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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 2, 2022 6:31:44 GMT
People are sent to circles when their innate magic is discovered, typically by accident. One can't study to become a mage in DA. You're either a mage or you're not.
Sorceror.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 24, 2022 22:11:25 GMT
At least we’re making progress to a release date. The wait is long And the path is dark Look to the sky For one day soon The game will come 😭
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 8, 2022 14:22:59 GMT
I do hope they don't extend the marketing period too long. Every time they do that they get dragged incessantly before the game's even out.
At least I'm relatively disconnected from game-rage nowadays, though I would like DLC this time around lol
*cries in Andromeda*
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 7, 2022 9:33:01 GMT
Carefully crafted advertisement so that the game's flaws won't be infinitely exaggerated before release. In other words, don't underestimate the advertisement BioWare... ... Oh and a hot wiry knight companion who happens to be gay as a personal request tyvm. This was 4 years ago. At this point I wish for a release date
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 7, 2022 9:26:19 GMT
You dev’s out there, or at least those that know something about the dev process, (not just the self-proclaimed experts with zero actual experience), riddle me how game dev isn’t something that seems to be tailor made for telecommuting. Online team meetings, then individuals working a -duh- computer, then transferring their work to wherever it needs to be transferred seems to me to be a no brainer. Every time I hear reasoning for the Biower delays and lack of output (the lost decade) being the COVID quarantine, I wonder why. Especially if, like other seemingly well informed posters here have pointed out, Biower is just now getting around to hiring full teams. Couldn't they have hired full teams, say 2 years ago, and telecommuted most, if not all, of the dev? Sr Software Engineer here. Most people use computers as aids in their jobs nowadays. Software development isn't unique in this regard, so they don't have significant benefits when it comes to telecommuting. Still, it could be argued that they are relatively less impacted than most other jobs, sure. Thing is, game development isn't just coding. There's a whole set of fields that play together. Consider animations. They need to bring in people in person to do the mo-caps. That's already a lot of coordination, upper management approvals, etc that needs to be handled. Now add on to that the amount of people there were affected by COVID. Family members or friends that have been hospitalized or died. Meetings and events that had to be postponed. People taking more time off for mental health recovery. At my job, we're basically relying on contractors at this point. COVID has affected everyone. I miss the office...
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Dec 4, 2021 21:08:07 GMT
DAO had earthy tones but it was by no means more realistic than the next 2 games. Wistful nostalgia striking again.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Nov 27, 2021 0:04:51 GMT
I'm going to keep my money on "Wouldn't adhere to vaccine mandate." Maybe his wife is big into essential oils and healing crystals. Give up a well paying job just because he doesn't want a vaccine? A friend is literally in this position.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Nov 25, 2021 1:32:43 GMT
Could be anything, but probably refused to get vaccinated and was terminated. Companies ramping up mandates.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Nov 20, 2021 22:01:58 GMT
It has always fascinated me that people value the weight of their choices based on the impact of the experience as opposed to the experience itself, as if any individual choice only has merit if it is part of what is often an arbitrary set of visual bases for some future implementation.
No. Choices don't have to be relevant beyond the scope of their existence. Branching paths do not define the weight of choices. They only enhance them.
In the end, as long as choices are respected and at the very least considered (so explained if altered or "retconned"), that's good enough.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 21, 2021 2:37:08 GMT
Lebanese Dude Yeah. $100m barely makes up for the title's budget. Andromeda had a $100m budget and Anthem had an even bigger budget. Not to mention, out of that $100m that the game made, at best 60% goes back to the publisher. The rest goes to retailers, distribution, manufacturing, licensing etc. Which is why publishers want to sell games through their own proprietary store, so they can keep 100% of what they charge And even then, they still have to pay the licensing for the allocated keys and other fees etc, but they do end up keeping something like over 95%. Realistically, the game needs to make 3-4 times its budget, to be financially successful. You see, how games are made in this segment, is you get investors to pitch in the money and from there, the developer guarantees the investor some return on that investment. If Anthem made back its budget, is great, but EA and their investors aren't in it to split $5 in profit, between 100 investors. EA loses money that way. In fact, Anthem, for each retail and digital copy sold, at the bargain bin price of $5, as it was during the tail end of its 5m sales, was losing $25 for every copy sold. That's money they waved away. But inventory needed to be shifted, so the game couldn't be sold at full price, so a more attractive price point needed to be found. I had posted pics of Anthem selling as low as $0.99. Nobody's making money out of that. Least of all EA. Well thanks for the breakdown. 100M was the figure in 2019, around 2 years ago. AFAIK it's still online and it probably made some more after that although I can't possible divine how much. Do you have figures of their total revenue/loss and such? Google failing me. Anyway that's besides the point. I don't mean to imply Anthem was something to be celebrated. All I meant was that Anthem was their most controversial title and arguably their biggest flop so to speak, yet it also their second highest earning product. If their worst case scenario still did "alright" at least in terms of sales then it's not really something that sets the tone for the company's trajectory. Like there's a "reason" BioWare is getting "more" (not less) space to do its own thing. I don't think EA did it out of charity.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 21, 2021 1:09:34 GMT
I understand, but this isn't an indie title, addressing a niche, which can afford to have a small, but dedicated following. The AAA space, soon to be AAAA space, is a ruthless segment. Studios get gutted and dissolved, if titles fall below expectations and, in spite of EA's dedication to Bioware, it's been 10 years of nothing but problems, for 2 titles that worth of good PR, 12 years ago. At some point, Bioware needs to start turning shit over. EA is not going to facilitate Bioware's losses forever. So why you may not think too much into it, personally, it should have you worried. EA is not a charity foundation. Well this would be correct if their titles weren't all financial successes. Even Anthem, the most controversial Bioware product, raked in 100M+ in sales.
So yeah I don't think BioWare has issues when it comes to money. I don't think EA would have supported them otherwise. People wildly conflate social media outrage with product viability. That being said they have been consistently negatively impacted by said social media outrage, and while it's generally expected in this day and age, they'd obviously try to amend it. I think it's why they're giving them more berth to do it their own way. The way "we" want it.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 20, 2021 16:44:00 GMT
After more than a decade of seeing how things turn out with game releases, it's pretty much understood that perceptions are mostly driven by communities rather than the product. I believe Mass Effect Andromeda was the first game where my experience was negatively affected by social media to an extent that was genuinely unfair to the developers despite the game having many, many, many valid criticisms and me experiencing bugs that were commonplace.
It's not necessarily a bad thing that communities can highlight issues, and many times the product is indeed rightfully blasted for being what is arguably objectively bad, but when it comes to RPGs with massive gameplay scopes and stories that people are particularly invested in, a lot can "go wrong" when all opinions are concatenated. The boon that comes from having all these resources to play these games armed with more knowledge can potentially damage your experience when you assume every bug or problem encountered by someone will inevitably happen to you (and this isnt true in most cases). Sometimes you even end up seeing "bad things" which you wouldn't even have noticed. A good example is where people point out plot holes in stories that you probably wouldn't have noticed without some "significant" study.
It's why I've made it a goal to avoid most opinions about games until after I play them. It's one reason I don't wallow on social media forums for games. I've found my experiences of games improved dramatically. Viewing things in retrospect tends to be more forgiving. My experience and fun isn't "as" affected.
Mass Effect 3 remains my favorite Mass Effect game precisely because I avoided all the forum nonsense. I will never forget lying on my bed for an hour digesting what just happened after picking red.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Oct 20, 2021 12:50:58 GMT
I think the last game having come out years ago is starting to get to people.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 2, 2021 3:49:54 GMT
Y’all need to stop bc I suddenly started getting Tapatalk notifications and thought something important had happened but it’s just a bunch of people arguing over stupid shit like normal. Blah. You got my hopes up. Gurl same.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jun 26, 2021 17:33:12 GMT
1st few posts in this thread aged really poorly
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Mar 4, 2021 4:38:26 GMT
I always enjoyed Mass Effect multiplayer, but Dragon Age was weird.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Feb 10, 2021 6:51:48 GMT
Bisexual Male Warrior Human- The masculine, kinghtly, princely bland KISA to relieve all the blue balls that the homos have had since it was revealed that Cullen doesn't want any homosexual loving.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Jan 25, 2021 3:52:13 GMT
I enjoyed Dorian despite him being yet another sassy flirtatious kind of gay. I'm ready for a change BioWare. Gimme a KISA.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Dec 25, 2020 20:28:35 GMT
It seems a little too magical to be Antiva City but OK.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Dec 25, 2020 2:02:23 GMT
I'm fairly confident he'll only be present in an advisory role, probably as a liaison to Kirkwall/Free Marches.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Dec 23, 2020 22:07:51 GMT
Exciting trailer! Barrage was my favorite Dragon Age spell so if we see more glyph spell effects I'm all for it. This is the light/nature contrasting with the dark/urban image we see below showing the same castle. I'm thinking this is actually from an ancient elven point of view of the central castle, with the other (following?) image showing the Tevinter occupation of that land in modern times. If I recall correctly, we saw a very similar castle depicting Arlathan in one of the books.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 19, 2020 15:10:13 GMT
Genuinely confused how anyone would perceive DA2 and DAI as being "light". In DA2, you start off running for your life from the blight. Your sibling gets brutally murdered in the prologue. Then you have to execute Aveline's husband before you leave. Then you have to sneak your way into a city via indentured servitude cause your uncle gambled away all your grandparents' fortunes. To do so you have to kill people then threaten or kill more people. In DAI, an entire temple and all its attendees gets annihalated with people's corpses literally still on fire with demons everywhere. Everyone's blaming you for everything. People need to stop letting their nostalgia of a very old game get in the way of their reasoning. DAO seemed darker because most likely you were just younger and/or were collectively less exposed to "darkness" in general when the internet was still in its infancy. It's always "nostalgia" isn't it? No, DAO wasn't "dark fantasy" but it did have dark elements, and handled them bettr then the sequels did. But I didn't say DAO didn't have dark elements. I just don't think it was any darker than its sequels. If anything I think the darkest game in the series was DA2, because it was far more personal than the other two games.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 17, 2020 21:01:40 GMT
Genuinely confused how anyone would perceive DA2 and DAI as being "light".
In DA2, you start off running for your life from the blight. Your sibling gets brutally murdered in the prologue. Then you have to execute Aveline's husband before you leave. Then you have to sneak your way into a city via indentured servitude cause your uncle gambled away all your grandparents' fortunes. To do so you have to kill people then threaten or kill more people.
In DAI, an entire temple and all its attendees gets annihalated with people's corpses literally still on fire with demons everywhere. Everyone's blaming you for everything.
People need to stop letting their nostalgia of a very old game get in the way of their reasoning. DAO seemed darker because most likely you were just younger and/or were collectively less exposed to "darkness" in general when the internet was still in its infancy.
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 9, 2020 18:43:36 GMT
Opened up the game and realized it said "2014 Electronic Arts". 2014 201420142014It's been 6 years holy shit. Yes, and DA4 is probably not coming out for a couple more years, so that means 8 or 9 years between games. Thanks, Anthem! Luke Barrett liking your post lmao
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Post by Lebanese Dude on Aug 9, 2020 17:40:44 GMT
Opened up the game and realized it said "2014 Electronic Arts".
2014
2014
2014
2014
It's been 6 years holy shit.
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