If I really dig into my empathy, I can kinda see the thinking here. Like, let's say you don't actually know much about games. You're in a big office with a bunch of other execs who also don't know much about games. What are they all saying?
"Live games do big numbers!"
"Action games are hot!"
"Live games do big numbers!"
"Action games are hot!"
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Having a lesbian couple and being able to put a penis on a hot chick is a different level of "wokeness" than not being abled to even create a hot chick because body customization proportions were super weird.
Of course there are more aspects to a game's success but the entirety of ridiculous Taash-related scenes people compiled is something most people are simply tired of.
Dorian is a favorite character of mine because of how he was portrayed.
I kept asking myself why I would need a game with so little of what made DA:O so great when I have BG3.
It is incredible that after so much they have not realized the real problems and want to continue destroying IPs with that gaas model.
Instantly forgetting the success they had with, jedi and dead space.
They just can't brake the copo blindness.
of course, we also need to take into account that the expectations were for the first two months after release which as we all know are the only ones who count. it's not like games continue to sell years after release.
It might. I have stereotypical autistic pattern recognition. The pattern isn't there for VG like it was for the others.
Plus there's not a lot of replayability w/VG, which is a backlist sales improvement point.
I spent too many years in sales.
regardless of our personal choice, only using the first two months to judge the success of a game is not a good metric.
I just wish it weren't that way.
It's thus a horrible number.
But when that live service hits gold, it's SO SO SO lucrative, that in their minds it can really feel like "better to try and fail 10 times at that, then just have 10 hits"
How as a business can you just be satisfied with "critically acclaimed" and profitable when you can roll the dice and hit on something that makes $$$$$
Hell, I'm just a long-term fan, and *I'm* heartbroken.
But I want to say that posts like this matter to fans like me. Thank you.