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Dragon Age: The Veilguard fails to enter Steam top 100 sellers, one month before release

YuLY

Gold Member
There were 2 gay romance options in the original, you absolute tool

That, or just hate tourist, unsure which one is sadder.
Hate tourist lol, when I was playing Dragon Age you didnt know what a mousepad was. I dont care about gay romances since I dont need to engage with them, but I cant avoid black and asian elves when they are members of the party. What straight romance option do you even have as a male, that semi-fat midget Harding ? Miss me with that gaslighting shit, this is one of the wokest rpgs ever made.
 
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Topher

Identifies as young
It being #42 in the Steam Wishlist is most important for anticipated reception and comparing it to other similar AAA titles. No one is buying games a month before release. The best sellers list is meaningless at this time.


Came in to post the very same thing. Reviews are probably going to make or break this game.

I still don't think Veilguard is going to be another Concord situation. I mean that was an extreme case, it's not going to be that bad. My guess is that Veilguard will do "fine" but nowhere near the sales of Inquisition. I definitely think the presentation of the game and Bioware's track record these past 10 years, will hurt the game's sales. But I'm not convinced yet it will hurt them enough for the game to outright bomb and lose them money.

Nah....this ain't Concord. Concord was ranked over 700 in most wishlisted prior to release. If it reviews well then I'm betting console sales will do fairly well. Hard to say how well it will do on Steam. User reviews have a lot of weight.
 

Luipadre

Gold Member
Aint even in the top 100 for videogames on Amazon


It's # 816 :messenger_grinning_smiling:

In Playstation games its # 39 :messenger_grinning_smiling:

Nobody wants this shit

I think everyone is just more cautious. There is no reason to preorder, just wait for the reviews to see if its an andromeda or anthem level of fuckup or not. I always buy the games i want to play as soon as i can download them on PS so like 2 days before release. There is no need to rush
 

AGRacing

Member
Dj Khaled GIF by Kids' Choice Awards
 

EverydayBeast

ChatGPT 0.1
Dragon age origins I enjoyed, skipped 2, and inquisition was a beautiful game that was a pleasant surprise but to me people are piling on for games to fail. Veilguard will have corrections post launch.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
Why is everyone hoping everything fails these days?

I don't get why everyone wants everything to fail except the same Ninty trash we've been getting for about 40 years now.

Cancel culture is morphing into celebrating failure culture

Cancel culture is not allowing a person to perform or a product to even get to market. There are those who advocate cancel culture by prohibiting the mere mention of a game's name such as with the moron's on ree. This ain't that and should not be compared.
 
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gakidx

Neo Member
Hate tourist lol, when I was playing Dragon Age you didnt know what a mousepad was. I dont care about gay romances since I dont need to engage with them, but I cant avoid black and asian elves when they are members of the party. What straight romance option do you even have as a male, that semi-fat midget Harding ? Miss me with that gaslighting shit, this is one of the wokest rpgs ever made.
Easy now unc. Don't want McDonald's to lose their fav costumer
 

GymWolf

Member
Of course this is not gonna bomb like concord, it's gonna be hard for every game to accomplish what concord did.

Even fair games is gonna do better (and declared death after 2 months instead of 2 weeks).
 
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StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
When those 360 ME were made, were the doctor founder guys still around? Those were good games. If they already left by then it shows the studio still had good people who could churn out good games. Not recently though. Geez,
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
perfect. you can see the mentality change with each game.
There's only so much they can do to generate excitement. The marketing is pushing lovely hair and petting cats because the RPG elements are so half baked.

are you motherfucking ready for the new shit
If you removed the name Dragon Age, and replaced it with Overwatch Veilguard DLC, everyone would believe it.
 

ssringo

Member
There's only so much they can do to generate excitement.
It's not even just excitement. Several people in this thread, myself included, know about the game but didn't even realize it was releasing soon.

Not that it would necessarily help it but still.
 
I don't agree with every decision made with this game, but as someone who has put hundreds and hundreds of hours into DAO, DA2, and DAI I am excited for this, the story and lore stuff they've already revealed is wild and I can't wait to see how this all concludes.

Wanting the game to fail because "hurr durr woke" just makes you a fucking moron. You probably didn't even care about Dragon Age to begin with and just found another target for your self-righteous circlejerk.
 
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DrDryRub

Banned
The antiwoke are so antiwoke they've become the new woke and don't even know what woke us.

Serious note ..who cares, it's 1 month before it's release. There's so much to play right now I doubt many are clamoring for DA at the moment.
 

Kacho

Gold Member
It's not even just excitement. Several people in this thread, myself included, know about the game but didn't even realize it was releasing soon.

Not that it would necessarily help it but still.
I hear ya. Bioware did leverage IGN for their latest marketing preview, but even that has been met with a mixed reception. I don't think there's honest to goodness enthusiasm across the internet that generates buzz around the title. It's kinda just there.

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Sleepwalker

Member
Why is everyone hoping everything fails these days?

I don't get why everyone wants everything to fail except the same Ninty trash we've been getting for about 40 years now.

Cancel culture is morphing into celebrating failure culture

Nah, we only hope that shitty stuff fails. Many great successes have been celebrated.
 
Is the problem that no one in the industry knows what the younger generations of players want? Perhaps that generation doesn’t want anything other than what their friends find cool.

So they make these shit games, assuming it’s what the market wants, but that generation is lost to a few free2plays. When the market of olds don’t show up because you made a game for modern sensibilities, you just have nothing. Zero sales.

Business is bad these days.
 

Majormaxxx

Member
Why is everyone hoping everything fails these days?

I don't get why everyone wants everything to fail except the same Ninty trash we've been getting for about 40 years now.

Cancel culture is morphing into celebrating failure culture
because they fore their DEI content in everything

do u think if two identically talented developers were up for the spot of a lead of the game - one being the current trans person and the second dev being a non-diverse hire, the non-diverse hire would get the job?
 
So what are the actual "woke" complaints about DAV?

That it has a gender neutral character creator? Because so did Cyberpunk 2077.

That it has playersexual romances? Because so many games have that, including Fallout New Vegas (and tbh I think playersexual romances are lazy, but that's as far as my criticism goes).

That the art style is heavily stylized? Because the art style had changed drastically between every DA game.

So what are the supposed issues that will materially impact you playing the game?
 

Caldain

Neo Member
I don't agree with every decision made with this game, but as someone who has put hundreds and hundreds of hours into DAO, DA2, and DAI I am excited for this, the story and lore stuff they've already revealed is wild and I can't wait to see how this all concludes.

Wanting the game to fail because "hurr durr woke" just makes you a fucking moron. You probably didn't even care about Dragon Age to begin with and just found another target for your self-righteous circlejerk.
Agreed, I was surprised with what they already revealed, especially during their combat reveal trailer where they said they removed sections to avoid spoilers and then immediately dropped a big one about Archdemons. But definitely eager to see where they go with all of it, particularly how Solas's story concludes. And I've been waiting to go to Tevinter since Origins, should be interesting.
 

dorkimoe

Member
I hope this game ends Bioware.
youre rooting for hundreds of layoffs basically because you dont like the direction they took? So go play something different and grow up.


you know the arguments arent valid when the word woke comes up in the thread

which is it guys, should people pre order games or not? because im getting mixed messages
 
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SHA

Member
I understand the hate but people must talk about how bf2042 became playable and publicly accepted, otherwise there's no real context in those headlines besides clicks.
 

Kacho

Gold Member
Is the problem that no one in the industry knows what the younger generations of players want? Perhaps that generation doesn’t want anything other than what their friends find cool.

So they make these shit games, assuming it’s what the market wants, but that generation is lost to a few free2plays. When the market of olds don’t show up because you made a game for modern sensibilities, you just have nothing. Zero sales.

Business is bad these days.
Hard to say. Saber Interactive didn't have that issue with Space Marine 2. That game is a smash success.

I'm not sure if the higher ups at EA are clueless or what. Feels like Veilguard was greenlit with the assumption that gender queer nonsense was really important to the broader market. Like everything they saw on Twitter/Reddit applied to normies.
 
youre rooting for hundreds of layoffs basically because you dont like the direction they took? So go play something different and grow up.


you know the arguments arent valid when the word woke comes up in the thread

which is it guys, should people pre order games or not? because im getting mixed messages
I am rooting for hundreds of layoffs. That would be a win.
 

Aenima

Member
This is exactly why my Dragon Age hype was deflated as soon i saw gameplay footage. The art direction of the game make it look like a mod for World of Warcraft filled with colorfull neon effects.
The cast of companion characters also makes me not really interested in knowing anyone of them. As a fan of Dragon Age games i might eventually get it, but will wait for a very big discount on this one.
 
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Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Why is everyone hoping everything fails these days?

I don't get why everyone wants everything to fail except the same Ninty trash we've been getting for about 40 years now.

Cancel culture is morphing into celebrating failure culture
Things that suck deserve to fail. The market spoke long ago what we don’t want, and they keep shoving it down our throats like we will just slowly accept it.

This game is a deep discount. No open world, focused areas, agenda based woke shit, etc etc.

At least it has great hair physics.
 
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