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Dragon Age now belongs to the fans, says BioWare writer

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It belongs to me now?

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Barves will be pulled if I have to hear about it again.
 

Zug

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Well, I was disappointed back in the day when Bioware ditched the D&D universe for their own, rather bland thing.
Dragon Age in the Forgotten Realms would have been something. Oh well, this franchise was done after the first game anyway.
 

diffusionx

Gold Member
Don’t forget, EA flew in a bunch of game journalists and influencers for a big 6 hour preview event, then sent review codes only to the ones who gave it the most glowingly positive previews. Such a dishonest attempt at manipulating the Metacritic score.

They also had an army of marketing bots gushing and making the same stupid comments like “OMG you can pet the cats and play rock paper scissors with the skeleton dude!!” in all their preview videos.

They tried so so hard to sell as many copies of this turd as possible before the general public caught on.
I see it differently. They believed in the game. They gave Bioware time, money, and resources to make the game they wanted to make. They even set reasonable expectations on it, only 3 million "users", which is very modest considering RPGs are very popular today. In the end it didn't come close to that and they realized this company doesn't have it anymore and needs to change.
 

ZehDon

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Based on the director "moving on", the development team being disbanded, and the publisher's stock going into free fall all on the back of the game's dramatic underperformance - this is, of course, despite ridiculously small sales estimates - I think it's fair to say the fans don't want it.
 
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Crayon

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I'm here for these high budget crash and burns. Go ahead and charge 70. S***, go ahead and charge 100. But your game better be really, really fucking good. Marketing and bought hype might not be enough anymore.
 

Camreezie

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Glad to see she moved on to other EA projects to shit the bed there too. Thanks for killing Dragon Age to return it to the gamers
 

PeteBull

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Funny, saying Dragon Age belongs to the fans yet they didn't take them into account when actually making the game.
Back then all those woke clowns fellt like DA series is theirs, and didnt give a damn about what fans wanted, ofc it all blew out at launch since its fans who are ultimate judges if game/series lives or dies, that didnt come to mind of those delulu devs xD
 

TheInfamousKira

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"Oh no, but they were your favorite, Taash,"

"You know what we do when we mess up,"

"Oh! Right! I'll go pull a-STUDIO CLOSURE
 

mdkirby

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No it hasnt “done its job”, its, and their “job” was to make a successful game that made BioWare a profit. Their job was not to make a social statement, or to inspire fan fiction. This is a major disconnect and if that was their goal (which it seems to be), it’s a betrayal of their employers trust. I swear some people seem to live in a different reality🤦‍♂️. If I was an EA executive or investor I’d be fucking furious hearing such nonsense 🤣
 

laynelane

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That "all you had to do was ignore it" line just encapsulates the mindset of many people on that sub reddit. Just straight delusion and lashing out while refusing to accept that people did ignore it, as in didn't buy it. And they didn't buy it because it didn't appeal to them or come across as a Dragon Age game. The reveal trailer with its Marvel-type dialogue and Fortnite-like colours was the first nail in the coffin for the game. It clearly showed the people making the game didn't understand or care to understand the dark fantasy world of Dragon Age. That's not on the audience, that's on the developers - who also thought "So, I'm non-binary" was appropriate dialogue for a RPG set in a world teetering on the edge of destruction.

No amount of "hate" (ie. criticism) can sink a great game made to appeal to its core audience. The reasonable take, then, is Veilguard was not such a game and that is why it failed. That failure, plus Andromeda and Anthem, are the reasons why Bioware is in the state it is now - and that is entirely on them and the choices they made.
 
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Hollywood Hitman

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Just the more I think of this I laugh, they wiped their ass with this game, shit on it, wiped their ass even more then said here it's yours now 😂 what shit bags all of them I honestly would love to see them all bagging groceries
 

Sharius

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literally, we killed the game, now it's dead, you can do whatever the fuck you want with it, au revoir
 

KiteGr

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I thing xe got the ones who ruined Bioware confused. If their game and story was any good and mainstream people actually cared about their woke crap, then the game would had sold more regardles what "a few chuds on the internet" say.

BTW: I don't even watch Asmogold. My default go to's are Clownfish, Skill up and the occaisonal Midnights Edge when YT brings it up. If xe things that Asmogold is soly respoincible of driving away xes customares, we have a saying in my country. "Eather the Sea is crucked, or out ship is".
 
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Kacho

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Is being called a "chud" supposed to hurt my feelings? Do they really think that they're making a dent with that little label?
Yep. Same with anti-woke snowflake. They also believe that people only hate wokeness because YouTube grifters told them to. Also, everyone that doesn’t have the right opinions are grifters.

I may be missing some but that’s the gist of it.
 

Hollywood Hitman

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Yep. Same with anti-woke snowflake. They also believe that people only hate wokeness because YouTube grifters told them to. Also, everyone that doesn’t have the right opinions are grifters.

I may be missing some but that’s the gist of it.
Sounds about right. They're so funny with their little labels, the party of perpetual children.

It's funny because if they'd stop for one second being victims and look in the mirror, and ask "why don't my own trash people support these products?" they could maybe learn something.
 
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