Panic at BioWare Montreal?

It seems EA changed when the review embargos lift.

Oh I'm sure it's because everything is fine!

Yep this is a desperate move to save some face.

I'm getting the game anyway because nothing else will give me what I want but yeah not looking good.

Not desperate, but it is certainly showing less confidence.

Wait, reviewers didn't have the full game yet?

They have the full game, they were only allowed to talk about the part that is available in the early access until Monday (when the review embargo drops). Today, EA allowed people with review copy to stream the full game starting tomorrow.

Your last sentence is the reason why they're lazy

Lol user reviews at metacritic

Actually DAI, is a combination of both DA 2 and DAO, it uses the same skill three as DA2, a similar combat system to the one seen in DA2, the same dialogue system as DA2 with a talking protagonist. It also use the bigger story of DAO, and the possibility to choose your race, and an epilogue at the end of it. DAI is the child of both the previous dragon age and I would even argue its a bit more of a DA 2 than DAO. You reject the parts of DAI that ressemble DA2 way too much saying its morel like DAO and that is VERY debatable.


Did the lower sales of DA 2 made these elements go away? No absolutely not, they have kept a lot of them and the final products of DAI, the game has at least for me a lot of ressemblance to DA 2 more than DAO. and yes DA 2 had lower sales but considering it was cheaper to make, I don't see why suddenly EA would be dissapointed by it, you just bring me the score of metacritic but do you think it makes EA unhappy if they have their money back after their investment? 
BLack ops 3 has a bad metacritic score but it did not make activision unhappy, the sales were there and nothing indicates that it dissapointed them considering how well it sold for the price it cost.


Let me show you an exemple (the amount written there are not based on anything, they are here for the exemple), if you pay 75 million to make a game and get 125 million dollars of sales, you make a profit of 50 million, if you pay 175 millions to make a game and then get 230 millions with the copie sold, you make a profit of 55 millions. Sure to get 230 millions dollars, it means you sold more copy than the last game, but since it was more expansive to make you did not make that much more profit out of it. DAO and DAI both had better sales and better metacritic score, but they were far more expansive to make since they had a MUCH longer time of development.

You want to prove me that DA 2 was dissapointing to EA, but I don't see why because Lower sales does not mean dissapointment considering the products was less expansive to make and more sales does not mean more profits. Dark souls 2 loved his 2.2 million sales at release but tomb raider 2013 had 3.4 million sales and that was not enough to recup the huge budget

But let's say that indeed EA was dissapointed by DA 2 (just for a second because as I explained before, lower sales and a bad metacritic score does not matter to corporation if they have the money). Did the bad reputation of DA 2 bring back the warden from DAO in DAI? Nope. At least did he had a cameo in that game? Nope , but did the main character from DA 2, the least one liked was brought back? yes he was. So even if you say that they maked the game to be more appealing to the one who loved DAO (something that is debatable), did it brought back the main character that fans liked before in the original game? no it did not.

So yeah I am still waiting the part were the failure of MEA would mean an other shepard game? As far as it goes, your arguments rely on metacritics score which did not made corporation go back before if the sales followed, and lower sales of DA 2 that are apprently dissapointing to EA even if the game was much less expansive to make.

So then this goes back to BW? People are pointing at the studio and blaming them but they tried to focus on what needed work and were told to carry on? Am I understanding this right?

Does your dad work at Nintendo too?

It's also how facts become known. Lots of people aren't really interested in gaming news.

They are just interested in "is it fun"? That's a binary choice.

People like his friend know that aren't willing to sit here and type out the history of the game. Sure, he's willing to tell a friend. But you and me? Nahhhh.

At any rate, the game still has its flaws, to say the least.