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Veilguard was doomed long before your complaint about "bullshit" in a game. That's not why it failed.

The writing is the primary draw for that genre. If the writing were peak and everything else the same, it would not have been doomed at all.

"Peak" writing was never a realistic expectation for Bioware - not even in the Infinity Engine days.

For dialogue, it seems that no writer has ever read a book before the 2010s, if at all.