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Two sources report that Dragon Age Veilguard is bad:

YouTuber Doctor Disaster shared, "I have an acquaintance in the retail world, someone who runs nine stores that sells video games. And I am hearing that these ratios that we're seeing in damn near every video released for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, these ratios are correlating with piss poor pre-sales data. People are not connecting with The Veilguard because Dragon Age games are supposed to be dark and gritty and this just looks completely soft."

Craig Skistimas aka Stuttering Craig who owns and hosts the Side Scrollers Podcast channel informed That Park Place that his retail source, who previously indicated that pre-order sales for both Star Wars Outlaws and Assassin's Creed Shadows, pre-orders for Dragon Age: The Veilguard are "not Astro Bot numbers."

Source

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Three words:
Game Pass

 

[Kacho]

YouTuber Doctor Disaster

 

[mckmas8808]

Not sounding good

 

[MiguelItUp]

Game just doesn't look good, and you know it's bad when the fans feel that way.

 

[Humdinger]

 

[Darkkahn]

Two words:
PS+

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Do you have an actual source that isn't some weird ass alt-right youtube channel with an obvious agenda?

 

[FunkMiller]

Not surprised. It reeks of a game designed by a committee of people with little regard for the fans of the previous games. Another case of 'fuck what the gamers want' turning into a disaster sales-wise.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Three words:
Game Pass

Yup.

ETA 9 months from launch.

For those of you who dont follow EA games on GP, they typically come out about 9 months later. Super bombs can be 6 months. And pretty sure licensed stuff like those SW shooters were 12 months.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Veilguard aka Dread Wolf will be a pleasure to play (When it's on sale for $10 like Inquisition was years later) the main focus seems to be on the elves which is interesting.

 

[mhirano]

Maybe people learned that preordering is dumb and games are mostly unfinished at release date.
Better pick it up after the reviews, patches and discounts are up

 

[ZehDon]

Yup.

ETA 9 months from launch.

For those of you who dont follow EA games on GP, they typically come out about 9 months later. Super bombs can be 6 months. And pretty sure licensed stuff like those SW shooters were 12 months.

... are you just listing their time to EA Play or whatever its called these days, which is included in GPU?

 

[StreetsofBeige]

... are you just listing their time to EA Play or whatever its called these days, which is included in GPU?

Yes.

 

[ZehDon]

Yes.

So, nothing to do with Game Pass and just how EA puts its games on its own service then. Gotcha.

 

[MayauMiao]

Veilguard cartoony look probably didn't help either. It screams DEI checklist.

 

[tusharngf]

Is there a statistic for modern audiences? How many people are there in US and Europe that are buying these games?

 

[Salz01]

Compared to Bladers Gate, it doesn't look that great.

 

[Bojji]

Is there a statistic for modern audiences? How many people are there in US and Europe that are buying these games?

Look at Concord sales, that's the number.

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Water is wet.

This game is gonna Concord so hard that yesterday EA showed outright future betas to offset the possible harm to shareholders.

 

[DAHGAMING]

Cor well fuck my old boots, I wonder why that is ?

Go woke go broke, get broke. RIP Bioware, I think this might be the end, EA have given them a few chances and this looks like the final piss take.

 

[CLW]

Yup.

ETA 9 months from launch.

For those of you who dont follow EA games on GP, they typically come out about 9 months later. Super bombs can be 6 months. And pretty sure licensed stuff like those SW shooters were 12 months.

Other than MS no one had done more to devalue their product than EA with their subscription model the sports titles are typically up in 6 months post release and their other single player games are in that 9-12 month window

Why buy it when you can drop in/out as you like for less than buying it outright

 

[HallsOfMidwich]

Looks like a mobile game, almost. Ridiculously bland, amateur design.

 

[Silver Wattle]

The game looks awful and nothing like what a dragon age game should be, btw is EL going to make the OT?

 

[xanaum]

Fck! People are really tired of cringey and ugly designs, huh?

 

[Interfectum]

 

[Humdinger]

 

[a multicultural team of v]

There is going to continue to be a lot of pain in this industry until these companies remember what gamers want.

 

[Flabagast]

Wouldn't surprise me, but still these two sources are shit as fuck. It's like zero credibility

 

[Codeblew]

The game looks awful and nothing like what a dragon age game should be, btw is EL going to make the OT?

Is that Alyah Boston?

 

[Kotaro]

Just by looking at the characters design, you can tell that it's not intended for old school gamers like us.... it's for Dah m0dErN AuDieNcEs!!

 

[Cakeboxer]

I'm not surprised.

 

[MayauMiao]

 

[LMJ]

Alas you only get one first impression and that reveal trailer was garbage, plus hearing about the writers doesn't fill me with hope lol

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I was going to say that critical thinking has left the building but I don't think it even showed up.

There is no actual source here yet you all are so quick to jerk yourselves off over even the idea of it being true to satiate your utter weirdness when it comes to things that don't fit your narrow worldview that it just doesn't matter to you if it's true or not.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

This doesn't even rise to the level of "dubious source", but I think people are taking it seriously because most of us probably want it to fail... and so does Bioware, given every single thing they've done with it.

 

[Ozriel]

The desire in people to be told what they desperately want to hear is quite amusing.

None of these are even remotely credible sources.

Other than MS no one had done more to devalue their product than EA with their subscription model the sports titles are typically up in 6 months post release and their other single player games are in that 9-12 month window

Why buy it when you can drop in/out as you like for less than buying it outright

Saying this in a world where the Respawn Star Wars games sold very well, where College Football 25 already shot up to be one of the best selling games of the year and where FIFA/FC and Madden continues to sell gangbusters…

Why are you oblivious about these things?

 

[semiconscious]

Two sources report that Dragon Age Veilguard is bad...

for what it's worth, i just spoke with my uncle at nintendo, & he pretty much told me the same thing...

 

[Bartski]

Bioware shutting down by Q1 2025.

 

[adamsapple]

YouTuber Doctor Disaster

Can we wait for something that doesn't just sound like made up bullshit from the first sentence, please?

 

[diffusionx]

I won't be sad if this game flops, and it looks horrible, but who the hell is preordering games anymore?

 

[Pejo]

Hope it's true. Glad people are potentially voting with their wallets or at least realizing there's no need to preorder digital games.

Just a few more big budget stinkers and maybe we'll start seeing some changes.

 

[DaciaJC]

Nothing would give me more pleasure to have confirmed, but until we hear this from a proper reputable source, best to treat it as little more than unsubstantiated hearsay.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

People likely do not want to be preached at like the last game, so they are hesitant about jumping in.

 

[SpiceRacz]

 

[M.W.]

Dragon Age: Concord

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

 

[SHA]

Can we wait for something that doesn't just sound like made up bullshit from the first sentence, please?

Yes, we can.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

EA: "Dragon Age Inquisition sold much better than we expected"
Also EA: "Let's completely change it for the next one"

 

[HRK69]