This is an exposé on what caused one of the most anticipated games of the year to somewhat crash and burn. Fortunately it’s being turned around now and the game is ridiculously fun to play, albeit lacking in content.
The article (which amusingly among the javelin pilot community is always referred to as “The Article”) is pretty long but it hit a nerve with Electronic Arts and BioWare alike who have both been briefing their staff to never talk about it ever again, heh.
Enjoy!
https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964
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EA is the mother of all shit shows, a really terrible terrible company that makes piss poor pay to win games and throws other firms' IP under the bus
just look at the train wreck they made of Star Wars Battlefront and Titanfall 2 or the hatchet job of command and conquer rivals
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This was pretty interesting
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Bump for Tom to bookmark for later.
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Work won't let me read the article but will do later.
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It’s way too long for a workday read anyway, like 10 pages of word document.
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Here is the update that will be rolling out this morning (April 8th, 2019).
First replies are the best shitposts I’ve seen in a while. Reddit on anthem is fcking brutal.
As it should be really. I mean I paid out £80 for the legion of dawn Collector edition, another £10 for the steel book, £20ish for the collectors edition guide and £50 for the artbook limited edition. And the game was properly broken on launch. Any other industry these guys could be sued.
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Back in my day EA made pretty much all the good games apart from the big boys nintendo and sega. what happened?
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Indeed, basically it became cool to hate on EA because they try to monetise games and have bought out some real legacy studios and then lost all the most talented staff during the take over.
Bioware are responsible for some of the best games ever released - baldura gate, ice wind dale, neverwinter nights, mass effect, dragon age. Also one of my favourite MMOs - Star Wars the old republic. But because of the fifa stuff and the “pay to win” bits that went with it, their name is now dirt. Shame really but there you go.
”word on the street” has it that EA have decided Anthem is TBTF and are now throwing money, specialist frostbite developers and rehiring old writers to make sure anthem becomes the “Dylan” experience they had originally intended. We shall see, I suspect that Anthems resurrection will massively delay Dragonage 4.
But if anyone ever tries to play anthem, just the simple act of flying around, cooling off by flying through waterfalls or skimming lakes. Bouncing off the walls of old ruins in jungles and then gunplay, they really are In for something special with this, they now need to push content. It’s fun and it’s the most beautiful game I’ve ever played, but it needs more content.
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