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Xenich wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 20:48
I seriously doubt the votes are legit now. As soon as they saw the **** show on the first they started rigging the voting results.
Oh yeah. Remember, it is sink or swim for Bioware with this game. If this game does bad it is more than likely EA will finally shutter their studio. After the first trailer's backlash they are in damage control mode and are trying to salvage things. I will not be surprised if they are using bots to inflate likes.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:11
Xenich wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 20:48
I seriously doubt the votes are legit now. As soon as they saw the **** show on the first they started rigging the voting results.
Oh yeah. Remember, it is sink or swim for Bioware with this game. If this game does bad it is more than likely EA will finally shutter their studio. After the first trailer's backlash they are in damage control mode and are trying to salvage things. I will not be surprised if they are using bots to inflate likes.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:11
Remember, it is sink or swim for Bioware with this game. If this game does bad it is more than likely EA will finally shutter their studio.
Please don't tease me like that. I don't wanna get my hopes up.
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This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
Please don't tease me like that. I don't wanna get my hopes up.
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:17
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
Please don't tease me like that. I don't wanna get my hopes up.
Unless you think this is going to outsell BG3, it's going to kill bioware.
I think a lot of people overestimate how many copies of major games are sold and underestimate the cost of making them, last I checked spiderman 2 still hasn't broken even which is one of the major reasons sony releases their games on PC now.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:18
Unless you think this is going to outsell BG3, it's going to kill bioware.
I just don't know anymore.

To me this game looks like complete trash.. but.. it has gay butt sex so maybe?
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
no way this sells 10 million copies.

Google says DA:I sold around 6 million copies, and ME: Andromeda around 4-5 million copies.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
With 10 years of development time and over 400 employees, not to mention outsourcing and hiring DEI consultancy agencies, this game maybe one of the most expensive games ever made. I have a feeling that this game may have cost over 200-300 million to make. Remember, Baldur's Gate 3 only cost 100 million to make and sold well over 10 million copies. Bioware needs this game to do better than Baldur's Gate 3 to break even. That is an impossible task.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:19
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
With 10 years of development time and over 400 employees, not to mention outsourcing and hiring DEI consultancy agencies, this game maybe one of the most expensive games ever made. I have a feeling that this game may have cost over 200-300 million to make. Remember, Baldur's Gate 3 only cost 100 million to make and sold well over 10 million copies. Bioware needs this game to do better than Baldur's Gate 3 to break even. That is an impossible task.
What are you basing this timeline on? Wasn't this team working on that ****** online game?
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:23
RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:19
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:16
This game needs to sell well above 10m copies just to break even, there's no way bioware is going to get close to the sales EA wants.
With 10 years of development time and over 400 employees, not to mention outsourcing and hiring DEI consultancy agencies, this game maybe one of the most expensive games ever made. I have a feeling that this game may have cost over 200-300 million to make. Remember, Baldur's Gate 3 only cost 100 million to make and sold well over 10 million copies. Bioware needs this game to do better than Baldur's Gate 3 to break even. That is an impossible task.
What are you basing this timeline on? Wasn't this team working on that ****** online game?
Anthem? Anthem lost money. In fact I think all Bioware games after DA:I has lost money. Anthem, Andromeda and now this turd. This game is going to be strike three for Bioware.
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:23
What are you basing this timeline on? Wasn't this team working on that ****** online game?
DA4's development got briefly paused due to siphoning devs from this to work on Anthem, it also got restarted multiple times.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:30
DA4's development got briefly paused due to siphoning devs from this to work on Anthem, it also got restarted multiple times.
From what I hear EA constantly had Bioware change the development for this game numerous times in order to chase whatever was the trend at the moment. Rumors have it that they wanted the game to be a live service.
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1998 wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 15:35
The reception for it is rather positive, well compared to the first trailer: 16k/3k up/downvote

Update on Gameplay Trailer:

50K Likes
63K Dislikes



Likes had a huge advantage because people who actually watched this **** live are bio drones.
Now that normies are filtering in it's barreling out.

Not sure if it'll hit disaster tier levels of the reveal trailer but this is far from "good" either.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:34
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:30
DA4's development got briefly paused due to siphoning devs from this to work on Anthem, it also got restarted multiple times.
From what I hear EA constantly had Bioware change the development for this game numerous times in order to chase whatever was the trend at the moment. Rumors have it that they wanted the game to be a live service.
Sounds like cope from people who blame everything on publishers, as we know for a fact that EA is almost hands-off with Bioware.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:26
Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:23
RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:19


With 10 years of development time and over 400 employees, not to mention outsourcing and hiring DEI consultancy agencies, this game maybe one of the most expensive games ever made. I have a feeling that this game may have cost over 200-300 million to make. Remember, Baldur's Gate 3 only cost 100 million to make and sold well over 10 million copies. Bioware needs this game to do better than Baldur's Gate 3 to break even. That is an impossible task.
What are you basing this timeline on? Wasn't this team working on that ****** online game?
Anthem? Anthem lost money. In fact I think all Bioware games after DA:I has lost money. Anthem, Andromeda and now this turd. This game is going to be strike three for Bioware.
We can only hope. It would be rather nice for it to finally happen.
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:35
1998 wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 15:35
The reception for it is rather positive, well compared to the first trailer: 16k/3k up/downvote

Update on Gameplay Trailer:

50K Likes
63K Dislikes



Likes had a huge advantage because people who actually watched this **** live are bio drones.
Now that normies are filtering in it's barreling out.

Not sure if it'll hit disaster tier levels of the reveal trailer but this is far from "good" either.
It is so beyond over for bioware. Completely detached from reality and have no clue what the market wants.
I'm just stating the facts.
Question is are you going to gargle the truth or swallow?
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:35
Update on Gameplay Trailer:

50K Likes
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Likes had a huge advantage because people who actually watched this **** live are bio drones.
Now that normies are filtering in it's barreling out.

Not sure if it'll hit disaster tier levels of the reveal trailer but this is far from "good" either.
Biodrones are coping hard right now on Twitter. It is actually quite hilarious how these people based their personality on a ****** corporation and their products. I can't fathom why anybody would defend this game. It just looks bad.
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RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:54
Biodrones are coping hard right now on Twitter
POST IT TEASE
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Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:56
RangerBoo wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:54
Biodrones are coping hard right now on Twitter
POST IT TEASE

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The cope is real.
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Vergil wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:52
Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:35
1998 wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 15:35
The reception for it is rather positive, well compared to the first trailer: 16k/3k up/downvote

Update on Gameplay Trailer:

50K Likes
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Likes had a huge advantage because people who actually watched this **** live are bio drones.
Now that normies are filtering in it's barreling out.

Not sure if it'll hit disaster tier levels of the reveal trailer but this is far from "good" either.
It is so beyond over for bioware. Completely detached from reality and have no clue what the market wants.
It is just another Disney angle. They know the people don't want this crap, but they seem to be punishing gamers because most gamers are white males. Seems like the demoralization is working as planned.

What they don't realize is for some people, this is not demoralizing, it just builds a complete disgust for the offenders by many who didn't really have an opinion before.

I haven't figured out what their angle is. It seems to me if you wanted to control the people, you would give them what they want so they are all absorbed into gaming, movies, etc... and not paying attention to the politics. Instead, more and more people are waking up to the politics, and getting pretty **** ****** about it (The anger against ***/*****/race crap is getting extremely volatile). It seems odd to want to rile up the enemy before you start pulling the commie oppression card. Maybe I just don't understand modern psychological war tactics, but the last thing I would want to do before I walk into a room of people I need to subdue is **** them all off.
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I have come to believe that Varric caused all of this and is making his ****** novel fan-fictions, reason why he is in all the bad Dragon Age games and the narrator of them.
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Xenich wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 22:23
Vergil wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:52
Shillitron wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 21:35



Update on Gameplay Trailer:

50K Likes
63K Dislikes



Likes had a huge advantage because people who actually watched this **** live are bio drones.
Now that normies are filtering in it's barreling out.

Not sure if it'll hit disaster tier levels of the reveal trailer but this is far from "good" either.
It is so beyond over for bioware. Completely detached from reality and have no clue what the market wants.
It is just another Disney angle. They know the people don't want this crap, but they seem to be punishing gamers because most gamers are white males. Seems like the demoralization is working as planned.

What they don't realize is for some people, this is not demoralizing, it just builds a complete disgust for the offenders by many who didn't really have an opinion before.

I haven't figured out what their angle is. It seems to me if you wanted to control the people, you would give them what they want so they are all absorbed into gaming, movies, etc... and not paying attention to the politics. Instead, more and more people are waking up to the politics, and getting pretty **** ****** about it (The anger against ***/*****/race crap is getting extremely volatile). It seems odd to want to rile up the enemy before you start pulling the commie oppression card. Maybe I just don't understand modern psychological war tactics, but the last thing I would want to do before I walk into a room of people I need to subdue is **** them all off.
Well that's what happened over the course of the 90's-2000's. The 2010's is when they started pulling the psychwar/racewar 2.0 ******** on full blast.
I don't get this ******** "wake up" meme glowies always shill. All its going to do is give normies more **** to make fun of and not take seriously. real life is not like the movies where all of a sudden people jump up to overthrow the corrupt government or whatever other pipedream the speaker thinks is going to happen.
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I wish I believed that there were secret societies full of intelligent people machinating all of this instead of realizing it's actually just midwit chaos.
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rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 23:23
I wish I believed that there were secret societies full of intelligent people machinating all of this instead of realizing it's actually just midwit chaos.
It's even more terrifying than that, it's cabals of midwits that think they're smart ******* everything up for all involved, even themselves.

And by the way, the count for countries that have kicked **** out is 110 as of 2024.
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gerey wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 23:34
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 23:23
I wish I believed that there were secret societies full of intelligent people machinating all of this instead of realizing it's actually just midwit chaos.
It's even more terrifying than that, it's cabals of midwits that think they're smart ******* everything up for all involved, even themselves.

And by the way, the count for countries that have kicked **** out is 110 as of 2024.
I mainly think it's people following their faith. Wokeism is the new global religion and every act of activism is a sacred act. They will gladly bankrupt the company and cost hundreds of employees their jobs as long as it means they can preach their religion at you one last time.

Their version of this. They refuse to pray (make a good game normal people want).
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I can't wait for the next game crash. I'm getting hard thinking of it. All game studios just stop existing. No more man chin women. No more marvel dialogue. Just delicious game developer tears. I'd love a collage of sad game dev layoff posts after bioware closes. I thought they'd die after Andromeda.
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aweigh wrote: ↑ June 12th, 2024, 00:15
gerey wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 23:34
rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ June 11th, 2024, 23:23
I wish I believed that there were secret societies full of intelligent people machinating all of this instead of realizing it's actually just midwit chaos.
It's even more terrifying than that, it's cabals of midwits that think they're smart ******* everything up for all involved, even themselves.

And by the way, the count for countries that have kicked **** out is 110 as of 2024.
I mainly think it's people following their faith. Wokeism is the new global religion and every act of activism is a sacred act. They will gladly bankrupt the company and cost hundreds of employees their jobs as long as it means they can preach their religion at you one last time.

Their version of this. They refuse to pray (make a good game normal people want).
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