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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Is BioWare's Biggest Launch Ever On Steam

The game set a new record for BioWare.

By George Yang on November 1, 2024 at 8:12AM PDT

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is BioWare's biggest launch on Steam, reaching the top spot on Steam's sales charts and knocking down Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.

According to SteamDB, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has peaked at 70,414 concurrent players within the first 24 hours of its release. This beats out BioWare's previous record of 59,817 concurrent players for Mass Effect: Legendary Edition.

BioWare put extra effort into making sure the PC version of Dragon Age: The Veilguard was up to snuff on Steam. The game is verified on Steam Deck, and passes Valve's internal tests on inputs, display, performance, and seamlessness. A technical breakdown of the PC version by Digital Foundry revealed it to be an excellent port, which is often not the case at launch for major game releases on PC.

It also doesn't require players to use the EA App (the successor to Origin) to play it on PC. Previous EA games required users to play them on the EA App, so this marks a big shift in EA's launch strategy. However, players to agree to a third-party EULA, as noted by the Steam page.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard is now available for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. In GameSpot's Dragon Age: The Veilguard review, we said, "The Veilguard feels like BioWare making a good BioWare game again, and that in itself makes me extraordinarily happy."

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This is a very deceptive headline hahaha

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Reviewer seems to forget how Origin was the primary launcher/storefront for previous Bioware games.

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Edited By m4a5

Yet another disingenuous headline I've seen saying this. It suggests that it is a big launch, when in reality it is a relatively tiny launch (when you factor out the very specific "Bioware on Steam" context). Especially when you consider they haven't done a day one launch on Steam in recent memory.

Comparing to other AAA games that have launched on Steam recently, this isn't even close to impressive. They should be well over half a million peak for how well known a franchise and studio this is...

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It's hilarious to me how much crying the anti-woke man-babies are doing given the game is actually good. I love seeing them suffer through their existential crisis.

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@wednesdayaddams: Do you think it will be a larger existential crisis than over the release of Hogwarts Legacy which had over 800k players at the release?

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@talestra: No clue. That was a good game too. But that one was weird in that I think the anti-woke crowd hate-played it because they have a weird obsession with the trans community. I find it weird that they played it because it had gender neutral options in character creation and a trans bar tender. So my guess is they were playing it just to poke at the trans community who were going off on people who bought and enjoyed the game.

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@wednesdayaddams: Wait, it wasn't the so-called "woke crowd" (I hate the labels) who was saying if you play HL you condone the murder of the trans people? Or threatened streamers who dared to stream the game? The trans community (or at least the loudest of them) was calling to boycott the game and was hysterical that the game was so successful. And are you seriously claiming that hundreds of people played the game just to poke at them? You're definitely overestimating the amount of people who care about it that much.

Btw, the closest game to DA is BG3 which is full of diversity and inclusion, but for some reason, the "anti-woke man-babies" are praising it, and it also had over 800k players on the lunch. The fact that DA has 10-fold less of the same crowd shows that they have some serious problems, and it's not because of diversity.

I couldn't care less about, wait, no, I firmly believe that diversity and inclusion can only enrich the game, but it's the game that has to be good first. I am a huge fan of RPGs and DA universe, but I am not sure that I will ever play it, because based even on good reviews I didn't like what I have seen.

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Review bombing, outrage, hate, woke, DEI agenda etc etc.

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Use your keyboard!

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