Six months after its disastrous launch (and lets be honest - that's putting it nicely), Dragon Age: The Veilguard has proven once again to the world... that nobody cares about it. In a last-ditch effort to salvage its reputation, EA had tossed the game onto PlayStation Plus in March 2025, just a few short months after release, in hopes that maybe—just maybe—players would give it a shot if it was free.
The result? A resounding and extremely laughable: "no thanks"
According to data from True Trophies, which analyzes over 3.4 million active PSN accounts, The Veilguard didn’t even crack the top 10 most-played games on PlayStation, even after being a FREE game to play for PS Plus members:
Instead, it landed all the way down in 15th place, trailing behind Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection—a three-year-old retro compilation of 8-bit games.
Yeah.. you read that correctly - it's that insane! More people chose to replay decades-old NES games over Bioware’s latest attempt at wokeness in keeping the Dragon Age franchise alive.
A Failure of Epic Pro(noun)portions
The writing was on the wall long before this latest humiliation. The Veilguard was one of the most hyped (and ultimately most disappointing) releases of 2024. As I previously reported directly from my insider, Bioware and EA were trying to aim for 10 million copies sold over the course of the lifetime of the game but instead... barely managed to allegedly scrape past one million in over two months of launch.
At this point, we aren't even sure it sold that many. That’s the kind of performance that gets games quietly swept under the rug—not added to PS Plus with hopes of a comeback. To make things even more embarrassing, EA already tried to shift blame, suggesting that The Veilguard flopped because it wasn’t a live-service game. Hysterical in the context of the near-infinite amount of non-live service games arriving these days that have been selling like hotcakes.
But no, they’ve implied that what players really wanted was another Anthem-style disaster for some insane reason... Talk about a desperate grasping at straws by EA brass.
What’s Next for Dragon Age?
At this point, it’s safe to say The Veilguard is beyond saving... Not that anyone paying attention is surprised to hear. If being handed out for basically what amounts to free for existing subscribers to PS Plus isn’t enough to attract players, literally nothing will be. Bioware is falling apart, by all indications, and are left scrambling to figure out what went wrong with this one (spoiler: everything), and EA is regretting every cent they poured into this trainwreck for the better part of a near decade-long slog of development time, spanning multiple scrapped attempts along the way.
Meanwhile, gamers have spoken loud and clear - and it's hysterical: they’d rather play a collection of 30-year-old Ninja Turtles games than endure even a few hours of this soulless, corporate-driven mess. Honestly? I can't say I blame anyone for that being the result, either.
BioWare is flailing, and the controversial lead developer in charge (Corinne Busche) has leapt off the sinking corpse of a rotting ship... Maybe it’s time for EA to finally let Dragon Age rest in peace.
~Smash
Actually that claim that people want anthem was true. I loved that game. I was both an alpha and beta tester for the game. Hated the forced coop, microshop and online service though. If they could put out Anthem Next or something similar where i could get my javelin back, i'd be happy.
I still have PS+ (hasn't expired yet) and I refuse to sully my game collection with this garbage.