Dragon Age™: The Veilguard is a Return To Form

[Tag365]

4,503 now. And the first review was of someone making a comparison of Dragon Age to Imagine Dragons.

[1998]

4,503 now. And the first review was of someone making a comparison of Dragon Age to Imagine Dragons.

Those are all reviews from the bundled geforce now copies, probably doesn't work out as they had hoped.

[Tag365]

Took 35 minutes to hit 11,065 and exceed the 10,000 player count. The game only has a few hours left to hit 100,000 before it fizzles out and starts declining.

Three out of five reviews are negative. It has too few reviews for Steam to register it as having any reviews for the page. Do you think this game will hit a ~50% review score on Steam?

[rusty_shackleford]

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appears to be an actual reviewer leaving a steam review?

[Tag365]

It's a review that links to another website. So it's likely a review outlet review masked as a Steam user review.

[RangerBoo]

This is going to be a ******* hilarious **** show. An all out war between gamers and game journoscum.

[rusty_shackleford]

need a montage of veilguard to this is the new ****

[Xenich]

This is funny, the cope squad is pushing the narrative that the reason the game isn't super high in players playing is because it is a large download (oh and people are at work). LOL

[Tag365]

Doesn't it normally build up at first over the course of a few hours?

[Jordy]

This is funny, the cope squad is pushing the narrative that the reason the game isn't super high in players playing is because it is a large download (oh and people are at work). LOL

Don't they have the option to pre-install it?

[KOS-MOS]

First five minutes are up. 89 players detected for now on SteamDB, but I expect it to explode upwards. Do you think it will likely be around 50,000 to 100,000 at maximum? Or lower, or higher?

I say 55k.

I can't believe this is an actual scene from the game. What the hell is going on ?

[rusty_shackleford]

This is funny, the cope squad is pushing the narrative that the reason the game isn't super high in players playing is because it is a large download (oh and people are at work). LOL

Most should already have it downloaded, it's only 82GiB, that's about an hour for 200mbps

I get about 500mbps using 5g home internet.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

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appears to be an actual reviewer leaving a steam review?

Positive review botting, just like bg3?

[1998]

This is funny, the cope squad is pushing the narrative that the reason the game isn't super high in players playing is because it is a large download (oh and people are at work). LOL

Don't they have the option to pre-install it?

Nah, there was no pre-download. It's not being offered all that much anymore

[Oyster Sauce]

This is funny, the cope squad is pushing the narrative that the reason the game isn't super high in players playing is because it is a large download (oh and people are at work). LOL

it came out less than an hour ago and the player count increases by several thousand every 10 minutes or so

they're right!

[Vergil]

Funny watching the narrative change in this thread in real time

[Tag365]

So far, the player count is increasing by about 3,000 per 5 minutes. At this rate 2:45 or so hours will have passed when it reaches 100,000, if it hits that target. Do you think the player count will peter out before three hours?

[rusty_shackleford]

So far, the player count is increasing by about 3,000 per 5 minutes. At this rate 2:45 or so hours will have passed when it reaches 100,000, if it hits that target. Do you think the player count will peter out before three hours?

I think it will be about 55k
just a gut guess and some napkin estimation

[Tag365]

It took an hour to hit 25,083 consecutive players.

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One person has reviewed the game and is encountering repeated crashes before even reaching the title screen.

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Strangely Steam is still claiming the game has no user reviews on the store page. Seems like there's an arbitrary review timer that blocks review scores from appearing on just released games for a few hours.

[7Trickster]

At least Baldur's Gate 3 had some merit and was somewhat comparable in gameplay to its predecessors. Dragon Age: The Veilguard looks like a Hogwarts Legacy knockoff, a far cry from the first three games which were not action RPGs. So of course it's getting controversy and unfavorable comparisons to Baldur's Gate 3 which only launched a year ago.

At its core, it isn't a bad game (though a there are some issues with it on the purely objective game mechanic front) and that is due to Larians experience and design.

Also, people who compare its success are dismissing the nefarious nature of its release. Many will attest to the fact that EA vs Release are very different in many ways and they hid many aspects (also changing many things for release) of those changes. Not to mention, EA was Act 1 and while it is still infested with the politics, many people "tolerated" it due to game play. Act 2/3 are horrible on pretty much all fronts and full on troonism politics, but obviously by that time people had already committed.

If it weren't for the work of modders ripping out a lot of the garbage, I don't think the "aftertaste" of BG3 release would have set well with most people (and it still doesn't for many).

The whole narrative of BG3 being an acceptance of Woke is just more echo speak of cope that the ****** use to lie to themselves about their work which is why without the key elements/circumstances of BG3's release, these games are flopping hard.

I wouldn't say modders made the game better for the majority of the playerbase (mods removing or blocking woke trash). You only find them here pretty much, anything else from Nexus to any patreon page will either be neutral/normal or be one of those low rated gay mod adding a **** to shadowheart or a pussy to Wyll.

BG3 is better as the trash isn't up in your face (except in Act3 from what I heard, didnt got there yet). You can choose to say **** this or go with it. You can delete Astarion right after he acts like the ***** he is.

From what we see with Wokeguard, it's a railroad, that or nothing

[Vergil]

It took an hour to hit 25,083 consecutive players.

We're pretending this is bad now?

Strangely Steam is still claiming the game has no user reviews on the store page. Seems like there's an arbitrary review timer that blocks review scores from appearing on just released games for a few hours.

Yea I'm sure it's a conspiracy and not just taking a while for this game that released an hour ago updating it's store page after an influx of users and posts

[rusty_shackleford]

BG3 is better as the trash isn't up in your face (except in Act3 from what I heard, didnt got there yet). You can choose to say **** this or go with it. You can delete Astarion right after he acts like the ***** he is.

convinced you can make a game and just put whatever you want in the last act and nobody will care because only 5% of players will actually see it

[rusty_shackleford]

We're pretending this is bad now?

25k is really bad, yeah.

[Vergil]

We're pretending this is bad now?

25k is really bad, yeah.

Game has barely been out for one (1) hour

[Xenich]

As you can guess, I'm not from us, so I need explanation.

It is something that has been done in various ways throughout history to shape public opinion.

I don't care where you live, it is being done to you as well. It can be anything from how they control the news, what elements of entertainment, societal norms they promote, etc...

Healthy nations will often promote good standards in its public, while others will promote a means to develop control or manipulate opinion.

Enemy nations will use such to influence other countries to cause disruptions, strife and conflict.

Welcome to the world.

I mean what is the point of programming nations in this way:

But products of your culture says otherwise! Judging by movies, cartoons and news of this period, you westoids bullied random people to death with no big reason, just for fun. Tabletop nerds, videogame nerds, book nerds weren't left alone, they were bullied, sometimes till suicide.

Why us made movies, cartoons and other media about bullying nerds to death? What was the point of this type of programming?

Why in that case? Well, consider that "bullying" became a major narrative for the crowd that is now pushing "faggotry/troonism". So, victimize them, then proclaim all who would do such bullying as evil to silence any opposition to that cancer culture (faggotry).

By the way, my experience having lived through the early days of AD&D (ie table top nerds, video game nerds, etc...), the ones who were bullied harshly, weren't because of that, but because they were ALSO ****, deviants, etc...

Kids used to play D&D games on the bus to and from school, without issue. Many kids played video games (ie atari or went to arcades) and that was never a "bullying" issue. The ones who had serious problem were always the deviants, the **** who were awkward around the other boys, the mentally ill who had serious problems dealing with people socially.

There were always various levels of bullying to many, but nothing serious in most cases (ie name calling, joking, pranks, etc...).

The ones who got the brunt were as a I said, and by the way... those kids who killed themselves, look closely into why. Most either had extreme problems at home (abuse, molestation, etc..) and/or were also sexually deviant wierdos who did not fit in with the social norm ranges, they were outcasts because of those specifics, not because they got teased for gaming, that also is "Programming".

[rusty_shackleford]

We're pretending this is bad now?

25k is really bad, yeah.

Game has barely been out for one (1) hour

Yeah, that's even worse.
The vast majority of copies(not sold at deep discount) sell in the first week, and of that, about half on the first day.

[Vergil]

The vast majority of copies sell in the first week, and of that, about half on the first day.

Soooo.... not the first hour?

[rusty_shackleford]

The vast majority of copies sell in the first week, and of that, about half on the first day.

Soooo.... not the first hour?

Right, about 1/3rd of those sell before the game even launches.

[1998]

We're pretending this is bad now?

25k is really bad, yeah.

Game has barely been out for one (1) hour

Wukong had 1M after that time

[gerey]

Wukong had 1M after that time

And Baldur's Gate 3 about 500k concurrent players on the day of launch.