$EA I'm not going to lie, I am smiling a bit right now.
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https://n4g.com/news/2650446/ea-stock-drops-as-dragon-age-the-veilguard-misses-sales-mark-by-50
I know many of you here didn't liked the game and called it second coming of Hitler
But I agree with this comment:
(I know the anti woke don't want to admit it but they basically cancelled this game.
Like how woke people cancel stuff they did it to this game because it didn't fit their "view".
This game never had a chance from the get go.
To much checklist:
EA hate
To "woke"
Gameplay was to different
"Ugly" characters
Some characters not having enough "bust"
I can't judge the story because inhavent played it yet
Honestly if it wasn't labeled dragon age it might of done better.)
https://old.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1i8ww4h/ea_lost_6_billion_in_market_value_following_fc_25/
Yep, they want shareholders to believe that they reached 1.5 million sales, but their wording is intentionally misleading.
Will never stop surprising how r-slurred Redditors are, Dragon age sold similar to ff7 rebirth so the numbers did reach 1.5 millions
But main problem hating dragon age is this
For shareholders it doesn't make any sense now doing AAA single players games since most people just play call of duty and fifa and some mobile sloop.
Dead space remake was awesome but it also flopped so no dead space 2 remake.
Anytime I begin to talk to anyone about gaming here in the UK, they all mention they're g*mers. When I ask what they play, they all respond "Fifa and COD". If they're under 30 they also mention Fortnite. It's so rare for me to find anyone who plays anything outside of the aforementioned games in real life let alone someone who plays Final Fantasy.
Gaymers are r-slurs
It's like that meme where nerds playing a dungeon and dragon then a normie join, then normie invites a foid and then they kick out nerds and make new rules
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It's bad even if you're 100% aboard the woke train. Dragon Age leans heavily on narrative story-telling as a selling point (not all RPGs do, let alone video games in general) and they undermine it for politics.
Narrative doesn't work without the fundamental deal between author and audience: if you kind of pretend this is real for a bit, I will make you care about what happens next. It sounds silly, but everyone has experienced getting invested in people and worlds that they know are fake.
It's not (just) about clumsily promoting their view on current high-conflict politics, it's about the utter lack of effort to make it a cohesive part of the world. "My pronouns are" is so emblematic of current progressives that "Kamala is for they/them" was an attack ad.
Characters using such idiosyncratic language reminds the audience that this is all fake. But they are already thinking about real life politics anyways. And there's not even any character, setting, or plot payoff.
It's a small part, but it displays either not understanding or not caring about storytelling basics. I'd assume the whole thing is done badly.
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I've had this argument both with Sal and some other r-slur here, who were adamant that the game isn't bad, just mid because it's not totally broken, or complete slog to play combat wise.
But this is fundamentally still an RPG so the writing, dialogue, companions and overall game world are the what makes or breaks it, and it completely fails in all of these.
If the things that make up majority of the experience are bad, and the rest is decent for an RPG, are you not better off playing some story driven action adventure that probably plays better and doesn't waste your time with shitty dialogues?
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