f6c2a5 No.14802485
Did this game actually make money?
703816 No.14802492
No. They cut off update support a few months after release. That's as bad as bad signs get.
f3d2b2 No.14802495
Technically yes, but NOWHERE near their goal.
e9e986 No.14802518
>>14802485
they are in the numbers with that game, hell, some cd-keys got stolen making a bunch of MEA games useless.
b2f4ea No.14802529
>>14802518
>they are in the numbers
What do you mean
2c269d No.14802548
They try to hawk it on psn every other sale for $10 and under, still not worth it.
e9e986 No.14802550
>>14802529
*they are in the red numbers
223c7c No.14802645
>>14802492
And they pulled all the DLC, when was last time AAA game that got no DLC?
d86def No.14802659
>>14802645
Ass Creed Unity comes to mind, when they cancelled the season pass after the first DLC.
5f161e No.14802663
>>14802645
I remember them pulling some dlc, but not all of it. If they pulled all of it then this was such a horrific disaster that the higher ups decided to simply just kill it so it didn't incur anymore debt. That's pretty unbelievable.
64c437 No.14802701
>>14802663
Mass Effect 2 and 3 had fucktons of DLC. So did all the Dragon Age games. EA would never willingly decline to issue DLC unless the player base was so small and unengaged that they simply didn't see it as profitable to finance the development costs for any extra modules.
6ac639 No.14802707
>>14802529
number one: that's terror
number two: that's terror
c15003 No.14802723
>>14802485
it did actually make money. but not enough to justify continuing support and BioCuck saying its last prayers that Anthem isn't a massive flop
4ae89d No.14802804
Didn't even Cisquisition get DLC?
2c5bae No.14802821
>>14802804
Yeah, three single-player DLCs and a few others.
36a0cc No.14802833
>>14802485
It made very little, and now bioware is now on its last leg with anthem. They say dragon age 4 is in the works, but if anthem fails, DA4 is canned. Now if anthem succeeds, DA4 will most likely succeed and after that maybe enough time would've passed so that they can make a new MA game.
2c5bae No.14802861
>>14802833
>Now if anthem succeeds
I struggle to imagine a world in which Anthem is met with any measure of success. It seems like an entirely bland and forgettable scifi game. The only time I see it mentioned anywhere is when people bring it up as Bioware's "last chance." Nobody, not even Biodrones, are excited for it.
745029 No.14802881
>>14802861
I haven't even heard of this "Anthem" until now, and I spend the whole fucking day in this dump.
4ae89d No.14802888
7bc2fc No.14802891
>>14802723
Adding onto this, it made money but NOWHERE near enough to recoup costs, the deathkneel for Andromeda was adding it to the EA vault pass thing and allowing people to play and stream it a week before release.
>>14802804
Cisquisition, Andromeda and DA2 had dozens of DLC planned for post release, but each game has bombed harder and support and DLC was cut almost immediately. Game breaking bugs like in DA2 where a few low level combat spells crash the game were never fixed.
Also the dev menu for ME3 was patched out after a few weeks of being out, people just spawned all the unlocks and paid content for the PVE MP until they patched it out then removed all the paid content from the store.
9ead33 No.14802905
>>14802861
It reminds me of destiny, which is a bad thing. Then again that still sold millions so they might be able to trick a few people into buying it but hopefully it just bombs and they can finally be buried.
36a0cc No.14802936
>>14802861
If the faggots over at bungie don't get their shit together with Destiny, then anthem has more of a chance then you'd think. Their is a market for these shooting MMO, and the king of them has fallen from grace, all that the niggers at bioware have to do is release a less shitty version of it, without the EA microtransaction stink from the swbf2
2c5bae No.14802947
>>14802905
Anthem definitely feels like Bioware's version of Destiny. Given the abject failure of that IP, I don't know why Bioware would try to emulate it. It's especially confusing when Bioware's only claim to fame, even in light of recent failures, is their story-driven singleplayer experiences. I can only think that some retard in a suit in upper management decided that hopping on that bandwagon would be profitable enough to save the studio.
If EA was smart, they'd hand Bioware a Star Wars project. If they were really smart, they'd have them work on KotOR3. I'm not saying that Bioware would be capable of making a good Star Wars RPG but the brand name alone would be enough to trick retards into buying it.
2c5bae No.14802967
>>14802936
>Their is a market for these shooting MMO
Is there? I figured Destiny's repeated failures would burn people out on the entire genre. I definitely feel that Bioware's Anthem is a soulless and reactionary attempt to jump aboard a train that's already crashed.
Even assuming that it's competently designed, do you think Anthem could stand up to the likes of PUBG or the next Battlefield title?
7bc2fc No.14802990
>>14802967
The Division at the moment is the best MMO shooter out, thanks to games like For Honor and several failed AssCreed games completely crashing the devs came running back to previously released games and completely fixed them, the division got patches that redid the netcode, free content and a new lease of life.
Gotta admit, like FC5 you end up playing the legit good guys, In the divisions case you play the government approved RWDS killing fags, commies, terrorists and dindus who are plundering Jew york.
36a0cc No.14803065
>>14802967
Pubg and battlefield are different kinds of games from Destiny, so anthem doesn't need to stand up to them. Also, people aren't burnt out on the social shoot mmo, cause there haven't been many of'em. we are in a market saturated with battle royal and previously with hero shooters, Destiny is really the only choice for social shoot mmos, that's why I think anthem has a chance. Bioware fans think lowly of the company, so if anthem is mediocre but still better then Destiny, they will cling on to it and think it's better then it really is.
01e097 No.14803088
>>14803065
I keep misreading social shooter as school shooter.
5d5b81 No.14803132
>>14802485
They may have recouped losses between sales on Origin and all the copies shipped to retailers, but with how badly said retailers sold to their customers I have doubts that Bioware is going to be long for this world, especially since their new project Anthem is so out-of-character for them as a studio.
6d7e0b No.14803153
EA really kicked themselves in the cock last year. I wonder if they learned a single thing
5f161e No.14803168
>>14803065
>visible disconnection on the leg textures.
And that's not even the worse thing.
ecb5da No.14803181
>>14802990
I tried the division for ~30 hours over two free weekends and couldn't get past the bullet sponge enemies (the lmg bosses are the worst) or the repetitive missions. If it is supposedly better now I couldn't imagine it on launch
7bc2fc No.14803194
>>14803181
I played it at launch as well as late last year and they did fix it considerably, but its full of all the MMO shit as thats what it was made for.
ff4810 No.14803196
>>14802485
ME:A was on sale 25% off a week after it was released, turning up by the whole unopened pallet-full in thrift stores within a month (retailers trying to get rid of their copies), had its SP DLC canceled because BioWare knew idiots would still spend a fortune on MP microtransactions, and the studio that made the game was shut down and rolled into EA Motive.
I remember seeing employees in Best Buy taking unopened copies of the game off of the shelves behind the registers, packing them into boxes, and taking them into the back. I think e-celebs making fun of the botulism faces, bugs, and embarrassing dialogue ultimately did the game in, and it totally deserved it.
>>14802833
>a new MA game
I don't want one, not after ME:A. The cancer that plagued the DA team spread to BioWare as a whole and seeped into ME. Things can only get worse.
>that Power-Girl-style boob-window on the asari model
Ugh, problematic.
a4c230 No.14803288
This game's intended audience (sexual degenerates who are into disgusting lgbt shit) were too busy buying $60 dragon dildos to give a shit.
36a0cc No.14803289
>>14803168
What, don't like asari?
>>14803196
>I don't want one, not after ME:A
Why not? The original team that worked on it is gone, and EA sure as fuck wouldn't let anybody who did work on it tuch a new one, not after the failure ME:A was.
5f161e No.14803297
>>14803289
>What, don't like asari?
I don't mind them, but those models are shit. Tali was better.
7bc2fc No.14803298
>>14803289
Alright, whos the artist anon.
2c5bae No.14803306
>>14803289
I like the Mass Effect universe conceptually, but we've had two (arguably three, or even four) completely shit games from it. If it ever gets a sequel, I'd want it to be a reboot from a completely different studio. Set us back up in the same timeframe as the beginning of ME1, but scrap the entire Shepard and Reaper story.
ff4810 No.14803307
>>14803289
For the same reason we put down a tired, old, toothless, arthritic dog once it's become too sick to even get up for food.
c22d01 No.14803396
>>14802861
give me a quick run down on anthem
d705b2 No.14803424
I'm sure they made back the investment with pre orders and first week sales
65bcf1 No.14803437
>>14802485
This isn't Google, faggot. Look these things up yourself instead of making worthless threads like these.
>>14803396
Walled city uses Iron Man suits to explore the surrounding wilderness. It's an interesting concept, but on top of the E3 video showing little to nothing interesting, Bioware is probably going to fuck it up somehow, whether it be shit story, shit dialogue, shit models or a lack of funding.
4ae89d No.14803448
>>14803437
>Walled city uses Iron Man suits to explore the surrounding wilderness.
that sounds like a Fallout game, not a space opera.
3aab1a No.14803461
>>14802947
dude. this industry is so far gone, the people with the money and who make the decisions don't even play video games. this is as business as business gets. nobody knows what anyone wants, its trends and bandwagons and battle royale and whatever other depressing shit they can do to make money. video games have joined the ranks of mainstream music, hollywood movies, and twlight/harry potter tier literature. the rabbit hole only goes deeper
516fc7 No.14803482
>today, I will remind someone to remind them about the gay krogan webm
04c338 No.14803487
>>14802485
Given the speed nuBioware and EA abandoned it, I can't imagine it was anything but a huge money sink.
eed8f5 No.14803567
>>14803396
It's unfortunate when you look at something and initially think "that might be cool" and then you realize it's EA and it's Bioware and none of what you're watching will be actual gameplay.
585d73 No.14803589
>>14803153
They're pushing lootboxes even harder despite regulations against them being introduced in more and more countries, so no.
>>14803306
I find it boring, conceptually. It's pretty much indistinguishable from 99% of other sci-fi trash we've had to suffer under for the past 40 years. It's just another variation of Star Trek, with more faggotry on top.
500eb4 No.14803592
>>14803306
Only ME 1 is passable. Every other entry in the series is shit. Granted, gunplay in the first ME game was atrocious, but at least the world building was alright. Ashley Williams was pretty cool, but she looks mixed-race. Was she supposed to be part spic / negro?
4ae89d No.14803596
>>14803592
if she's part anything she's probably part-Asian.
a906c8 No.14803615
>>14803592
>Was she supposed to be part spic / negro?
El Americano
500eb4 No.14803629
>>14803615
I wonder if her mongrel look was due to the poor lighting design, the usual Bioware incompetence or they planned her to be that way from the get go.
a906c8 No.14803637
>>14803629
Iirc she looks like a tranny in 3 so it's probably just bioware being bioware.
4054e4 No.14803677
>>14802485
5-6 years including pre-development brainstorming, 100 million dollary-doos but is likely to have cost more, and 2-3 months of stocks going down, not to mention the five stages of grief by the Ass Defect fanbase, then the studio got shitcanned, So you tell us you 1 and done faggot OP.
6e4e62 No.14804060
Any new ME was going to bomb. They killed the series with 3. 2 set up the rope and knot around the neck and then 3 jumped off the edge. A real shame, as ME1 was good despite its massive flaws. 2 should have been a big fix for all the wrongs and a story around researching the Reapers, investigating ways to fight them, perhaps some kind of civil war is brewing from Reaper sleeper agents. We didn't get a proper sequel though, we got ME2 which was admittedly a better GAME but a far worse RPG and story. The EA interference was obvious from the outset and the series truly died with the merger.
fcc527 No.14804143
>>14802485
Bioware stopped the support 4 months after release and 3 months later the game got added to the EA/Origin Vault. I think it sold as bad maybe worse than Mirror's Edge reboot and Unravel.
Most of the glitches and bug will never be fixed.
6e4e62 No.14804226
>>14804143
At least we got the waifu we never knew we wanted.
c7b8c7 No.14804275
>>14802485
>make the game where alien landscapes are primary selling point
>blur landscapes with DOF on poster because muh "something something"
Single image illustrates how everything is wrong with modern games art design
fcc527 No.14804277
>>14804226
It's a shame that they fucked up the whole game with the Whedon writing and the Tumblr characters because some of the features brought back that ME1 feeling (the exploration, the heat-sink for the weapons, the armor sets, the "not Mako").
I don't think we'll ever have a game like ME1 ever again. Most of the writers in the gaming industry don't give a shit about world building anymore, they only care about inserting themselves into a bland story (see Destiny 2).
1d2ea3 No.14804288
>>14803637
Wasn't there some rumor or was it truth? passing around that Ashley in 3 was based on some shemale pornstar?
fcc527 No.14804298
>>14804275
>Single image illustrates how everything is wrong with modern games art design
Funny how these two games share the same cover and the same fate (both were a failure and the studios stopped supporting the game in less than 6 months).
120b6f No.14804314
>>14802645
Probably dragon age inquisition.
>>14802659
More precisely, they cancelled the season pass because of the release shitstorm, then made the DLC available for free.
6e4e62 No.14804362
ff4810 No.14804563
>>14803629
Mass Effect follows the Everyone-in-the-Future-Will-Be-A-Light-Shade-of-Brown sci-fi trope. That's why Ashley looks that way.
9e4259 No.14804585
>>14803168
Get a life loser, you are pussy repellent.
c7b8c7 No.14804655
>>14804563
>A-Light-Shade-of-Brown
or neon blue
fcc527 No.14804702
>>14804314
>Probably dragon age inquisition.
Yep, Cisquisition was supposed to have DLCs but they stopped caring about the game quite fast too. I don't think EA even talked about the sales numbers.
f4bb3a No.14804714
>>14802485
No, it caused them to go into panic mode. They had this (((woman))) pay them a visit to make sure their next game was thought-police accepted good.
ff4810 No.14804742
>>14804655
I'm obviously talking about humans, though ME:A put some brown asari in to ruin the species even more
>>14804714
IIRC some of their employees complained about Anita's visit. Oh well. They paid the Dane-geld and now they'll never be rid of the Dane
fcc527 No.14804754
>>14804714
>Anita visits Bioware
<ME:A is a failure
>Anita visits Dice
<no one bought Mirror's Edge Catalyst
>Anita visits Bungo
<Destiny 2 is a failure
>Anita visits Bioware (again)
<a bunch of devs didn't want her to come, some even refused to see her
>she starts nitpicking some aspects of the game
<Anthem is the last Bioware game
7b4e60 No.14804763
>>14802833
>those big heads and small bodies in everyone but the krogan
To this day I wonder how do you fuck up character design that much
f4bb3a No.14804778
>>14804754
The writing is on the wall, we just have to be patient now.
95021c No.14804779
>>14804754
They were toxic and misogynistic people anyway. If they really cared about diversity they would've never failed.
fcc527 No.14804792
>>14804763
There's a weird thing going on with the body ratio and the size of the heads and the eyes (the ME:A characters have that weird anime/cartoonish look).
Also they were too lazy with the animation that they created the two new alien races in a way that they would work with the same skeleton used for the turians and the salarians. This also explains why the salarians are as tall as the turians in ME:A.
The Angaran character design is the worst of all, it looks like a WIP that got approuved after 1 pass at Zbrush. I don't have a picture of them on my pc but if you look at their hands, you could see that they have 5 fingers but the middle, ring and little fingers are glued to each other because the devs didn't bother to make only 3 fingers and a dedicated skeleton for that species.
5e5a0c No.14804808
>>14804754
<ME:A is a failure
>none of the mass effect games were good anyway and ME:A had a massive talent drain by EA to work on another game instead of finishing the current one
<no one bought Mirror's Edge Catalyst
>it was a shitty open world game that didn't cater to mirrors edge fans who wanted more or new comers who would be interested in a niche concept
<Destiny 2 is a failure
>The problems from the first are worse and the staff working on it didn't know what they were doing
gamergay historical revisionism will ultimately lead to an e-celeb fueled existence in perpetual mediocrity.
ed3e1f No.14804867
>>14804754
>Anita visits WM pornmania in this sunday
<Oh my!
198857 No.14804887
>>14804702
>>14804314
Cisquisition got three separate singleplayer campaigns, the last one giving a conclusive end to the storyline and lots of multiplayer shit. While I am not arguing that this made Cisquisition a financial success, it was more than what Andromeda got.
>>14804808
>>14804754
Her supporters will always rub on gamers' face that it was harassment that pushed her into fame. What they don't know is that they made a lot of harm to causes that they probably care about in name of personal gain of quacks like her.
585d73 No.14804896
>>14804887
There was no harassment, though. It was all her false flagging. If I didn't know better I'd say she is a Jew.
ca072f No.14804932
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>>14804714
>anita shekelsian
ahh, where would the industry be without her amazing insight?
7ade4d No.14804980
I can't be the only one who prefers the gameplay in one. Never mind the horrific decision to have universal cooldowns on abilities in 2 (never played 3 because why the fuck would I). Never mind the vastly lower number of abilities in 1. Just the ability to modify your weapons to be able to lower weapon heating to make your weapons be able to fire infinitely without stopping made it a far more pleasant experience to play with than generic cover shootar#73.
Also they really fucked up by removing the immense customization in later games. Turning Garrus into a 1-shotting cannon with explosive rounds, making Wrex a super tank with damage reduction upgrades and having him charge in. Shit it even made the teammates who would be useless in combat usually (Kaiden and Liara) able to hold their own by the end with the shield boosters and damage increases.
I apologetically love mass Effect 1. Fuck everything after it.
b825fc No.14804997
>>14804288
Nah, it was one of the femshep options, it was based off Bailey Jay iirc.
2c5bae No.14805017
>>14804997
That might be true, but >>14804288 is also correct. There was a picture floating around that compared ME3 Ashley's appearance with some tranny porn star. The resemblance was uncanny. Whether this was intentional on Bioware's part or just coincidence, I don't know.
6f29fd No.14805022
>>14804896
You know that none of the harassment was real because no one talked about her giant fucking nose.
3d9aab No.14805064
>>14802485
There was an image floating around for a while of whole boxes of deluxe edition copies from Target, sitting in a Goodwill. They couldn't even get enough fanboys to buy up all the good goy copies. If that's not an indication of the biggest flop in AAA history, I don't know what is.
fcc527 No.14805116
>>14804288
I don't know about Ashley but Cora from ME:A looks like the tranny Danni Daniels.
198857 No.14805293
>>14804896
Sorry, I meant to say "harassment", not harassment.
0dc279 No.14805341
>>14804792
Wew lad
>*tries to remember art class*
What is proper proportion? IIRC height=8 heads.
ME1 - 8.5 heads, ME:A - 7. Wow
95021c No.14805373
>>14805341
The real problem is the legs. In an ideal figure 6' 2'' the crotch is halfway to the bottom of heels, as you start making the figure lower and lower the head starts getting larger and eventually you get stuff like anime girls where the proportions are 4 or 5 heads.
So yeah, this guy has the proportions of a 5' 4'' foot manlet.
71fc5e No.14805399
>>14805341
Someone really should remake this with a proper shot of the new guy. The image used is viewing him from a slight downward angle, which makes him look shorter. He'd still be shorter but at least it wouldn't be the equivalent of a bullshot.
b7836c No.14805433
>>14805341
You should substract that stupid haircut tough.
f61126 No.14805462
>>14805341
Looked it up. Average person is 7.5 heads tall. In art, heroes are 8 heads tall. Gods and such are depicted with 8.5 heads. So yeah, Andromeda's protag is literally subhuman.
>tfw 8.2 heads
f61126 No.14805592
>>14802659
You know, Unity could've easily been a genuinely good game. Outside the story, it easily has the best gameplay of the series. If they altered the progression, improved AI, tweaked eagle vision, removed 90% of collectibles (not the riddles), and made the UI less of an eyesore, it'd actually be quite good. One of the nice things about the map is that because there were so many landmarks and such that I could disable the mini-map and not be lost. I enjoyed the game when I was first playing it, but then I just uninstalled it before the final mission because I felt I explored everything I needed to.
If we were to go into the larger fixes, that would be completely rewriting the story, reintroducing the multiplayer, making coop not just mission only, and having all enemies exist in the world like it's Shadow of War, which is a novelty that I greatly enjoyed and added a lot of color to what was otherwise unremarkable.
538a5c No.14805625
>>14802861
It reminds me of Dark Void published by capcom for some reason.
09bb52 No.14806092
>>14805592
I thought the entire issue was that Unity was a horrific buggy mess that was unplayable
f61126 No.14806128
>>14806092
I didn't experience any issues on the pirated version. They must've patched everything.
585d73 No.14806264
>>14805592
So, basically, if Ubisoft could make a good game Unity could have been a good game.
3253cf No.14807440
>>14803289
>What, don't like asari?
Can have kids with anyone ,always has offspring of it's race , uses reaper artifacts and telepathy ,most known for diplomacy ,Space Jews
782067 No.14807551
>>14803181
>he couldn't figure out how to flank them and hit the weak spot
The absolute state of /v/
ecb5da No.14807609