Dragon Age: The Veilguard did not sell well. At least not well enough for publisher Electronic Arts. Three months out from launch, The Veilguard missed its sales target by "nearly 50%," 1.5 million players versus a projected 3 million. The Veilguard reviewed well (well enough, in our case), but has sold worse than BioWare's notorious live service flop, Anthem. Now the future of a studio that was once synonymous with triple-A RPGs is more in doubt than at any point in its post-Inquisition wilderness era.
I find myself inclined to make excuses for a developer I have a lot of fondness for, one that had to release an embattled, twice-rebooted sequel that had long since gone from "eagerly anticipated" to "annoyingly MIA." Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a good game despite its winding, arduous road to our PCs, but that just hasn't cut it. With EA marking it down as a flop, I'm now wondering if this is it for Dragon Age, and whether the big BioWare comeback we've been hoping for is even possible as it moves onto the next Mass Effect.
