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EA Stock Drops as Dragon Age: The Veilguard Misses Sales Mark by 50% ["Dragon Age and EA SPORTS FC 25 underperformed our net bookings expectations.”] (mp1st.com)

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This type of disconnect is what happens when the media is more concerned about being in their sponsor's good graces than complying with their obligation to their audience. Next time, politely decline Disneyland tickets and other freebies, ya know, like the code of journalistic ethics dictate...

Now, queue accusations of misoginy and whatever a loud minority of idiots does, while the overall message, that traditional outlets should not have these huge conflicts of interest undisclosed, gets drowned in the shit flinging by those with megaphones, vs the silent majority.

Veilguard didn't fail because it had post op scars as a character option (but man, drama youtubers cashed in hard on that one), it failed because, apparently, nobody in the development team was as worried about shipping a good, well written and entertaining game, as they were with trauma dumping.

Edit: For the record, the laugh is for hyperbole, I'm pissed because this broken system results in further layoffs of people who were just caught in the meat grinder. UNIONISE yesterday!

[–] TwoBeeSan 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The 7th time harding yelled "BAD GUYS" was when I turned it off.

Good writeup

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The writing was so bad. It sounded like children arguing rather than fantasy world characters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I made fun of the games ratings when it came out because it had the same ratings as Starfield, and was downvoted. Some people just can't accept publishers basically pay for reviews.