G2ThaUNiT said:
I think the tone of the trailer along with the game going for a more hack n slash approach to combat shows BioWare is trying to appeal to as many people as possible. Which, can't blame them for it. BioWare I'm sure is on thin ice after the past decade of blunders. |
Yeah, it's pretty clear that EA demanded higher sales for Dragon Age 4 after Anthem and Mass Effect Andromeda flopped. Even Bioware's successful games like Dragon Age Inquisition and Mass Effect 2 never moved huge numbers compared to other WRPG makers like Bethesda and CD Projekt. EA has yet to announce 20m series sells for the Dragon Age series, the only official numbers we ever got for the series were 3.2m copies sold in 4 months for Dragon Age: Origins, 2m sales in 2 months for Dragon Age 2 (which EA was disappointed by at the time), and a reported 6m sales in 4 years for Dragon Age Inquisition, a lackluster number for a game that won GOTY in 2014. Mass Effect sold better than Dragon Age did, but even it's sales were lackluster compared to many other RPG's on the market at the time, with 14m sales between 3 games as of 2014, 2 years after Mass Effect 3 released, so an average of just 4.6m sales for each original trilogy Mass Effect game back in 2014. Even with continued legs for the original trilogy, plus sales of Mass Effect Andromeda and Mass Effect Trilogy Legendary edition added on, the Mass Effect series may yet to have hit 20m sales, EA hasn't announced 20m for the series anyway.
I think EA wanted them to design Dragon Age 4 with higher mainstream appeal, which is why RPG elements seem to have been toned down in favor of hack & slash gameplay. To go alongside the push for higher mainstream appeal, the reveal trailer was clearly designed to appeal to a younger generation of gamers, gen z gamers who never played DA 1 - 3, but it didn't do what they intended, all it did was make fans of the earlier games angry.
Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 11 June 2024
