was gonna do the same, but then I realized it would add to this number.

 

[Lamiosa]

"I think it is clear to anyone whose brains haven't been infested by grifter worms that the failure of Concord had nothing to do with *woke*"

Interesting take from someone who keeps a close watch on the market. It's like he pretends to not notice we are all apes.

 

[Softgels]

Even though there are still working hours in the US and the game doesn't allow preloading, this number is more pathetic than I thought.

 

[Lamiosa]

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

 

[Sarkile]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

 

[Spectral Pontifex]

Even though there are still working hours in the US and the game doesn't allow preloading, this number is more pathetic than I thought.

Hey, don't say that. Big victory over the chuds.

 

[Pink Eye]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

 

[Decado]

Trying to do comparisons to BG3's Steam performance is pointless for several reasons. First, BG3 had been in early access for years, and had time to garner a significant fan base even before launch -- all driven through Steam. More importantly, it launched on Windows in August, a full month before the first console launch (PS5, September) and then Xbox (December). Dragon Age Failguard is launching on console and PC at the same time, whereas for BG3, the only place to play the game was on PC for at least a month, not to mention it is likely a much more enjoyable to play on a PC given the game's mechanics. Dragon Age is clearly designed for consoles. I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox and PS5 concurrent numbers were way higher than what's on Steam currently.

But again, none of this really matters until you've got a few days to shake things out, and we can see the user reviews.

 

[Elttharion]

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

Meh, Schreier has been rage baiting for decades at this point. Its the only way he manages to stay relevant. That and the ocasional leak.

 

[Old Hans]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

well, someone has to get the inside scoop.

 

[RepHope]

Not surprised this is doing ok, like I said way back when, this has zero competition in terms of RPGs. This will do well enough to justify EA keeping BioWare around. Next DA will have mandatory trans protagonists and no white people at all.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

Meh, Schreier has been rage baiting for decades at this point. Its the only way he manages to stay relevant. That and the ocasional leak.

It's their way of coping they aren't doing anything worthwile. At least sports journalists can claim they cover something people believe in (their favorite team). This is just them trying to larp as Hunter S Thompson, and missing the point entirely.

 

[Skinwalker]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

WHO?! Who is playing Vilefart?!

Names, addresses, photo and video compromat. Now!

 

[Late Bloomer]

 

[EvilWolf]

Trying to do comparisons to BG3's Steam performance is pointless for several reasons. First, BG3 had been in early access for years, and had time to garner a significant fan base even before launch -- all driven through Steam. More importantly, it launched on Windows in August, a full month before the first console launch (PS5, September) and then Xbox (December). Dragon Age Failguard is launching on console and PC at the same time, whereas for BG3, the only place to play the game was on PC for at least a month, not to mention it is likely a much more enjoyable to play on a PC given the game's mechanics. Dragon Age is clearly designed for consoles. I wouldn't be surprised if the Xbox and PS5 concurrent numbers were way higher than what's on Steam currently.

But again, none of this really matters until you've got a few days to shake things out, and we can see the user reviews.

This isn't 2018, consoles don't pull the numbers they used to.

 

[gurugeorge]

Magical thinking will only make your irrational connections and cognitive biases worse.

Believing in God doesn't presuppose itself on any fantastical thinking, you know this, I know this, this is ridiculous, this is elementary atheist argumentation being postulated. Faith isn't predicated on whether or not God is real. I don't need to prove God's existence to pray to him, nor do I need to establish his power to gain comfort, strength, from his embrace in moments of adversity, pain. We turn to God precisely because of the human soul; it's a delicate thing that often times reflects on one's mortality, being alone, the future, pain, hardships, profound concepts that the human soul constantly struggles with as one ages; God is a pure thing that never leads one's soul astray, he's always there, within, giving warmth, comfort, when one accepts his presence; similar to how a Mother comforts a babe in its cradle whenever it cries. Matters of faith have nothing to do with fiction but with the resolve, fortitude, strength, to face life's challenges with the grit and determination that stems from one's connection to God.

Why do I believe in God - precisely because I've experienced the worst that life has thrown at me. Leukemia, homelessness, hopelessness, trauma, and so on. My faith in God is absolute because I know evil is real, and if evil is real, so too is God; if sin is real, then so too is God; if dreams, death, are real then so too is God.

In my experience, usually those who don't believe in God are pampered up children who haven't experienced a single real hardship.

Atheist fedora tippers are some of the most miserable people out there (maybe with a few exceptions).
Materialism doesn't prove much of anything and rationalists endlessly try to explain things like the human intellect and being capable of understanding literally everything with the power of SCIENCE, never mind the fact that there are innumerable things and occurances which have Humanity scratching its collective head trying to fully understand them...

Don't be a cunt atheist (though I perfectly understand if you are agnostic).
Bottom line is that trying to replace Faith with Materialistic Nihilism has led to an entire generation of people feeling that their lives have no meaning and are entirely hopeless.

OR it's led to them filling the poverbial void with woke bullshit. In a materialistic/nihilistic world, the only way of getting any excitement is to work up a high moral dudgeon with a bunch of other people and jockey for social position by demonstrating your virtue and purity (effectively by spiralling into lunacy that's costless because of the cushion of civilization - lunacy that would get you killed in 5 minutes out in the tribunal of Nature, which is precisel8y why Nature is so hated by these people).

These ideologies are quasi religious in that they have many of the characteristics of religions or religious cults, but without any sense of the transcendent - just the bleak cold comfort of material benefits and social status.

 

[Sarkile]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

well, someone has to get the inside scoop.

Now it's 7.

 

[Pink Eye]

Nice dud-uh, shit. Push up time.

 

[Old Hans]

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

well, someone has to get the inside scoop.

Now it's 7.

that is because I activated more sleeper agents

 

[Thalstarion]

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

Oh, that freak. I'm basically a nobody over on Twitter with only seventy followers and he went out of his way to block me. He must be looking in a mirror if he's calling people grifters.

 

[tommy heavenly6]

"I think it is clear to anyone whose brains haven't been infested by grifter worms that the failure of Concord had nothing to do with *woke*"

Interesting take from someone who keeps a close watch on the market. It's like he pretends to not notice we are all apes.

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

109 woke games have flopped so far but it's never woke's fault

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

It already got 20 times the players Andromeda had on its peak, so yeah, it's "a return to form". A return to form to position themselves in a lower place than idle clicker games I guess.

Andromeda was not on Steam on release

A peak of 3k players on Steam is still pathetic for a AAA release, regardless of release date. Red Alert 2 had a Steam peak of 6k-7k players, for reference.