https://old.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/1gpjb0s/no_spoilers_early_taash_concept_art_vs_later/
Comments and posts like these are breaking through even the uber soy woke mindvirus strags of /r/dragonage
https://old.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/1gphvd7/dav_spoilers_all_the_longer_i_played_the_more_i/
negative posts have started outnumbering positive posts on front page last 3 days
One guy shits on the game after full playthrough 
https://old.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/1gp2i2b/dav_act_3_spoilers_alright_i_just_completed_the/
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Does anyone really think this is good writing? I am flabbergasted honestly. I posted a rant a couple days ago complaining about some things but I have come back with more. After 60 hours of playing and doing a 100%. I'm just disappointed.
1. I just don't understand what this game is supposed to be, a decade for what? To find out it's some spoky creepy illuminati working in shadows to destroy the world/evanuris? I have no idea. As soon as I saw the epilogue with Loghain, it solidified my experience with this game. Bioware can't write for shit anymore. Might be my personal opinion but why does there always need to be a greater evil, why is it evil at all? Solas was a great example, I didn't think he was evil in Inquisition, just someone faced with impossible odds and terrible choices. Someone driven by guilt. I could understand that.
2. And that last bit of the game took one of the most complex and beautifully written villains, and turned him into a puppet?? Loghain no longer has any deeper motivations for his betrayal, fueled by trauma and loss. Nah. He had no say. Frick that.
3. And who was writing the emotional dialogue here, how am I supposed to take anyone seriously when most of the companions reactions to something traumatic is idk, shit, that's tough, oof... What the heck man....
4. Speaking of dialogue why the frick am I so supportive of everyone, I can't even call out someone for being stupid, like Lucanis for sparing Ilario??? Dude, this man is responsible for most of the destruction in your city???
5. While I'm talking about companions, I felt like I was surrounded by children all the darn time. What is up with all the darn picnics, Darvin had like 4 and Emmerich and Harding were having an "argument" (ooh drama) about how many books they were gonna bring on their little outing... There are moments when these characters shine bright with their stories and pain, and then, you show me they're actually just very dumb and I can't call it out.
6. It all seems like it was supposed to be a dnd game, because I'm constantly reminded by that DnD movie with a Chris. Which was fun but it ain't Dragon Age. In an effort to create something new, they made the established lore and factions feel like caricatures.
7. And why are there so many factions? Because it just drags the game down. There's no reason for them to be there. Mourn Watchers and Lords of Fortune, what the heck was the point of them here, the game could have been fine without them. And apparently everyone has beef with the gods and we arrive just in time to clean up the mess. But somehow in certain situations like the griffins being kidnapped at the very beginning of the game don't get to be blighted until the very end and again, we came just at the right time! Lucky!
8. Last time I also mentioned why are some factions allied with the gods. Like Venatori, and everyone says well they know he's Lusacan. And yeah that'd be fine, if most of them still didn't call him Elgar'nan! And he's right there with his pointy ears, and they're all like frick yeah Tevinter supremacy brah!! I'd think most of them would be facing an existential crisis, their gods are not dragons but filthy knife ears, how can this be?! The rest would be in denial. All in all, this is stupid.
There's just so much wrong with this game and so little that's right. Dragon Age got Game of Thrones'd, because this is exactly like season 8. Just shit on everything and be done with it.
At least I gotta congratulate them for releasing a full game, without any EA bullshit. But still 10 years of a wait, and I would be glad it's finally over... BUT APPARENTLY NOT!!
So yeah, goodbye Dragon Age, David Gaider was carrying you hard.
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also they cry because the concept art was by order of magnitude better than the clearly deliberate fuglification of the soys
"you think it's bad now, just wait until you see the artbook and what we could have gotten but they decided to scrap. It's so stupid how when they got permission to go back to making a single player game they didn't pick up where they left off and decided to instead rework the entire story/style and make something shallow. The past version of the game is what everyone expected this game to be, even our worldstate mattered.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Art_of_Dragon_Age_The_Veilguard_Delu.html?id=SyQaEQAAQBAJ"
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They gave the character that stance weird children who watch anime do when they want to be threatening. Largest image on the right. It's not just me, right?
Edit: how are there zero examples of this online?
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They ever crunch the numbers on this game? Even though it's not a collosal failure, I'm still hoping it's enough to put bioware out of business.
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I've played and thoroughly enjoyed every DA game but I'm not going near this garbage.
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Did you also fall in love with Alistair?
Woulda made him my husband...
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Morrigan is my forever waifu.
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You're a fricking whore.
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Everybody that picks someone that isn't the shape shifter is objectively wrong
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Alastair 4 lyfe, even 15 years later (or however long it has been)
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You thoroughly enjoyed doing fetch quests in the vast nothingness of Inquisition ?
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The new game is a
simulator where you go on picknics and talk to your party companions about what gender they are and how they feel about it.
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That's not even sarcasm. It's heartbreaking.
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Not yet. Some guy says UK sales are comparable to some weebshit game
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/11/dragon-age-the-veilguard-sales-keep-pace-with-dragons-dogma-2-final-fantasy-7-rebirth-in-uk
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Keeping pace with a game that came out over half a year ago
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Probably still havent made back what they spend on various forms of this game.
But i doubt this puts bioware off the pasture. They are in canada. They are getting tax credit for being so diverse. This probably extend to EA buisness some way. Bioware might be there to lower their taxes. Thats why they can have nothing but massive failures for 10 years and still have lights on.
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Unless the taxes are negative, they still have to make money
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Probably burned all the money they made off Anthem on this.
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Jason Schreier made a tweet bragging about how the game was successful when it first came out to "own the Chuds" but he since deleted it which means he almost certainly has an inside source telling him otherwise.
For an AAA game of this size, they probably spent 100+ million on development alone and sales figures don't look like they'll be recuperating that.
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10 years of development and at least one if not two full stops and restarts. This game cost more than 100 million. I'd put it between 150 and 200, especially when you add marketing to it.
All that and i'm going to guess that sales across all platforms are maybe a million or 1.5 million tops. That sounds like a good number but it isn't. Those are good numbers for smaller indie titles. This is not an indie, it's a hugely expensive triple A major release in a long standing franchise. This game is cooked beyond belief.
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There are no sales figures yet
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They probably just broke even
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