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[Rambotito]

The bad news: the people who made Veilguard are the ones working on Mass Effect

 

[april6e]

That's very surprising coming from Bioware but at least I won't have to wait a year for the game to actually be complete. Now to wait for the price to crater to $20-25 so I can pick it up.

 

[Germuso]

Rip ME4

 

[Trilobit]

Just keep the DA:V writers as far away as possible from the next ME

I can't wait to see a purple alien do situps and leg lifts as an apology for mis-speciesing another alien.

 

[Randall365]

Press ups should be the easier in space? Can’t wait to pull a bath when I fuck up with pronouns!

 

[Raven117]

I Don’t know if they make it to Mass Effect.

They haven’t shipped a hit since the ps3 generation. They have had two… maybe 3 flops in a row. That’s alot more than other studios.

 

[Raven117]

Mass Effect and Elder Scroll fans at this point should just make peace with the fact that Bioware and Bethesda just doesn't have it in them anymore. Studios don't make games, devs make games, and the talented devs that worked on those games are simply gone, retired or in other firms now. Whoever replaced those devs just ain't it. You can't expect them to put out worthy sequels to their legendary games anymore. They can only make mediocre things like Fallout 76, Starfield, Andromeda or Veilguards now.

Cherish the old games, try to enjoy the new games and IPs from other talented devs. Don't get your hopes up for the sequel.

Pretty much this.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

They will likely sell, but don't expect it to be as good as the old classics. Starfield, despite all its mediocrity, also sold pretty well.

But no one will talk about Starfield as the iconic RPG of an era like they talked about Skyrim. It'd very likely be the same for ES6 and Fallout 5 as well.

The fans and lore for Elder Scrolls and Fallout 5 are way more and interesting than Starfields. Most modders don't even care to make mods for Starfield since the game will still be pretty crappy with mods. I think Fallout 5 and Elder Scrolls are too large and populated to fail even if they half ass it. They're like GTA VI lite. There will definitely be way more longetivity and discussion with ES6 and Fallout 5 compared to Starfield.

 

[Imru’ al-Qays]

edit BG3 must have failed big time lol No DLC, praised

The reason Larian isn't doing BG3 DLC is because they want to move on to their own IP instead of forking over their hard-earned profits to Hasbro.

When you have Bioware saying one day after release of DAV that the studio is now busy on Mass Effect and doesn't have time to make DLC for DAV and also Mass Effect will be tonally distinct from DAV there's only one way to interpret that: DAV is worse than a failure, it's a liability that the studio wants to distance itself from ASAP, even at the risk of quashing its sales momentum even further. General rule of thumb is that during the launch window of one of your projects you shut the fuck up about your other upcoming projects.

 

[Kacho]

Mass Effect is doomed.

Yeah... Hard to be optimistic. Wonder how far along in development it is.

 

[Mokus]

I think you are failing to understand the word "underperforming" in videogames. Square Enix about 10 years ago was famously dissatisfied with the sales numbers of the Tomb Raider (2013) although it sold millions of copies. For them, it should have sold at least 5 million copies to consider it a success. That's underperforming, not reaching the desired sales numbers.

You didn't get any DLC from Dead Space Remake or Star Wars Fallen Order or its sequel and that Squadrons game also didn't get DLC

I don't know if I'd call something like this some wild conclusion of success or failure as why disregard them doing this during this generation? I mean, you don't really have any DLC type thing with 2042 as all the content within the game is free similar to BFV

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order has no DLC, season pass, microtransactions, or loot boxes

Apart from cosmetics, EA abandons most monetisation policies, saying "it's on us to win back players"

www.pcgamesn.com

Star Wars: Squadrons – No DLC Planned at This Time

gamingbolt.com

https://screenrant.com/dead-space-remake-no-microtransactions-ea-motive/

So look...before I jump down any wild claim, I must look at what EA is CURRENTLY doing before trying to sum this up to success or fail. EA this gen and even last gen has been altering how the do all of that.



edit BG3 must have failed big time lol No DLC, praised

Larian Studios Won't Make Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Expansions, or Baldur's Gate 4 - IGN

At a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel today, Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke dropped something of a bombshell by revealing that the developer isn't planning to release any expansions or DLC for Baldur's Gate 3, nor a Baldur's Gate 4.

www.ign.com

No DLC here "worry" and or "concern" lol

Imagine EA of all companies has been doing this and instead of seeing it as a good thing the past few games, its now being used to attack the publisher.... So I don't know if some of you are even REALLY against DLC or just use it to argue about shit lol

It is possible that EA's strategy is different nowadays, but the previous 3 Dragon Age games releases were followed by a fuckton of DLCs. So it's highly unusual for me.

Not sure why are you bringing Baldur's Gate 3 here. It is known that Larian Studios cancelled all their planed DLCs after they had a falling out with the owners of the BG IP, Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast.

 

[EDMIX]

It is possible that EA's strategy is different nowadays, but the previous 3 Dragon Age games releases were followed by a fuckton of DLCs. So it's highly unusual for me.

Sure but, so was BF series and so was Dead Space 1,2 and 3.

I've even heard people try to say this fucking shit regarding BF 2042 because they didn't even play the series, like they didn't know the BF series was no longer doing paid DLC map pack type things. BFV did not have paid maps, thus 2042 didn't.

Dead Space remake continues them not doing a DLC thing with those games, same with Star Wars Fallen order 1 and 2

All you are seeing with Dragon Age is this path continued, that has nothing to do with Dragon Age as how would you explain it with the other IP they've been doing this to?

The last Dragon Age we got was prior to them doing this strategy, just like the last Dead Space we got before the remake, was prior to them doing this strategy.

I'm joking about BG3 btw, but I'm doing so to show an extreme bias exist here regarding DLC, where if a game doesn't have it that people like, they praise it, yet when its a game they don't like, they try to use it as some thing to argue is a negative thing, that isn't what folks said about BG3, I don't recall ANYONE making a claim about it failing when they stated they wouldn't be doing DLC.

It is known that Larian Studios cancelled all their planed DLCs after they had a falling out with

lol thats not the point

Clearly it was not based on the game failing but based on something else....ie the point. Not having DLC isn't some magical success or failure thing, largely depends on what is going on at the company, in BG3's sake, its based on a legal thing with the company who owns the IP.

 

[Mossybrew]

Fine with me. Nice to have a game thats a complete package at launch.