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[Maverick827]

I think you're wildly overestimating both the quality of the game and the overall positivity of the response to it. That it's in contention for GOTY at all says more about the year than the game imo.

I would describe the consensus to be pleasant surprise after DA2 (and to a lesser extent after the ME3 debacle) rather than everyone being blown away by it. It's a good game, but still a ways off Bioware at their best.

Bioware will never hang with the Bethesdas or Rockstars when it comes to sales as long as they so stubbornly ignore the basic things those developers do to make those huge sales possible. I don't know exactly what the next TES, Fallout, GTA or Red Dead game will be, but I know for sure it won't be a continuation of an intricate story rooted in a previous game in the series. It will be a fresh start which anyone will feel able to jump into, regardless of whether they ever played an earlier game or not. It will be like that because those companies understand exactly how important that is to maximising sales potential.

I don't think Bioware are ever getting much past 5m sales while they stick to their current 'story over multiple games' model. It just locks too many people out at each new release. The big hitters quite deliberately make a point of not doing that.

 

This is an interesting observation.

 

I personally could do without the character/world importing if it really did mean such a bigger profile for the game.

[De Vulus]

This is an interesting observation.

 

I personally could do without the character/world importing if it really did mean such a bigger profile for the game.

I still doubt it would help them that much. The choices you make in the Keep seem to barely have any effect in Inquisition.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

I didn't pre-order the game, but I bought it on day one. I know the guys at gamestop and I went during the day when it was slow and we had a talk about PC or XBox 360 version. I showed them the printout for my PC and the results of "will it run?" This is one of those "on the fence" decisions for my PC since it is an older model. Anyway, the PC geeks said, "better stick with the 360 version." So I did and got the deluxe version. That store was sold out of the XBox One Deluxe Version. The 360 version looks beautiful. The artwork is stunning. The game play is taking time to get used to, but it's pretty intuitive. I play on casual anyway because story is more important than combat. Combat is something to get through to get back to the story for me in these types of games. I like that it's not a button mashing fest.

 

I love the voice acting, although I keep seeing Traynor in my mind, so I'm starting over and making my rogue look like Traynor and naming her Samantha. I'm very excited for the prospects for the next Mass Effect game.

 

I'm sorry to hear about all the problems PC players have had, but I know patches will come. There are just hundreds of different configurations of computers.

[In Exile]

You don't put something no one wants out as a lead for sale like Amazon did. Loss leaders are called leaders because they lead people to buy more that only works if anyone wants the thing you are selling.

 

So you mean my "50% off acid douche" campaign was never going to succeed?

[dantares83]

DAI (PS4) is now on top on Amazon's Bestseller (Video Games) list!!!

 

 

so happy for them! it deserves it and even more once the patch is out!

 

[Epyon5757]

Regarding the post on DAI not being top ten in Britain: that was a one day chart for Black Friday.

Regarding people complaining that it is "already" on discount: Amazon did it as a loss leader to drive traffic to their website. Basically, Amazon has decided to take a loss of about $13/unit (merchants make almost nothing on games) on a product that is in high demand on their website because they believe, based on their website tracking data, that the additional merchandise SOME purchasers will buy at the same time will more than make up for their hit. But that discount is coming out of their pockets, not BioWare or EA.

Basically, when it comes to sales between Nov.15 - Dec 31... Take with giant load of salt on pricing. The normal rules don't apply. Any discounts given to games less than six months old are done to drive an increase in traffic.

[Farangbaa]

Why all this Skyrim love?

I could hardly get past the intro. So not my kind of game.

And believe me, I've tried, many times

And GTA.. one of those other big hits that leaves me cold.

[dantares83]

i tried Oblivion (GOTY Ed) when it was on $5 on Steam and seriously it bores me to tears. the voiceacting is rather bad and monotonous (stopped playing altogether after a grand 6 hours) so i never got around playing Skyrim.

[Farangbaa]

All of those things (like the acting and other story presentation) TES sucks at. Pretty much everything Bioware is good at is what TES sucks at. And vice versa.
 
What they do well is make the environment itself a character of it's own. The whole place is alive and teeming with random things.

Then they should make a game together

[Erudius]

As a old fan of table-top RPGs... this game ROCKS.

Didn't they say the game went gold pre-launch?  how many sales does it take to go gold?

[zeypher]

This game is damn good. 

[SofaJockey]

I'd say Shadow of Mordor has a good chance. ...

 

I hope not.

I liked the game but it's a game with painfully limited scope and a flabby ending, benefiting from a cute idea - the nemesis system.

[keyip]

Therefore; the numbers must be within the limit of the previous games. Probably higher than those but not anywhere near expectations.

 

DA:O and DA:2 had about 400k to 500k first week sales. DA:I comfortably eclipses these, but Bioware's been wanting to hit that magic 10mil number for a few years now. Skyrim and possibly Diablo are the only RPGs to sell more than 10mil in the last decade, so such lofty expectations will invariably cause disappointment. 

[phantomrachie]

As a old fan of table-top RPGs... this game ROCKS.

Didn't they say the game went gold pre-launch?  how many sales does it take to go gold?

 

going 'gold' means the game has been finished and the master disk has been sent to the factory.

 

It has nothing to do with sales 

[ChaosMarky]

Gosh, i hope the game sells well.. Otherwise, some punk in EA will call for a "restructuring" of game developments and decide it was more profitable to release low budget AAA games in comparison to the structure DA:I took.

 

I love the game! DA:I should be the direction EA & Bioware are taking; and i hope we get more games of this calibre in the future. Hopefully the sales will justify this direction they are taking... Otherwise, they might say it wasnt worth the effort.

 

 

I'd buy 10 copies, but i dont crap cash... :3

[ChaosMarky]

As a old fan of table-top RPGs... this game ROCKS.

Didn't they say the game went gold pre-launch?  how many sales does it take to go gold?

 

 

Errr... Going 'gold' means the game is finished and awaiting distribution to retailers...

 

 

it doesn't have anything to do with pre-order sales.

[Erudius]

Errr... Going 'gold' means the game is finished and awaiting distribution to retailers...

 

 

it doesn't have anything to do with pre-order sales.

well.. in music it means sales... soooo that was my logic.   Gold/Platinum (triple platinum, etc)

[dantares83]

DA:O and DA:2 had about 400k to 500k first week sales. DA:I comfortably eclipses these, but Bioware's been wanting to hit that magic 10mil number for a few years now. Skyrim and possibly Diablo are the only RPGs to sell more than 10mil in the last decade, so such lofty expectations will invariably cause disappointment. 

i don't even think Diablo is considered a RPG.

[n7stormrunner]

I guess it is. It spawned the Action RPG genre specifically. Only slightly more RPG than arcade games like Gauntlet.

 

 

don't play alot western rpgs do ya then... granted diablo is on the extreme action side of the genre.

[ChaosMarky]

That's odd.. VGchartz just reported that the game sold 1.14M units worldwide during the first week!! 

 

 

That's actually not a bad start! I'm sure these figures don't include the digital downloads yet but hey, Xmas is still on the horizon. Disappointing PC sales though...

 

 

 

Here's the link:

 

http://www.vgchartz....ne-x360-ps3-pc/

 

 

 

 

Dunno the site's credibility, but it should more or less give us a good glimpse of the performance