Bioware. What happened to the giant?

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I haven’t watched Asmongold since the Johnny Depp trial, but considering this is WoW ik you guys think the world revovles around him.

Truth is there’s millions of older RPG fans and BioWare was a giant amongst the developers of that genre.

Between ME:A, Anthem, and DA. They might as well be dead.

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Nothing was moved. Not sure why you’re angry about my opinion. The data is already there in regard to sales.

We don’t have factual data on refunds but it’s estimated over 100k so far.

Ahh, so the numbers(facts) you cited won’t actually show up for a week? How convenient.

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Does this upset you or something? You and the other person seem dead bent on replying to everything I type immediately.

The game is bad, sales numbers are bad, player count is bad and refunds are up. It will be more obvious in a week for obvious reasons. Why is this hard for you to realize?

Player count is really, really bad.

Don’t argue. Go look at the Steam player count and tell me it’s not bad.

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For the record, EA bought Bioware in like 2007 / 2008, so kind of hard to say everything put out under the Bioware label since the acquisition has been terrible.

Also some of the complaints about the game are dumb and culture war nonsense, though complaints about the game’s style and themes being too lighthearted for a Dragon Age game or combat being action adventure / style over substance versus classic RPG seem valid.

Do we even have sales data on DA:V that isn’t estimated from some analytics website whose algorithm amounts to “trust us”?

Are you upset you’re getting pushback?

Feel free to say the game is bad in your opinion, but don’t present your opinion as fact.

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Go look at the current active player count and tell me it’s not bad. Enjoy!

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As a famous judge once said – There are no such things as coincidences.

You’re missing out on a ton of brilliant indie games if your metric for quality is how many people play them.

What do indy games have to do with anything? I gave you where to look and now you’re pivoting and changing the conversation.

This is a massive 10 year in production AAA game. Player counts that low is Concord levels bad. It’s a very important number for a game like this.

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It’s kind of weird how you guys worship a mentally unstable person who lives in a self afflicted roach motel

They went woke and now they’ll go broke. And they’ll be replaced by devs and studios who don’t hate their customers.

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Heard the game wasn’t particularly awful, but also not particularly good, that the magic class combat was bad but the melee was ok, and that the story was mediocre

Kind of strange how you connect dots that are not there because you are projecting.

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If you play the game, the immersion breaking modern activist dialogue is actually not even the worst parts. It’s like playing a movie. You have no agency. It also has the worst combat in the series history.

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Larian Studios and BG3 would like a word.

The activist writing often goes with bad gameplay and bad storytelling in general, because they’re hiring people who want to push this stuff instead of people who love gaming and who want to target the primary gaming market. It’s a marker of bad priorities and bad hiring decisions. The activism just isn’t that popular, and it distracts from the core objective of making good gameplay.

I refuse to believe anything is worse than Dragon Age 2’s “but wait, there’s more!” reinforcement waves.