Highly recommend avoiding this game for now...
I know what you're thinking.
Oh it's another one of the haters. Someone who just hates the game because he thinks it has some "agenda it's trying to force down your throat"
I promise you nothing could be further from the truth. I actually applaud the game and the devs for having the courage to stand up to people like that and make the game they wanted to make and be inclusive of everyone. I love the story, the characters, the gameplay. I'm having a blast playing this game...when it works.
And therein lies the problem. This game is filled with bugs. Lots of bugs, many of them game/save breaking. And while they are not happening to everyone, they are happening to many. Now the bugs alone wouldn't be a problem normally. Most games of this size have a significant amount of bugs here and there. It's literally impossible to test and patch every single little thing before launch. Which is why places like this exist. Forums for games where Devs can be made aware of the problems and communicate with players in effort to solve them. But that is not happening with Dragon Age: the Veilguard right now.
Honestly, I have never played a game this big that has had a community management team that has so significantly dropped the ball when it comes to communication with players for bug and glitch reporting.
And don't take my word for it. There are posts filling up the technical chat right now that have gone literally WEEKS, with no communication from the Community Management team. Nothing. Not even so much as a , "We are aware of the problem and are working on a fix" Let alone anything approaching an ETA on fix, or Dev offered solutions. So many people have uploaded save files, images, spec listings, detailed descriptions of the problems. Only to be met with silence from the team concerning this game. And not just here in these forums. Also on Twitter/X, and Steam Forums as well. It's gotten so bad that the players are trying to diagnose the problems in the hopes that maybe a community manager MIGHT poke their head in and deign to respond. Not sure if its just that the Community Managers are all on vacation or something or if they don't have enough working this game but either way it's unacceptable. This is one of the biggest game launches of the year and all we have gotten is crickets for a response to serious game breaking issues. Which tracks because since they don't involve microtransactions and EA making more money than just the sale price of the game (Which they already managed to get out of us) then they couldn't care less.
In any event I highly recommend that if you are thinking of buying this game right now that you either wait for a few months for either the devs (or at this point more likely the modding community) to fix this game and patch out the bugs. Otherwise you're gonna be shelling out you hard earned money and limited free time for a product that very likely won't work properly.
Sincerely,
A Genuinely loyal Bioware Fan but also NOW dissatisfied customer
