EA CEO Andrew Wilson has claimed that Dragon Age: The Veilguard failed due to its lack of live service elements.
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It’s like they don’t know what made DAO good.

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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.

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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.

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I was excited for this, and then I saw some of the dialogue and character design. Woof.

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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”.

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Varrick is a national treasure (but DA2 did kind of suck)

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Varrick is a national treasure

You did the thing!

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Interestingly enough, autocorrect is changing Varric to Varrick, but also yes.

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Origins was such an awesome game. I’ve been disappointed since.

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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.

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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

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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.

</s> is a conversation I’ve never heard around BG3.

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Die EA

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I hope EA crashes and burns and that all the IP they gobbled up and/or murdered can be free from its clutches

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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.

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Clpawd?

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ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

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Iä! Iä!

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Well the industry is looking at Baldur’s Gate 3 to learn how fantasy RPG are supposed to be made. CEO thinks the only thing really missing is the only thing BG3 does NOT have.

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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…

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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!

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To be fair, Duncan knew it and technically there are realities with no survivors from that ritual… There are also realities where it appears your Gray Warden has been running around spiking people’s drinks with dark spawn blood because how the hell do we keep getting more wardens? It’s possible that the knowledge was really lost due to a few Wardens thinking “No, I won’t repeat that.”

The truth of the matter is, no one can bring themselves to put taint that many times in the modern games.

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Lmfao they will never learn

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They know better. But this is the bullshit they spin to try and convince everyone else. It doesn’t work.

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Maybe it works with shareholders, who seem to be as invested and interested in quality as EA CEO

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Nailed it. He is making excuses to shareholders.

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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.

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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!

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The children yearn for dark patterns

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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.

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