Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

Palum · Sunday at 9:13 AM

Bald Brah said:
Wish it was pulling concord numbers, but yeah.

Granted, but I think it's a bit too much to hope for. Especially given that there's a not insignificant number of fagmos that actually play these games because they have been degenerate playgrounds for quite a long time. I'll still accept financial ruin as the outcome.

Daidraco · Sunday at 9:15 AM

Honestly, with all the tranny shit in this game (every time I think I've seen it all, something else comes out)... It makes me think back to when the tranny developer himself pulled back all his social media. Turned off all his gender pronoun shit on his twitter profile. Reinforced that the game is not promoting identity politics and more.

I can barely find any mention of that shit now. But... it makes me wonder why he did all that if he was just going to go through with what he already had planned. Or, if he scaled back the identity politics... well for fucks sake, how much more was in there to begin with?...

Then, what I would do to be a fly on the wall if he was getting bitched at by corpo's to change it, and what those corpos are telling him now for "sticking it to the man - anarchy!" Will this failure? (For as long as this game has been in development, its development costs, the inflation that has happened during that time frame, and the utter lack of interest in gamers as a whole) Will it cause them to actually fire this dude at this point? Or was this an ultimatum to the tranny "Hey, if this flops - itll cause us to think about closing the studio. Please do your best." Was this his best? Or was this a fuck you? ..

I mean.. theres just a lot of shit I want to know about this. I mean, I could give a shit about the game. Its not the first woke piece of garbage to come out in this year alone. But to know the future of the company, and the franchise. Will this burn the franchise so harshly that they discontinue the story?

Or, and this would truly confuse the shit out of me, was this all prepared for and they knew it would get a low reception. Will they get rewarded within a time frame for making a woke game by an ESG grant?...

DickTrickle · Sunday at 9:29 AM

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.

So, they've made on the order of 5k positive reviews? I can't imagine the kind of manually run operation that would take. Come on dude. "Word has it" -- I'd love to see the source on that. The positive review ratio is still 3:1 on Steam and that's about where it's been the whole time.

They'll buy/coerce the "professional" reviews but they're not manipulating thousands of steam reviews that easily. People are dumb, don't pay attention, and have low standards. It doesn't have to be a greater conspiracy than those two things.

Bald Brah · Sunday at 10:11 AM

DickTrickle said:
So, they've made on the order of 5k positive reviews? I can't imagine the kind of manually run operation that would take. Come on dude. "Word has it" -- I'd love to see the source on that. The positive review ratio is still 3:1 on Steam and that's about where it's been the whole time.

They'll buy/coerce the "professional" reviews but they're not manipulating thousands of steam reviews that easily. People are dumb, don't pay attention, and have low standards. It doesn't have to be a greater conspiracy than those two things.

EA has 13k employees.

For it to only have 5k positive reviews means 2/3 of their own company don't care if it crashes and burns. That's not even counting all the legions of trannies that don't work for EA.

Daidraco · Sunday at 11:28 AM

Ya'll would be surprised at how petty companies are when it comes to reviews, likes on facebook, instagram, etc.

One of the car dealerships I was a sales manager at would announce sales on Facebook and IG. They would send out a company wide email announcing those posts and ask you to like and share them. During any parties, "someone" would go back and check to see who liked and shared those posts and those people would get a little festive gift bag during the parties. So like, for Christmas - they got candy, a decorated name tag (versus a plain sticker), and an extra chance in the drawing for the give away (Anything from a 20 dollar gift card to panera, up to a trip for two to somewhere.)

If you didnt like or share anything, it wasnt a big deal. But everyone could tell by the sticker alone that you werent a "company man." If you were easily manipulated by that kind of peer pressure, you would start liking and sharing their content after the party. I made plenty of money and could see through the bullshit, so of course I had a Sticker only.

So... to think that EA - a corporate fucking overlord from hell - wouldnt do something equally stupid? Little far fetched.

mkopec · Sunday at 11:52 AM

When will they learn that you cant force this shit with fake reviews, being sneaky as fuck and all that. Yeah you will get a few to buy into it, but people in general see right through that shit.

spronk · Sunday at 12:33 PM

the game has basically already sold 2m+ copies you are just coping if you don't think its moderately successful. Its currently at 80k CCU and climbing, sunday tends to be peak for western launch weekends so could hit 90-100k.

Its not black myth wukong or call of duty but its tracking better than Jedi Survivor (68k peak CCU) and that game launched also on steam 18 months ago, made EA over $500m and sold over 10m copies. The Last of Us 2 is another woke dog turd but it sold crazy well, there are plenty of soy boy retards who lap shit this up and pretending there aren't is just ignoring reality.

the real shitty thing is the team has flipped straight over to work on Mass Effect 5, so that game is gonna be just as shitty as this turd. i've never given a fuck about dragon age so i don't really care if this game sucks, but its a real bummer one of my favorite franchises, mass effect, is doomed to trannies in space. assassins creed is also in the dog turd pile too, it'll be interesting to see if it beats troon age when it launches next february, they changed it to release on steam at launch so we'll see CCUs on that as well.

This sorta reddit post was interesting, guy says the game sucks but all i can think is "then why the fuck did you give EA $70 for it, ITS YOUR FUCKING FAULT"

oh well, i'm playing dead space remake on ps5 and that game is the tits. free on PS+ too

Furry · Sunday at 12:45 PM

mkopec said:
When will they learn that you cant force this shit with fake reviews, being sneaky as fuck and all that. Yeah you will get a few to buy into it, but people in general see right through that shit.

I'm sure there's definitely a culture that encourages people to support their product, but I highly doubt there's some explicit program or incentive for fake reviews. A moderate positive review score is honestly pretty believable with people who tried it seeming to say this game is just kinda mid not not truly bad like outlaws/starfield were. Combine that with people buying it despite all the retardation being rainbow people and DA fans, mostly positive is pretty darn believable to me.

On top of that, it sometimes takes time to realize just how bad a game is. I thought starfield was pretty mediocre in my first impressions, but I didn't realize how big a steaming pile it was until 30 hours. I still had mild fun, but I'm not buying any more bethesda games. I could have easily gone without that experience and worked toward hour 15,000 of hoi4 instead.

Utnayan · Sunday at 12:56 PM

You can look at the steam reviews and it lists how many products they own on their account. I didn’t go through all of them obviously but there are a ton of zero other products owned per positive review. As a game developer / QA you also have access to the game via Steam way before the game launches. I noticed over 1k reviews pop up within the first couple hours of release that had way over the amount of slotted play hours possible.

On PS5 and Series X, the game had over 500 five stars two weeks before the game even launched. Because employees also have access there as well. (We see this all the time so it isn’t anything new. )

We are also seeing the same style of review.

1) “I’ve been a DA fan for 10 years…. “ or “I have this many hours played…”.

2) “BioWare return to form”

3) “It isn’t Dragon age but a great RPG”

And probably the worst given its content manipulation… “Made for kids” straight out of the Lucas Jar Jar playbook excuse. Which is hilarious given the largest target gaming market right now is 30-39. I also see what is happening in our education system and indoctrination there with this mentally ill garbage so that it doesn’t surprise me the alphabet crowd would say that.

It really isn’t a conspiracy theory. We’ve known about it for years.

Utnayan · Sunday at 1:01 PM

I mean shit, just took this now. Look at assassins creed shadows on Xbox. This is 120 Ubisoft QA or Employees that play test and have access to the review mechanic. After launch, it will be flooded with another 300+ immediate reviews of the same contractors/employees. Maybe H Heian can reply here, but he would risk losing his job so I don’t expect him too. This shit runs deep

DickTrickle And, these all started popping in two weeks before launch before the delay of the game. Oopsie.

I wouldn’t be surprised right now if that peak player count is flushed with EA employees launching the game and leaving it on at this point to flub that shit too.

pysek · Sunday at 1:03 PM

Daidraco said:
Ya'll would be surprised at how petty companies are when it comes to reviews, likes on facebook, instagram, etc.

One of the car dealerships I was a sales manager at would announce sales on Facebook and IG. They would send out a company wide email announcing those posts and ask you to like and share them. During any parties, "someone" would go back and check to see who liked and shared those posts and those people would get a little festive gift bag during the parties. So like, for Christmas - they got candy, a decorated name tag (versus a plain sticker), and an extra chance in the drawing for the give away (Anything from a 20 dollar gift card to panera, up to a trip for two to somewhere.)

If you didnt like or share anything, it wasnt a big deal. But everyone could tell by the sticker alone that you werent a "company man." If you were easily manipulated by that kind of peer pressure, you would start liking and sharing their content after the party. I made plenty of money and could see through the bullshit, so of course I had a Sticker only.

So... to think that EA - a corporate fucking overlord from hell - wouldnt do something equally stupid? Little far fetched.

Utnayan · Sunday at 1:36 PM

spronk said:
the game has basically already sold 2m+ copies you are just coping if you don't think its moderately successful. Its currently at 80k CCU and climbing, sunday tends to be peak for western launch weekends so could hit 90-100k.

Its not black myth wukong or call of duty but its tracking better than Jedi Survivor (68k peak CCU) and that game launched also on steam 18 months ago, made EA over $500m and sold over 10m copies. The Last of Us 2 is another woke dog turd but it sold crazy well, there are plenty of soy boy retards who lap shit this up and pretending there aren't is just ignoring reality.

the real shitty thing is the team has flipped straight over to work on Mass Effect 5, so that game is gonna be just as shitty as this turd. i've never given a fuck about dragon age so i don't really care if this game sucks, but its a real bummer one of my favorite franchises, mass effect, is doomed to trannies in space. assassins creed is also in the dog turd pile too, it'll be interesting to see if it beats troon age when it launches next february, they changed it to release on steam at launch so we'll see CCUs on that as well.

This sorta reddit post was interesting, guy says the game sucks but all i can think is "then why the fuck did you give EA $70 for it, ITS YOUR FUCKING FAULT"

oh well, i'm playing dead space remake on ps5 and that game is the tits. free on PS+ too

ZERO fucking chance they sold 2m at this point.

750k and MAYBE coming close to breaking 1m.

Tasty The Treat · Sunday at 2:31 PM

Palum said:
Granted, but I think it's a bit too much to hope for. Especially given that there's a not insignificant number of fagmos that actually play these games because they have been degenerate playgrounds for quite a long time. I'll still accept financial ruin as the outcome.

The only reason Concord was such a failure is because it was one of the few times these woke DEI hires actually created something new and uniquely their own. What's going on with Dragon Age is simply what the woke DEI hires have been doing for over a decade now, taking over old, previously established and successful material that already had it's own dedicated fanbase and ruining it. When they do the latter they can count on a lot of the old fanbase returning and lots of people getting fooled into buying the latest entry. Of course over time they will slowly lose what audience they had, but that takes a number of their new releases to happen. What happened with Concord is what happens when they can't take advantage of a fanbase that real talent created and have to win people over on their own.

rhinohelix · Sunday at 2:42 PM

Daidraco said:
Honestly, with all the tranny shit in this game (every time I think I've seen it all, something else comes out)... It makes me think back to when the tranny developer himself pulled back all his social media. Turned off all his gender pronoun shit on his twitter profile. Reinforced that the game is not promoting identity politics and more.

I can barely find any mention of that shit now. But... it makes me wonder why he did all that if he was just going to go through with what he already had planned. Or, if he scaled back the identity politics... well for fucks sake, how much more was in there to begin with?...

Then, what I would do to be a fly on the wall if he was getting bitched at by corpo's to change it, and what those corpos are telling him now for "sticking it to the man - anarchy!" Will this failure? (For as long as this game has been in development, its development costs, the inflation that has happened during that time frame, and the utter lack of interest in gamers as a whole) Will it cause them to actually fire this dude at this point? Or was this an ultimatum to the tranny "Hey, if this flops - itll cause us to think about closing the studio. Please do your best." Was this his best? Or was this a fuck you? ..

I mean.. theres just a lot of shit I want to know about this. I mean, I could give a shit about the game. Its not the first woke piece of garbage to come out in this year alone. But to know the future of the company, and the franchise. Will this burn the franchise so harshly that they discontinue the story?

Or, and this would truly confuse the shit out of me, was this all prepared for and they knew it would get a low reception. Will they get rewarded within a time frame for making a woke game by an ESG grant?...

Utnayan and I were talking about this last night: The conventional thought is that ESG/BlackRock money will run out and some point and the Game/Content companies will have to course correct or die and AA companies will make big sellers that overtake them. The discussion revolved around: Will they, though? How much is it worth to the Powers that Be™ to keep up the assault on Norms and fund this kind of content? Some of these entities have the largest amount of assets under title in human history: Do they want to keep funding Movies/Games/TV shows that push this shit even though the customers aren't there? I think Ut cited something like 1.2 billion in losses recently in games like Suicide Squad, etc.; I don't know if number even includes Concord.

As artists/creators/business people, they would surely want to change. As activists/ideologues/advocates, they will keep standing on the metaphorical street corner and preaching as long as they have someone else's money to burn.

It depends on whose in charge at EA/Bioware.

Bald Brah · Sunday at 2:54 PM

Utnayan said:
ZERO fucking chance they sold 2m at this point.

750k and MAYBE coming close to breaking 1m.

Probably haven't sold shit on console. RPGs don't do nearly as well on console.

Utnayan · Sunday at 2:54 PM

If you folks think this thread is good, you should go into the off topic discord for Dragon Age.

Utnayan · Sunday at 2:57 PM

Bald Brah said:
Probably haven't sold shit on console. RPGs don't do nearly as well on console.

On my PS5 it lists how many of my friends (I think I have over 400+ on my friends list) own the game.

5.

Elden Ring was in the hundreds.

pysek · Sunday at 3:04 PM

rhinohelix said:
Utnayan and I were talking about this last night: The conventional thought is that ESG/BlackRock money will run out and some point and the Game/Content companies will have to course correct or die and AA companies will make big sellers that overtake them. The discussion revolved around: Will they, though? How much is it worth to the Powers that Be™ to keep up the assault on Norms and fund this kind of content? Some of these entities have the largest amount of assets under title in human history: Do they want to keep funding Movies/Games/TV shows that push this shit even though the customers aren't there? I think Ut cited something like 1.2 billion in losses recently in games like Suicide Squad, etc.; I don't know if number even includes Concord.

As artists/creators/business people, they would surely want to change. As activists/ideologues/advocates, they will keep standing on the metaphorical street corner and preaching as long as they have someone else's money to burn.

It depends on whose in charge at EA/Bioware.

ESG money comes from somewhere and it ain't oligarchs looking to score off of investing in neckbeard entertainment.

The money trough they all plough their snouts into ultimately comes from one place...

Taxes Accountant GIF by Natalie Palamides

Bald Brah · Sunday at 3:11 PM

pysek said:
ESG money comes from somewhere and it ain't oligarchs looking to score off of investing in neckbeard entertainment.

The money trough they all plough their snouts into ultimately comes from one place...

No it's from giant conglomerate pension plans.

Blackrock/Vanguard manage giant state and federal retirement 401k pots of money. Their job is to reinvest that money safely. But instead of going for higher ROI they choose to force companies that they buy stock in to support these retarded DEI initiatives.

It's one big circle jerk.

Kuro · Sunday at 3:12 PM

Utnayan said:
If you folks think this thread is good, you should go into the off topic discord for Dragon Age.

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