Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

They always carry that negative vibes, bringing everyone's moods down. It's one thing to be negative about the game. I've expressed mine a few times before but I don't let myself be shaded over that for more than a few hours. One thing the skeptics and complainers have in common is that they like to shout "My opinion is VALID!!! And you don't get to shut me out". I have respected their opinions but it gets frustrating when the same thing gets reiterated for many of their comments. That went on for days and even weeks, maybe months and years too?

I meant what I meant that he sounded upset. The later comments just reinforced that again. We can be much better than that. I'm not trying to shut them down. I was feeling they were the ones shutting me down for liking the game. Their incessant overbearing tone just paint themselves as being 'upset'. I'm just checking the thread for news. Where is the news lol

And yet you're here discussing the game, which is what many people who are hyped end up doing. Every major hype game had tons of discussion and posts around launch. You think people weren't posting about Black Myth or Elden RIng because they were playing the game? These aren't either or prospects, especially considering a lot of gamers have 2 monitors now, a phone, or whatever else that connects to the internet. People are very capable, as you have shown, of both playing and posting about games, and that's usually what happens. People tend to make the excuse that people are offline playing the game only when the reception is poor and online discourse is weighted to the negative.

Steamcharts indicates a Sunday playerbase concurrent peak of 40k. So the game's lost over half of its playerbase.

EDIT because timezones

That's what spoiler free threads are for. USUALLY they're policed quite thoroughly on launch

I'm pretty sure the devs said Inquisition was their best selling game shortly after it released.

DA2 is a great Dragon Age, and it's even easier to see in hindsight, but it deserved the backlash it got.

After all these years, I think it's a tragedy that DA2 wasn't considered to be a model for the industry. These bloated dev cycles are just ridiculous. Everyone says they're going to shorten them, but they never do.

At least Bio's showing some sense by trying to push Mass Effect 5 out the door while people still remember what Mass Effect is.

Is it? Have yet to come across an article that mentions the studio is officially starting to work on the next ME.

Game's been out for 3 weeks now. I'm going to see how long you're going to keep using that excuse

I need at least GOTY nomination, not for BioWare's sake but to piss off the irrational haters.

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