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JRPGfan on 05 November 2024
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Mummelmann said:

Those Steam numbers look pretty woeful, been keeping an eye on it over the weekend. 89k peak concurrent players on the first weekend is quite poor - even Star Wars: Outlaws did 116k in a similar time-frame. I know that Veilguard is sold on Origin (EA App) as well, but that's a far smaller platform overall. I imagine the overall sales numbers will be far more skewed towards consoles this time around (and the entire game is more or less designed around this as well), but even then, it doesn't look like a huge hit. Inquisition has moved over 12 million units in total, this is unlikely to ever come close to that, by the looks of it. I think EA would have published some official figures already if it was an avalanche of a release; they were quick enough to brag about breaking peak concurrent player records on Steam, after all.

I have no more or less interest in the game based on sales numbers, but lower sales could entail some sort of lesson learned in the long run, if only by other developers and publishers. User scores are a shitshow, as expected, peppered with comically low and comically high scores with obvious intentions beyond the game itself. It's become a really stupid concept altogether. At the end of the day, aggregate bullshit is still bullshit.

Dragon Age has a much stronger history on PC.
Because of that, I suspect more than half of the total sales, will be PC side.

I doubt, "overall sales numbers will be far more skewed towards consoles".

This is likely going to sell more than 3-4million copies.
Should be enough to recoup investments, and make a tiny bit of profit.




"I have no more or less interest in the game based on sales numbers, but lower sales could entail some sort of lesson learned in the long run, if only by other developers and publishers. User scores are a shitshow, as expected, peppered with comically low and comically high scores with obvious intentions beyond the game itself. It's become a really stupid concept altogether. At the end of the day, aggregate bullshit is still bullshit."

Hollywood never learns.
How often do they take a beloved IP, and then just sh*t all over the source material? Because they think they know better, than the writer of said books?

I doubt game developers will either. These people are stuck in their ways, and if DEI and LBTQA+ isn't what the public want, they wont care.
They will die on that hill, lose their jobs if that happens (a game flops), get a new one, and do-over the same thing. 

Look at Disney for crying out loud. I have serious doubts any of this changes in the future.