No Announcement from Bioware

[UAG.Lans]

... let's be real... as much as there are "guardians" to the success of the game regardless of how we feel the direction it went... it's clear that despite everything... Bioware believes the game is a failure... or else they would have made an announcement about its sales or such... like they did with their previous titles... also I hear they are now focusing on Mass Effect... tsk

[GM Morgan]

Let’s be real. After 10 years and 3 restarts on this game, it was never gonna sell enough to break even. It was released to recoup loses and show they can make a game that runs, isn’t full of game-breaking bugs and isn’t reliant on DLC or micotransactions,

Compared to Anthem and Andromeda, Veilguard is a masterpiece.

[Nitemares]

Originally posted by Oxlorne:

Originally posted by Monnsteri:

It has sold 500k and needs to sell about 4-5 million at full price to break even. Biggest sales happen during the first week. Its gonna cause third degree burns for Bioware and they deserve it.

I see this number posted a lot. Must be a popular new YouTube video with amazing sources floating around.

It's a number taken from analytics, and is a guess by the software of the sales based off of multiple points.
Its NOT a firm number, but over the long term (thousands of games crunched) its actually pretty accurate:
Falling within 99% of the actual number, 85% of the time, with a curve of just 32% at the low point of entries (IE: low sales of under 40,000 units) and a curve of 3% at the high (over 3 million sales)

Which means:

The more sales the game has, the more accurate its analytics are on the total number of sales. If the sales numbers are exceptionally low (less than 40,000 units) the variance between its predictions and actual sales is off by a factor of 32% (-/+ 16% each way) as born out through the history of the analytic model.
If the sales were high, however, then its predicted sales where within 99% +/- 1.5% of the actual sales...

So again, its not an official number, its an analytical model's guess based off multiple points of interaction...

[Z0011]

Its beacuse all reviews are form codes they give to bot players for good reviews

[Nitemares]

Like I said, its just a analytical model.

Its pretty accurate, but still just a model, and subject to aberrant data points.

I don't think Bioware is going to release the sales of this game however. At least not until the EA shareholder's report, where they will have to make and an accounting of the final production numbers, sales, and tax reliefs the game garnered.... With enough luck they might be able to scrape this game into the "marginal loss" category depending on venture capital, investments, tax rebates, and bursaries....

But then again, I doubt it. Too much time, manpower, and not enough sales to squeak it into that category.

My personal feeling is that someone at EA saw just how big of a train wreck this was going to be, and decided to cut off the taps and ship it with what they got instead of scraping the whole thing....

As M.E. nears completion, it will be interesting to see who "leaves" Bioware....

[Lev]

Originally posted by Nitemares:

Originally posted by Oxlorne:

I see this number posted a lot. Must be a popular new YouTube video with amazing sources floating around.

It's a number taken from analytics, and is a guess by the software of the sales based off of multiple points.
Its NOT a firm number, but over the long term (thousands of games crunched) its actually pretty accurate:
Falling within 99% of the actual number, 85% of the time, with a curve of just 32% at the low point of entries (IE: low sales of under 40,000 units) and a curve of 3% at the high (over 3 million sales)

Which means:

The more sales the game has, the more accurate its analytics are on the total number of sales. If the sales numbers are exceptionally low (less than 40,000 units) the variance between its predictions and actual sales is off by a factor of 32% (-/+ 16% each way) as born out through the history of the analytic model.
If the sales were high, however, then its predicted sales where within 99% +/- 1.5% of the actual sales...

So again, its not an official number, its an analytical model's guess based off multiple points of interaction...

Meanwhile, DAV had a higher player peak on Steam than Metaphor which hit a million units sold in no time. I would be extremely surprised if DA sold half the number of copies while hitting similar player counts.

[kaffeend]

Originally posted by Nitemares:

As M.E. nears completion, it will be interesting to see who "leaves" Bioware....

Bye Corinne. Don't let the door hit your a$$ on your way out!

(Yes, I'm aware that she isn't on the team directing Mass Effect.)

[Kan3da.]

Originally posted by UAG.Lans:

... let's be real... as much as there are "guardians" to the success of the game regardless of how we feel the direction it went... it's clear that despite everything... Bioware believes the game is a failure... or else they would have made an announcement about its sales or such... like they did with their previous titles... also I hear they are now focusing on Mass Effect... tsk

Which PR department wouldnt chomp at the bits to release a statemenr of any kind niw for all the degenrates to crawl vack out the holes 11 days ago to start all over again no matter what its about. XD

Knob

[CrazyOdd]

There is two reasons to do such an announcement: Marketing and thanking for support.
With all the topic surrounding it atm, we are doing the marketing for them. As for support, that is more common among devs that take public feedback...

[ThotsBContagious]

Originally posted by Vale:

Radio silence shortly after a games big release is always an obvious sign.

Never really given much thought but yeah anytime you see a game do well usually they'll release a "Thank you" on twitter or whatever means which now looks more like a they hit their numbers needed if not more quota.

Can't say I've seen that for this game, as you said just close to dead quiet.
If anything only contest stuff.