"Dragon Age: The Veilguard did not sell well. At least not well enough for publisher Electronic Arts. Three months out from launch, The Veilguard missed its sales target by "nearly 50%," 1.5 million players versus a projected 3 million. The Veilguard reviewed well (well enough, in our case), but has sold worse than BioWare's notorious live service flop, Anthem. Now the future of a studio that was once synonymous with triple-A RPGs is more in doubt than at any point in its post-Inquisition wilderness era."
The rest of the article is long but it is worth the read if you're interested. But here's the closing thoughts...
"What I know for sure is that things look worse than ever for one of my favorite studios, the one that got me into RPGs and PC gaming in the first place. It didn't have to be this way, but very clear, unforced errors in direction and management have left it with one more shot to turn things around—if that."
In my opinion they don't have another shot. I doubt there will be ME4. If the replace and hire good writers, then they need to, as Colin Moriarty said, let this studio do there own thing. They are good at certain things but following old bioware talent osn't in their abilities. I'd love to see them get the ME4 budget and a licence to do their own IP, something new and fresh and I reckon they'd nail it.
please add your thoughts below, do they have another chance or was this their last? I mean after Andromeda, Athem was their last chance, after Anthem, Veilgaurd was their last chance... now ME4 is their last chance. Just put the nail in the coffin, stop chasing IPs the team can't live up to and let them have free creative reign... and fire the writers who ar so, sooo terrible.
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