I quite love the game, but it just doesn't feel like a DA game. Feels like it was crunch-timed to death with people trying hard to save it.
Bioware has been circling the drain for years, and it's clear the people who made it special have long since left. If I worked there, I would have already been looking for employment elsewhere because this isn't going to last.
A huge part of my youth was spent in BioWare worlds. They're robbing me through pure nostalgia at this point.
Is it a big commercial failure? I noped out of the series after seeing the direction they went with Inquisition, but I haven't really seen any negative press about it. Kinda seems like the article's just trying to stir up some shit
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
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:
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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