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[RCX]

Just watched a livestream of it for a few mins. Why do so many characters have American accents? Isn't this supposed to be a fantasy setting. It immediately broke any sense of immersion. No offence to Americans in general but it's not the kind of thing I'd expect to hear in a fantasy/medieval world.

It all seems very Marvel-ish.

 

[Haint]

Guess that's a wrap for go woke go broke, Pachter redeemed.

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Fitting that this came out on Halloween, as it not being a flop is scaring the shit out of chuds.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

That seems high?

Definitely not but at the rate it's going as it's growing more powerful by the second. It should hit over 146k tonight at least. It'll need like around 400k concurrent on Steam to be view as a decent success due to a big budget AAA western fantasy game from a well known franchise and big budget fantasy games especially one with lots of work done like this one needs a very high expectation. There's still a chance it'll reach that mark.

 

[Kacho]

Oh shit I forgot about the Halloween effect!!

When I get back from trick or treating with my kids, this better have 100k players or I’m going ham in this thread.

 

[Raven117]

I guess some folks were just expecting Concord.

 

[Kacho]

That seems high?

No… not for a AAA RPG

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

When I get back from trick or treating with my kids, this better have 100k players or I’m going ham in this thread.

100k will be reached not too long after this post so by the time you get back I'll say 142k or 149k depending on how late it is.

 

[Eotheod]

Where we at with the goalposts? A month, maybe two for failure?

 

[Alebrije]

Since nobody knows what are EA expectative ($$$) with this Game. Any number is useless.
What is good for one could be Bad for other.

People expecting this would be Concord were on a bubble, this is a well known IP with fanbase.

The only metric Will be if there is a new DE Game in the future.

 

[Kacho]

100k will be reached not too long after so by the time you get back I'll say 142k or 149k depending on how late it is.

I’m gonna tag you if it doesn’t as I bebop and scat all over the place

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I guess some folks were just expecting Concord.

Yeah that really puts the magnitude of Concord’s failure into perspective.

This game will max out at over 100 Concords but that still seems like a dud IMO

 

[Kacho]

This is such a DonkeyPunchJr game btw

You can make some absolutely retarded looking avatars

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

This is such a DonkeyPunchJr game btw

You can make some absolutely retarded looking avatars

Yeah my favorite thing is making some butt ugly freak of nature to play as, it really suits me.

I wish they’d released the character creator as a demo like they’ve done with previous games because I sure as hell am not buying it.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

has it reached today's peak?

 

[Germuso]

No homo

 

[Sanepar]

Biggest sp game from bioware and EA. We lost incels :/

 

[Antwix]

I'm actually surprised this is selling so well. Putting the woke stuff aside, the game just looks like crap. Weird cartoony style, poor facial expressions, story and writing seems terrible and too lighthearted, combat seems pretty tame. If people are enjoying it, so be it. I'm hoping though that Bioware takes feedback from this (good and bad) and makes a good Mass Effect game.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I guess some folks were just expecting Concord.

Concord was a once in a generation flop

But this game will come down to how much it actually cost to make. If it cost $200 million to make, selling 3-4 million copies is a failure for it and Dragon Age will die as a franchise. If it cost $60 million to make, selling 3-4 million copies is a successful run and the franchise will continue and we'll all become trans and the human species will no longer reproduce and become extinct

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

has it reached today's peak?

Sure looks like it. Not a complete bomb but that’s still pretty bad IMO

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

has it reached today's peak?

No because at least half the potential buyers are preparing for Halloween, wait till like 11 or 12 tonight and you should see 147.2k concurrent players.

 

[Kacho]

I'm actually surprised this is selling so well. Putting the woke stuff aside, the game just looks like crap. Weird cartoony style, poor facial expressions, story and writing seems terrible and too lighthearted, combat seems pretty tame. If people are enjoying it, so be it. I'm hoping though that Bioware takes feedback from this (good and bad) and makes a good Mass Effect game.

Not convinced it’s selling well just yet. The BioWare audience showed up, but it’s not pulling many people outside of that.

 

[RodriGames40]

No because at least half the potential buyers are preparing for Halloween, wait till like 11 or 12 tonight and you should see 147.2k concurrent players.

We'll see about that... Peaking this early doesn't happen often for starters.

 

[adamsapple]

A rare incel defeat.

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

This is a sequel to a highly popular game series - no surprises it is doing well on Steam.

Sure looks like it. Not a complete bomb but that’s still pretty bad IMO

70k seems pretty damn good. Probably going to sell millions on all platforms.

 

[analog_future]

wHaT a FAiLuRe

 

[Peroroncino]

I'm sad

 

[Topher]

No… not for a AAA RPG

Seems that it peaked the first day with fewer players than Metaphor. This weekend could see a boost though.

 

[Jibran#one]

Go woke go broke it makes me sad but I think this is the end of the line for bioware

 

[Kacho]

Seems that it peaked the first day with fewer players than Metaphor. This weekend could see a boost though.

Yep. People around the internet are watching closely.

 

[CliffBronger]

If you want a good laugh check out HeelvsBabyface youtube live stream of this.

 

[Revolutionary]

People have been looking forward to DA4 long before any of the 'drama' came to light. I'm not surprised it's doing well, but I'll admit it's doing better than I expected.

 

[tommib]

Finally the Gay Agenda demolishing the cisgender/heteronormative structures of oppression. Hold on to your butts, straighties.

Spoiler

/s

 

[analog_future]

1. "this is going to review terribly" (gets excellent reviews)
2. "the graphics suck" (is one of the best looking games of the year)
3. "no one is going to play this" (has the best launch of any single player EA game of all-time on PC)
4. "these numbers are not great when compared to the best selling Steam titles of all time" <- YOU ARE HERE

 

[Branded]

No… not for a AAA RPG

I mean on a random Thursday evening (in EU) that seems decent.

Not my cup of tea anyway, never going to touch this with a barge pole. If not for the gay stuff then for the awful writing.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Seems that it peaked the first day with fewer players than Metaphor. This weekend could see a boost though.

Unless it gets REALLY bad word of mouth, it’s going to hit its all time peak on Sunday and will probably be around 100K.

And no i don’t think that’s very good for a big name AAA RPG

 

[tommib]

Unless it gets REALLY bad word of mouth, it’s going to hit its all time peak on Sunday and will probably be around 100K.

And no i don’t think that’s very good for a big name AAA RPG

 

[clarky]

1. "this is going to review terribly" (gets excellent reviews)
2. "the graphics suck" (is one of the best looking games of the year)
3. "no one is going to play this" (has the best launch of any single player EA game of all-time on PC)
4. "these numbers are not great when compared to the best selling Steam titles of all time" <- YOU ARE HERE

Looks like your the only one here playing it.

Curious it hear genuine impressions after say 20 hours.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

lol what other BioWare games launched on Steam? I think the Mass Effect remaster was the only other one that came to Steam on day 1. What a dumb comparison.


This game is probably going to peak at less than half what Dragons Dogma 2 did earlier this year. Does that sound like a smash hit to you?

 

[analog_future]

Looks like your the only one here playing it.

Spoiler

but really, this is GAF. Are you surprised? I've never seen such a childish hateboner for a videogame since... Oh wait, last year on Resetera.

 

[Thyuda]

ehhhh

it's not an Ubi Flop but EA's execs are not gonna be wooed by the numbers either, I can guarantee you that.

 

[Topher]

Unless it gets REALLY bad word of mouth, it’s going to hit its all time peak on Sunday and will probably be around 100K.

And no i don’t think that’s very good for a big name AAA RPG

Needs to sell a few million to be considered a success. Dragon Age Inquisition sold over 12 million.

1. "this is going to review terribly" (gets excellent reviews)
2. "the graphics suck" (is one of the best looking games of the year)
3. "no one is going to play this" (has the best launch of any single player EA game of all-time on PC)
4. "these numbers are not great when compared to the best selling Steam titles of all time" <- YOU ARE HERE

Who are you quoting? Who is "you"?

 

[analog_future]

Needs to sell a few million to be considered a success. Dragon Age Inquisition sold over 12 million.



Who are you quoting? Who is "you"?

Have you read this thread? I'm quoting literally 2/3rds of the people here.

 

[RodriGames40]

My post above be like: Am I a joke to you?

 

[Denton]

1. "this is going to review terribly" (gets excellent reviews)
2. "the graphics suck" (is one of the best looking games of the year)
3. "no one is going to play this" (has the best launch of any single player EA game of all-time on PC)
4. "these numbers are not great when compared to the best selling Steam titles of all time" <- YOU ARE HERE

1. Gets ok reviews (82) from limited access journalism, with the most critical reviews being unscored
2. Graphics is good when it comes to environments, characters are mixed bag except hair which is great
3. "Best launch of any singleplayer EA game of all time" says almost nothing when almost no EA games launched on steam day 1
4. These numbers are indeed not great if EA is interested in making profit, unless consoles do much bigger numbers or the game grows significantly over the weekend

 

[Topher]

Have you read this thread? I'm quoting literally 2/3rds of the people here.

You are? Why not quote the posts directly then?

Also....

"but really, this is GAF. Are you surprised? I've never seen such a childish hateboner for a videogame since... Oh wait, last year on Resetera."

Yeah....that's bullshit. A game hated by ResetEra is banned on ResetEra.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Go woke go broke it makes me sad but I think this is the end of the line for bioware

A studio is dead once all the original people are long gone and it's just a random studio name on a bunch of random people

Bioware's founders retired more than a decade ago, that studio made quality games like Anthem afterwards

The current Bungie is the same way

 

[analog_future]

You are? Why not quote the posts directly then?

Also....

"but really, this is GAF. Are you surprised? I've never seen such a childish hateboner for a videogame since... Oh wait, last year on Resetera."

Yeah....that's bullshit. A game hated by ResetEra is banned on ResetEra.

Oh I'll totally give GAF credit for not trying to cowardly eliminate any discussion around it like Era did. I'm just saying that the blind hatred is comparable.

 

[JayK47]

How many of those are playing just for the hair? I heard it was amazing. Truly groundbreaking.

It will do well enough. Never enough to please EA, but sadly well enough to keep Bioware around for more transitions.

 

[EN250]

I really thought this one was going to flop, more DA slop incoming, guess DIE crap will prevail for a bit longer