Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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The numbers for DAVG track similar to Star Wars Jedi Survivor, which had a peak of like 69k users on steam CCU. That game sold ~2m copies first month (all platforms) and over 10m copies lifetime to date. EA reported that game made ~$450m in revenue a while back during an earnings statement, and probably cost more than Dragon Age due to the Star Wars licensing fees.

This game is tracking slightly higher on steam than Jedi Survivor, and I'd guess more people are playing it on console than PC too. So sadly it will likely be decently profitable for EA, unless everyone stops buying it now. Its pretty easy to guess the budget is somewhere in the $150m-250m range, so even at the higher ranges it still probably makes a decent profit.

It would have had to launch to 10-20k steam CCUs to definitively be a huge flop, its not a massive success either on the level of Hellblade 2 or Black Myth Wukong but its likely going to make money because gamers are retarded.

CCUs are creeping up again on steam (74k at 1pm on saturday) and 76% of reviews are positive so steam PC gamers are possibly even more retarded.
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This is probably a better comparison than many of the others mentioned because of the subscriptions factor that we have little insight into and erode the numbers that are publicly available in real time like CCU on Steam.

Currently peaking on Steam again:

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Forsaken, This “game”, Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad, and more - every single one of them bomb and do not sell on sale. All of them touched by sweet baby Inc who also just got an influx of cash from a private investor. True evil is at play. And evil is playing the long game to psychological terror/indoctrination.

Stay steady my friends. Play and buy games that matter or go through back logs and try your best to not jump at the new shiny chasing the high of yesterday.
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On the positive side of things, they're fighting against human nature itself. Neither men nor women want to play as repulsive troons, and the average person who plays a video game just wants some escapist fun, not a political lecture from a blue-haired, mental midget, they/themchild whose idea of "fun" is screeching at what they find offensive on behalf of some other group of people.

They aren't making it difficult, either, because all they are capable of making are shit games, full stop. They can't write, they can't design anything remotely appealing to the human eye, they're incapable of actually making something innovative or enjoyable, and god forbid they create any sort of legitimate challenge for players to overcome becaues that would be ableist and istaphobic.
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Jason Schrier is such a faggot.
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God's chosen people, man.
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I have no clue how that literal faggot was ever considered a reliable source of anything other than the desire to shove him into a locker.

If you have ever had the displeasure of hearing his voice like on Youtube, then you know the sheer audacity of this bitch to try talking shit to anyone when he sounds like he has been suckling on estrogen-infused Soylent his entire existence and looks like a Discord and Twitch moderate did a fusion dance.

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Jason is the biggest faggot in the games industry. 100% propagandist mouth piece used by industry to push whatever dogshit they want pushed.

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The little worm has always been a pick-and-choose hypocrite when it comes to "journalism."

When it comes to Fagguard, he outright admitted that he doesn't even like it, but he props it up for obvious political reasons while refusing to acknowledge the Jumanji stampede storming through the room that all of the woke, DEI, sweet baby inc content is the touch of death because it only appeals to some >0.001% of terminally online twitter users.
 
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Most of the positive reviews on Steam work for EA - word has it they spread out employees between console and Steam and when the game launched it would show they bought the game on steam / service and posted reviews - and would have enough hours played to make it believable.

Negative reviews are finally catching up after the influx of bullshit.

Amazing what these people will go through.
 
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Utnayan said:
Most of the positive reviews on Steam work for EA - word has it they spread out employees between console and Steam and when the game launched it would show they bought the game on steam / service and posted reviews - and would have enough hours played to make it believable.

Negative reviews are finally catching up after the influx of bullshit.

Amazing what these people will go through.
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Yup that sort of manipulative bullshit is really common when it comes to big new releases from companies like this. It's literally a part of some people's job to play these games and add positive reviews for them on storefronts like Steam. Heck I remember the crazy positive review bombing/shilling I have seen on sites like Metacritic, where the user review section was clearly full of shills and bots just copying and pasting the same few generic positive reviews. It was pretty obvious when you'd see some random new accounts that are barely named different leaving the same overly positive reviews. It's what the AAA industry needs to do now a days in an effort to fool people into buying their games and thinking people actually like them.
 
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Yup that sort of manipulative bullshit is really common when it comes to big new releases from companies like this. It's literally a part of some people's job to play these games and add positive reviews for them on storefronts like Steam. Heck I remember the crazy positive review bombing/shilling I have seen on sites like Metacritic, where the user review section was clearly full of shills and bots just copying and pasting the same few generic positive reviews. It was pretty obvious when you'd see some random new accounts that are barely named different leaving the same overly positive reviews. It's what the AAA industry needs to do now a days in an effort to fool people into buying their games and thinking people actually like them.
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At least the full court press like this doesn't really work as well as it used to. I know I definitely got bamboozled by some games when younger cause there really was no counter narratives available. I'm sure it still works to some degree, but obviously people have been wising up to it slowly. I think the word of mouth has probably objectively kept this game from doing as well as it might have in the past. There's no way this game makes its money back the way things look now, which is great.
 
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New phrase making its rounds on Twitter: Non-buynary - identifying as someone who ain't buying this shit.
 
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Oof the puns are getting a bit face roll. Atleast it’s better than anything a veilguard dev could come up with
 
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At least the full court press like this doesn't really work as well as it used to. I know I definitely got bamboozled by some games when younger cause there really was no counter narratives available. I'm sure it still works to some degree, but obviously people have been wising up to it slowly. I think the word of mouth has probably objectively kept this game from doing as well as it might have in the past. There's no way this game makes its money back the way things look now, which is great.
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Theres still plenty of people out there that dont give their time to forums, reddit, youtube, twitch, or anything like that. So yea, I can see them buying and paying for this game. But thankfully, these fucking retards are getting to the point where they are labeling shit. Like the LGBT+ tag. If I was some busy dad that could only set down for 30 minutes every other day to play a game... the LGBT tag would have been all I needed to avoid this product.
 
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Theres still plenty of people out there that dont give their time to forums, reddit, youtube, twitch, or anything like that. So yea, I can see them buying and paying for this game. But thankfully, these fucking retards are getting to the point where they are labeling shit. Like the LGBT+ tag. If I was some busy dad that could only set down for 30 minutes every other day to play a game... the LGBT tag would have been all I needed to avoid this product.
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Yea, that's a part of my point. You see the warning signs in so many places now. Like I got a female relative that doesn't really game that asks me questions about games cause she stumbles upon memes on twatter the last couple years, or people slap the LGBT tag on the store page. It's a lot harder to completely blindly stumble into a game than it used to be in a lot of small ways that are hard to quantify.
 
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lol people seething that this game isn't failing

you become what you hate bros
 
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Mist said:
lol people seething that this game isn't failing

you become what you hate bros
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This game is falling on its ass.

10 years, three stop starts, hundreds and hundreds of expensive contractors to complete what the DEI infested employee base couldn’t, plus marketing. Easily 350 million for this piece of shit, and this thing hasn’t even broken 750k units cross platform.

And shit, there’s 20k watching a stream on this and probably 15k of those is to troll the comments, while Red Dead Redemption 1 from 1987 BC has 18k.
 
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This is probably a better comparison than many of the others mentioned because of the subscriptions factor that we have little insight into and erode the numbers that are publicly available in real time like CCU on Steam.

Currently peaking on Steam again:

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I mean this game sucks so much even goishen goishen fired up his 486-DX33 again to play Dragon Age: Origins while listening to “This is the new shit” pretending Transveil doesn’t exist.
 

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Mist said:
lol people seething that this game isn't failing

you become what you hate bros
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10 year dev cycle

AAA game and budget

Well known developer with a legendary past

only 77k peak players on steam


Yeah, it's doing so well. Moron.
 
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10 year dev cycle

AAA game and budget

Well known developer with a legendary past

only 77k peak players on steam


Yeah, it's doing so well. Moron.
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Don’t mind Mist Mist - He is still pissed she cut off their dick.
 
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