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DA2 takes a dip off the third week.

duanth000

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It's an interesting observation, but you're:
1. Centralizing corporate functions/decision-making processes such that a corporation is guaranteed to make perfect choices regarding its IPs....although for the most part they accomplish this. Great things can come from the small mistakes among the myriad higher-ups. I guess....don't give them too much credit; and
2. Forgetting the fact that IPs are finite and burning through so many/and or an exact one in some estimable time period can lead to consumer backlash, which is the exact phenom you're seeing with dragon age 2....imagine if starcraft 3 were raped and mangled like DA2. Corporations are never that powerful.[/quote]
 

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In fact, I add a third point.. The reason that an abomination such as DA2 was released to the public is that the Dragon Age IP was always treated an understood as a compromise between "oldschool" rpg mechanics and present day general gameplay mechanics such as regeneratinng health mechanics, etc...
I mean, it's hard to argue that the original DA wasn't a simplification, what with the filler combat, smackyouintheface C&C, etc...That's how Bioware/EA defines the DA IP and as such, you get the probable result. DA2 could have been slightly more or less what it was, but I wouldn't say something was exactly lost in the process...So I agree with the idea in theory but it's not very applicable to the current case....
 

Reptilian Shapeshifter

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Supporting evidence?

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JohnTheRevelator

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Wait. Since when League of Legends is rpg????? I bet some idiot from turdspot classified it as such because you gain levels and buy shit. :roll:
 
Zed

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Ah, here's a DA2 thread. I found this little comic to be a little amusing and I haven't seen it on the Codex yet so:

fuck it was old :(

this post is void, null, empty. scroll past it.
 
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