Dragon Age™: The Veilguard is a Return To Form

[SoLong]

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What the actual ****

It's both repulsive and yet completely hilarious. How in the **** did Bioware manage to beclown themselves like this?

Also, don't tell me that anyone is actually romancing the elf goblins?

[Rand]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

[Nooneatall]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

I'm not interested in this play to the middle discourse anymore where these ******* say **** like "I love diversity and ********, just not when it's forced!" I understand they have to say it for that yt ad money but everyone can tell they are being dishonest.

[Oyster Sauce]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

I'm not interested in this play to the middle discourse anymore where these ******* say **** like "I love diversity and ********, just not when it's forced!" I understand they have to say it for that yt ad money but everyone can tell they are being dishonest.

I completely believe they mean it.

[PixiGreen]

Saw a great comment on youtube: "EA replaced DRM with DEI as a better anti-piracy measure". So true!

[Zothique]

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What the actual ****

Forum handle checks out.

[PixiGreen]

@logincrash Could you confirm that there is no way NOT to recruit any companion?

[logincrash]

Is there no true journalism even in gaming magazines anymore?

*****, what year do you think this is?

@logincrash Could you confirm that there is no way NOT to recruit any companion?

I am not far enough into the game to confirm it either way. I am spending most of the weekend having a huge dinner with my family, instead of playing this garbage.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

Every day I hate “centrists” more and more.

[fkirenicus]

*****, what year do you think this is?

The way you behave most of the times, 1692, in Salem.
Laugh if you will, I'd rather weep.

[Roguey]

even the fellow devs are now stating their negative opinions

Ori dev is a chud

, so this isn't too surprising.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

I am not far enough into the game to confirm it either way. I am spending most of the weekend having a huge dinner with my family, instead of playing this garbage.

You did the right call there.

[fkirenicus]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

"Let me know your thoughts, but if you disagree with me I'll get youtube to ban you" ?
Ridiculous. And sad.

[logincrash]

*****, what year do you think this is?

The way you behave most of the times, 1692, in Salem.

You wouldn't happen to be a jew witch, by any chance?

[PixiGreen]

A thought: EA might know what it's doing.

1. Take the money from Blackrock under conditions to make woke game
2. Place all the activists in the company into the already dying studio and let them do what they want producing an expecting garbage.
3. The game expectedly flops and everyone gets fired (with sad face and deep regrets, of course).
4. Profit! (money kept, some peanuts even brought back, all activists gone, IP is frozen for the future)

But I might give EA too much credit.

[RayoSombrio]

Man, how you actually mod this garbage into something decent? BG3 was pozzed, but it had redeemable qualities at least.

[Rand]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

"Let me know your thoughts, but if you disagree with me I'll get youtube to ban you" ?
Ridiculous. And sad.

Where are you getting that from?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

even the fellow devs are now stating their negative opinions

Ori dev is a chud, so this isn't too surprising.

Progressives calling chuds is like asylum patients telling a person that there mentally unfit for society.

[logincrash]

Man, how you actually mod this garbage into something decent? BG3 was pozzed, but it had redeemable qualities at least.

You don't. Because this game doesn't.
Any effort spent modding this game is time wasted. It's like building your house on sand.

[Roguey]

A thought: EA might know what it's doing.

1. Take the money from Blackrock under conditions to make woke game
2. Place all the activists in the company into the already dying studio and let them do what they want producing an expecting garbage.
3. The game expectedly flops and everyone gets fired (with sad face and deep regrets, of course).
4. Profit! (money kept, some peanuts even brought back, all activists gone, IP is frozen for the future)

But I might give EA too much credit.

Blackrock didn't fund the entire 9 years of development. EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink. They made moves beforehand to stop the bleed like taking TOR away from Austin and cutting the budget, which resulted in layoffs that included a lot of seniors and is now resulting in lawsuits because they didn't give them the severance they're legally owed (money wasn't there, truly a damned situation).

[Xenich]

Yeah, he is estimating 1 million sold, but somehow it can't hit 100k online?

Can anyone explain to me how that is?

Multiply the concurrent players number by 10. They're hovering around 850,000 which is close enough to a million.

10 percent on at peak is the running average for most games?

[Xenich]

even the fellow devs are now stating their negative opinions

He didn't pay attention much. The bulk of the shows were broken families, single moms, etc...

[fkirenicus]

He got frustrated with the one way disregard for people's feelings.



The last 10 seconds are amusing.

"Let me know your thoughts, but if you disagree with me I'll get youtube to ban you" ?
Ridiculous. And sad.

Where are you getting that from?

Actually, disregard that. I watched the video in full now (only saw the last half minute or so based on the "10 last seconds are amusing" in which I thought he referred to people who criticize this cultural revolution ****).

[TKVNC]

Man, how you actually mod this garbage into something decent? BG3 was pozzed, but it had redeemable qualities at least.

Problem is... A game has to be worth the effort of modding.

This game is not.

[Analogue Dreams]

Man, how you actually mod this garbage into something decent? BG3 was pozzed, but it had redeemable qualities at least.

You don't. Because this game doesn't.
Any effort spent modding this game is time wasted. It's like building your house on sand.

The sand people build some fine houses on sand, far superior efforts to any spent on this game. Some of them last a long time. Bioware employees should be shipped off to the Sahara and sold into slavery to the Tuaregs IMO.

[gerey]

EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink

I have to wonder what was going through the minds of the EA executives when they were enacting measures to stop the money bleed.

They'll fire people, cut the budget, take IPs and hand them off to a less difunctional team, but not order the ****** to make an apolitical game, with good-looking characters, aimed at a heterosexual, male audience?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink

I have to wonder what was going through the minds of the EA executives when they were enacting measures to stop the money bleed.

They'll fire people, cut the budget, take IPs and hand them off to a less difunctional team, but not order the ****** to make an apolitical game, with good-looking characters, aimed at a heterosexual, male audience?

I like to mention that the Dead Space remake sold over two million units and was considered a commercial failure by EA.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink

I have to wonder what was going through the minds of the EA executives when they were enacting measures to stop the money bleed.

They'll fire people, cut the budget, take IPs and hand them off to a less difunctional team, but not order the ****** to make an apolitical game, with good-looking characters, aimed at a heterosexual, male audience?

This is goes back to your discussion with Rusty about cheap loans from blackrock. May be EA try to ***** itself to blackrock not for cheap loans but for blackrock to buy their shares?

[Jordy]

EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink

I have to wonder what was going through the minds of the EA executives when they were enacting measures to stop the money bleed.

They'll fire people, cut the budget, take IPs and hand them off to a less difunctional team, but not order the ****** to make an apolitical game, with good-looking characters, aimed at a heterosexual, male audience?

I like to mention that the Dead Space remake sold over two million units and was considered a commercial failure by EA.

I probably would have purchased the Dead Space remake if they hadn't changed the toilets to non-gendered.

[rusty_shackleford]

EA wanted something profitable, not this big money-sink

I have to wonder what was going through the minds of the EA executives when they were enacting measures to stop the money bleed.

They'll fire people, cut the budget, take IPs and hand them off to a less difunctional team, but not order the ****** to make an apolitical game, with good-looking characters, aimed at a heterosexual, male audience?

I like to mention that the Dead Space remake sold over two million units and was considered a commercial failure by EA.

People have a really hard time judging when it comes to budgets of this scale. Veilguard was probably EA's most expensive game they've ever made — yes, above swtor. This needed at least half a million sales to begin looking like it would recoup costs.
It's one of the biggest video game flops of all time and the complete denial just makes it funnier.