If they took 2-3 weeks to sell 1 million across all platforms, that's truly devastating for Bioware. I voted 3 million lifetime, this will be a slow crawl and will need heavy discounts to reach even 25-30% of Inquisition LT sales. STALKER 2 just released, and they announced 1 million sold within a couple of days. Considering the technical state of the game, the mediocre reviews, smaller budget and much less recognizable IP and being a sequel to a near 20-year old game, that's a real feat.
What remains of Bioware isn't much, most of the old crew left long ago and have created studios of their own. Some of them still make great games, unlike Bioware. Veilguard was never interesting to me, the gameplay in and on itself was just unappealing, when it took the full-on action route. Puzzles, dialogue, limited level design and weird traversal, incredibly generic 3rd person combat system that looks like a dozen games releasing this year alone, strange art direction - there are so many things making this unappealing to me as an old Bioware fan.
On a positive note, the gamers have voted, and it looks like the game is getting the sales it deserves. From any other developer, they may have been forgiven, but the bar for Bioware was always set really high. They failed to live up to their own reputation, and I'm not at all surprised at that. Between Avowed, Titan Quest 2, Path of Exile 2, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, there's really no room for mediocre action-RPGs from a has-been studio in my coming log. There are plenty of other studios who still make great games, I'll make do with them.
Bioware and Ubisoft getting repeated kicks to their metaphorical balls just might be the best thing in the industry in 2024. Will it teach them anything though? Doubtful.
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