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Corinne Busche, director of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, departs BioWare (www.eurogamer.net)
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It's tough to express how much of a bummer this whole mess has been. Veilguard is such an embarrassingly lazy, shallow experience.

Placing all of the blame on Busche isn't fair, as she was brought in at the end of the development process, but it was her leadership that prevented the game from getting the extra time it needed.

The creative and design aspects of the game's failure falls primarily on John Epler's lap.

BioWare was so special for such a long time. Watching them fumble the ball directly into the deepest part of the toilet three times in a row feels completely insane.

Fuck EA forever, man.

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[-] tymon@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

If the discourse I'm seeing on dev/gaming twitter/bluesky is anything to go off of, It hasn't made anywhere near the hoped-for sales target. I think a lot of that has to do with the blowback to its initial appearance as a glorified hero shooter, coupled with the lack of a strong franchise identity, then further compounded by the saturation of disappointing (if not outright disastrous) big-budget drops like Redfall, Forspoken, and Concord creating a wave of fatigue

[-] Vodulas@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago

If the discourse I’m seeing on dev/gaming twitter/bluesky is anything to go off of

It's probably not. Everyone I know that has actually played has found it to be quite fun. It's not perfect, but highly enjoyable 7/10. Most of the negative reviews I have seen are 1 of 3 things:

  1. It'S tOo WoKe And
  2. It not a CRPG like Origins
  3. The writing is not up the same standards as previous Dragon Ages

So the first one can be thrown out. 2 is true, but doesn't make it a bad game. 3 is true for the tutorial portion for sure, but after that things open up. The story isn't amazing, but it suits the gameplay well.

EA hasn't released any sales numbers, so hard to say on that part, but probably not in the multiple millions. From what I can find it is probably selling fine. Not amazing, not bad, but fine. That also could be due to a variety of factors like marketing clarity or using an IP in a way that fans of the IP did not want. It does not necessarily mean the game is a bad game

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