Today, Dragon Age: The Veilguard was released, and gaming journalists have already had the chance to play and review it. The professional press awarded the game a score of 84/100 on Metacritic and 82/100 on OpenCritic, indicating the game's success, with some reviewers even calling it the best game in the series. However, many disagree, believing the reviews to be "bought" and the game itself to be terrible. So, let's delve into the reasons.

First of all, the purely positive or sometimes mixed reviews and the absence of negative ones appear suspicious. One might assume the game is so good that there's nothing to criticize. However, interestingly, some game reviewers did not receive early access to the game and thus couldn't pen their reviews based on the final build.

According to the blogger WolfheartFPS, he, along with two other creators and Fextralife, did not receive early key access to the game because their early previews of Dragon Age: The Veilguard were more critical of the game's weaknesses. After their videos, creators from BioWare and EA stopped communicating with them regarding future collaborations.

This suggests that the developers didn't appreciate their game being criticized in certain aspects. Therefore, they decided to continue collaborating only with reviewers who rated the game favorably or made few criticisms.

Additionally, under video reviews from various media channels, comments from viewers, i.e., potential players, can be seen directly pointing out that content creators are blatantly lying or presenting reality inaccurately.

For instance, while praising the game's graphics, design, and style, many noticed it is entirely out of style with the Dragon Age series. Characters and monsters resemble more cartoonish heroes or Sims game characters. The combat mechanics are overly simplistic, something even some critics mention. What many dislike most is the script and character traits, which seem to revolve around their gender and are generally dedicated to woke culture.

Returning to the reviewers' ratings, one can also read their comments and notice that many of them suspiciously express the same positive thoughts about "BioWare's triumph," which many players can't agree with even after watching the praised reviews.

So why is this happening? In reality, such a policy is understandable: the developer studio and publisher aim to maintain as high ratings as possible to create an illusion for potential buyers, who will immediately see positive ratings and proceed to purchase the game. Many of them won't even look at any reviews and will simply trust the good ratings, only to end up disappointed.

In fact, this trend is becoming increasingly "popular." Corporates in the game development world are increasingly trying to get favorable reviews from critics, thus creating advertising and the illusion of a perfect product that the potential player will certainly buy.

Since not every buyer will carefully check the quality of the product, they might pre-order based on critics' collective opinion, with the developer benefiting regardless of the product's quality.

And if BioWare and EA have resorted to artificially maintaining the game's representation, it could indicate that they understand that the outright truth and reviews about the game might negatively impact sales. However, very soon, players will be able to evaluate the quality of the game themselves and leave genuine feedback and opinions regarding Dragon Age: The Veilguard.