Up next in 10
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is a complete disaster — and now the lies are unraveling. Former BioWare devs are blaming EA, fans are furious, and even Dragon Age's own creator is slamming what the franchise has become. But the truth is: BioWare sold you garbage and expected you to be grateful.
And the gaming media? PC Gamer hyped it up like it was BioWare’s return to greatness — only to pretend they never did when the backlash started. It’s the same tired gaslighting: the media defends broken games, fans get attacked for being “toxic,” and developers beg for sympathy after pushing lazy, woke garbage.
This video breaks down how BioWare, EA, and the access media all lied, and how the very people who propped up this mess are now rewriting history. If you're done being manipulated by corporate PR and fake “journalists,” this one’s for you.
🛑 WATCH if you’re tired of being lied to
🛑 COMMENT if you saw this flop coming
🛑 LIKE to expose the media gaslighting gamers
#DragonAgeVeilguard #BiowareExposed #PCGamerLies #DragonAgeDrama #GamingControversy #AccessMediaFail #VideoGameAccountability #WokeGamingBacklash #DragonAge2025 #BiowareFallout #EAExposed #MarathonScandal #GamingNewsUpdate
DISCLAIMER: This video contains opinions and humor based on publicly available information. It is not intended to harass or defame anyone.
Join this channel to get access to perks:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSxLDHfK2yzL7jhCJWG7EPg/join
Follow Me on Social Media:
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
so let me get this straight guys Dragon
0:02
Age: The Veilg Guard It dropped it
0:05
flopped and suddenly it's open mic
0:07
Knight for every single ex Boware dev
0:11
and gaming journalist with a Saab story
0:13
to step up and give their soapbox takes
0:16
Right now we're hearing that EA
0:19
executives thought Dragon Age fans were
0:22
basically pigs at the TR
0:25
right that we'd basically lap up every
0:29
piece of garbage that they shoveled out
0:31
to feed us just because it had the words
0:34
RPG slapped on the
0:37
cover And look that's that's honestly
0:40
not shocking In fact we've known for
0:42
years that big publishers don't respect
0:46
their audiences They see us as walking
0:49
credit cards like
0:51
a you know probably in our butt cracks
0:54
But what's funny is that now with this
0:56
game completely face planting the blame
0:59
game has officially begun And there's
1:02
been all sorts of interviews and
1:03
articles written of people trying to
1:05
damage control this In fact the other
1:07
day somebody said that they needed more
1:10
time They needed more time even though
1:12
they had a decade to literally cook on
1:15
this
1:16
game What's funny is no one involved
1:20
seems to be taking responsibility for
1:22
this game instead Instead it's like a
1:25
competition to see who could point the
1:27
finger the hardest So I was looking at
1:28
this article says Dragon Age creator
1:31
says
1:32
EAX.Boware fans would eat whatever slap
1:34
they were given since the nerds in the
1:36
cave always show up for an RPG because
1:39
it's an RPG Again slapping RPG on it
1:42
doesn't mean that people are going to
1:43
check it out They made a lot of mistakes
1:45
There was a lot of red flags leading up
1:48
to the release of Veilgard For me it was
1:50
these transgender scars the top surgery
1:52
scars and then it was also that cringe
1:54
dialogue in that cutscene where you have
1:57
to do a barve to show that you're sorry
1:59
for misgendering somebody among other
2:01
things The gameplay felt uninspired The
2:03
character creation was weird The enemies
2:07
were ugly It just it just wasn't
2:09
appealing at all It it put a bad name to
2:12
Dragon Age So let's talk about the devs
2:15
They're claiming their hands were tied
2:17
that it was all EA's fault that the
2:19
executives at EA were out of touch
2:22
marketing ruined everything etc etc But
2:25
here's the thing guys The execs weren't
2:27
the ones writing these soulless
2:29
characters All right They weren't the
2:32
ones greenlighting uh generic dialogue
2:36
shallow storylines They weren't the ones
2:38
that were just putting everything that
2:40
was terrible about this That was the
2:42
development team the development team
2:43
that had a decade to work on this You
2:46
had the creative control and you used it
2:49
to give us the driest most flavorless
2:52
RPG that we've seen in years And I'll
2:54
say disavowed was a I mean a vowed not
2:56
disavowed Avowed was a close second So
2:59
you want to say that EA didn't
3:02
prioritize the core RPG crowd Sure Okay
3:06
fine Whatever But it was the writers it
3:08
was the designers it was the people
3:10
actually building this game who decided
3:13
to make a world that felt dead with
3:15
dialogue that sounded like it came from
3:17
a Tumblr fanfic and gameplay systems
3:19
written from a 2015 mobile game Okay So
3:23
no you don't get to blame the suits and
3:26
claim that you were powerless I know
3:28
it's easy to say the corporate
3:30
executives were the ones at fault that
3:32
they just wanted money and all this but
3:34
no it it doesn't work that way And now
3:37
here comes the Axis media right The
3:38
Kotakus of the world and polygons you
3:41
name it They're desperate to play both
3:43
sides of this PC Gamer for example of
3:46
all places which which this article is
3:48
from is suddenly trying to act like
3:50
they're sticking up for us The the
3:52
gamers the players like we're supposed
3:54
to forget that just a few months ago
3:56
they were hyping Vilgard up like it was
3:58
Bowware's comeback moment A 10 out of 10
4:01
masterpiece right Wasn't that what they
4:03
were saying It they praised it They sold
4:06
it They enabled this disaster guys Now
4:08
they want credit for turning against it
4:11
when the backlash hits this Please miss
4:14
miss me with that All right consumers
4:17
gamers we're not stupid Quit insulting
4:19
our intelligence We know better The
4:22
gaming industry especially the Axis
4:24
media they have no backbone One minute
4:28
they're pro something the next they're
4:29
anti- against it They just make whatever
4:32
fits their agenda at that point in time
4:34
And it's honestly hilarious watching
4:37
them try to twist themselves into
4:38
preults Like I said first they start
4:40
their article this article with British
4:43
politics no joke quoting some advisor to
4:46
Tony Blair trying to draw this
4:48
long-winded metaphor about how voter
4:50
bases and middle class swing voters you
4:53
know and I'm just sitting here like
4:54
"Dude bro you're supposed to be writing
4:56
about Dragon Age Why are we seeing stuff
4:58
about Tony Blair and politics and middle
5:00
class swing voters and stuff Write about
5:03
games Don't be giving me a TED talk
5:05
about politics okay And buried
5:08
underneath all that weird tangent that's
5:10
in this article is the real headline
5:11
that EA thought RPG fans were locked in
5:16
That we were stuck in the cave that we'd
5:18
show up no matter what Because hey nerds
5:20
love RPGs right Who cares what kind Just
5:24
call it one throw in some stats and ship
5:26
it And that level of contempt is
5:28
honestly bad enough But what's even
5:30
worse is the cynical PR rehab tour
5:33
that's happening right now All these
5:35
exdevs as I mentioned are popping up
5:37
with their EA bad testimonies
5:39
conveniently timed after the game failed
5:42
Where were these revelations when it
5:44
might have helped steer the project in a
5:46
better direction When did nobody speak
5:49
up against the whole game itself
5:51
Remember how much damage control there
5:53
was They're not speaking out because
5:57
they care about the fans They're only
5:58
speaking out now because they think that
6:01
being a whistleblower will get them a
6:03
gold star on their resume That's
6:06
essentially what it is It's all fake
6:07
It's all bull crap And let's not pretend
6:10
this is unique to Boware All right We
6:12
saw the same thing happen with Bungie
6:15
with uh Marathon that's currently
6:17
happening right now Suddenly the
6:19
development for Marathon was toxic
6:22
Leadership's incompetent And again maybe
6:24
that's all true but it's all suspicially
6:27
convenient that these complaints always
6:29
surface after a public failure like
6:31
their live stream where they had
6:33
essentially admit that they've stole
6:34
assets from artist and things like that
6:36
This is all just PR
6:39
uh damage control disguised as honesty
6:42
They're not as transparent as they want
6:44
you to think they are So here's the
6:46
harsh truth Completely honest harsh
6:49
truth right here Let it sink in
6:50
developers also share the blame with any
6:53
of this Not just the executives they're
6:54
not innocent The executives aren't
6:56
innocent but for the devs to try to wash
6:58
their hands off of it is is is
7:00
ridiculous When your game is riddled
7:02
with cringe-inducing uh terminology
7:05
shallow mechanics uh inclusivity
7:08
features and that feel like you know
7:10
it's just checkbox checkbox checkbox for
7:13
DEI
7:14
approval instead of actual meaningful
7:17
representation It's it's shallow That's
7:19
on you All right top surgery scar
7:21
toggles aren't why a game flops but when
7:24
your creative energy goes more into
7:27
identity politics over immersion
7:29
storytelling the priorities are clearly
7:32
skewed I mean look at Clear Obscure
7:34
Expedition 33 Great RPG game did wonders
7:38
It didn't exactly innovate or pioneer
7:41
anything It did what a game is supposed
7:43
to do and that's entertain long enough
7:45
to hold an audience Look at Cyberpunk
7:48
for all of its launch issues It had
7:50
heart It had ambition It it you could
7:53
see what it was trying to be With
7:54
Veilgard there's no such excuse Okay
7:57
this isn't a situation where this game
8:00
was a victim of crunch time and
8:02
deadlines where they were hurrying and
8:05
trying to get this out here This was a
8:06
product of people who thought bland
8:09
preachy content was enough to win us
8:10
over And they had a decade a decade mind
8:14
you And as for the Access Media guys
8:17
Access Media you've been cheerleaders
8:19
for this direction in the gaming
8:21
industry for years All right You said
8:23
games needed to evolve You said the old
8:26
fans of gaming were outdated problematic
8:29
that were bigoted You demanded more
8:32
diverse voices in development and
8:34
writing And now that it's not working
8:36
now that sales are plummeting and fan
8:39
trust is gone now you suddenly want to
8:41
blame companies Nah dude You guys 110%
8:45
were architects of this mess as well So
8:48
I'm talking about The Gamer Polygon
8:49
Kotaku Mary Sue PC Gamer You all had a
8:53
hand in this You propped these games up
8:55
like Veilgard You dismissed criticism as
8:59
reactionary And now you want to pretend
9:01
like you were always on our side the
9:03
gamer's side right Gamers don't forget
9:06
They haven't forgot They won't forget We
9:08
saw what you wrote when these games
9:10
launched Okay We watched you spin every
9:13
failure into a teachable moment so to
9:15
speak So don't think that you could walk
9:17
it back now okay And and suddenly be
9:20
seen as allies cuz that's not happening
9:22
We're not buying it at all We remember
9:24
what you said We remember who stood by
9:27
the slop who endorsed the slop and it
9:30
was you Okay Most importantly we know
9:32
who helped create these games So yeah
9:35
nobody in this mess is winning right now
9:37
Boware debs they're cooked EA execs
9:40
they're cooked Uh PC gamer getting
9:44
dragged through the mud writing these
9:45
articles It's kind of refreshing
9:47
honestly because for once gamers aren't
9:49
just rolling over and and accepting the
9:51
narrative We're speaking out against it
9:53
We're not giving out participation
9:56
trophies for failure If anything this
9:58
whole situation just proves out of you
10:01
know how out of touch every single level
10:03
of the gaming industry has begun from
10:05
the top brass down to creatives to the
10:08
jouos And unless some serious changes
10:11
are made like actual accountability not
10:13
just excuses Boware themselves is never
10:16
going to be coming back from this This
10:18
game I think was a huge nail in the
10:20
coffin and I feel this era of Boware is
10:23
now over and no amount of we were forced
10:25
to do it uh think pieces like this is
10:28
going to bring it back So anyways that's
10:30
all I got Let me know your thoughts in
10:32
the comment down below But we're keeping
10:34
an eye on this fallout cuz something
10:36
tells me we haven't seen the last of
10:38
this PR circus Anyways let me know your
10:39
thoughts in the comments Like hit that
10:41
subscription button I'll see you on the
10:42
next one guys Take care
#Computer & Video Games
#Social Issues & Advocacy