🚨 BREAKING: Dragon Age Veilguard TOTAL FLOP – Sales TANK 50%, BioWare SLASHED to Skeleton Crew! Mass Effect 5 DOA? EA’s RPG EMPIRE COLLAPSING! 💀🔥
WOKE Pronoun Lectures & Ugly DEI Cast BACKFIRE – Stock CRASHES $6B, Layoffs RAMPAGE! Fans SCREAM “END OF BIOWARE!” 👀 Will ME5 Save Them or DIE Too?
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Dragon Age: The Veilguard‘s catastrophic launch has left BioWare reeling, with sales cratering 50% below expectations, massive layoffs slashing the studio to under 100 employees, and whispers that Mass Effect 5 – the RPG giant’s last lifeline – is doomed before it even hits full production. Electronic Arts confirmed the disaster in early 2025 earnings calls, wiping $6 billion off its market cap in a single day and forcing revenue forecasts downward. As fans on X torch the game as a “woke mess” of pronoun lectures and forced diversity, EA insists it’s “committed” to BioWare – but with the studio’s track record of flops like Anthem and Andromeda, is the end nigh for gaming’s once-mighty RPG kings?
The October 31, 2024 release rode massive hype: A decade in development, Unreal Engine 5 visuals, and companion-driven action-RPG gameplay promising to revive BioWare’s glory days of Origins and Dragon Age 2. Critics largely praised it, landing an 84 Metacritic score for “stunning combat” and “vibrant world.” Steam peaked at 80,000 concurrent players, topping BioWare charts briefly. But the honeymoon ended fast. User scores plummeted to 3.3-4.0 amid review bombing, with complaints of “cringe DEI propaganda” and “soulless cash-grab.” Concurrent players nosedived 54% in weeks, hovering at 1,000 by early 2025 – a “disaster” per SteamDB trackers.
Sales tell the grim tale: EA projected blockbuster numbers akin to FIFA or Apex Legends boosts, but Veilguard “engaged” just 1.5 million players in Q3 FY2025 – half the forecast. Full copies? Under 1.5 million across platforms, per insiders and Gamalytic data. Pre-orders barely hit 75,000; refunds topped 30,000. Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier confirmed EA slashed Q3 bookings to $2.22 billion from $2.4-2.55 billion, blaming Veilguard and EA FC 25. Stock plunged 17% January 23, 2025 – EA’s worst day ever.
The backlash? A powder keg of “woke” fury. Character creator pushed vitiligo sliders and top-surgery scars; companions included a non-binary Qunari and peg-legged elf. Cutscenes lectured on “misgendering” – push-ups for slip-ups, family dinners turning into pronoun fights. X erupted: “Veilguard is woke garbage,” posts racked likes; #VeilguardFlop trended with boycott calls. YouTubers like LegacyKillaHD mocked “polycule teams” and “Disney princess” arcs; Grummz called it “hijacked by feminists.” Metacritic culled “abusive” reviews, fueling conspiracies.
Defenders fired back: “Review bombing by chuds,” per Eurogamer’s retracted praise. BioWare’s Corinne Busche blamed “hate campaigns”; patches improved endgame. Sales hit 1.5M “decent” for single-player, they argued – but EA’s pivot from live-service (axed 2024) doomed longevity.
BioWare paid: January 2025 restructuring gutted 50-70% staff, veterans from Dragon Age and Mass Effect axed or reassigned to Apex/FC. Now <100 souls focus on Mass Effect 5, pre-production since 2020 teaser. EA vows “full focus,” but leaks scream trouble: Tiny team, no CM, shrouded mystery. 2028-2029 release? Fans doubt: “BioWare cooked after Veilguard.” X polls: 70% “no hope” amid DEI fears.
EA’s empire? Sports (Madden, FC) prop it up amid $55B buyout rumors, but RPG wing bleeds. 17K industry layoffs since 2023; Concord, Suicide Squad echo Veilguard‘s “go woke, go broke.” CEO Andrew Wilson cites “lack of awareness,” not content. Optimists: ME5 could rebound like Legendary Edition. Pessimists: “BioWare done.”
X rages on: “Veilguard destroyed IP,” “ME5 next flop.” Polymarket bets tank BioWare survival odds. As N7 Day teases loom, Mass Effect 5 holds EA’s RPG fate – but Veilguard’s shadow looms large. Disaster or phoenix? Gamers watch, wallets shut.
