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so let me get this straight right you
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work on a game for years pour your heart
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into it and when it finally launches to
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criticism instead of reflecting on what
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went wrong you go online and you start
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pointing fingers at the people who
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didn't like it ah excuse play that's the
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energy we're getting from Dragon Age the
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Veilgards voice actress Alex Wilton
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Reagan is that her name alex alix spelt
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weird right honestly this is not a good
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look right it seems like everybody
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involved with Dragon Age whether you're
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an actress on it a developer a writer
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they're attacking all of a sudden now
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that the game has officially flopped
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they're attacking look I get it if
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you've been involved with a massive
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project and it doesn't land the way that
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you hoped it stings like ah push it
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right and nobody wants to see their hard
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work flop but when the first thing that
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you do is run to social media and accuse
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everyone of not liking the game of being
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some kind of villain or bigot you're not
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helping that's that's when you lose me
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and you lose everybody else right you're
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just proving how fragile and and out of
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touch you are you're out of touch you're
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time you know Alex I guess who voiced
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the uh female Inquisitor in Inquisition
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in return for the Veilg Guard recently
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told IGN they were absolutely devastated
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by the game's reception i get it guys i
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I get it you want people like your stuff
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i've been in movies i want people like
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those movies it's tough to see reviews
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but I never once attacked anybody that
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critical of the movie for not liking it
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right now Alex she claims that the mixed
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feedback was less about the game itself
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and more about people actively wanting
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fail that's a pretty wild take right why
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do all these weirdos whether it's the
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movies TV or video games industry why do
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consumer we're allowed to criticize
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we're allowed to vote with our walls
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we're allowed to say we don't like
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something you're making stuff for us all
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right here's the truth and nothing but
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truth people People didn't want Veilgard
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to fail okay they wanted it to be good
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all I ever heard leading up to it was
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how great of a series Dragon Age was in
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the past i had friends at the time that
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were so excited about it they were
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looking forward to playing the game fans
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gave Dragon Age of Guard a shot because
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boware okay this is a studio that built
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its legacy on groundbreaking RPGs like
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others but instead of living up to that
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legacy Veil Guard felt like it was a
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shallow modernized mess it was it was
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more of like a political commentary it
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catered to the modern audience
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completely stripped of the depth and
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soul that used to define
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boware you had a fan base a legacy and
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everything that you did with Veilgard
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that and this actress who's saying "Oh
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it's just boware being boware." That
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tells me she doesn't understand the
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studio roots at all uh Veilgard doesn't
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feel like a spiritual successor to
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Inquisition it feels like a loweffort
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reboot designed to chase modern audience
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trends rather than craft a compelling
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RPG look at look at Clear Obscure 33
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they made a brand new IP a brand new
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franchise stuck with the basics didn't
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try to cater to a modern audience and
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they made something that is 3.3 million
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plus copies sold for a brand new studio
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now IGN this article that we're looking
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at here this is IGN article and because
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of course it's IGN they try to downplay
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the backlash by framing it as review
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bombing right and focus in on the
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so-called woke elements they brought up
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that players could choose a trans
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character or a non-binary companion and
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toggle top surgery scars but here's the
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thing players weren't just mad because
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there was inclusive options they were
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mad because it felt like those elements
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were shoved in without care for
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narrative content the writers were
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horrible right it was performative it
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was pandering 110% and it distracted
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from what really matters in an RPG game
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which is good storytelling and solid
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gameplay if you knock those two out of
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the park you'll have a memorable RPG
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experience that people will be talking
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about for years and now people are going
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to be talking about Veilgard for years
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of course but in a bad way in a terrible
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way a way that you won't want now fans
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that are critical they're not
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anti-progress we got to get that out of
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the think okay they're anti-BS they're
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tired of games where identity politics
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matter more than plot where
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representation replaces death and yes
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when every villain in the game is a
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white male which don't think we didn't
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notice that and every hero just has to
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tick some kind of diversity checkbox it
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starts to feel like there's an agenda in
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here guys and not a story okay it wasn't
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subtle it was obvious and let's be
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honest if a no-name studio had released
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a Veilgard nobody would have even
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touched it okay it would have flopped
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even harder the only reason why it got
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any kind of attention was because of
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Boware's name let's Let's quit beating
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around the bush on that but that name is
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quickly losing its weights guys just
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like Bungie just like Ubisoft it's
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losing its weight fans had hoped for
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another classic but instead they got a
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game that looked like it was assembled
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in two years come on let's be honest uh
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despite a decade long development it
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looked like garbage these people had a
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decade to work on this game a decade
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long development cycle how many games
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get that and and they also had a massive
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budget which is more puzzling something
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definitely went very wrong here and it's
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not the fault of the fans even though
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they want you to think that and the
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worst part like I mentioned earlier
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everyone involved is just going on this
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whole PR damage control attacking the
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fans tour it's almost like they're
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dodging accountability instead of
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actually listening to valid criticism
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they attack the fan base there's
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developers actors media they're all
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blaming the backlash on toxicity bigotry
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or some weird conspiracy to take Boware
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down news flash guys people are just
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sick of being sold halfbaked hollow
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games that lean more on ideologies than
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innovation it's It's that easy to
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understand so Alex's vocal political
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presence on social media didn't help the
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game either people look up your politics
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voice actors and voice actresses it's
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just the tail of the tape and uh you're
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making headlines for dragging Elon Musk
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and conga mentally unstable and turning
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your Twitter feed into a political soap
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box that's fine you have your free
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speech but don't be surprised when that
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backlash betrays you right you have
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every right to say what you want but
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don't be surprised when that energy
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follows you into your professional life
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especially when you're promoting a game
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like Perfect Dark which now has a
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spotlight it probably didn't ask for
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right that game's a whole other topic
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that we're going to get here so in the
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end it's not about people being mean
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online it's about a once great studio
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that lost its way releasing a
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forgettable game and then trying to
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gaslight its audience into thinking the
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backlash is their problem but it's not
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the problem is Veilgard was a bad game
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at the end of the day and the fans who
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supported Boware for years have every
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right to say so so yeah I I get it Alex
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you're devastated but so are we we're
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devastated that uh Boware keeps letting
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us down so I'm going leave it there guys
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