Only 50% less? I was hoping for at least 60.

>>700949013
I didn't win until I am throwing rocks at trannies and fags

No more trannies in their next game. Trannies don't buy games. They just diddle children, screech on social media and then they kill themselves.

Umm tran xistas i dont feel so good

1.5 million people bought that steaming turd? Yikes.

>>700949013
>Written by Jason Schreier

OH NO NO NO

>>700949013
eat shitty bald jew jeffy

>>700949013
I heard it was 49%

Daring today, aren't we?

holy fuck that's awful only 1.5? This game need at least 6 millions to make its budget back and it's legs are awful.

dragon age is dead

>>700949013
>Veiguard
>1.5 million copies.
Did normies got tricked thinking it was like BG3?

>>700949013
>only 50%

Wtf....those are some low expectations. I'm genuinely surprised.

>>700949494
Reminds me of Vavrawitz

>>700949013
>>700949442
>>700949773
>>700949792
Players, not copies. EA Play is a thing btw.

>>700949773
As per OP it seems that EA expected over 3m copies sold in first two months so during initial sales window so that shit flopped pretty badly. It will reach 6million after 5 years with very deep discounts.

>>700949013
>You won. Happy?
No, I would've much rather have a good game instead.

>>700949013
>You won. Happy?
I didn't win. We still lost the potential of what Dragon Age Origins could've become.
They lost, but we didn't win anything. It's still a completely squandered IP.

>>700949013
Imagine going to the year 2005 and telling yourself that in 20 years a game having 1.5 million players is a hilarious, business-destroying flop that people on the internet make fun of them for

Good thing Kingdom Come Deliverance is a leftist game now, while incels still have 0 videogames

>>700949013
>You won. Happy?
No. It should have sell less.

>>700949937
how far does this rabbit hole go?

>>700949902
That's how I played it.
Its currently on Gamepass.

>>700949013
Thats better than I thought I did

>>700949843
They expected to sell over 3 million copies in around two months since game came out in november so those arent that low expectations they are basically standard AAA standard. EA doesn't account decade of development, they just account for budget this project got when it finally got off the ground back in 2020/2021. Lost money on cancelled versions of Veilguard got already accounted years ago thats how it works. Ubisoft fell down so much because they cancelled like 7 games in last 2 years or so and they share that in their quartal results.

>>700950051
The raid never ends

>>700949013
>50%
I thought the official expectation from EA was 10 million.

we fucking won /v/ bros. I am crying, this is a huge win! we fucking tanked bioware, and what did we do? nothing! I am so proud of all of you for not buying their game

>>700949967
And then i would also give myself the whole picture
>developers who don't know what the game is supposed to be when it's done
>spend years in pre-production trying to figure out the project
>10 year average development cycle
>budget of hundreds of millions

>>700949967
A million copies use to be great, especially for an action game or rpg.
But with budgets so out of control these days, if your game doesn't sell 5 million copies, it probably bombed.

Why well did Inquisition sell?

>>700949013
Go woke top the ch-ACK

>>700950128
Ride*
Fuck im tired

>>700950013
Your balls will never come back btw

>>700950184
The game took 10 years to release and has been scratched and recreated from scratch at least two times

>>700949013
i did nothing

>>700950085
>currently on Gamepass.
if OP wasn't such a massive faggot and had actually posted the whole article instead of a tiny snippet we could figure out if that 1.5mil included gamepass players which would make the game an even bigger blunder.

>>700949908
that thing is not selling 6 millions in 5 years, it already had a discount and its legs are horrible
it's already falling behind PC ports and old games in every chart and the game hasn't even been out for 6 months

>>700949013
This has not been a good week for trans folx. I wonder how many will join the 41%?

Pretty bad. For comparison, Dragon Age Inquisition sold 12 million but that took a decade to do. Dragon Age: Origins 3.2m in first 3 months, Dragon Age II 2m in first 2 months. Don't think they've updated those numbers recently but it has to be less than 10m or they would've announced it.

In case you didn't know but EA expected the Anthem game to hit 5-6 million in its first quarter and obviously didn't do that. Kinda funny to think they had better expectations for Anthem than a new Dragon Age game.

>>700950356
Veilguard was on EA Play,it was for free with Geforce Now sub and it got added really fast to GamePass so this game flopped fucking hard actually if EA is using "players" wording towards investors lol.

>>700949967
nobody told them to fuck up their budget

>>700950184
>if your game doesn't sell 5 million copies, it probably bombed.
That's what happened with Dead Space 3 and that was 12 years ago

>>700949013
>1.5M
That's a lot of dumb people

>>700950356
The fact that they used the word players instead of sales means that the game may have done sub a million in actual copies sold.

Based. We're winning the culture war chudbros, keep going!

>>700950662
mass effect is never happening is it?

>>700950721
but I did nothing at all?

Is Bioware finally getting shut down? I hope so. I’d rather they not ruin Mass Effect even more.

>>700949494
Is he the Dark Side Phil of game journos?

>>700950745
I feel like Bioware is done. They rushed out announcing the new Mass Effect so if EA comes in and says "We are shutting you down" Bioware can counter back and say "We are already a couple of years into making the New Mass Effect, despite showing fucking nothing, so do you really want the money you already spent to be a waste?"

>>700949013
>1.5m
rumors were true, holy shit xisters, i can't believe it failed that hard

>>700949494
Lol

It's hard to believe 1.5m people bought that. Who? Burgers? Indians?

>>700950923
Meanwhile Kindgom Come with gays and niggers is number 1 in preorders. The woke has won

>>700949013
How many copies did they really expect

>>700949013
>SELLS ONLY 1.5M COPIES
the text says 1.5m *players*. it was also available on EA's subscription service and for free through an nvidia promo. probably sold even less.

>>700950167
>what did we do? nothing!
I can't believe that worked.

>>700950551
If all of that is true the game might have sold, at best, 600 or 700k copies. Like we are talking about players in total. So anyone who installs the game on eaplay or gamepass, tries it for an hour, quits because it's shit and never touches it again is included in that 1.5mil figure. Veilguard didn't just bomb, it bombed hard. Especially for a game that was in development for a solid decade.

>>700950901
Bioware has been done for quite some time. They are Bioware in name only. It's just EA using the name of another once respected company to try and milk out every last penny from the fans that they can.

>>700950745
It legit might be the last chance for Bioware lmao. EA will finally pull the plug on them if ME flops and looking at them and industry overall chances are 50/50 for this to happen. They released 4 AAA bombs in a row thats fucking retarded.
>>700950901
Bioware's studio head couple of days ago said that new ME is their only project now so EA told them to focus on this and if that fails they are fucking done 100%.

>>700949013
That's a fairly small amount of sales for a AAA-sized company, I'd say? I wouldn't WANT to buy another copy, but I could easily

>>700951090
astrobot might have outsold veilguard kek

>>700951060
They expected 3 million players in about 3 months. The key word is that they used the word "players" and not "sales" which means all they were looking for is people to play the game even if it was through gamepass or EA subscription service.

>it still sold 1.5 million
>1.5 million redditors who bought a game lecturing them on real world gender identify garbage in a fantasy world
fucking depressing

>>700951195
Fucking Stellar Blade outsold Veilguard.

>>700950990
The game sold far less than that, look at the wording in OP's image
It's 1.5 million players after giving it away on several services as some anons in this thread noted

>>700951013
>The woke has won
preach xister!

>>700951237
they noticed how concord was being used as anti gay ammo and tried to prop up troonguard

>>700951237
No, it's 1.5m players
The game's on gamepass, so I'd bet a good 30% or more of these players didn't buy it

>>700951195
Astro is 1.5 mil since November and the holiday rush and winning GOTY probably spiked sales up to 2 mil or more so yeah it did
The speedrun stages also became more of an esport than Concord hoped it could ever be. Don't believe me? Look up PlayStation Tournaments XP

>>700949792
there are 8 billion people in the world
that means that 0.01% bought veilguard
it's not a good achievement

>>700951013
>#1 in pre-orders
>pre-order competition is literal indies
just because big brand is selling 5 games more than the literal who indie game, it does not mean it's selling well
troonguard was topping steam sales charts because there wasn't anything else being sold

>>700950536
>Kinda funny to think they had better expectations for Anthem than a new Dragon Age game.
Not surprising in context. Anthem was 5 years earlier in the process of Bioware dying, and was one of the defining disasters itself.

People dont realize that 3 million they expected is NOT because they though game will be success but exactly because they had tempered lowered forecasts internally. EA expected Anthem to sell 5.5 million in first quarter for example they always had massive internal expectations on par with fucking Square Enix so a fact they had such expectations towards Veilguard means they knew it will bomb by default.

>>700951467
It's not on gamepass yet.

>>700951306
ah yes subscriptions
well it's still amazing that it would see any kind of number above double digits
not even the first dragon age game was good

>>700951560
it's a shame that of all studios EA has killed off, biowaste is still operating flop after flop

>>700949013
>reached 1.5m players
>reached

Is there confirmation that the 1.5m meant actual sales, or were they getting fucky with the accounting for shit like gamepass or whatever?

>>700951557
Does it mean new Monster Hunter has lower sales as it's lower than KC2??

>>700949494
i bet he was seething the entire time he was writing this

>>700951486
The bar is really low I'm starting to think even PC ports like red dead redemption and playstation PC ports might have outsold veilguard

>>700951676
Not for much longer I expect. It's a Ship of Theseus job anyway, nobody still there has anything to do with what made Bioware successful in the past. If the name is mud too then EA have nothing to lose any more.

>>700951770
it's more than a month further away anon, the closest game to come out has more sales
current sales charts arent Totals, they're counted either daily or weekly

>>700949013
Nevermind Veilshit, they apparently fucked up their Fifa successor. How the fuck did they manage that? It's literally the same game every time.

>>700950901
Bioware has been finished ever since anthem. No one actually has any hope they will ever release another fun game again

friendly reminder for the Bioware employees that are reading this:
you're going to get fired soon :)

>>700952003
I guess that make sense. I see most of his comments under him are negative so it weird he would get that many people backing him in preorders

>>700949734
>User banned (permanent): troll account
damn

Modern BioWare is pure shit. They fucked up with Andromeda and Anthem, and were stupid enough to change their anticipated "Dragon Age: Dreadwolf" to shitty, faggy-sounding "The Veilguard" full of pathetic soi characters and millenial writing.

>>700949013
>it's real
>it's not even sales, just players which includes ea access or whatever they call it
Holy shit, I doubt they will kill Bioware, but the DA team is fucking dead

>>700949013
>companies expectations were to sell less copies than it would take them to break even

What

>>700951910
the name bioware is still worth money
if Veilguard had been made by EA instead of Bioware it would have sold less than half of what it did

>>700949494
>tweets protected
>fucked off to trannysky
A tale as old as time.

>>700952360
>the name bioware is still worth money
lmao no its fucking not

>>700949013
Bigot chuds are doing economic terrorism

>>700949013
heir "official statement" was that the game "reached 1.5 million people".

Now parse that out. Get specific. Does that mean 1.5 million units SOLD? Minus how many refunds? How many units were given away to influencers and reviewers and bloggers and journalists? What EXACTLY does "reach" even mean? Some unwitting thief steal a box of sealed games from a warehouse, does that count as "reach"? Does one thief of 1000 copies mean 1000 players?

They are being wildly ambiguous for a reason. Its like Disney and Netflix saying a show got watched for a million minutes. Well if the shit is an hour per episode and there's 15 episodes in a season, that really actually only means that 1100 people watched the entire thing. But A MILLION is a big number.

These fucking people warp the shit out of nuance.

>>700952360
>the name bioware is still worth money
and it keeps getting shoved in the mud with every shitty game
this sold less than ME andromeda

>>700950197
Bundles

>>700949494
>>700949734
Kekaroo

>>700952032
>How the fuck did they manage that?
By forcing people to play with female players

>>700951910
>Not for much longer I expect
they're deflecting blame to their football game >>700949612

>>700952592
>Does that mean 1.5 million units SOLD
No obviously. Even when they dont give "units shipped/sold" sentence they always say that game was "commercial succes" and met expectations like EA literally did for Jedi Survivor for example. During quartal results they openly said that Jedi game is "commercial success" meanwhile here they use wording like "reached players" so its to appease boomer investors who dont know what this actually means as in "it aint THAT bad" while it actually is that fucking bad.

>>700949013
EA: We spent 100 million, the game sold 1.5, we're closing down the studio
Sony: We spent 400 million, our sales target was Star Wars, the game is cancelled
Nintendo: The game sold 5 million, it's one of our worst selling games of all time

>>700952939
>By forcing people to play with female players
???????????????
are you serious?

>>700952467
how can it be as old as time if blusky only got popularized in the last year or two

EA is finally gonna kill bioware. Good

>>700953024

Isn't it super bad news for EA if their soccer game isn't doing well? I thought it was like 70% of their income.

CHUDDA NO!

>>700953129
before or after Mass Effect 4?

>>700953129
They are still making Mass Effect

>>700950168
I remember in highschool when everyone lost their shit when it came out that GTA 4 cost over 100 million dollars. Now that's just normal. The amount of money being thrown around nowadays is insane. That's why they all have to be hits, they can't afford a game to undersell whatsoever. They put all of their eggs in those baskets.

Y'all are making fun of our Chuddhistic achievement, but I know for a fact the /v/ of 10 or even 5 years ago would, to a large share, have bought it but then bitched about it on /v/.

>>700949937
I want funny and cute clown gf so badly

go woke go br-
err... top the charts

>>700949013
>1.5 million players
>players
>not sales
usually companies refer to players instead of sales when the game is offered on a subscription service or a timed trial. veilguard had a timed trial, so chances are nobody actually bought this shit and EA is padding the stat by making you think it was more successful than it is

>>700953129
one would wish that
but they're blaming football for it
>>700953146
>I thought it was like 70% of their income.
exactly, they're using the fact that it sold a bit less this year and sweeping troonguard flopping under the rug so they dont have to shutdown biohazard

They will forcibly take away games you like in response to games like Concord and Veilguard failing. They will not lie down so easily.

>>700950085

No it’s not, whatever tier of EA play gamepass gets doesn’t get EA games until they’re like 12-18 months old

>>700953129
No, but hydra will lose another head

You're next, Warhorse

yet another one for the woke flop pile

>>700949013
>using "players" instead of units shipped or sold
yeah this shit flopped hard lol, trying to convince their investors that their tranny game wasn't a complete abomination and a black mark on their resume. KWAB

>>700949013
>it probably sold less than fucking astro bot which is a ps5 exclusive that cost $20 million to make
lol. lmao even.

>>700949013
There's no way it actually sold that many copies, they are lying to save face

>>700953689
is it true?

>>700953689
>>700953464
not just timed trial players, that's also including gamepass numbers. it actually shitted and flopped.

Were there even any Dragon Age fans left after Inquisition? You can't just revive a franchise that died of natural causes and expect anyone to care.

>>700953689
Good call, that means copies that were gotten for free from gpus and refunded copies are counted. Potentially even pirated copies because of telemetry.

>>700951195
Gaming is healing.

HOW DID IT EVEN REACH 1.5 MILLION ARE PEOPLE INSANE? HOW? IT'S UGLY. HOW
HOW IS 1.5 M EVEN POSSIBLE. people are really not waking up.

>>700950745
Are you retarded, did you already memoryhole Andromeda?

>>700953831
There were. But turning DA into disney cartoon wasnt something that would bring them back

>>700950745
I hope t his is true

>>700953265
Which all comes down to a lack of vision. GTA famously was supposed to be a racing game, Fortnite was a DayZ clone with cartoon graphics but those were the exception. Most games, in the end, turned out to be what they were planned or, at most, took a couple months to figure it out. Mass Effect was always a KOTOR with shooter combat and Dragon Age was always a spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate. But now you have games that spend the better part of a decade in pre-production where they get scrapped, overhauled and redesigned until the project leads figure what works and what doesn't. Then the game goes into alpha for 2 years where they actually cobble it together, followed by a 12 month beta phase and as soon as the game is "good enough" they release it because it has to start making money.

>>700949013
Good, let this IP rest in pieces.

We all the know the main reason for Veilguard flopping. But I wonder if it would have sold much better/worse without that cartoon-ish art style?

>>700951013
Sounds like cope so better prep that rope.

>>700954097
realism is a cancer

>>700949013
Good.

Shut it down.

>>700953126
it is as old as time
>jews get annihilated by chad white guys and restricted from most normal jobs
>they fuck off to commiefornia and starts hollywood with all the other jews
same shit different circumstance

>>700953689
KWAB? No, I'm not a newfag.

>>700949013
As was foretold.

>>700949937

>>700949937

Name of this qt Clown?

Larian showing up Bioware using their own old ip that Dragon Age was meant to be as successor to is so funny.

>>700949013
Im surprised it broke 1mil at all

That piece of shit was forgotten one week after it launched

>>700954496
jester

>>700954685
i hope Larian makes a space opera game next to out do Mass Effect

>>700949013
>And there's the rub.
God, I fucking hate the British. Why does all your slang sound so fucking stupid? And why does it sound WORSE if you say it in your own accents?

>>700951013
Enjoy it while you can

I hear Bioware aren't even starting ME4 yet, they are stuck downgraded into being a support studio for other games lol.

>>700954863
Why the fuck is Life is Strange True Colors on there? It exceeded its projected sales and turned a profit that the devs immediately threw in the trash with its dogshit follow-up Double Exposure

>>700954973
probably the same reason Bless Online, a game made by Koreans, is on the list

anon is an idiot

>>700949494
I wonder if the editor forced him to write it specifically

>>700954967
>I hear Bioware aren't even starting ME4
isn't that what their B team is for? or was Veilguard their B team?

>>700954973
Under "Waste of plastic and manpower", which is the catch-all for games that turned a profit, but anon is a retard and wanted to try and claim something negative about them anyway.

>>700954718
Kill jester.

it did not sell 1.5 mil copies, you dumb fucking retards
game was on EA play
nobody fucking bought it

>>700951013
It's not. What a stupid nigger claim to make.

>>700954140
No, realism works with proper aesthetic liberties being taken. Origins still looks good because it was still a consistent style with itself. Veilguard looked bad because it took a bad stylistic choice on top of the realistic graphics. Giving everyone bobbleheads, for instance. The fact that your character could look like a Frankenstein monster was another. Aesthetically it was all over the place, it didn't have that internal consistency the previous titles had. They just dropped the ball on all accounts.

>>700955160
Origins never looked good

>>700955087
DA is the smaller franchise, so the latter

>>700951013
You're making them cry, I hope you're happy

>>700950013
>while incels still have 0 videogames
Minecraft will forever be a Chad + Stud game, and it's the best selling game of all time

>>700953087
Nta but yeah
Women play with men, and have as high stats as them
They really want people to believe some completely unknown cunt is just as good at footy as Messi

>>700949013
>SELLS
You mean
>REACHED
lol
lmao

>>700949494
are there people who really use chud unironically?

>>700949937
HOW DO I GET A HOT CLOWN GF FUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK

>>700949013
Not good enough.
Needs more nothing-ing.

>>700954863
Pharaoh was bad because of the absolute lack of content. It wasn't an SJW game. The Dynasties expansion actually fixed the game by adding a bunch of new factions and a proper map and it's good now. People just don't like the bronze age, which is why it flopped. I'm one of the rare people that do.

Somewhere some mba took the wrong lessons from this and at ea says to the board " see i told you we should have monetized this, this game clearly failed as a result of us not doing that

FIFA failing is the big surprise here.

>>700949013
Feels really good to see the AAA industry dying like that.
anyway, tic toc tic toc Kingdom Gay/Assassin's nigga

>>700949792
reminder that journos were pushing articles calling it unfair to compare it to BG3 lmao

>>700954097
I don't think it would have mattered much, the story is still cartoonish and feels good. If they made a mature classic fantasy story, it would have been a huge success. You can have your gays and trannies, that never stopped other games from being sucessful like Fromsoft. The problem with western gaming is that they put out on your face too hard, almost rub on your face. People want to play these type of games to escape reality

>>700950047
Esl

>>700954237
There were SO MANY red flags with this game it's insane

>>700954698
They said "reached" not sold, they might be counting free trials on EA play

>>700950085
it's not on ea play, at least not on the titles offered through the goypass thingy and I swear the latest need for speed was offered there day one

>>700953126
You wanna know how I know you're autistic?

>>700953126
the retarded libs have left twitter multiple times in the past for other doomed apps and always come crawling back. "tale as old as time"

>>700955879
It's on EA Play Pro

>>700955879
nevermind i'm retarded, it IS on ea play through the goypass, just never noticed it there in the first place

>>700955293
that's fucking wild
and i guess people fucking noticed it

>>700955824
I like how many game studios have come out and said "Don't expect this level of quality from our games". Imagine unironically saying "We are not nor do are we even going to attempt to be that good"
really separates the wheat from the chaff.

>>700954789
We don’t need a pozzed “Mass Effect at home”, we already have mass effect.

>>700949013
>You won
That's weird. I don't remember doing anything.

So even in 2024 games are still selling less than Dead Space 3 was supposed to?

>>700950184
man Battlefield V sold more than 6 million copies and was deemed as a disappointment by EA

>>700956062
not anymore, we don't

>>700949013
>reached
interesting...

>>700956062
Yeah but at least the game would be fun and everyone would be killable. BG3 may have annoying characters but you can murder every one you don't like.

>>700955824
>Top left article
>It's all generic corpo-speak that says absolutely nothing at all
Oh man, I love video game """"journalism""""

>>700954789
what's gonna be the BEAR FUCKING moment?
fucking ET?

>>700949937
NEVER POST THIS AGAIN

>>700955571
losing the brand name really hurt it. that and fifa is just a bad value proposition compared to gachas where your account doesn't get reset every year.

Good
Shit games deserve to fail

>>700949013
example number 3 billion that trannoids don't buy games

https://ir.ea.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2025/Electronic-Arts-Pre-Announces-Preliminary-Q3-FY25-Results/default.aspx
>Separately, Dragon Age engaged approximately 1.5 million players during the quarter, down nearly 50% from the company’s expectations.
>“ During Q3, we continued to deliver high-quality games and experiences across our portfolio; however, Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC 25 underperformed our net bookings expectations,” said Andrew Wilson, CEO of EA.

>>700956168
Triple A is in full freefall

>>700952592
>They are being wildly ambiguous for a reason
Check statistics revealed by Concord when they were during beta.
>over 10 million steps from characters
>over 5 millions of bullets shot
like, who the fuck cares about it> Makes me wonder what the fuck did the heads of Sony HQ think when they saw that "relevant" information

>>700955995
Wait it was on fucking GamePass? Holy fuck, no wonder why they used "players" as a metric.

>>700952359
Not a terribly uncommon practice since a lot of times you can make that back + profit on DLCs and micro transactions

>>700956403
They literally call someone playing a game a "booking"? Top kek

>>700950745
I fucking hope so

>>700956403
>Andrew Wilson
Is he going to whip his employees for this

>>700949937
pls...post the name of this jester...

>>700956403
>""engaged approximately 1.5 million players""
>engaged
Oh man, it sold WAY less than that

>>700956278
you can fuck a legally distinct rancor

Clearest case of go woke go broke there is. People hate leftoids. End of story.

>>700955087
There's no B Team now.
There's only Austin left.
They're closing the OG studio in Canadia.

>>700955293
I would be livid if the gacha pool thingy for their ultimate team was also dilluted with female players now, which I don't doubt that could be the case

>>700955664
>>700956061
Imagine buckbreaking an entire industry like this.

>>700954097
The original writers are long gone so probably not

>>700954496
Emiru

>>700956724
>Austin
Edmonton, Austin shut down when EA took SWTOR away

>>700949013
>blaming soccer
FIFA Spics dont play anything else its a completely different audience

>>700949013
Only 50% less? They developed that turd for a decade and they only expected 3M sales?

>>700949013
>1.5 million "players" (not sales)
>over 30 million game pass subs
So to summarize, over 30 million people were offered this game at no additional charge, and over 95% of them said no thanks.

>>700956793
there's only one studio left and it was DA veilguard devs? seriously? fuck, i had hope that this was the B team

>>700954237
I like how the troon name stands out so much
why do they always choose names like that?

DOes "50% less" mean they expected it to sell 3 million, or 2.25 million?

>>700956683
Bioware has been woke since 2011 and they haven't made a halfway enjoyable game since.

CHUD STOOOOP YOU'RE KILLING ALL THE GAMES AND STUDIOS

weren't there talks about them closing one of the major studios next month or something when the tranny director left the team?

>>700956874
it's not on gamepass yet, the weird ea subscription thing doesn't have retail releases day 1
it feels like they usually aim for 8-12 months after the releases before it's on there

>>700956974
>Bioware has been woke since 2011
Baludrs Gate 1 had blacks and gay people back in 1998, so incels would consider it woke too

>>700956993
https://the-temple.netlify.app/

>>700957119
Wrong.

>every previous dragon age
>hey, this companion comes with some baggage, also they're kind of weird, oh and hey this one is a literal abomination that could kill you all at any moment
>I, THE PLAYER, REFUSE THIS COMPANION
>okay, understandable, we'll just get that out of here, have a nice day

>dragon age: veilguard
>we're going to go save an abomination!
>player character: I WHOLELY SUPPORT THIS AND WANT HIM TO COME WITH, HE IS A COOL GUY
>any companion you bring: I dunno, seems like a bad idea...
>player character: SHUT THE FUCK UP, WE'RE KEEPING HIM, NO DISCUSSION
all with you never being able to say otherwise
jesus christ

>>700956825
EA gambled on FIFAtards being too retarded to notice their yearly soccer game didn't have the branding anymore

Reminder that Mark Darrah revealed they haven't even began working on the next Mass Effect yet, Bioware is currently got downgraded to being a support studio for other EA games

Day of the rake for Bioware soon enough inshallah

>>700957250
it's less sales than astro bot lmao

>>700956793
afaik Austin isn't closing
they've been working on the ME reboot since TOR was given to the Dark Age of Camelot devs and they also did work on Veilguard

it's Edmonton that is rumored to be closing down
i thought it was a done deal but apparently it's only rumors for now:
https://thatparkplace.com/corinne-bush-gone-from-bioware/

>>700957089
that is an as-yet unconfirmed rumor that accompanied the now-confirmed rumor of the director leaving

>>700957119
well, i drew the line at DAII
lots of other people did too

>>700956732
truly, we are in the good timeline where he even got to come back to the game awards and publicly shit on other devs.

>>700957119
You are rewriting a little too much, bg3 fan.

>>700957409
>games don't have to increase in technical complexity or size
>IS THAT A 150GB UNOPTIMIZED PORT? YOU SHOULD'VE BOUGHT A 4090 CHUD
Journos are actually scum.

>>700951158
You know I think I could probably eat that, I think the soda would be the part that might make me fail.

>>700957403
Inquisition was the best-selling Dragon Age game

>>700956471
yeah it was there the entire time, I just didn't notice it there

>>700957462
I don't blame you for not knowing anything when Baldurs Gate is older than you, kid

>>700951467
Wrong.
Also, people who install the game and play for less than an hour and ditch the game also counts as players

>>700955695
*Should've'd had sold less

>>700957565
>forgot EA play is included in game pass
>300k or so players are actually not even sales because of it
Fuck me lol

>>700957505
>>IS THAT A 150GB UNOPTIMIZED PORT? YOU SHOULD'VE BOUGHT A 4090 CHUD
This mentality is the end of AAA games you can't have a viable product if only 5% of pc gamers have a pc that can play them

>>700955689
>You can have your gays and trannies, that never stopped other games from being sucessful like Fromsoft.
The fuck are you talking about schizo? A trap character that normalfags only learn is a boy through the obfuscated lore isnt the same as a the manfaced tranny demon screaming about pronouns or and gay sex

>>700950085
not even worth the hard drive space

>>700949013
>Sold
They also were giving it at high discount and alongside video cards no?
So of that number... How many did actually made profit?

>>700957403
>Anders only mentions being with Karl IF you play as a male Hawke
That shit still confuses me

>>700957675
beautiful

>>700949013
>SELLS ONLY 1.5M COPIES
No, no, no. It had 1.5 million players, not sales.
This is an important difference, because the game was "free" on EA Play and Geforce Now.

>Bioware writers confirmed to bne working on the new Battlefield game.
FUCK OFF. LET BATTLEFIELD DIE IN PEACE.

How to save Dragon Age.
Step 1. Full reboot. 2, Inquisition, and Veilguard are no longer canon. Origins is remade from the ground up -- all dialogue is preserved and reused, the story and companions are untouched, the music, and the gameplay stays the same. Only the graphics, performance, and animations are improved upon.
Step 2: Dragon Age Origins II. Same template, new land. A new band of heroes have to unite to beat a threat. Your companions are quest aware and will comment on your choices. No modern day politics. Choices matter.
Step 3: repeat ad infinitum
It's that fucking simple. Just keep making Dragon Age Origins in a new land, with a new plot, and with new characters. Baldur's Gate III has shown that there's still a market for CRPGs like this.

>>700957571
Nta but Dynaheir is a "witch" from a far off and very different land.

>>700956475
all those DA:V DLCs (or rather their absence) was another proof that EA saw the writing on the wall. The fact that game failed to reach even that "engage" levels is impressive.

>>700956661
I love the jewish arithmetic nonsense
pure unadultered COPE

>>700949013
That's not sales dummy. It's players. Includes free copies given away, subscription services, etc. It sold less than 1.5 mil

>>700957801
BARVE INCOMING
STATE YOUR PRONOUNS SOLDIER

>>700957675
I still can't believe they call it "bookings"

any good troon cope yet?

>>700957765
Women don't actually like men getting fucked in the ass.

>>700949937
>Clussy
I NEED some of that

>>700957828
>How to save Dragon Age.
Step 1:
Delete BioWare
Step 2:
License the IP to the Japanese
Step 3:
Enjoy your newfound success as up to 20 entries are made in the span of 30 years and all sell at or above expectations.

>>700957931
what's with fujos then?

>>700954197
>by chad white guys
>When they get the most freedom in white countries
>When the majority of the countries that kick them out are not white
????

>>700957828
I can do it in fewer words
>make it dark fantasy again, instead of marvel fantasy
>make the stakes a single country or less again, not constant gods and world ending super hero bullshit

>>700957908
Overpriced and upscale restaurants often maintain an image of relevancy and prominence by always being "booked" full, could be a similar tactic to trick investors

>>700957980
Rotten girls.
https://youtu.be/sV2H712ldOI?si=kwYpt4b8SKKACgzw

>players
sleazy wording, why not say sales? they're definitely counting all the copies they gave away for free with bundles as players, and the game has a free trial too so I bet they're counting those as "players" too, I doubt that piece of shit actually sold a million copies

>>700957684
>Muh trap
Weird cope, he was clearly gay which is his whole point, nobody fucking cares if you have a gay faggot as long as his whole character isn't "I'm gay and you're a chud"

>>700957779
and it was given away with every graphics card under the sun

>>700958057
Jap Disney man was right

>>700958106
Because then it would look bad for shareholders

>>700949967
I don't know why you >imagine posters always assume that everybody was braindead 20 years ago.
If you asked me back then "you spend 10 years with a massive team on something and then make barely enough to cover 2 years of that, did you do good?" I would have called you a faggot.

>>700949013
Surprisingly people on Steam seem to like it, at mostly positive the last I've seen a few days ago.

>>700958057
At least they like boys.

>>700958231
the shareholders probably see the profits so it's not gonna fool them, it's number massaging as a pr stunt

>>700950990
Why would that be hard to believe when half the thread can't even read.

>>700957830
If Musa Mali was a female witch, would incels cry less?

>>700958314
just have to delete all the negative reviews and then it's almost positive!

>>700951768
Clearly number fuckery. Probably not just counting game subscription services, but also people who refunded 20 minutes in.

Even if this game had absolutely no tranny shit in it it would have flopped just as hard. The writing, story, and characters, the stuff people play a Dragon Age game for, are that fucking bad.

>>700958238
Anon those kinds of numbers used to be fantastic, that's his point.
IF you then go into detail on how 1 to at most 5 year projects became a thing of the past with ballooned budgets and workforces of course it would make sense to people back then.

Also damn we used to consider Duke Forevers dev cycle a hellishly long one

>>700949013
How are we constantly seeing games sell 1 million copies but not be profitable due to budgets, and yet no one notices the problem is the budget? Better yet why do these games have such insane budgets that hardly transfer over to the actual fucking game? Surely it won't take AAA games imploding for them to realize this, right? Shit makes me feel like a hypocrite for thinking most of these companies should just go private to avoid the "responsibility to the shareholders" bullshit when I own stocks in some of them

>>700949494
It's been a while. Isn't he the "Dragon's Crown Sorceress is a lolicon fantasy" faggot?

>>700954212
You clearly are.

>>700958420
I dont remember Baldurs Gate 0.5 selling on any promises of being a sword coast native exclusive story in a setting where the races weren't intermixed to begin with

>>700954967
I don't think Bioware proper was ever in the running to make ME4(5). Didn't that get pushed on some clone studio in Texas?

>>700958639
yeah, dunno about the lolicon quote though. How the fuck do you look at the Sorceress and see a loli is beyond me

>>700955223
>DA is the smaller franchise
I like how many of you retards say this even though it's objectively, measurably and easily researchably totally a word false. Kill yourself, you enemy of truth.

>>700958586
and how would you reduce budgets? hire competent people? that's racist, not hire consulting companies like sweet baby inc? enjoy the constant slander from the journalists, not spend a 100 million on advertising? then who will even know that this crap is coming out? every cent spent is justified in the rotten westoid gaming industry

>>700958639
Yep, he's also the guy responsible for scaring Bethesda away from talking to journos because he leaked F4 script

>>700958846
Cope: the post

>Veilguard managed to lose money in a time where people are very hungry for a WRPG with politics, darkness and romance
>the game's direction was CHANGED early on by troons
I genuinely believe Veilguard with good writing, dark politics and proper romances could have easily broke 10 million in a year.

>>700958831
Literally just using a word he heard without actually understanding its meaning. His response to people pointing it out was essentially "w-well YOU would know".

>>700958846
A game as forgettable as Inq selling a few million isn't exactly franchise value to prospective investors anon

>>700958639
yeah, also don't forget he stayed silent on the activision/blizzard rapefest until he could benefit from reporting it

>>700958550
Why can't we go back? Are the suits that retarded and think we need 4k inside nose hair textures and paying some thot to model her ass out of? I don't get it, if you want a return on your money, the shortest timeframes and least waste should be the meta here.

What's making -that- not happen?

>>700949902
>not even 1.5 million copies sold

OH NO NO NO NO HAHAAHAHA

>>700956327
>losing the brand name really hurt it.
Is that why EA FC24 sold more copies than FIFA23 and was their biggest ball kicking launch?

>>700958867
Drop out of the graphical arms race. A game doesn't need to render nosehairs in 4k if the modelers and texture artists aren't up to snuff, and having a distinctive art style is far preferable to a hideous attempt at photorealism.

>>700958961
Each and every person that was in charge of an important role jumped ship one after the other, after Inquisition they had written themselves into a corner and as such they just left it into the hands of a willing if incompetent tranny

>>700958831
I still think about how George drew that picture of gay dwarves as a response to this, imagine getting btfo that bad

>>700957179
And they were clearly right, since last years game did amazing without the branding.

>>700957828
At this point why even save it? Generic fantasy world #74 with 3 bad and 1 good title does not need to be preserved.

>>700957556
>best-selling Dragon Age game
more like best free Dragon Age game amiright?

>>700950197
Did it? I never heard any clear sales figure, just "12 million!". Which could include copies sold, bundled, shipped, downloaded from Gamepass, EA Play etc

>EA's new FIFA also flopped
Damn!! Nature is healing.

>>700958001
>I don't know history
That's okay, anon. You were born dumb and you'll die that way.

RetardEra all pretending like this was going to happen to the game anyways.

>>700949494
So why is it bad for him to defend a game he doesn't like but okay when /v/ does the same for Stellar Blade?

>>700959146
>Vidya starts to exceed film profits
>Not even limited to CoD/micro transaction shit
>Vidya decides to an hero by doing what Hollywood was doing as it was failing
Fucking bewildering

>>700957976
We got a Flopspoken apologist here

>>700958639
>>700958831
Why don't you faggots understand that "he used a word wrong 20 years ago" is a shit attack? I'm surprised the guy isn't more powerful with detractors this weak.

>>700957779
Game? She's cute.

>>700949494
thousands of racist nazi rethoric i see on the internet and it only took me 1 disgusting jew to make me antisematic, i just thought its funny

>>700953551
Trial is available on Gamepass.
Not sure how long the trial is though.

>>700959086
veilguard looked like dogshit though lmao, black desert looked 100 better and that was 10 years ago, the budgets aren't bloated because they're chasing "photorealism" or something, they're bloated because the devs are incompetent nigger tranny fucks, while having a massive administrative bloat of seat warmer niggers and trannies that aren't even doing anything, then the director changes 3 times, starting the project over multiple times, then in the end they have to outsource most of the game which is also extremely expensive, and they also have to pay the sweet baby inc toll (millions of dollars a year) to have the gaming journalist racket and the reddit mods on their side, then they'll spend a 100 million on advertising and bribing reviewers to fool some hapless retards into buying it, budgets are bloated because 90% of it isn't spent on making the game, it's spent on welfare for californian niggers, outsourcing, advertising and bribes

>>700959307
were these really counted as sales? that can't be legal, isn't that fraud?

>>700959307
Post Skyrim, pre Witcher 3. Inquisition genuinely sold well but only because there was an absolute fuck ton of morons willing to drop money on anything that was fantasy with "good" graphics and big marketing.

>>700958586
It probably doesn't help that EA has always demanded a perilously high ROI for all their published games, but yeah, ballooning budgets have made multiplatinum a minimum requirement for most triple-A projects.

>>700949013
I know we're all jerking off over Veiltroon shitting out of its neovagina but the real news here is FC25 microtransactions flopping.

Origins is still the King.
Origins Chuds are still Winning.

>>700959410
>Muh optics
>Muh 20 years (it was only 10 faggot)
I mean if we really wanna go down this route, he knew about the abuse at Blizzard but refused to talk about it until it was profitable for him, so yes he SHOULD have been blacklisted even back then

>>700959086
>tfw anon didn't reply to my nose hair post with this.

Kek,. But I agree, a better art style that's just not photocopy of reality would be refreshing at this point.

>>700949013
1.5 is still pretty impressive

>>700958867
Stop chasing the graphics meme that only exists to pump nvidia stocks, then figure out how to lower the marketing costs since advertising tends to be one of if not the biggest part of a budget. One of the insomniac spiderman devs literally said that the average person can't fucking notice the difference between putting 100 million dollars on a games budget vs putting 500 million dollars

https://youtu.be/4F3N4Lxw4_Y

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

>>700959616
For a low budget indie game yes, not a series where the pervious game sold over 10 mill

>>700949494
The fact literal fucking creative directors in charge of million dollar projects seethe over /v/ posters will never not be funny to me

>>700959629
lmao what graphics, these slop flop games look like garbage, veilguard got extensively mocked for how shit it looks, games 10 years ago looked 100 times better

>>700959504
>were these really counted as sales?
sure, EA sold them to Epic for free distribution to promote their shop
>isn't that fraud?
I don't think so; technically, they sold game codes.

>>700959446
long enough to count as a "booking"

>>700959695
They also ran better, we're at the point where games look worse but also run worse then games did over 10 years ago

>>700959557
>Even Hamburger "skip button" Helper seemed like a fucking genius and auteur compared to the current people at the helm
Christ

>>700959793
Veilguard actually runs really well

>>700959616
It genuinely isn't. It discarded RPG combat entirely for pure action for mainstream appeal, had a AAA budget and AAAA marketing budget, full force journo and leddit/ resetera shilling, and didn't even break even.
The previous game that released with severe gameplay issues still sold over 12 million because of it's world, writing and characters.

>>700955689
For the last time retards, Marika wasn’t a tranny

>>700949013
>"missing the companies expectations 50%"

Fuck yes, I hope a lot people lost their jobs.

>>700959835
She wrote dwarf lore, didn't she? Best part of it, I'd say.

>>700959876
and also because it was discounted to $5 regularly within a year of launch

>>700957635
The brownoid learns! I kneel.

>>700959418
She's from old newgrounds banner ads.

>>700959793
No joke we've gotten to a point where Crysis and Morrowind ran better on my budget boy systems than games now run new and expensive consoles/pc parts

>>700959793
it's just straight up dei competency crisis, and the fact that they're stitching together parts that they got from studios that they outsourced the production to, veilguard looks like something that was made by 3 chinese guys in a university dorm room who work for some phone game company, and that's probably what actually happened, they just sourced it out to whoever could deliver some crap to them on them, most of which probably was chinese phone game devs employing university students

>>700959898
and what would you call Gwyndolin

>>700959835
>Modern bioware is so shit fucking hamburger helper looks better now
Grim

>>700949494
>but I do like seeing you chuds get dunked on
Honestly based. Chuds are the easiest and funniest demographic to piss off

sad but not realy

>>700959469
From white Carmen Santiago to money sarss please money sarss

>>700959920
Yeah she wrote the entire Orzammar section, that alone has more political nuance than the entirety of Veilguard

>Literal 2010 Tumblrinas had better writing than those in the industry today
fucking GRIM

>>700949013
confirmed flop kek
Concord has really fucked up expectations on what a flop is

>>700949937
>>700957943
>>700953394
explain this fetish pls

>>700959876
Honestly, the combat is something out of a phone game. Inquisition was fucking garbage, but it at least had more than three skills and a couple of MvC-style assists.

>>700959920
Yup, she was decent writer but she kinda tanked her reputation at the time of DA2s release by saying dumb things and being somewhat cringey with her Isabella comments

>>700960015
she got a bad rap desu

>>700949013
1.5 mil is too much. I suspect it's selling 1.5mil to retailers and not actual players.

>>700949013
>>700953464
you never go full woke, safe woke will be new meta like BG3 and KCD2

Why is doing nothing so effective, /v/?

>>700960090
I like the little nose dot and imaging my crotch and stomach covered in smeared clown makeup

>>700959948
Yeah but at that point it had not only broke even but earned a huge profit. Inquisition needed like 3 million sales to break even. According to leaks it made more than double it's budget back on top of covering the budget. So it made "the equivent" of over 9 million full price sales, 12+ million total number but like you said, discounts.

>>700960178
players =/= sold units
As pointed out by the other people, game trials, EA play, journos, streamers, and Steam refund could count as a 'player' in their report.

>>700960192
>BG3
>safe woke
I guess letting you kill all of the alphabet characters goes a long way, but I think that might be overstating it a bit.

>>700959875
just gotta have a brand new computer and this dogshit game that looks like some mobile app crap from 2012 will run kind of okay lmao

>>700949908
They had over 300k refund requests after about 2 weeks

>>700960192
So pretty much back to the norm again?

>>700957779
Classic corporatespeak. And it's still low performance. I wonder if investors roll their eyes when they read those obviously sugarcoated sentences

>>700960261
Low effort
HIGH YIELD

>/v/idiots are finally understanding the power of action through inaction
It's about fucking time. Action 24/7 niggers on suicide watch.

>>700960339
no, it actually runs great even on potatoes. Performance was one of the few areas where they didn't fuck up.

>>700960324
don't forget that it was also already on a 35% sale

>>700949494
Just like Kamala confirming that Trump won

No wonder Taash was the 3rd most romanced character, so few normal people played Veilguard that troons outright made up 41% of the playerbase.

>>700960379
>missing company expectations by 50%
That's already very clear. What's less clear is that those expectations were already very low.

>>700960379
You know how modern UI is kinda shit due a kind of learned helplessness people get from design school, I imagine a lot of nepo babies in business suffer from something similar.

>>700960579
MBAs are unironically some of the dumbest motherfuckers alive

>>700960543
>People rather fuck Taash than a black dude
Jacob really did ruin it for the rest.

>>700960332
BG3 respects your right to treat characters the way you want to treat them, even if that means blowing them off, insulting them, betraying them, or brutally murdering them, and events in the game will reflect your choices. Meanwhile, Veilguard expects you to be 100% on board with everybody's bullshit all the time, and nothing you say or do matters in the least, because the devs have already decided how you'll behave.

>>700960447
In all fairness it's because they designed short and sweet linear areas that allow for a lot optimisation instead of trying to cram everything into an open world style environment.
And even then some locations that aren't setpieces look fucking abysmal, he'll the setpiece where you fight one dragon looks awful

>1.5 million
>disappointed
This is capitalism manifest

>>700960447
no, actually every post that I see that isn't a literal paid shill like eurogamer or pcgamer says that it's a laggy piece of shit with horrible frame rates, fuck off with your shitty ass damage control shill nigger

>>700949013
and the head troon got paid and moved on to the next thing to destroy

Man, I love seeing progressive shitters fail. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving studio. Eat shit bioware

/s

>>700960261
It affords your enemies all the rope they require to hang themselves.

>>700949013
>You won. Happy?
No, I'd rather have had a proper game that was fun. That would have made me happy. A shitty game flopping makes me feel vindicated or smug, but not happy.

>>700960831
Nta but you can check user generated benchmarks and the game does well on any system thats considered the common setup according to the steam survey

Veilguard is baffling, like everything they did cost them sales. Did you know they gave the two best romances to Davrin the black elf and Emmrich the old man? When the 1st most romanced character was the younger human woman and the 2nd most romanced character was the younger human man?
Two actually good romances in a game with terrible romances for over half the cast, and it's with the least popular characters in the game.

>>700949013
Don't give a fuck about this game but the fact that games pushing 1.5 Million units are disappointments is a major symptom of the industry shitting itself. Back in the day 1 Million units was a megahit. And if you say
>More people play games now though
Doesn't mean that games needed to bloat in cost so much that gross revenues approaching $100 Million USD can't sustain costs.

>>700961037
shill nigger pr talk

>>700961112
Everyone was interested in the old man in the lead-up to release, though. Him and Scout Harding were probably the two most anticipated romances.

>>700960825
Big budget games still have a place, but big budget games that ride off existing properties and are made specifically for ResetEra not so much.

>did nothing
>won
No one man should have all this power...

>>700960825
You're retarded.

>>700961237
>Everyone was interested in the old man in the lead-up to release, though. Him and Scout Harding were probably the two most anticipated romances
Among the non-casual players like us that aren't the majority.

>>700960896
How the fuck are men supposed to exist let alone breed successfully in this society?

>>700960812
Eh BG3 has the design philosophies of something people have been begging for, however buttseks and romance faggotry are things mentioned far more often in a positive light by normies so I Guarantee Larian is going to completely fuck their next project by over focusing on those elements.

>>700961415
That's too bad, he has one of the better personal storylines as well.

>>700961434
They know immigrants won't care and won't be arrested. It's (you) who are expected to not propagate, anon.

>>700961209
Anon it's the ONE singular positive thing that can be said about the game, just because it runs okay doesn't mean it's fun or interesting.
That's all we're trying to say

>>700961491
I agree, Emmrich was probably my favourite companion and I was delighted to turn him into a cool Lich.

>>700961478
Nah, personal choice and the consequences thereof is far too integral to their design philosophy.

A lot went wrong for Bioware. Remember how they sourced a bunch of the marketing to gameinformer, who are now dead?

>>700949013
Kwab. I remember there is a tranny that kept insisting it sold 3 million copies. Where is xer now?

>>700961769
Wait...did they?

>>700961815
Yeah. The cover story for the GameInformer that was supposed to come shortly after they got shut down was Veilguard including several pages of info that was supposed to be a GI exclusive.

>>700961802
The funniest thing is that 3 million isn't good for a game this budget too. Inquisition cost almost half of Veilguard and needed 3 million sales to break even.

>>700949734
LMAO

>>700961904
Fucking kek'd what a bunch of retarded, didn't they know GI was on its last legs to the point where they shut down the whole website straight away?

>>700961925
I believe the Cisquisition broke even after several years.

>>700961847
>key to a lot of nasty stuff we aren't interest in having heroes do
Weekes is such an insufferable, boring faggot man I'm not playing any game he has a hand in.

>>700961974
No, most people aren't privy to that information. It has been happening a lot lately in new media. But legacy companies are trying to keep it on the hush hush so they don't ruin future employment opportunities for their writers and editiors. They all kinda work together.

uh oh tranny meltie

>>700962090
you ever looked at a pic of him? he's literally the chud

>>700949013
>sold more then stellar blade
kek

>>700949013
surprised it sold that much honestly

>>700951013
proofs?

>>700962281
Difference is Stellar Blade made profit, Veilguard did not.

>>700960192
KCD2 is not anywhere close to safe woke, they still lied their asses off.

>>700962369
It had a pretty significant spike at launch, but it fell off hard as word of mouth began to spread.

>>700961990
Yup, but Inquisition's budget was 150,000,000 and made an estimated 450,000,000.
Meanwhile Veilguard is (from rumors) estimated to have a 250,000,000 budget nad made less than 100,000,000.
300,000,000 in profit vs 150,000,000+ in losses.

>>700953041
>Nintendo: The game sold 5 million, it's one of our worst selling games of all time
which game

>>700949013
I am flabberghasted it sold even 1 million.

>>700949734
remember the fallen...

how many fucking push ups do i have to do now?

>>700962281
Stellar Blade supposedly made over $30,000,000 in revenue and is still selling. Veilguard's loss is estimated at $150,000,000.

>>700961990
>Cisquisition
3 years of development time.
>Veilguard
Over 9 years of development time.

>>700960192
KCD2 fucked up, because people had way higher "non-woke"-standards for it.

>>700962281
>bundled with graphics cards
>"free" on EA play
>"free" on geforce now
realistically it could have sold below a million if it only reached (not copies sold) 1.5 million players.
Stellar blade was also profitable at those numbers and has sold more since then.

y'all better start barve'ing until this shit breaks even

>OH NO THE CHUDS HAVE REAL INTEL
This shit is borderline parody, jesus

>>700962492
>250,000,000 budget

thats why you develop in poor shithole slavlands like czechia and poland. even if game fails you make good profit and if its good you make insane dosh
KCD2 budget is 50mil and it will easily do 3mil copies first week

>>700962569
kek

>>700962493
Probably Dong Freeze, but Nintendo didn't make a statement that they're disappointed in it. But 5,000,000 being low sales to Nintendo doesn't mean it's a flop. It literally would be one of their lowest selling games compared to Mario Kart, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, etc. And Nintendo is probably pleased with Retro since they wrestled MP4 from Scamco and handed it to Retro.

>>700962963
lol

>>700962963
I thought Resetera was supposed to be filled with highly educated individuals. That's a hell of a run-on sentence.

>>700962963
Vee haf to hide ze numbers! Bring out ze 6 millions!

>>700949013
1.5 million is more than I expected. Still probably not enough to turn a profit.

>>700962860
only in chud circles, normies love it because medieval rpg is niche genre

>>700949261
this. im center left and am tired if DEI ruining my games.

>>700963065
education and intelligence are not the same thing anon...

>>700962860
Black Panther from Wakanda in KCD2 confuses me, he looks like a horribly written character that I'd expect from Veilguard. Mali was a brutal regime with a massive slave and sex slave culture and economy, why is he lecturing Bohemians on feminism and peace?

>>700949013
honestly one point five million is more than I expected

>>700962963
>NOOOOOOOOO THOSE DAMN CHUDS WERE RIGHT!
Fucking almost fell out of my chair laughing

>>700962963
I love these guys, every time I feel a little down I go on their political threads to have a laugh

>>700949013
>retards.
>You won. Happy?
Did they? For the amount of shitposting it still sold that much, not 10% tor 20-25%, not even a fucking third. Half.
Putting a lot of effort in to try to kill a dead franchise.

Retards who were outraged did the marketing for free.

>>700963098
>only in chud circle
aren't all the fans chuds?

>>700949013
>>700949442
This is presumably the number only EA cares about so sales to stores are what they are counting, at least i assume that's the case. Not really sure how that tracks for online stores, do the companies just pay X amount for Y number of keys or does EA do that itself through Steam? I really don't know.

>>700962963
their narrative is more important than the truth to these people

>>700949013
Sisters...how do we spin this?

>>700962281
>still falling for the "players" meme

Selling over 1 million in 3 weeks is way better than 1.5 million "players" in 4 months.

Veilguard likely sold 250k and the rest of the players dropped it after 10 min on EA play and Gamepass.

>>700949494
>protected tweets

lil kike loves to run his mouth but can't take the heat

>>700959418
Sprite edit of a character from Magical Drop 3.

>>700962963
It's fucking amazing how resetera is essentially just 4chan but flipped

>>700963238
most of the right supports abortion and gay marriage. the only people who are anti-woke are the amish and terminally online incels, ie. gods chosen people.

>>700963236
>reached 1.5 million players
>sold under a million copies easily
>in development for at least 8 years, budget in the hundreds of millions
nah bro EA totally won this one

>>700950745
Mass Effect was always the more successful brother, they'll try to put SOMETHING out but if it flops it really will be the end Bioware.

>>700962963
those pesky chuds back at it again with their corporate espionage

>>700963473
You should stop being suckered into marketing for companies just because you need to vice signal desu.

>>700963473
>>reached 1.5 million players
>>sold under a million copies easily
how did the extra half a million people get the game? I doubt ea is including pirates in their statistics.

>>700963697
see >>700962871

>>700963473
Okay but how many of these "players" actually bought the game, you know the biggest factor in determining a game success

>>700963697
"Reached" means people touched it on their monthly fee streaming service.

>>700963697
EA Play (their version of Gamepass) I'd guess

>>700963697
the game's available on EA Play and Geforce Now. Plus I'm sure shit like Steam Family Sharing and multiple people playing the same copy on console would also count as different players

>>700963697
Subscription services, EA has their own version of Gamepass, and GeForce bundled Veilguard with new cards.

>>700949013
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K0WSYbTvx0w

>>700949792
Check this out, that's 1.5 million "players". Not that 1.5 million people bought the game. Anyone with an EA Play subscription, or even a gamepass subscription could play this game for virtually no charge. It was also given with GPUs, CPUs, Geforce Now, and was on sale for 35% off on Steam and 40% off on consoles, a month after its release. Nobody fucking bought it.

>>700949794
Here you go
https://archive.is/slSak

>>700949013
lmao how the fuck can EA keep bioware around outside of a skeleton crew to work on concepts before they sell their IPs.

>>700949013
>You won. Happy?
I mean, DA died with DA2 something over 13 years ago. We've been parading it for all this time as something that is worthy of being a "franchise". I'm glad it failed and I hope it spares the fate for the next Mass Effect.

>>700949908
Only good games have legs anon. They put this on sell a month after it came out. they had to package Andromeda with Inquisition to get people to buy it. With veilguard they don't have anything to even do that with. Bioware is done.

>>700964547
Mass Effect died with ME3

>>700964479
>Thinking EA would ever sell an IP
Those rancid fucks are still sitting on Dawngate, anon.

>>700964772
i.e. non-American football, a.k.a. handegg.

>>700964841
You could resurrect ME and DA, with the right people, and the right story. Bioware is just not interested in making it.

>>700964669
>They put this on sell a month after it came out
With a bigger discount than BG3 had after a year, no less.

>EA STOCK DOWN 12%
lol
lmao
go woke, go broke

>>700963236
You don't sell %, you retard. They already had low expectations and reached half of those expectations.
They got 9% of what DA:Inquisition did. Or 0.5% of GTA:V. Except that those numbers are sales and not "players reached".

>>700966058
Yet you keep marketing for them. You never learn.

>>700963447
They're our mirror image...our Bizzaro, if you will.

>>700962281
Sales isnt what matters, profit is

>>700951296
>Sells 1 million on 1 console
>probably between 1.5-2 million at end of 2024
>getting a pc release
Never Doubt

>>700966278
>all publicity is good publicity
t. midwit take from 10 years ago