Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Elttharion]

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.

He uses a block list like most gaming journos, I am actually surprised he didnt immediately block these people, I guess he needed the interactions.

 

[sebas]

Why are people buying this game on Steam when you can get it for 16 bucks with EA Play?

 

[Drowed]

My bet is 50-70k concurrent at the peak of the curve. Which is a lot, but not really that amazing for a game this big. Maybe I'm underestimating it too much, we'll see.

Yes, it's slowing down right now. I think we're reaching the peak. I don't think it will go past 70,000, a little on the high end of what I thought, but that's about it. So, it's around Project Zomboid, BioShock Infinite, Shadow of War, and Sea of Thieves. Not "bad" since it's on the top 250 games on concurrent players on Steam, but these are old games, there are a lot more people playing nowadays. I think we can say that the game is definitely not a flop, but for sure it's not blowing minds or anything. It feels like it will sell more than it deserves, but way less than what BioWare really needs. I'm curious about how many days it will take to reach 1 million in sales.

 

[goregasm]

I had to look up that Schreier guy..there was a link to his wife...

Woof..she looks like one of those mad ball toys

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

My bet is 50-70k concurrent at the peak of the curve. Which is a lot, but not really that amazing for a game this big. Maybe I'm underestimating it too much, we'll see.

Yes, it's slowing down right now. I think we're reaching the peak. I don't think it will go past 70,000, a little on the high end of what I thought, but that's about it. So, it's around Project Zomboid, BioShock Infinite, Shadow of War, and Sea of Thieves. Not "bad" since it's on the top 250 games on concurrent players on Steam, but these are old games, there are a lot more people playing nowadays. I think we can say that the game is definitely not a flop, but for sure it's not blowing minds or anything. It feels like it will sell more than it deserves, but way less than what BioWare really needs. I'm curious about how many days it will take to reach 1 million in sales.

Shadow of War is pretty fun but I think it suffers from being "too big", the first game was more compact and to the point, while it only had like to environments the combat was fun as fuck. The additions feel more like busywork than anything else. It's worse than the first game yes but still a very fun AAA action game. I might even install it again tbh

 

[Space Satan]

Correct me if I am wrong.
Assuming 60000 people bought faggot age for 75$, let's round that up to 100000 people with consoles and exclude Steam fee. That'll be 7 500 000 $.
How this could be a financial success or somehow feasible for a studio of about 30+ "people"?

 

[quixotic]

10 years of development hell and a budget that has more likely then not breached the 100 million dollar mark.
65k players nearly 4 hours after launch.
This is looking a little grim, fellas.

 

[Late Bloomer]

I had to look up that Schreier guy..there was a link to his wife...

Woof..she looks like one of those mad ball toys

 

[Ryzer]

Correct me if I am wrong.
Assuming 60000 people bought faggot age for 75$, let's round that up to 100000 people with consoles and exclude Steam fee. That'll be 7 500 000 $.
How this could be a financial success or somehow feasible for a studio of about 30+ "people"?

You forget the console players impact.

 

[Elttharion]

I had to look up that Schreier guy..there was a link to his wife...

Woof..she looks like one of those mad ball toys

God's chosen people lmao

 

[goregasm]

It's still mid afternoon here in the states, lunch time on the west coast. Ground zero for turd burglars. It's going to go up a bit over the next few hours.

 

[Skinwalker]

Tbh, if you have to write posts explaining how it's not a financial success, then it's already clear that it's not a total flop.

How is this turd performing better than Androgyny, which by all accounts looks like a better less shittier "game"?

 

[d1r]

Correct me if I am wrong.
Assuming 60000 people bought faggot age for 75$, let's round that up to 100000 people with consoles and exclude Steam fee. That'll be 7 500 000 $.
How this could be a financial success or somehow feasible for a studio of about 30+ "people"?

You forget the console players impact.

PS5 players are the biggest "problem" here. They just don't have any games, and take everything they get their hands on.

 

[Pink Eye]

Numbers so far:

Spoiler

>89
+73
>162
+1,667
>1,829
+2,674
>4,503
+3,219
>7,722
+3,343
>11,065
+3,128
>14,193
+2,850
>17,043
+2,753
>19,796
+2,851
>22,647
+2,436
>25,083
+2,484
>27,567
+2,285
>29,852
+2,046
>31,898
+1,890
>33,788
+1,765
>35,553
+1,599
>37,152
+1,460
>38,612
+1,346
>39,958
+1,429
>41,387
+1,194
>42,581
+1,184
>43,765
+1,057
>44,822
+1,166
>45,988
+1,288
>47,276
+1,477
>48,753
+1,676
>50,429
+1,455
>51,884
+1,156
>53,040
+1,114
>54,154
+1,268
>55,422
+914
>56,336
+899
>57,235
+892
>58,127
+831
>58,958
+693
>59,651
+872
>60,523
+662
>61,185
+748
>61,933
+750
>62,683
+544
>63,227
+658
>63,885
+655
>64,540
+466
>65,006

Differences:

 

[Melcar]

These numbers are going to sextuple during the weekend. Prepare yourselves.

 

[Cat Headed Eagle]

sex

 

[d1r]

Holy fucking shit. The German localization...

That lower part is fucking unreadable because of newly invented pronouns.

 

[Black]

Who snitched?

 

[Asymptotics]

It's still mid afternoon here in the states, lunch time on the west coast. Ground zero for turd burglars. It's going to go up a bit over the next few hours.

It's also going to go down seeing how it's 8-10 PM in Europe.

 

[sebas]

No point doing $ predictions when we barely have any data.

The budget for this game will heavily depend on how much marketing was put behind it, while the sales will depend a lot on consoles.


Strictly speaking about Steam, it's a lukewarm release in the EU&Asia. We will see about the US later today.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

HEY ASSHOLES IT'S STILL PEAKING

 

[Melcar]

It's going to be a massive troon orgy.

 

[Darkwind]

I had to look up that Schreier guy..there was a link to his wife...

Woof..she looks like one of those mad ball toys

Tell me this is AI'd or photoshopped? That is not the real photo right?! If so... oy vey. That is one fiiiiine looking Yenta. My dreidel is really spinning up bigly from that amazing physiognomy.

 

[jackofshadows]

NVM this guy is just an idiot.

Not really. The cunt is simply lying through his teeth.

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.

The EA player base was minimal though. Something like 1-3% of total one. As for consoles - a good amount of people were patiently waiting for BG3 release there so not exactly unfair, again. Finally, there's nothing to wait - there's no way in hell Veilguard will receive the same user review treatment (almost 600k and 96% positive by now by the way).

5 Codexers are currently playing Troonguard. I am disappointed.

well, someone has to get the inside scoop.

Dude the game has no DRM. They're morons to give EA moneys.

 

[Tyranicon]