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.
Yeah, manipulated user scores are nothing new, and not just for games, but movies and TV shows as well. With gaming being such a massive market now, there is zero chance that the major players aren't paying for manipulated scores on top of the braindead imbeciles contributing. "Return to form" is the biggest dead giveaway that would have me question the intellect of anyone who tried to claim otherwise when it is objectively worse across every conceivable metric than anything Bioware has ever made. You cannot have a "return to form" when the studio was already a hollowed out husk now filled with talentless theater school dropouts and tumblr fanfic writers with extra chromosomes.
There's a reason why the mythical modern audience is not just a meme, but an economic truth, or else we wouldn't see droves of Disney failures that are
far less on the nose than Faggon Age.
The major difference between it and games like Concord, Dustborn, or that recent shit game that was a freebie is how this time it was attached to a known IP from a developer that apparently the average consumer, a.k.a. dumbfucks, haven't quite grasped hasn't been relevant or composed of a fraction of what made it renown in the first place for over a decade. That's all well and good
until said average dumbfucks actually start the game and are greeted with digital troons demanding that their imaginary pronouns be respected while lecturing them on why they should be referred to in the plural. And that's the
entire game, an infantile, digital woke-scolding that doesn't even attempt to sneak in just how off the rainbow faggot chart that it really is once people are in.
For your fourth point, isn't Dragon Age an adult-oriented game from the start? There's zero fucking way that a
child has heard of Dragon Age because despite looking like fortnite's retarded cousin, it's still not fortnite.
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.
One not-so-crazy conspiracy that I like is that other companies are willing to tank these outfits so they can buy them up on the cheap.
The real question in terms of not too far up the overall ladder is how long are the
shareholders willing to put up with this obvious bullshit being paraded around by leadership who should rightly be seen as saboteurs. Ubisoft is a perfect example where the CEO himself refuses to relent on a strategy that only further cements the entire company as a derivative, creatively bankrupt gas fire. And that's a case where I would
love to see Tencent buy their asses out because no one deserves to be under China's thumb any harder than those cunts.
When you have people rooting for games or companies as a whole to outright fail, someone has to raise their hand and ask what the actual fuck these companies are even doing.
