Dragon Age: The Veilguard Had Far Fewer Players Than EA Expected

It's your writing, BioWare, it's poor. It was poor in Andromeda, it was poor in Anthem, and it's poor in Veilguard. You cannot make a successful story/character driven RPG if every scene feels like it was written just to deliver a line or a visual from the trailer. You need Andor, but you keep writing The Rise of Skywalker.

I’ve played every Dragon Age since the first. The quality has just gone down with each iteration IMHO. Still, I was waiting to pick this one up when the price is right as it’s generally entertaining.

I think the time is now.

But...butt... where is this modern audience? We made it for them.

Smh. You need maybe five brain cells to know that this modern audience doesn't exist. Those blue-haired Twitter weirdos vanished some time ago. (they never would touch a gaming controller in their life to begin with).

Glad the lead writer got fired. Do me a Barv at the way out for this abomination.

The US is healing (saying it as a European lol)

Far fewer? So that what's, 47 players instead of the expected 94 out there?

FC 25 had very minimal innovation, so much so it seemed like I was, more or less, playing a clone of FC 24.

I suspect that unless EA improve its engine to be similar to the graphical fidelity of Unreal 5 titles, sales will continue to diminish, as it seems like EA are selling the same product, just with a different year number in the name and some different cover sports stars.

"We made a Dragon Age game for people who don't like Dragon Age and somehow it didn't sell well!"

FC 25, dropped that costly license you had to pay every year to FIFA to use their name, so thought you'd just make a butt load more cash on releasing the same game over and over?

Glad to see it fall short. I miss the days when PES was the front-runner.

Yeah, big surprise. That's what happens when you have high expectations without truly delivering, especially when you focus on the "modern audience".

That's studio closer level of understanding performance worryingly.

“Engaged with” being the key term here. Even fewer players actually paid for the game. GamePass and EA Play probably cuts that 1.5 million in half to show actual sales.

$100 please.

I wonder how many of those players bought it on sale, It was 50% off within a few weeks and still only shifted half the amount they wanted, I guess the modern audience don't buy enough.

It underperformed by 50% and yet no lessons will be learned.