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.

No. The writers/Game director/rando game journalist will go on social media and rant about how it's the gamer's fault they can't accept some social commentary because blah blah blah.

And yet its a far better game than Inquisition.

Bruh, you and I have such similar taste in games lol. I'm still skeptical of Path of Exile 2. Idk, the first game just never grabbed me, hard to put a pin on it. I'll probably have to go back and try it out, but I'll most wait a while since POE2 is launching in Early Access.

Idk how but I only recently found out about Titan Quest 2 and jumped up with joy that the game was finally getting a sequel! Throw in Fable and 2025 is shaping up to be a hell of a year in the ARPG space.

Whatever you are smoking, please box it up and sell it. You'll become incredibly rich.

https://www.eurogamer.net/dragon-age-the-veilguard-sales-solid-in-uk-softer-across-rest-of-europe-report

Easily the best DA in the series and it’s not even close. Shame it’s sales aren’t great tho, easily my favourite ‘24 release, hope it don’t kill the studio 😅

Way too much identity politics in it, the Taash character was embarrassing. It needed to sell north of 5 million copies and I predicted this would flop. It is the world we live in and it was never going to be accepted via the majority. You either create games primarily for them or your product sucks, it is simple as that. The fake journalism did not help either, people simply pushed back. Most of those websites are owned by Ziff Davis and the reviews from many publications copied certain lines and it was so blatant, the gamer's noticed it easily.

The old Bioware left a long time ago.

It is not a RPG, just some crummy action stuff instead. Maybe that is why?

Honestly, expected. And it's not because of what many people think, in my view. Tell me, who wanted a new entry in the DA series? The last one was a decade ago, long before Fortnite, before GTA Online took off, and all that jazz. The people that wanted this game, like me, are now older, have limited time or stopped gaming all together. 

I think if they wanted to appeal to a brand new audience (which is what the gameplay seems to have wanted to do) they needed to basically ditch the ongoing narrative for something new and different but they carried it on, meaning people entering the game as brand new players (first time DA) will not get the same experience that DA:0, 2 and I can achieve in anyway, yet it also means older players, like me, will just think this is DA lite, if that at all.

Yet... I still bought it. You have to signify that to people to play. A demo would have helped.

Will they? Good for clicks, not good for credit. If they really think the game didn't sell because some idiot dude bros on the internet can't get over what was 20 minutes of potential modern social commentary in a 47+ hour game, then they need to consider what they are doing.

The game in itself was a good game, just a terrible Dragon Age game and they need to accept that fact. It was missing so much that made it DA.