So the recent meme had me do some digging. DA:I was budgeted to cost around $150-200 million in production and marketing costs but sold over 12 million units. Now, granted, DA: V has only been out a month in comparison it at the HIGHEST estimate has sold under 800k with the median estimate at about ~600k. All estimates say median $35 million GROSS revenue. Now if we were to even go crazy and say the production/ marketing cost was the same as DA:I, it would take sales to quadruple/quintuple at CURRENT PRICE just to break even. If this game doesn’t kill BioWare then we truly have a captured market being propped up by funny money, this is a Disney Marvels level fuck up.
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There is little to no chance this game will break even. If it was to have this slow uptick over a longer period of time It would need some favorable word of mouth and it is just the contrary. Most people hate it.
This is a colossal failure. I doubt EA even knows how much they lost considering it was in development for about a decade.
Another thing with this is EA said that they had no plans for DLC. A good DLC drop can boost player interest and numbers, and is usually a chance to get some comparatively easy money. But it sounds like they won't even get that.
It's BECAUSE it's so abysmal in terms of players that they won't even consider it. Even Starfield got DLC nad they are working on more. I did not play the first, was supposedly really bad but even that is more than what Wokeguard will get. This must have bombed more than we know. I don't wanna sound crazy but there's probably some who play it that got it either free or just bots in general. I could also see refunds being HIGH for this.
They were announcing no DLC plans back in September. Now, maybe they were already assuming it would be awful in terms of sales (which if they were looking objectively they should have been able to) but regardless of reason for an EA-owned property to announce no DLC plans a month before release is just crazy.
Then I assume EA can smell a turd from far away, still release it, duh but smell it obviously.