That's really not saying much, as both Andromeda and Inquisition sold abysmally. And yes, they fucking did, otherwise EA would have been pumping out sequels as fast as they could be making them.
Inquisition and Andromeda were supposed to be nostalgia buy-ins. I don't think there's much nostalgia left for BioWare titles - Dragon Age died a slow death over two abysmal sequels, while Mass Effect died because BioWare refused to give people the ending they wanted. Maybe some people here are too young to recall just what a shitshow the release of Mass Effect 3 actually was.Breathe wrote: ↑ January 10th, 2024, 20:37I don't think most consumers are aware that much of the devs who made their favorite games are long gone, they just see name and nostalgia-buy.
Andromeda was met with a collective "meh" from everyone in the industry, and buried Mass Effect even deeper.
Many people here, and elsewhere, have been mentioning the competency crisis - White and East Asian heterosexual men are being replaced by subhumans, and this results in projects that take years and massive quantities of money to deliver subpar results, if not outright garbage, simply because everyone involved in the production chain is a low IQ animal that should have been strangled at birth, or beaten black and blue into the kitchen.Breathe wrote: ↑ January 10th, 2024, 20:37I think the industry started leaning so hard into remakes/remasters simply because they don't have the talent to make anything original. It's not a coincidence that every other game takes 5 years to make while simultaneously being utter garbage.
My point is that whatever nostalgia and fondness there might have been for BioWare titles is long gone. A miracle might happen and they could deliver a masterpiece, but we all know that the likelihood of that happening is almost zero. Dreadwolf has been in development hell for close to a decade, and it won't be coming out until next year (maybe). Just try to imagine how much the development has cost by now.
Not only do I predict the game will be a massive flop, it will also perform worse than Starfield. It might get a milder reviews from audiences and critics, but that's because no one expects anything out of BioWare by this point.
I'll be surpirsed if BioWare actually manages to survive the release of Dreadwolf, let alone keeps the light on for long enough to shit out Mass Effect 4.