BioWare has left the dissatisfied launches of Mass Impact: Andromeda and Anthem in its rearview and at last delivered what appears to be a success with Dragon Age: The Veilguard. The action-RPG has climbed to the highest of Steam’s Prime Sellers record following its launch throughout PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X on Thursday, leaving the lately launched Name of Obligation: Black Ops 6 in second place. The brand new Dragon Age title has additionally change into BioWare’s greatest Steam launch in historical past, in accordance with concurrent participant figures on SteamDB.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard Steam Launch
Inside a day of launch, Dragon Age: The Veilguard has reached a peak concurrent participant depend of 70,414 on Steam, making it the most well-liked Steam launch from BioWare (as noticed by VGC) ever. The studio’s earlier greatest launch on Valve’s storefront was 2021’s Mass Impact Legendary Version, that reached a peak participant depend of 59,817 on the platform.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard can be one among writer EA’s greatest single-player launches on Steam, beating Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which launched final 12 months and recorded a peak participant depend of 67,855 on Steam.
These participant counts are restricted to Steam on PC and don’t embody numbers from Epic Video games Retailer, EA Play, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X.
EA’s Expectations
Whereas unit gross sales and actual figures will not be identified, the sport’s launch appears to be consistent with EA’s excessive expectations for the sport. In the course of the firm’s FY 2025 second-quarter earnings name Tuesday, CEO Andrew Wilson stated EA was “sustaining our assumptions for our upcoming Dragon Age: The Veilguard launch.”
“Early critic scores are robust and replicate the high-quality depth and element in niches motion pack journey. We count on Dragon Age to be an important instance of how our blockbuster storytelling engages and join followers in really distinctive methods. Wanting forward, I am enthusiastic about what we’re constructing in the direction of over the subsequent 12 and 18 months,” Wilson stated.
With the launch of the RPG, EA expects an improved year-on-year outlook for the third quarter. “Turning to Q3, we count on web bookings of $2.4 billion to $2.55 billion, up 1 p.c to up 8 p.c year-over-year, largely pushed by the launch of Dragon Age and continued development in our EA Sports activities FC franchise,” Wilson stated on the earnings name.
Dragon Age: The Veilguard launched on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X on October 31.