You are right before ME3 and DAI. Both ME2 and ME1 combined sold less than ME3 and I think Dragon Age Origins was around 5 million if I remember correctly? All of BioWare's projects under EA have been profitable, but it's really only after ME3 they were going that high.
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Sure but this game has been on top if not near the top of most anticipated lists for the past two years. I think you're really underestimating how many people jump on these types of games.
You can not believe the devs if you want but that doesn't make it any less true that DAI is their most sucessful game. It just sounds that you like Mass Effect better so you think everyone is like you. And BioWare gets asked about DA4 all the time and alot of people were really excited about the teaser. I'm not sure what you want when the devs literally told you it was more sucessful?
Exactly, first impressions matter and the PC demo was a goddamn disaster. I shouldn't have to fight the flight and swimming controls.
Even though I wasn't nearly as accurate as I would like, the fact still remains that these companies should really stop setting expectations so goddamn high as a means of maximizing profit. The Battlefield 5 thread about it not meeting expectations at 7 million copies is another sign that this is well beyond ridiculous at this point. 7 million of anything sold at 50-60 bucks shouldn't be a "missed the mark" qualifier. That's just a sign of issues with corporate expectations, money management, wealth gaps, and so on as a whole.
There has been many indications that Inquisition was a success. Including Biowared Devs, statements from EA financial reports at the time. And most importantly EA and Bioware greenlitting the sequel that got announced a couple of months ago.
EA did have lower sales expectations originally but apparently preorders for Anthem were much higher than expected, especially digitally, that they raised them. Not sure what the original sales numbers expectation was though.
