Origins was not all about sales, it was the start of Bioware corruption, they destroyed most of their legacy there. But who cares? I still loved the game. But they already excluded most of what made their games interesting for me. It took me one year to adapt to that bullshit. I lowered my standards and it worked.
Inquisition is just the point where my whole "lowering standards" breaks. Until DA2 it worked. But when I go play D&D games from Bioware and Obsidian seeing that much classes, the stat points (
), feats, everything, I just can't take it (this Inquisition simplification) anymore.
But well, what the hell, we were talking about sales right? Yeah, as I said Origins was the start, Inquisition is the peak of wanting to sell. That's why all this mockery, they completely destroyed RPG to sell and didn't sell all that much. This is funny. You make a game for retardeds and even the retardeds don't want it because there are better retarded games. They should perhaps start making games for people with brain again, less budget more profit.
They got rid of all the interesting complex features of the franchise to expand their fanbase (more like get rid of half and introduce new ones) and it absolutely seems like a failure since most of the old fans bought the game and a lot of them felt betrayed (like myself). These sales came from marketing, as they lost a lot of people with DA2 now they lose again with DAI... but for what? If DAI sold thrice the amount DAO sold, I would be totally ok with that, going retarded to get money, but with such small improvement betraying everything they were seems like a huge price. Well, people who mattered are not there anymore anyway...
It's a real shame you feel the need to call people names. It undermines any legitimacy your argument may possess.
To be honest, the vast majority of your post seems nothing more than 'I don't like Inquisition therefore I'm going to insist it hasn't sold well regardless', which means we're at a bit of an impasse I guess. Although I will point out that on the 'rate your Bioware games' thread on this forum there are people there who clearly didn't like DA2 but who are enjoying DAI, so it isn't entirely true to say that Bioware is simply haemorrhaging fans from one title to the next. And we don't know what improvement/decline in sales there has been so we can't assume anything.
We know from leaked NPD data that in its first month in the US alone on non-digital platforms, DAI sold at least 890k (you can find a link to the NeoGAF thread containing that information earlier in this thread).
We know that DAI's launch period (whatever EA considers that to be) has been more successful in terms of units sold than Bioware's (not just Dragon Age's) previous most successful title (which was apparently Mass Effect 3 according to people on this and other threads although I don't have access to any numbers that prove this).
We know that a Bioware rep has stated in this thread that EA is happy with sales, and that in EA's earnings call they also seem happy with sales and say that 'outperformance versus outlook has been driven by Dragon Age Inquisition performance'. Whether you believe this or not is your call, but this (information disseminated to investors which could get EA into serious legal trouble if they lie) is currently the most solid information we have.
We also know that Digital downloads (which aren't tracked by NPD/PAL charts) have accounted for just over half of EA's revenue over the last quarter, which will obviously include DAI.
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Even if EA release actual numbers, someone is going to say they're made-up to cover the epic failure that Inquisition turned out to be.
