Dragon Age Dragon Age: The Veilguard Thread

[Elttharion]

You know what to do EA

 

[Larianshill]

I find it shocking that trans torso scars have not brought this game to 10+ million copies sold

 

[Butter]

Dragon Age underperformed by 50%

There's no way it did this well.

 

[Larianshill]

I am gonna post this again

 

[Space Satan]

Non-paywalled: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/ea-lowers-q3-guidance-as-soccer-and-other-games-underperformed.html

Dragon Age underperformed by 50%

 

[Mark Richard]

Non-paywalled: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/ea-lowers-q3-guidance-as-soccer-and-other-games-underperformed.html

Dragon Age underperformed by 50%

The company also said that “Dragon Age,” a role-playing game for game consoles such as Sony PlayStation and Microsoft
Xbox, had 1.5 million players during the quarter, which underperformed the company’s expectations by nearly 50%.

“During Q3, we continued to deliver high-quality games and experiences across our portfolio,” EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in the statement. “However, Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC 25 underperformed our net bookings expectations.”

So Veilguard earned $90 million at best while it needed about $200 million thanks to a long and troubled development. Not all players bought it if you count subscriptions.

I don't think so. Someone feel free to correct me, but my understanding is they only sold half of what they needed to by the end of 2024 in order to remain on track to meet their total sales projections. In other words, underperforming by 50% and making $90 million does not mean they were aiming for $200 million. I seriously doubt they'd even break even on that kind of money since Veilguard was in development for 9 years.

 

[Child of Malkav]

Dragon Age underperformed by 50%

A good start. Should have been by 99%.

 

[Elttharion]

Apparently gamepass and Ea Play users had access to a 5 hour trial. If they are counting 'players reached' are they considering those too? Ea play pro users had access to the entire game too. Its possible this didnt even reach 1 million sales depending on what tricks they made to reach the 1.5 million number.

 

[Abu Antar]

Dragon Age Veilguard underperformed? Let me

(I feel like this will get a lot of use in the future.)

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Dragon Age underperformed by 50%

There's no way it did this well.

Underperformed by 50% relative to lowered expectations of 3 million players (n.b. not units sold, but players), with it obtaining only 1.5 million players and a lower number of units sold.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

It's really funny to see how Dragon Age 1.5 old million in first quarter and yet it's considered a flop then you have something like Rogue trader selling a million after a whole year and being considering a success.

The triple A industry going to implode sooner than later because is just to damn expensive and you need a insane amount of sales to justify the cost.

 

[Modron]

It's really funny to see how Dragon Age 1.5 old million in first quarter and yet it's considered a flop then you have something like Rogue trader selling a million after a whole year and being considering a success.

Long development, probably multiple restarts with lots of employees = has to sell multiple millions just to recoup the development cost let alone any additional costs like marketting. It's why Dragon's Dogma 2 can make money with those sales because they had ~70 programmers tops.

Reminds me when Tales from the Borderlands undersold so Telltale had just 5 people do the final episodes which people liked more than the first. Lots of fat and redundancy at even medium sized studios let alone fuck yuge ones.

 

[Larianshill]

Did bad vibes destroy Veilguard?