Dragon Age: The veilguard reviews at 83 Opencritic/84 Metacritic.

[Leynos]

Chazore said:

JRPGfan said:

That's the thing with these games and all the DEI and aiming for "modern audiences"....  Alot of them miss.
And honestly the % of the population that cares about pronouns stuff, that are also gamers and support said games.... are a very small group.
Otherwise, you wouldn't see the black lash, and games sales dropping when that stuff is pointed out.

I bet not 1 game, Sweet baby Inc, consulted on, has benefited in terms of sales from them doing so.
If you have a popular IP, you should cherish it, and try not to alienate the fan base of said IP, instead of chasing new fans
(often times at the cost of your current fanbase).

Their main problem is that the fabled "modern audience" doesn't exist, well not in any capacity that outnumbers the current and older audiences that actively play games anyway.

Whenever these games fail, barely any of them take any amount of time to self reflect as to why their games failed, but instead choose to waste all the time they have in the world to flip their tables and blame their lack of positive receptions/sales on their customers and those who generally didn't buy into their games. A good chunk of Journalists do this as well, that makes it all come off as childish backlash that wasn't logically thought out.

You cannot blame anyone for not liking or buying your game, that's just completely irrational and wholly childish. The fact we're seeing devs/studios/publishers and some journos doing this is abhorrent to look at. We have someone in this very thread citing anyone in the thread that did not agree with them as a "cesspit", which follows the ideology of the ones who buy into DEI/Radicalisation. 

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Nothing reflects this more to me than DmC. Before launch and post launch both from the devs and and journalists insulted fans of DMC then when DmC rightfully failed. Journalists then acted like children and insulted DMC fans some more. I won't turn this into a DmC thread but oh boy that was one of the biggest publishers did not read the room and just insulted people der no white hair when that was never a real issue. This keeps happening and publishers practically never learn and take the wrong lessons. Capcom did and we got DMC5 but that is a rare win in these situations.