Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Thank god it stopped peaking. Trannies in fucking tatters.

 

[Heinrich]

I haven't followed this thread closely, but why are people arguing and paying attention about sub 100k numbers? Wouldn't it take about 500k of concurrent players at release to be a success considering the development time and team size?

To be honest, I don't really know what the point of comparison for Veilguard should be. Andromeda? But we don't know Andromeda's day 1 numbers.

To be fair, might be 300k. I don't think we ever followed release player count that granularly. Don't think we did with BG3. In any case, the first time we'll have definite numbers will be evening from friday to saturday, so none of this feels terribly relevant.

Edit: To be clear, I am entertained by it's failure, I just don't think there's a point to gloating before the dust settles.

 

[Storyfag]

70k is p. much my Christmas

Cringemas.

 

[Morgoth]

I haven't followed this thread closely, but why are people arguing and paying attention about sub 100k numbers? Wouldn't it take about 500k of concurrent players at release to be a success considering the development time and team size?

I don't think anyone really knows. I'm not even sure why peak player count watching became a thing over the last couple years.

Content populism. Welcome to technocratic hell. Everyone's now hooked up to the machine.

 

[Lacrymas]

But seriously, Bioware promised nudes. I demand what was promised.

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Oh, I get the Qunari redesign now - they are trying to be tieflings because BG3 had them.

 

[Necrensha]

Asmon playing at 20 fps with his 10000$ pc

 

[Larianshill]

The point of comparison was always BG3. BG3 is the single most comparable game to Dragon Age and it demolishes BioWare.

BG3 is also not a usual occurrence, an RPG making this much headway into mainstream is a rarity.

Veilguard did far better than Greedfall, it did better than Outer Worlds, than Disco Elysium. So far it fell short of DOS2, but anything could happen.

 

[Pink Eye]

Wild how one of my biggest disappointments that is DD 2 managed to beat this garbage ass game. Wow.

 

[Gerrard]

How am I just now realizing that Ranni has the same voice actress as Mio in Xenoblade 3?

Nobody cares about dubtranny voices.

It's dropping. This is the peak! It's dropping!

Don't worry, the US players will save it.

 

[Zombra]

I watched the Skill Up review for this and man, the one thing I kept thinking is "12 year olds are their target market now". Same thing that happened with Skyrim. All the edges sanded off to the point where nothing is left. Seems so weird that they're not bothering to try hanging on to the older, more sophisticated fans who can deal with some darkness and have jobs. I'd be curious to hear whether the leads even had a vision of what they wanted to make, what they would have been proud of besides $$$. But I'm sure there's nothing out there but bland marketing speak.

 

[d1r]

I watched the Skill Up review for this and man, the one thing I kept thinking is "12 year olds are their target market now". Same thing that happened with Skyrim. All the edges sanded off to the point where nothing is left. Seems so weird that they're not bothering to try hanging on to the older, more sophisticated fans who can deal with some darkness and have jobs. I'd be curious to hear whether the leads even had a vision of what they wanted to make, what they would have been proud of besides $$$.

Everything must become gay. Embrace the soy, disgrace masculinity.

 

[Asymptotics]

Somehow playing the game at 1440p with everything nearly maxed looks way worse than I thought it would.

Could you share some screenies of what it looks like?

Ultra preset, 1440p, DLSS balanced, raytracing off (looks a little better with the default ray tracing setting, but it doesn't seem to have a stable implementation as it causes stuttering and graphical artifacts for many users)

All of these are from the same place in the tutorial, but as I said - I don't feel like playing further to grab more screenshots.

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Spoiler

 

[kapisi]

Dude

Dude

We got a lame-ass setup for DA5! The cake was a lie all along!

 

[Cryomancer]

Those numbers will likely double on the weekend.

And ... Still be worse than Starfailed.

Tried like 15-20 minutes of this game (don't lose your minds - I didn't buy it) + time it took to create a character. Still in the tutorial, but there's just nothing pulling me to keep playing for now.

Please. ASK REFUND ASAP.

And give a negative review.

 

[Pink Eye]

Ultra preset, 1440p, DLSS balanced, raytracing off (looks a little better with the default ray tracing setting, but it doesn't seem to have a stable implementation as it causes stuttering and graphical artifacts for many users)

All of these are from the same place in the tutorial, but as I said - I don't feel like playing further to grab more screenshots.

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Appreciate ya, thanks.

 

[Melcar]

I watched the Skill Up review for this and man, the one thing I kept thinking is "12 year olds are their target market now". Same thing that happened with Skyrim. All the edges sanded off to the point where nothing is left. Seems so weird that they're not bothering to try hanging on to the older, more sophisticated fans who can deal with some darkness and have jobs. I'd be curious to hear whether the leads even had a vision of what they wanted to make, what they would have been proud of besides $$$. But I'm sure there's nothing out there but bland marketing speak.

As if their average fan is not a 30 year old manchild

 

[BlackAdderBG]

From my own observation you can deduce how much most games sold by x5 the peak players after a week or two and then x10 for a 6 to 12 months after release.

 

[Lucas]

Too much text on this page: now take a break and bow to someone actually resembling a body type 2:

 

[The Wall]

YouTube cavalry has outflanked tumblr tranny infantry. Player count keeps falling. PUSH! Enemy is wavering on X. Reddit cringehold MUST! FALL!

 

[Pink Eye]

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

YouTube cavalry has outflanked tumblr tranny infantry. Player count keeps falling. PUSH! Enemy is wavering on X. Reddit cringehold MUST! FALL!

 

[Modron]

Why are you celebrating one tranny game getting 13 times the peak of another tranny game?

 

[Elttharion]

We have reached the point were BG3 is the 'based' game lmao

 

[Semiurge]

Can't wait for when the normies reach the stage of getting lectured about the use of they/them.

The only kind of "normie" who buys games like this, especially a game so queer / girl coded as Veilguard, is your average middle-class teenage girl. They don't identify as nonbinary but they're definitely cool with the liberal message, especially if they're in arts or humanities. They're what Bioware wants you to become - an ally.

The best ending

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Would you look at this hand-holding.

 

[BlackAdderBG]

We have reached the point were BG3 is the 'based' game lmao

Well, it is, but for the wrong...or the right reasons, not sure. Anyway TB proven to be superior to action slop once again.