JRPGfan said:
LegitHyperbole said:
Rumor has it that Bioware celebrated one million sales within the studio but even at that, that's pretty rough. To say that it falls short of Inquisition is an understatement, this is very much a flop as there will be short legs on this little trooper. I suppose time will tell but they'll be lucky to hit half the sales Inquisition done lifetime. |
This.... I heard that rumor as well, at that time (a few weeks ago?).
The thing is the people in there, weren't really celebrateing, the mood wasn't good going from the rumor.
Why? because 1m at this point, isn't anywhere near where it needs to be.
I heard that it needs to go over 4-5m in sales to recoupe its costs (from this rumor), and that was why the 1m sales was abit gloomy... it took too long, hinting at it possibily not haveing the sales in it, to reach the numbers it needs too to recoupe the investment costs.
Basically another game with huge focus on DEI ingame, and around the people hired to make the game, and its another game that looks like it won't turn a profit. |
Yeah, with how long the game was in development, as early as 2015 when it was codenamed Joplin then rebooted in 2018, and the previous failure of Anthem, Veilguard needed to be a runaway success which it does not appear to be. The game is hanging around in the top 50 across all platforms, but 4-5m in sales looks like the games best case scenario at this point. I imagine steep discounts will be happening in the not too distant future.
There was an absurd amount of well documented turnover at BioWare during the games development as well, so company morale must be pretty devastated.
