Dragon Age: The Veilguard game director Corinne Busche reportedly leaves BioWare(www.gamesindustry.biz)

I said it didn’t have a long tail. I didn’t say it didn’t sell a lot of copies. Huge and critical difference, hence why I said what I said. I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here if you understood what I wrote.

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BG2 came out in 2000. It didn’t exactly have a huge sales happening in 2023 either. It was largely considered as a shelved IP. Yet BG3 came out with massive success. My point is that you have no point. DA was (I would say “is” if veilguard wasn’t such a horrible piece of shit) a strong IP with or without inquisitions long tail given from past sales alone. No one ever goes and says their best selling product ever is a weak IP. It’s completely bollocks that you’re framing it as a weakening IP. Clearly BioWare thought it was strong too since they’ve spent huge amount of budget into veilguard. You’re presuming you know more than their huge investment and sales projection team about Inquisition sales.

Besides, how would you even know if Inquisition had a long tail or not? You have no figures, this game was released exclusively on ea platform at first and continued to be for a long time until it was finally released on steam. I know, because I remember begrudgingly buying it on ea origin. Steam’s public data in this is hardly a meaningful pie. My 12m Inquisition data on sales was their Sept 2024 release info. Which I assume BioWare released to imply a long tail and and continued popularity to get more sales into veilguard. But let’s not assume.

Btw, I didn’t say you said it didn’t have a lot of sales either.

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That is a lot of words to argue with me about what I meant even though I’m telling you what I mean. A long tail is a very specific thing. If you would like me to elaborate further on that point and explain the term to you I will but I assume you know what it means.

Your example also isn’t a good parallel for a number of reasons I’m happy to elaborate on if you really want to dig your heels in here for some odd reason.

You are indeed very grumpy. You seem to want to fight. At no point have you asked me to elaborate or explain. You just want to prove me wrong about…something.

Btw, I didn’t say you said it didn’t have a lot of sales either.

You responded basically just saying the number of sales. It seemed like your point was “it sold a lot.” I’m not sure how else I was supposed to take it.

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14 days ago

Probably not what they wanted, no.

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