Rumor: Dragon Age Veilguard Pre-Orders are really bad

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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.”
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Remember_Spinal

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How many threads are you gonna make about this?
 

Dabaus

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Not Astrobot numbers??? Does that mean Astrobot had high pre-orders? I never heard about it until now. I didn't think the hype was that high in the "real world".
I think it means astrobot is doing pretty good but not like setting the world on fire. The Ubisoft and EA games are doing worse than that. Which is horrible for those games.
 
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How many threads are you gonna make about this?

Don't you dare question John Elden Ring.
 

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The Qunari look awful in this game. They need to stick with showing the other races for the random generated Rook. I'm not too bother by the new artstyle but ugh the Qunari got butchered by it in this game for sure.
 

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Just looking at the Picture tells me all i need to know. Hideous character designs for the "modern audience," western publisher, which tells me shallow gameplay and DEI, Sweet baby inc agenda around every corner. I hope it fails.

You say that but bioware games have always had political stuff and romance options going back to games they made on ps3 and 360 long before dei was a thing.
 

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That’s the Star Trek argument … that’s not the point… it’s the dumpster fire of talent employed at nuBioware clearly incapable of even keeping fans pleased. TNG is the greatest tv show of all time; Discovery and SNW cringe trash.

I am giving them a chance (again). Andromeda and Anthem showed promise as action games; so okay —- maybe they can become something different and good. You’d hope… but I doubt there’s even many of the same devs there since those games either

To me this looks like a quickly made sequel. Not much of a step from Inquisition; which was already terrible…. Screams half-assery.

EA seems serious about stepping their game up tho… so we shall see if that’s carried over to BioWare.
 
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Say1nMan

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That’s the Star Trek argument … that’s not the point… it’s the dumpster fire of talent employed at nuBioware clearly incapable of even keeping fans pleased. TNG is the greatest tv show of all time; Discovery and SNW cringe trash.

I am giving them a chance (again). Andromeda and Anthem showed promise as action games; so okay —- maybe they can become something different and good. You’d hope… but I doubt there’s even many of the same devs there since those games either

To me this looks like a quickly made sequel. Not much of a step from Inquisition; which was already terrible…. Screams half-assery.

EA seems serious about stepping their game up tho… so we shall see if that’s carried over to BioWare.
To me, BioWare has two chances left to get back on track with this game and the next Mass Effect game. We’ll see how it will fare.
 

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To me, BioWare has two chances left to get back on track with this game and the next Mass Effect game. We’ll see how it will fare.
Mass effect is still in pre production. This game is their last chance. EA won't invest in full production of Mass Effect. They actually might give it Motive as these guys seems to be capable of making good games.
 
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They lied about Outlaws preorders being incredible. They are lying about Assassin creed having good preorders, there are definitely lies in the media hyping of Dragon Age.

Again though just give ports of origins and 2 to Playstation.
 
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People dunk on the so called gooners and chuds but forget that they buy the games day 1 most expensive editions, These people boycotting will result in missing revenue targets.

The game may sell 10 million overall but how many of them sold in the launch quarter at full price and how many sold at discounts at black friday are a big deal, 1-2million less copies sold in launch window is catastrophic for modern AAA games. Gamers dont even need to stop buying games they can just make these publishers miss revenue targets for the quarter that is more than enough. Naughty Dog will face the same , Good luck to them if they think they will do TloU 2 numbers in launch week again
 
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