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Dragon Age: The Veilguard Star 'Absolutely Devastated' Over Backlash, Says People Wanted to See BioWare Fail
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 67310" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><img src="https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/10/28/dragonageveilguard-blogroll-1730083217268.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p><p>Dragon Age star Alix Wilton Regan has given her personal response to the backlash faced by last year's <a href="https://www.ign.com/games/dragon-age-the-veilguard" target="_blank">Dragon Age: The Veilguard</a>, and blamed the "mixed reactions" on people who "wanted to see the game fail, or wanted to see [BioWare] fail."</p><p></p><p>The actor, who plays the Female Inquisitor in both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, told IGN that she was "absolutely devastated" to see BioWare's latest game fail to find a larger audience, despite mostly positive review scores from critics.</p><p></p><p>Speaking during a new interview discussing her many iconic video game characters to date — as well as her role in Microsoft's upcoming Perfect Dark reboot — Wilton Regan said she had loved her time as BioWare's Inquisitor, though did not believe the character would now return.</p><p></p><p></p><p>"I feel absolutely devastated for BioWare as a studio that they got such mixed reactions to the game," Wilton Regan said of the response to The Veilguard. "I personally thought it was a really strong game. I thought it was just BioWare being more BioWare.</p><p></p><p>"I also think a lot of people kind of wanted to see it fail, or wanted to see [BioWare] fail, either because they're just really bad people on the internet — of which there are unfortunately many, as we have discovered."</p><p></p><p>At launch, The Veilguard was review-bombed online. Criticism of the game being "woke" centred on its inclusion of a non-binary companion character, and the ability for the player to choose to be transgender. On <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1845910/Dragon_Age_The_Veilguard/" target="_blank">Steam</a>, Dragon Age: The Veilguard now sits with a 'Mixed' player respose, with user-defined tags for the game describing it under "LGBTQ+" and "politics" labels.</p><p></p><p>"People were attacking the game before it was released," Wilton Regan continued. "It's ridiculous. How can you judge a game, a book, a film, a TV show before it's actually released? You can't. It's an idiotic stance to take."</p><p></p><p></p><p>In January, publisher EA said <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-had-15-million-players-in-first-two-months-ea-expected-3-million" target="_blank">Dragon Age: The Veilguard had "underperformed" versus its expectations by around 50%</a>, just days after the <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-director-reportedly-exits-bioware" target="_blank">game's director Corrine Busche confirmed she was leaving</a> the company. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-developers-reveal-theyve-been-laid-off-after-bioware-puts-full-focus-on-mass-effect" target="_blank">other BioWare staff who worked on the game were laid off</a>.</p><p></p><p>In the same month, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-patch-notes-sure-make-it-sound-like-biowares-basically-done-with-the-game-now" target="_blank">BioWare signalled it had released its final update for Dragon Age: The Veilguard</a>, with no further content announced or expected.</p><p></p><p>"I only ever want to see the folks from BioWare thrive, because I adore them," Wilton Regan concluded. "And whatever they go on to do next I have no doubt their talents will be richly rewarded. We're really lucky we'll get more gold from them in the future."</p><p></p><p>A slimmed-down BioWare is now working on <a href="https://www.ign.com/games/mass-effect-next-chapter" target="_blank">Mass Effect 5</a>, which currently does not have a release date.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at <a href="mailto:tom_phillips@ign.com">tom_phillips@ign.com</a> or find him on Bluesky </em><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tomphillipseg.bsky.social" target="_blank">@tomphillipseg.bsky.social</a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-star-absolutely-devastated-over-backlash-says-people-wanted-to-see-bioware-fail" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 67310, member: 1"] [IMG]https://assets-prd.ignimgs.com/2024/10/28/dragonageveilguard-blogroll-1730083217268.jpg[/IMG] Dragon Age star Alix Wilton Regan has given her personal response to the backlash faced by last year's [URL='https://www.ign.com/games/dragon-age-the-veilguard']Dragon Age: The Veilguard[/URL], and blamed the "mixed reactions" on people who "wanted to see the game fail, or wanted to see [BioWare] fail." The actor, who plays the Female Inquisitor in both Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, told IGN that she was "absolutely devastated" to see BioWare's latest game fail to find a larger audience, despite mostly positive review scores from critics. Speaking during a new interview discussing her many iconic video game characters to date — as well as her role in Microsoft's upcoming Perfect Dark reboot — Wilton Regan said she had loved her time as BioWare's Inquisitor, though did not believe the character would now return. "I feel absolutely devastated for BioWare as a studio that they got such mixed reactions to the game," Wilton Regan said of the response to The Veilguard. "I personally thought it was a really strong game. I thought it was just BioWare being more BioWare. "I also think a lot of people kind of wanted to see it fail, or wanted to see [BioWare] fail, either because they're just really bad people on the internet — of which there are unfortunately many, as we have discovered." At launch, The Veilguard was review-bombed online. Criticism of the game being "woke" centred on its inclusion of a non-binary companion character, and the ability for the player to choose to be transgender. On [URL='https://store.steampowered.com/app/1845910/Dragon_Age_The_Veilguard/']Steam[/URL], Dragon Age: The Veilguard now sits with a 'Mixed' player respose, with user-defined tags for the game describing it under "LGBTQ+" and "politics" labels. "People were attacking the game before it was released," Wilton Regan continued. "It's ridiculous. How can you judge a game, a book, a film, a TV show before it's actually released? You can't. It's an idiotic stance to take." In January, publisher EA said [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-had-15-million-players-in-first-two-months-ea-expected-3-million']Dragon Age: The Veilguard had "underperformed" versus its expectations by around 50%[/URL], just days after the [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-director-reportedly-exits-bioware']game's director Corrine Busche confirmed she was leaving[/URL] the company. Meanwhile, [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-developers-reveal-theyve-been-laid-off-after-bioware-puts-full-focus-on-mass-effect']other BioWare staff who worked on the game were laid off[/URL]. In the same month, [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-patch-notes-sure-make-it-sound-like-biowares-basically-done-with-the-game-now']BioWare signalled it had released its final update for Dragon Age: The Veilguard[/URL], with no further content announced or expected. "I only ever want to see the folks from BioWare thrive, because I adore them," Wilton Regan concluded. "And whatever they go on to do next I have no doubt their talents will be richly rewarded. We're really lucky we'll get more gold from them in the future." A slimmed-down BioWare is now working on [URL='https://www.ign.com/games/mass-effect-next-chapter']Mass Effect 5[/URL], which currently does not have a release date. [I]Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You can reach Tom at [email]tom_phillips@ign.com[/email] or find him on Bluesky [/I][URL='https://bsky.app/profile/tomphillipseg.bsky.social']@tomphillipseg.bsky.social[/URL] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/dragon-age-the-veilguard-star-absolutely-devastated-over-backlash-says-people-wanted-to-see-bioware-fail"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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