Terrible day for Dragon Age: The Veilguard

[@j0hn288]

PIN for Failguard!

[@juni1399]

GG

[@AFordFlex2377]

Failguard omedetou! 🎉🥳🎊🚔

[@limon34422]

o7

[@Turin_Inquisitor]

beaten by Farming Simulator

[@ricardohoang8452]

pin > that "return to form"

[@thebigskip-e]

I'd rather harvest potatoes for 40 hours than be stuck with insufferable characters that look like potatoes for 40 hours.

[@Bosston62]

Play Valheim, you can build a Viking house and make a farm of carrots, turnips and Onions. You also can build a castle if you get bored enough

[@spicepirate]

potatoes are 1000 times more handsome than whatever those are

[@SashaDegurechaff]

Don't insult potatoes compering them to this...

[@HiddenStr3ngth]

@@spicepirate A good potato is way sexier than traash. Somehow.

[@thenerdyknight1559]

Potatoes can be turned into either French fries or vodka. Those bring joy, unlike Veilguard

[@lonelystrategos]

Farming sim players be like: "It ain't much, but it's honest work."

[@marian1245]

i'm doing my part!

[@GiantTalkingTree]

It's legit a fun game.

[@lonelystrategos]

@@GiantTalkingTree I might try it out. Watching Clarkson's Farm has gotten me interested in farming.

[@GiantTalkingTree]

@@lonelystrategos only downside to the sim games is they get littered with DLC

[@amicableenmity9820]

Somehow literally N@zis

[@ministryofwrongthink6962]

Farming simulator is a pretty popular game series, but it does set a benchmark. A well-known RPG series should be nowhere near lower than a farming simulator, even a damn good one.

[@shyviking]

Yes; pit it against BG3 (way below at the same time after release - and even below now) or DOS2 (DAV is starting to trail DOS2, if you do a release-to-release comparison 2 weeks in, at the Steam Charts).

[@onionhat745]

It's a sizable niche. It's like comparing it to Story of Seasons. It's a product for an audience, unlike Veilguard.

[@DatAsianGuy]

Well-known RPG ip made by well-known developer, published by well known Publisher fails to compete with niche game about harvesting crops. Gaming for the past 15 years summarized.

[@ReigoVassal]

​@@shyviking compare it to previous DA games and they're still far from them

[@erikcostales5583]

@@shyviking as bg2 player,dindt like bg3 XD

[@bobbydenaro870]

This game reminds me of Velma where it feels like the writers are using it as a fanfic/therapy session

[@Sephiroth517]

like they always do, so....

[@Redmeer411]

That's because it is. These "writers" in AAA games industry, Hollywood, and streaming shows can't do anything else but do self insert characters, fan fiction, and very heavy handed "subdivision" and deconstruction. It's why they hate cannon so much and do everything to get away from it, they are only capable of doing tumblresque fan fiction or gender/race swap existing characters to usurp the "mantle" of that character. For the case of veilguard the devs have come straight out and said that some of the LGBTQIA+ characters are written by some one with the same identity as the character... They wrote themselves into the game 😂.

[@Sivrn-Val]

That's literally Traash's entire storyline.

[@Xbalanque84]

Good. You have functioning pattern recognition.

[@RokuroCarisu]

Par for the course.

[@TurtleChad1]

They went from "Game of the year" to "Great success" to "it's your fault it didn't sold" in the span of a couple of weeks.

[@65firered]

Don't forget calling anyone who criticizes it transphobic.

[@d4ngerd4n]

They went from "Game of the year" to "Great success" to "it's your fault it didn't sold" in the span of a couple of weeks.

[@SireRose]

@@d4ngerd4n They went from "Game of the year" to "Great success" to "it's your fault it didn't sold" in the span of a couple of weeks.

[@taags]

@@65fireredI call that being normal

[@om3ga109]

Isn't that the classic narcissist's playbook? Or was it gaslighter's? "It's not happening. It is happening but it's a good thing. It's happening and it's your fault it's happening." Something like that, these "people" are really pathetic.

[@Rpground]

Remember, these sim games are also like a yearly release... Also, apologize for showing us that close up of Tassh...no one deserved that.

[@InvertedWIng]

Those close-ups of Traash are no accident. They know its physically repulsive, which is why they force you to look.

[@pcachu]

Confirmed, the Veilguard devs are Patrick Star holding up Spongebob and bellowing "LOOK AT IT!! *LOOK AT IT!!"*

[@manoftherainshorts9075]

As a gamer I'm dreaming of people invading my personal space, that's peak male fantasy alright? /s

[@АндрейНеугодников-м6е]

Why do they want to look at repulsive rhings?

[@leodiusd4858]

​@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е it's like looking at a mirror for them

[@kaisokusekkendou1498]

​@@АндрейНеугодников-м6е People aren't born fecalpheliacs... it is learned sexual associative behavior. They want people to be trained to be aroused over this type of look. They call it "fighting toxic masculinity", but it is an attempt to normalize their fractionally small group amongst the rest of the 99.99%. "Date the trans, bigot."

[@ElderSnake90]

I feel assaulted from that Taash scene

[@wolfsongrising]

legit, I actually felt so uncomfortable from that lol

[@MadocComadrin]

Yep. That scene was definitely uncomfortable in an SA/r-word type of way, as were a few other scenes that have been floating around with Taash.

[@thatHARVguy]

@@MadocComadrin Right Side of History people: "It's not assault if *we* do it." _RAWRRR_

[@Sivrn-Val]

It's ironically how those Ghouls think sex should be for them... The writers behind her I mean.

[@GrapeParfait]

Taash is fugly beyond belief on the outside and the inside. Awful character, simply awful.

[@DerErsteWilhelm]

You know what else beat Veilguard? Factorio Space age, it's only DLC and launched a week earlier, but still pulled ahead in the steam numbers.

[@theredknight3736]

dude, why are you comparing this mediocre game to straight up 99.2 percent pure crack

[@DerErsteWilhelm]

@@theredknight3736 I'm still able to recognize that factorio is still a niche game. Don't get me wrong, it is fantastic for that niche, but it's not AAA territory by far. Can't sell crack to meth heads.

[@areadenial2343]

For real tho! I bought the DLC, and then bought the game PLUS the DLC for my friend so we could play together. Best $100 I've ever spent

[@esquillo3708]

That fire spitting on the bowl would be HILARIOUS if it was a comic relief character, but the fact that they did it ALL seriously makes it so god damn bad

[@davidwhidden9337]

And that breathing fire wasn't typically a thing in DA. It was usually casted via the hands or by a staff.

[@hokagab]

She's technically comic relief irl

[@Yayofangamer16]

Taash is so gonna rope from this

[@Yayofangamer16]

"I'M NON BINARY MOOOOM."

[@Yayofangamer16]

By the way, Taash has a: Man body And man face. How is that even a woman?

[@iknothatukno]

@@Yayofangamer16 easy, acts like a total beeyacht

[@Yayofangamer16]

@@iknothatukno "HOW do I make a female character? I make a man, and remove any responsibility."

[@nightday2030]

Taash is like how Rick keeps emphasizing that he has turned himself into a pickle.

[@zallatrim]

Dragon Age Veilguard trying not to have a bad day (💀IMPOSSSIBLE CHALLENGE 💀)

[@WalnerzSpiele]

I can never unseen that hideous Taash face love scene .

[@CorvusNumber6]

They didn't even bother to stop her horns from clipping through the wall.

[@Erowid13]

dude europeans fuckin love those simulator games.

[@jasperzanovich2504]

It's EUROtruck simulator for a reason. To be fair I don't think that would work all too well with the american highway system, or australian. It might be too much like desert bus.

[@ravensblade]

@@jasperzanovich2504 But there is American Truck simulator. But yes, it has like 1/8 of popularity right now of ETS2.

[@fakeorchestra4260]

Simulators are really fun, personally don't like the farming and driving sims that much but I like simulation games.

[@EkatariZeen]

@@ravensblade To be fair ETS2 has almost the entirety of Europe available to traverse while ATS still has half of the states still in TBA

[@MmntechCa]

Germans be like: "Das was a hard day's work, ja. Now to go home and relax by pretending to do a hard day's work on mein computer." (Which you know is meticulously cable managed to an autistic degree, and has no extravagances like RGB or case window.)

[@joaopereira817]

2:25 This is peak Tumblr fanfic script XD

[@Dawid0912]

If this won't be tash, but men. The same people who praise it, would call it assault

[@joaopereira817]

@@Dawid0912 yep

[@thatHARVguy]

@@Dawid0912 Right Side of History people: "It's not assault if *we* do it." _RAWRRR_

[@RinaRetro]

*I’m pretty sure Hero Hei has made more money covering the failure of this game than EA ever will publishing it.* 😆

[@Ability-King-KK]

That scene alone tells you exactly what the _Dragon Age_ devs thought was more important to them when they were making the game.

[@wrongthinker843]

That scene is straight up creeper stuff. Which would be fine if it was intentional, but no, they thought it was good...

[@CallOfCutie69]

2:48 - Mommy, I want Karlach - We have Karlach at home - Karlach at home: Not even joking, it’s the same character trope, different execution

[@Theprince034]

Huh never though if it that way

[@CallOfCutie69]

@@Theprince034 bg3 was released long ago enough, for them to try to copy her

[@qu1253]

Karlach had likable traits, good dialogue, and didn't feel the need to trauma dump on the player in every scene. I actually like her a lot despite her being the stereotypical "muscle mom" that every piece of media shoehorns in nowadays. Taash is just insufferable. Her whole personality is "I'm non-binary". You cannot convince me she isn't the lead writer's barely disguised self-insert.

[@Theprince034]

@ considering they’re trying to push for Taash to be the figurehead there’s no proof stating otherwise

[@NinjaFlibble]

​@@qu1253 More like *badly* disguised...

[@lucacassinelli3424]

2:45 Taash jumpscare. You have been warned.

[@rgn248653]

to late mannnnn oh my lord

[@sirneko1278]

I wish ive seen this sooner, now if you would excuse me, imma go bleach my eyes

[@HeavyTopspin]

Am I the only one who thinks Taash looks a lot like Xerxes in 300?

[@thatHARVguy]

@@HeavyTopspin Same vibe as when Xerxes put hands on Leonidas, in 300.

[@HeavyTopspin]

Is this going to be the new "still a better love story than Twilight" meme? "Farming Simulator: still a better story than Veilguard!"

[@Effaly_]

Yes, Farming Simulator is popular, but remember DAV is an RPG by a AAA studio that is supposed to finish a story that millions of players played + was supposed to attract new players. Not even 100k players on Steam is still embarrassing.

[@ateliertohka7327]

An ode to BioWare: Oh, it's bad luck to be you A chosen one of many isn't new When you think you're full of luck In the bollocks, you'll be struck Oh, it's bad luck to be you

[@leedixon682]

Wow a The Bard's Tale reference. You are completely right.

[@nerodeathstep5239]

DUde, that Dragon ball footage of Goku using the smaller version of the Spirit bomb instead of the more common larger one is soo cool, im glad the game acknowledge the smaller spirit bomb the Krillen throw at Vegeta, THAT GAME SOO COOOLLLL

[@generalsol]

Challenge for the writer of Veilguard: Show the world you've never had sex without telling the world you've never had sex.

[@ItsKurifodo]

Hogwarts Legacy Budget : $150 million Sales : 30 million units / $1billion USD Develtime : 4 years Metascore :84/100 User score: 8.3/10 Dragon Age The Veilguard Budget : +$250 million Sales : 500k-1million units / $30million - $ 60million Develtime : 7 years Metascore : 84/100 User score: 3.8/10 numbers don't lie , how the Metascore seems not to share that facts with the good ol'digits must thinks us all fools to make their lies so transparent (no pun intended) to state both games are comparable. so yeah they got smacked, great job EA I choose hogwarts to compare DA because using BG3 would be low hanging fruit lol

[@Fxrrxt2x]

Man, I love when the Furina thumbnail appears. It represents how much of a joke the topics are that the videos are about, and how we're all just laughing at this lunacy.

[@SerpentHeart32]

Oh, come on - Furina was well written character with captive storyline - opposite to Taash.

[@Fxrrxt2x]

@SerpentHeart32 That's not I meant when said she represents these topics. I meant that she represents the way we feel about these topics. I love Furina as a character.

[@maimaibiri9045]

Ofcourse its her Majesty, she is the archon of justice afterall XD.

[@c_huvaknunh9138]

Never under estimate the power of corn.

[@pimentinha1121]

I finally got why its so I feel extra bad for this writing in veilguard, they are talking like a 2020s person in a medieval setting, like it feel like they would suddenly pull out a phone and post a tweet instead of using sending a bird mogic or something else

[@thatHARVguy]

Shathann: "Under the Qun, the term for one whose gender does not match the one given to them at birth was 'aqun-athlok.' Perhaps you are like that." From what I understand, someone complained back then that it wasn't good enough and wanted to hear the actual word "trans", not some "made up fantasy word". 🤦‍♂

[@pimentinha1121]

@@thatHARVguy just that, and I am 1000 times more interested in a story that involves a trans/non-binary character, cause they are using the setting instead of just shoving it in

[@damienruzco]

Kashlok? Taamlok? The only locking I’m doing is my bedroom door until the nightmares from that close up fade

[@ShrimpOfDeath]

Skyrim Legendary edition (the old one) had ca. 91.000 players at its peak, which is more or less comparable to Veilguard. However, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a hardcore medieval RPG which was initially crowdfunded, reached 95K. Not a good look for an AAA release in a major franchise.

[@TheAttendee]

If you watch these veilguard cutscenes as purely a comedy they're fucking hilarious. That bit where she spits in the bowl is so incredibly cringe it loops back around to comedic.

[@toodlepop]

i simply cannot view it as comedy. the people that wrote this are vile and disgusting and they are out there ready to infect everything they can get their hands on.

[@Walamonga1313]

It's not comedy to me, it's straight up repulsive. Then again I've always preferred witty british comedy to trashy murican comedy

[@thejaegerbomber99]

I recently learned that, although all your companions are theoretically romanceable, being straight reduces your options to two. It's like the game rewards you for being queer and punishes you for being straight. Even in Mass Effect Andromeda, which has similar writing issues than Veilguard, you have equal number of romanceable characters, regardless of gender and/or sexuality. It's astounding how far BioWare has fallen, even in non-critical RPG elements like romance.

[@Sephiroth517]

Well.... punishing straight people for being straight.... that's one of their wet dreams... the other involves underages childrens and shouldn't be explained ^^

[@Metaknight180]

They were never trying to hide how the game was made for the minority of alphabet-people, but they were sorely mistaken on how little using a well-respected IP as a vehicle for it would help, and pathetically underprepared for how many former fans of said IP they'd piss off with this disrespectful showing.

[@Keizril]

if their numbers were good they'd not hide them, they'd brag about it. Instead they're doomsaying and complaining about as much as they can victimizing them. I would guess numbers are really, really bad.

[@ThePitofSidLord]

It's very embarrassing for Veilguard. Even with these simulator games being as popular as they are, a Dragon Age game should've sold well past 120k on steam.

[@marian1245]

you're confusing sales and concurrent player peak. DAV has probably sold up to 1 million copies by now on all platforms, but never was played by more than 89k players at the same time since release, which indicates that it will underperform and flop compared to it's massive budget and development costs

[@Im_Mesaster]

​@marian1245 bro it didn't even sell 600k wide on all platforms And ther had nearly been 100k refunds

[@Kat1kafka]

Taash is nothing but a discount karlach from temu

[@keitaro_w]

Most people don't even buy farming sim on Steam, but on the official Giants platform, so there's actually way more active players than shown on just Steam.

[@chrisbennett1358]

Bioware shouldn't just be embarrassed, they should be genuinely ashamed of Veilguard. The decline in quality from their heyday is shameful and they need to feel it

[@TheTwinkelminkelson]

I never was able to put my finger on it before, but it just occurred to me that Taash seriously reminds me of Megamind.

[@dickysatria7268]

Yo dont disrespect my man Megamind by comparing him to Trash

[@xstarsky]

I was thinking the same thing in that close-up. It's like Megamind and Karlach had a baby and rolled nothing but nat 1's across the genetic board.

[@RaceBandit]

Maybe if Megamind was abhorrent.

[@gadman85]

It doesn't matter how popular Simulator games are. They should never be out performing a long anticipated AAA game from a beloved and well established franchise like Dragon Age.

[@DeadEyeJedi]

Farming Sim IS a well-established franchise, with a dedicated fan-base, BUT it's suffering from repetition by this stage, each iteration is kind of a re-write of the previous one. I've got a few versions of it, from 2009 to 2022. To be honest, at release, Farming Sim usually DOES do pretty well because of that fan base, but it's still pretty embarrassing that something that is kind of a 'FIFA for Farmers' situation by now _still_ manages to outsell DAV. Edit: Also, remember that for one company that is a massive profit compared to their investment, for the other, it is a massive loss.

[@Min_Mai]

They should advertise that near the end of the game you can send your companions to their doom.

[@reveral9880]

It is simple. Farming simulator is a fun game to play even thou it started as a meme game in series. Veilguard? people say it is like eating food made out of air, if you get my analogy. Not only that, it is constantly ticking on players nerves through the dialogue. People just dont want to play something that would annoy them. P.S. And more of all, it is not actually a dragon age game, so people do not connect Veilguard to a dragonage franchise.

[@LeeroyPorkins]

Up next, Farming Simulator is ISTAPHOBIC! REEEEEEEEEEEE!

[@shyviking]

RUUUUU!

[@TotallyNotAFox]

When the farmers here in Europe protested against the government said governments were very quick in calling them alt-right. (It were decisions that would have lead to a lot of closed farms and had nothing to do with anything else)

[@DotDusk]

The circus music really brings everything together.

[@muffincopnoicingforme8220]

Whoever wrote that scene has very little experience in how human socialize, let alone flirt

[@Soulpuppet]

Yes, simulators are popular...but I would argue that Dragon Age is even more popular.

[@EyeOfMagnus4E201]

“Was” more popular.

[@Fxrrxt2x]

Idk about that anymore. Farming Simulator 25 beat the peak player count of Veilguard. Even TCG Card Shop Simulator got a little close.

[@brianabalos4878]

Not anymore

[@howardxu8050]

The name was more popular, but after veilguard any value in that name is now completely burned

[@jormungand72]

Dragon Age, sure. Veilguard... hell no...

[@dantespicysausage9615]

DAV-87K FarmSim-125k+ Gamers-OOF

[@exhaustive_the_sixth]

Certified OOF moment for BioWare.

[@shyviking]

Not really comparable, IMHO. What is comparable, however, is the lackluster performance against BG3 (where the Steam charts DAV player numbers are below BG3 now, even though the former is 2 weeks old, and the latter is more than a year old). Not to mention a Steam Chart release-to-release comparison of DAV and Divinity original Sin 2, where DAV have FEWER players now (2 weeks in) than DOS2 at the same time.

[@thefiresworddragon927]

This is extremely bad for Veilguard, because Farming Simulator is like Fifa; it gets a new game every year over and over and over. 13, 15, 17, 19, 22, it just kept going like that. The fact a game with that history, with the only notable viral history it might've had being when Node made the "Put Your Tractor In The Pile" shirts, beating a 10 year hyped game says a lot about that game. And for the record, DEI defenders, Farming Sim 25 nearly beat its record 3 days in a row. Wanna know what other games did that, and also managed to do it? Black Myth Wukong, Helldivers 2. What do these have in common? Good quality.

[@theghost2101]

is farm simulator , no one can beat a good day of taking care of your own farm

[@donfluffles1438]

To be fair Tosh is the character I envision when I think of Dragon Age Veilguard. Granted it’s not a good vision but she is the first thing that comes to mind.

[@BoRaiChoWins]

I was so excited when I saw it was what looked like a female qunari and then we got Taash yikes.

[@johnballard3403]

My point of reference is a decade or two out of date, but this doesn't sound like a big own. The two games don't have much in common, and good simulation games had a dedicated fanbase. There's a reason Train Simulator has a starting price tag of a few hundred dollars before buying the special controller you need for it.

[@snowstorm9310]

Legitimately never got the appeal of Farming Simulator, but as I recall it's always been hilariously popular so... Honestly this probably is one of those headlines that sounds way more impressive than it actually is.

[@ytsuxmuhd4998]

Played it with my buddy a couple years ago, for S&Gs. Here's a couple examples of what happened. >I bought us a tractor for the farm. >Bro we didn't need a tractor, you're wasting all our funds. What are we gonna do about our crops? Our cattle? Our home? >You right, sorry man. >It's cool. I bought us this sick truck to go to and from town in. ----------- >K I'm otw back from town. You? >I'm tilling the plot for our crops. >I think I see you... You checkerboarded our land? >Well it was gonna be a surprise but you ruined it. ------------- >We're on day 3, how are we not making money? >Got nothing to sell. You forgot to buy seeds. And we needed sheep >Well I'll go get some seeds n sheep from town then >See how much is in our bank >Nothin. But I can take out loans, hang on (clicks a bunch) there. >Free money and no repercussions. Perfect.

[@AnbuAssasine]

Farming Simulator has an ESL, not kidding. This stuff is super popular, specialy here in germany.

[@tantona9315]

We all used to love the OLD Bioware - this new one is Bioware in name only....it's a Pontiac Fiero with Ferrari badge on it.

[@Snowscaris]

I used to be a big dragon age fan… that being said right now if I had to play one of those games fun to my head I’m becoming a farmer y’all.

[@jamesneese7663]

What explains this? An echo chamber the size of a Dyson sphere?

[@Qanak479]

On the day of Veilguard its release, Stardew Valley had more people playing. And to bring things in perspective, on launch of Stardew, there were 60k. Their daily player count has only risen since February 2016!

[@chrisrawr6177]

On top of that Stardew Valley is pretty much a single dev project that did not even start out with a million dollars for a budget. I would not be surprised if it was the most profitable non mobile/no microtransaction game ever produced.

[@Qanak479]

@chrisrawr6177 not pretty much a single dev. It is a single dev! And he is a legend considering all the free content updates he has done

[@WarmLillie]

When you lose to a farming sim. You know you fail.

[@Axvil]

Credit where credit is due, I do think of Tash when I think of Veilguard. Just not the way BioWare intended.

[@lostsnowman127]

Now I want to play farm simulator.

[@lunasakara7306]

Not a bad game to kill time with, I got one in a bundle somewhere, used to play it at work on the night shift.

[@Gregman654]

Wish I didn't see that veilguard scene

[@TheEngieTF2]

A.K.A, a GREAT day for gamers

[@XMG3]

I tried failguard for 2 hours and I couldn't bring myself to try again. I salute the people who finished this game for review. You have done a great service for gamers everywhere.

[@robertonome2448]

"go woke go err- top charts" 💀💀💀

[@Cyan37]

This clown shot himself in the foot for sure.

[@Xadaj127]

Aged like milk.

[@koriharpoon3357]

Stardew Valley is still going strong. Farming, building, life Sims tend to do well. I think it's the routine aspect of these games that make them appealing.

[@RezaQin]

1.6 patch is finally on consoles!

[@conormccue2871]

When a grind is satisfying, it is its own end.

[@KenLinx]

What day is not a terrible day for veilguard?

[@RigItRay]

Farming Sim has a moderate size following. Probably massive own to Dragon Age.

[@acdcljb]

Popular franchise with lots of money behind it should absolutely get ahead of Farming Simulator.

[@Azhrei2000]

Oh God man, that close up.... I was eating

[@Kipa2]

Farmer bros, we won.

[@hughejass9461]

That last scene with Tassh or however it's spelled was pretty uncomfortable. Her appearance is terrible but that scene had a very "assaulty" feel to it. If you put a man in that scene instead of Tassh and had him act in the same way people would have lost their minds complaining about it. I'm also highly doubtful they're ever going to see a break even point with the way sales are going for this game.

[@chrisrawr6177]

If a man did that to a woman at the minimum it would be sexual assault charges maybe even attempted grape charges.

[@NinjaFireMan]

I love this news SO much! 😂 Thank you, HeroHei!

[@jesster402]

Not escaping the megamind allegations with the gold soul patch

[@dogofwar6769]

By all accounts Farming Sim 25 is pretty good. At the end of the day Farming Sim is a long running franchise with a yearly release. Kind of like any number of sports ball games. It was always going to be way bigger than Fairguard.

[@bulldowozer5858]

Bro, im getting jumpscared by that close-up

[@DraxFyre]

The hell... you don't have to butcher my eyes with that scene again.. I'm gonna cleanse it by staring at Cinderella...

[@TheIrreverentUncleAl]

2:45 Oh god, someone get a paper bag for that mug!

[@komm6668]

Dragon Age: Failguard

[@tonimmcx]

That “romance” scene really screams “Baldur’s Gate 3 at home”

[@danieldonnert3747]

It is an own, but it's not the full picture. Getting to 1 mil units sold before the end of November and then 2-3 mil total before the end of the January should be within their market projections because the sales are being padded by subscriptions. As long as a sufficient number of people "give the game a fair try" by buying 1 month pro subscriptions for November and/or December, they look good on the earnings call, the game's not a flop, and the next game is just more of the same, regardless of brand damage.

[@cherdnad2630]

Remember that EA shelved Dead Space Remake for "only" selling 2m copies. This game probably cost more.

[@frostbite0707]

They have a lot of scenes of them inventing terms on the spot and having to explain in detail immediately.

[@christiandelcarmen1278]

Upclose Taash is giving the “No Bitches?” Megamind meme and I hate it.

[@Voldrim359]

One player did a video where he purposelly set the companions to fail, it was hilarious watching that as they all die... Especially Traash, who has one of the most stupid deaths if you do it right

[@ShavierTheHedgehog]

The heck is Dragon Age: the Veilguard? Never heard of it. Anywho time to replay Minesweeper.

[@overlordshiina]

And I'm here thinking that the stories I make up at 2AM instead of sleeping are bad.

[@theotherjared9824]

The farming simulator esports scene goes crazy.

[@dogwithsunglasses4051]

Simulator Games Like farming ones are extremly popular in germany, not only for non gaming adults but also for children, because you can drive big farming equipment around. I literally upgraded a PC for my nephew only for him to play Farming and Eurotruck Simulator. I think this is especially true in Rural Areas with lots of Agriculture. My point is, it has a target demographic that definitly exists in contrast to Veilguard

[@verysadcatc7897]

Farmers is all about hard work. For Veil Guard... ehhh... make a long lecture about nonbinary.

[@schrodingerskatze6487]

I thought the Abby back-shot scene from The Last of Us 2 was bad but holy shit, this one takes the crown easily. This whole moment plays out like the fanfics I read around 20 years ago.

[@metae.4256]

I swear to gawd, this game should have been played as a comedy. It would have been glorious.

[@itsterres]

haha a farming game just beat DA the failguard man we live in the best timeline

[@Catinkss]

One is an immersive role playing game with an expansive world that you can lose yourself for hours on end, the other is veilguard

[@thomasa7187]

Thanks, this close up will haunt me in my dreams 😐

[@ArnoldPartini]

2 videos in 2 hours? Bro is the f***ing FLASH

[@insensitive919]

You know, it's been a while since I visited the farm....

[@mullerpotgieter]

These sim games are very stable and surprisingly popular. But a "AAA" Bioware game falling short of that benchmark is just pathetic