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EA CEO Claims Dragon Age: The Veilguard Failed Due To Lack Of Live Service Elements
(twistedvoxel.com)
incredible, you absolutely nailed it mr CEO
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2025
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The children yearn for dark patterns
Oh wow! I gotta admit, I kinda like Veilguard. Yeah, it's the same "Bioware Style" story as a lot of others. Sorry it wasn't to a lot of people's taste.
Dragon Age 1: Quest 1: Here is the exact ritual to create new Gray Wardens
Every Dragon Age since: You're the last Gray Warden! No one knows how to make more!
Well, obviously. Just look at the massive success by the other major game in the genre, Baldur's Gate 3. Fucking packed to the rafters with live service elements so that must be it.
I just couldn't stop buying the bg3 season passes, fomo-exclusive character skins and consumable magic item bundles to feed the one companion whose name escapes me atm.
/S
I've got so many Golden Keys for opening Ultra-Elite chests in BG3, but it won't give me the exclusive Golden Helm of Baldur with the alternate mod slot unless I upgrade my golden Keys with exclusive in-game currency.
is a conversation I've never heard around BG3.
OFFS.
It couldn't be the lackluster story, lack luster game play that everyone seems to point out. Nope it has to be not being a live service...
Dragon Age is not a popular IP.
I know one person who was excited for this release.
I tried to get into it in DA2, but the characters and story were so fucking cardboard I couldn't stand it.
Origins was such an awesome game. I've been disappointed since.
I was excited for this, and then I saw some of the dialogue and character design. Woof.
I loved how dumb DA2 was, played it a whole bunch. Loved that there were only, like 6 dungeon maps, with customizable barriers for "variety".
Varrick is a national treasure (but DA2 did kind of suck)
Varrick is a national treasure
Interestingly enough, autocorrect is changing Varric to Varrick, but also yes.
if only Larian made the next Dragon Age game like they did with BG3
Yup, I didn't get it because there simply wasn't enough seasonal content, loot boxes, battle passes, and FOMO elements. Better luck next time EA!
Same. No battlepass? No money.
Lmfao they will never learn
They know better. But this is the bullshit they spin to try and convince everyone else. It doesn't work.
Maybe it works with shareholders, who seem to be as invested and interested in quality as EA CEO
Nailed it. He is making excuses to shareholders.
Problem is that we waited 10 twara and got this. Doesn't even compare to inquisition, feels like a VERY small game and the dialogue, story and combat is nor great. Not to mention there is no crafting and the game is very much clpawd and not open world like. Doesn't even stand close to Inquisition, which I might add won fame of the year without live service.
Clpawd?
ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Iä! Iä!
What a fucking idiot. I'm itching to refund it just for this statement alone.
It was Skill-up's review that turned me off it and I'm glad I never played it from the rest of the reviews I've read. The art direction is so off-putting and I love the line "it feels like HR is in the room with you in every scene", I have no idea what they were thinking.
I dared to hope that Mass Effect would be good.
I now dare to hope someone steps up to the plate and gives us a spiritual successor. I miss being a space captain having space adventures in space with my space buddies.
Some of the old team are working on one called "Exodus" that looks okay. Matthew McConaughey is involved somehow, so take of that what you will.
I didn't even dare to hope. Just look at the games that have been put out over the decade? With such high quality games like Anthem, Andromeda and now Veil Guard.
Yeah, Bioware is just a name, and has no prestige anymore.
Anthem and Andromeda were actually pretty good as bases to work off of. I truly believe Anthem could've succeeded in the stated mission of "Destiny Killer" if they had put work into making it good, building it into a good instanced MMO. Same with Andromeda - actually pretty good game that just had a rough start, and could've been great if the studio had put time and effort into DLC.
But the metric is never "how many people are actually saying this is a good game and they enjoy it", it's "did this literally smash every other game out there on release."
I liked Andromeda though. It made me feel like maybe they could return to form. The narrative was not great and completely forgettable along with the followers but I liked the gameplay and I’ll die on the hill that exploration wise it was a better Mass Effect 1 than Mass Effect 1. The writing was what needed work and I was hoping they would get it right this time around. But seeing how the studio was gutted and this is the lesson they learned from Veilguard I now fully expect it to be a Helldivers ripoff. In fact screencap this.
It might not be of help but I’m satisfying my space exploration and ship captain itch with a heavily modded Starfield (Constellation 4K collection on Nexus so that’s around 200 mods).
It’s not perfect but at least I have a middle ground between No mans sky, Star Citizen and Elite Dangerous.
Plus, sniping people in the face on a moon is fun.
Constellation 4K collection on Nexus so that’s around 200 mods
You mean this one? https://next.nexusmods.com/starfield/collections/npk3lv
I can't login atm and while ublock can remove the login overlay, I can't open the lists to see the proper list of mods and changes.
Yes this one, by v2.
He also put a 4K collection to complete it (or 1k for slower pc), a Star Wars collection that i haven’t tried.
There’s a Stargate mod I’d like to try if it’s updated and working with constellation.
I haven’t looked too deep In gameplay mods and just took the collections by v2 cause it was easier.
Starfield didn’t do it for me, well it did but not like Mass Effect did. Bethesda games used to be my favorite but I prefer somewhat less open ended games nowadays. They play more like survival base building games than RPGs. I miss oblivion.
Fuck off EA. That's all that needs to be said.
Thought for a moment that it was the onion.
Die EA
It's like they don't know what made DAO good.
Hmm honestly they could have probably milked the fans of this game those who enjoyed it and it's God awful writing. I'm sure it's got a enough gacha, shitty skins, and tons of grinding the whales come out in full force.