Lol, not even a little. Division is better than Warframe as a looter shooter.
While I don't agree with Destiny 2 reception, because of the reasons you posted, Anthem is a way worse state than Destiny 1 when it launched.
I think in between D2 launch and now people have become a little more critical and a little more cynical in regards to the major publishers and their games. After Fallout 76 especially most people I know have been giving less free passes to major game studios and their publishers.
It deserves to do poorly. Devs and publishers need to know that this shit is unacceptable
Because the problems Destiny got a pass on are more endemic to the genre and only things more dedicated vets of the genre will notice. Fundamentally it's a well made, well playing game that seemingly addresses a lot of complaints people had about the original, such as storytelling.
I can only speak for myself but the Social aspects of these looter shooters are much more important to me as someone who has been playing MMORPG's since I was like 9 years old. I would take a new MMORPG over this current crop of GaaS shooters but no one is making large MMORPG's anymore and I've played and burnt out on every major (and almost all non-major) MMORPG on the market today. So, Destiny, Division etc have become my new online social outlet. If the rest of the game is good as well, all the better.
No game deserves to do badly. Never.
Destiny games, actually Bungie games in general are always super polished at launch. Something that can't be said at all about Anthem
I understand the empathy for the devs here, but do you really think that a bad product still deserves to sell well just by existing? I haven't played Anthem, so I can only go by the reviews, but if it's as bad as the reviews seem to suggest, is this the kind of game one would want to see rewarded with high sales?
Absolutely not. Bad games should sell poorly. This is a bad game. Why should we root for mediocre shit to sell well? Every bad product has good people who are just doing their jobs behind it. That doesn't mean they deserve your money just because they were doing their best.
I understand what you're saying, but it's not a matter of "deserving" or not. The game will do whatever it does, the audience will decide that, but hoping for bad results just to "punish the devs and the publishers" is pity and absurd. Anthem was not created by machines.
The game is not great. Hell not even good. But it is fun. Atm there is this snowball of hysteria about the game with people getting more and more hysterical and hyperbolic all feeding off eaxj other.
That's pretty much describing all Youtubers, more and more these days. Click bait thumbnails get the clicks. I noticed even positive Anthem videos will use a negative sounding title/thumbnail to get the clicks.
You'll notice that nowhere in my post did I mention punishing anyone. Perhaps don't ascribe quotes in your text that were never stated.
Trying to throw Destiny 2 under the bus to deflect is lame.
Your quote (also the bolded parts from your last comment):
AKA the definition of punishing.
