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[deuce985]

I see so much praise for it on forums. I personally think this game is the pinnacle of WRPGs and blows away Skyrim who a lot hold as the gold standard the past few years. Yet, I see no news of EA bragging about sales on this game and I see deals for it already. It's leading me to believe it's not selling well if it's already seeing steep discounts. It would be a travesty if this game is not meeting commercial demand. I don't see how anyone can pass this game up. It's easily game of the year and is getting incredible praise from users.

 

These forums would lead you to believe it's a horrible game based on some of the comments I'm seeing and it's a little shocking tbh. Or maybe not since it's BSN which is full of negativity all the time. I was kinda shocked to see how much negativity is on this forum because pretty much everywhere else I go it's highly recommended on other forums and for good reason.

 

I take that back. Metacritic has a ton of homophobic trolls in their reviews but yeah, for the most part it's high praise everywhere. I actually think the critic reviews were being modest with this game and careful due to the ME3/DA2 debacle. It feels like a 95 Metacritic game not around 89-90 it received. Reviewers are definitely stricter now. It's not a perfect game but what is? Not sure what anyone else wants in an RPG. It's hard to just point at the flaws of this game considering it does so much so well. It might be the first open game I've played that somehow keeps a tightly knit narrative that doesn't feel like it's compromised in a huge world. The dragon battles are also unique unlike Skyrim where they're all the same.

 

Bioware crushes the open world formula on their very first major attempt at it. The formula is already better than anything Bethesda has done. It makes multiple regions that are huge and diversified. Keeps the narrative tight with the exploration and the content is compact. You never run for minutes on end without seeing content. It's always around the corner. I love this game as a completionist because I can explore the most obscure areas and still find content. The level design is beautiful and nothing feels samesy like in Skyrim. I rarely even see assets used over in dungeons. The layouts always feel different.

 

This game makes me so excited to see ME4. Bioware moving to Frostbite might be their best design decision in a long time. Just adding jump put an entirely different dimension to this game. Simply amazing.

[fchopin]

I would say the game is selling very well but that is just my opinion.
If they can fix some of the bugs it will sell even better.

[Diefenbaker]

It's probably too early to know what the official figures are but once we know them people often make the mistake of comparing game sales in the first few weeks with popular games that have been out for years. Another thing people forget is the sales statistics for PC don't include digital sales that make up the majority.

 

DAI has sold almost exactly the same amount of copies that DAII sold in its first week and after all the negativity surrounding that game it still resulted in a sequel. I think we're pretty safe in getting future games.

[JPINKC]

Oh it will make money for them no doubt.  But getting anything fixed at this point is 55%(no)  45%(maybe).   They still havent given us any info for patching etc.  PC Controls are a nitemare,  the tactical camera is a joke.   I think the ONLY reason its not getting the BAD PRESS is the Ubi Soft made such a dog turd of Ass Creed Unity.  They dodged a bullet in my opinion, by Ubi coming out first.

[Cyonan]

Oh it will make money for them no doubt.  But getting anything fixed at this point is 55%(no)  45%(maybe).   They still havent given us any info for patching etc.  PC Controls are a nitemare,  the tactical camera is a joke.   I think the ONLY reason its not getting the BAD PRESS is the Ubi Soft made such a dog turd of Ass Creed Unity.  They dodged a bullet in my opinion, by Ubi coming out first.

 

They've said they're working on a patch.

[deuce985]

Oh it will make money for them no doubt.  But getting anything fixed at this point is 55%(no)  45%(maybe).   They still havent given us any info for patching etc.  PC Controls are a nitemare,  the tactical camera is a joke.   I think the ONLY reason its not getting the BAD PRESS is the Ubi Soft made such a dog turd of Ass Creed Unity.  They dodged a bullet in my opinion, by Ubi coming out first.

 

It's really not that bad. I'm playing it on PC and aside from the problems you've mentioned, the only other issues I've ran into is some graphical glitches and poor performance for my 980. The performance issue is not Bioware but rather Nvidia which is getting addressed in a future driver. I still get over 60 fps everywhere maxed out so I can't complain. If you put DAI up aside all the recent AAA games released it's actually one of the more polished if not most polished. You have to look at the size of this game and think that's pretty amazing too. Bugs are inevitable for a game this size. I know when I compare it to Skyrim it looks like a polished masterpiece when you compare bugs at retail...

 

I'm not saying you are doing this but a lot of gamers tend to overreact. I will say the PC interface is not intuitive at all. I feel kinda dumb because I had to ask on here how to scroll at the bottom of my skill trees. I thought it was a bug until I realized you had to hold the mouse button and scroll around lol. But yea, the PC controls are bad.

 

I just find it disheartening to read all the troll comments on the internet about gay romances and docking this game points just to troll Metacritic. People do actually look at that stuff to base their purchases on which I will never understand. I'm not seeing other recent games released see steep discounts. The general negativity around EA/Bioware leading up to release makes me wonder how many people made their minds up they'll not buy this game no matter how good it is.

 

If Skyrim can sell the ridiculous numbers it did then this game certainly deserves the same kind of treatment, IMO. I really don't know what people want in an RPG if they can't appreciate DAI. In a few patches people will most likely completely forget about any bugs this game may have. I'm a completionsit and I've mowed through many zones in this game. I mean ALL the content and I haven't really noticed any bad bugs aside from wonky AI and some graphical glitches like clipping in cinematics. Ironically, EA/Bioware might have the most polished AAA game this season.

[kingjezza]

The budget for Inquisition must be huge compared to DA2 so don't think EA will be happy if it sells those kinds of numbers.

 

I'm sure it'll do OK but maybe not the type of numbers they were hoping for and it'll never even come close to reaching Skyrim type levels of sales.

[Quaddis]

I don't think we now budget of the game so we cant say does it sells well.

But from what i have seen it for now it sold about 1.5 mil copies. And with holidays and no real RPG competition for next two months it should do nice.

[ronri]

I think we're going to have to wait a while before they release sales numbers... I do hope it sells very well, though. IMO, this game deserves it.

[deuce985]

I don't think we now budget of the game so we cant say does it sells well.

But from what i have seen it for now it sold about 1.5 mil copies. And with holidays and no real RPG competition for next two months it should do well.

 

You're looking at VGChartz huh? That place isn't a good indicator on numbers. Like the above poster said if it reaches numbers like DA2 I'd imagine that's not satisfactory for EA. No doubt this game has a much bigger budget simply on the fact it was in a much longer development cycle. Being honest though, I didn't see much marketing for this game on TV or anything outside social media. Maybe it was just me but it didn't seem EA cranked a big marketing campaign up for it. That could be a positive because it will not drive insane expectations up from a 100 million marketing campaign.

 

Based on what I've gathered, a lot of people on other forums who were completely on the fence are jumping on this game now simply from all the positivity surrounding it. DAI could be seeing itself actually pick strong sales up as the weeks go along. It seems to be adopting a lot of new people to the franchise too and they're loving it.

 

Perhaps EA smartly relied on word of mouth to sell their game so a minimum marketing campaign didn't drive their budget way up.

[Lebanese Dude]

It's easy to forget that this is the place where people go to complain to BioWare about the game. It is their forum after all.

 

The divergence between the environment and elsewhere is astounding though. Most forums are generally overwhelmingly positive, including Reddit and the like.

[Cyonan]

You're looking at VGChartz huh? That place isn't a good indicator on numbers. Like the above poster said if it reaches numbers like DA2 I'd imagine that's not satisfactory for EA. No doubt this game has a much bigger budget simply on the fact it was in a much longer development cycle. Being honest though, I didn't see much marketing for this game on TV or anything outside social media. Maybe it was just me but it didn't seem EA cranked a big marketing campaign up for it. That could be a positive because it will not drive insane expectations up from a 100 million marketing campaign.

 

Based on what I've gathered, a lot of people on other forums who were completely on the fence are jumping on this game now simply from all the positivity surrounding it. DAI could be seeing itself actually pick strong sales up as the weeks go along. It seems to be adopting a lot of new people to the franchise too and they're loving it.

 

Perhaps EA smartly relied on word of mouth to sell their game so a minimum marketing campaign didn't drive their budget way up.

 

The overall much higher positivity surrounding Inquisition should keep the sales higher than DA2 in the coming weeks. It's not going to reach Skyrim levels of sales, but then Dragon Age doesn't have the brand recognition built up that Elder Scrolls does.

 

The forums just seem overly negative because this is the best place to go if you've got a complaint that you want the developers to actually see. That and people are more likely to complain when they have a problem than they are to give out praise when they're happy.

[Lebanese Dude]

 

 

The forums just seem overly negative because this is the best place to go if you've got a complaint that you want the developers to actually see. That and people are more likely to complain when they have a problem than they are to give out praise when they're happy.

 

Jinx?

[c3lix]

They've said they're working on a patch.

I'll send you one million dollar - ok? It must be true because I said it, right? They already said a lot of stuff in twitter and videos before the game was released and we know that they lied. The game is now almost 2 weeks old, nobody cares now. It's a singleplayer RPG without any Mod support, the game is dead. The game only gets sold now when it's on sale. 

[AlanC9]

Hope it does.
 
BioWare needs 4 years per game MINIMUM.
 
Not the rushed crap we've had since DA2.

I dunno about that. Your plan means we end up with a lot fewer Bio games than we'd otherwise have. I'm not sure that's a great tradeoff.

[AlanC9]

I'll send you one million dollar - ok? It must be true because I said it, right? They already said a lot of stuff in twitter and videos before the game was released and we know that they lied. The game is now almost 2 weeks old, nobody cares now. It's a singleplayer RPG without any Mod support, the game is dead. The game only gets sold now when it's on sale.

Even by BSN standards this is a bit hysterical.

[The Antagonist]

quoting myself

yikes the game is doing poorly. it's 16th in the UK behind games like mordor, super smash bros and pokemon.
www.chart-track.co.uk/index.jsp?c=p/software/uk/latest/index_test.jsp&ct=110015

[Risien]

It's a great game, but to sell more copies it really needs to run better on all platforms.  We all know it's not running that great on most people's PCs.  But my friend's PS4 stutters and lags in certain zones too and that's even more unacceptable.

[Maverick827]

This game probably wont have the "reach" or cultural impact that Skyrim had because it's not modable.

Even though consoles had the majority of sales for Skyrim, the people who start and perpetuate online hype/memes/etc. is still the PC crowd. Without its mods, Skyrim isn't nearly as relevant. Without the dedicated PC/modding community, there is no "arrow to the knee" meme and no wider cultural influence. I believe there's still a weekly GameSpot video series about Skyrim mods to this day, three years later.

It was sort of a deal with the devil, using the Frostbite engine. Sure, you got amazing graphics, and definitely saved a lot of time and money with not having to develop a new engine, but at the cost of your soul (not to sound melodramatic).

It used to be you had two kinds of single-player games: the kind you buy, play once, and then shelf or return, and the kind you buy and play for months or years. Skyrim, Grand Theft Auto...these are the games you play for years. Origins was a game you played for years. Inquisition? I'm not so sure. I have one more play through in mind, but that's about it. After a while you just need mods to keep a game alive.

Maybe they can get approval to include mods with the next game now that they've gotten their bearings with this game.

[Maverick827]

Double post

[zambingo]

I have no clue about the numbers, however my local stores are sold out or low stock. I noticed this as I store hopped over the weekend. DAI and whatever recent CoD game is out seems to be the popular picks in Alaska.

[Lukas Trevelyan]

I'll send you one million dollar - ok? It must be true because I said it, right? They already said a lot of stuff in twitter and videos before the game was released and we know that they lied. The game is now almost 2 weeks old, nobody cares now. It's a singleplayer RPG without any Mod support, the game is dead. The game only gets sold now when it's on sale. 

 

This is actually kinda funny. 5.5/10. 

[KoyoteN7]

As with DA2 the game most likely suffers from trying to please both the action and tactical crowd. That kind of compromise rarely goes well. Still, its biggest mistake is releasing on the same day as two blockbusters, GTA and Far Cry and very close to CoD and Assassins Creed. No idea what EA was thinking, how can anyone be that stupid?

 

Personally, I have a few problems with the game, namely with PC UI and some bugs but it's still my GOTY and it would be a big shame if it didn't sell enough for a sequel.

[TanithAeyrs]

Was shopping for a PS4 this morning (so my family can play the 2nd copy of DAI I purchased - no way they are getting to use the PC for at least the next year or so while I play it on PC).  Anyway - Walmart is sold out on line for DAI  for PS4 (didn't check other platforms) if that is any indication I think it is selling well.

 

And it runs beautifully on my PC, only a few minor bugs.  Skyrim was much worse at release (and still would be without mods).   Bioware has always been really great about patching games once they figure out where the problems are.  The diversity of PC systems does make it much more difficult to find bugs.

 

And I suspect that most of those who have it running well are playing and not on the forums.  Back to playing for me now- only 102 hours in and have several areas I haven't even visited yet