Yeah it shows either they learnt nothing from launch about how a lack of transparency and achievable goals hurt this game, or they really have been massacred behind the scenes and we haven't heard about it yet.
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Forbes (Tassi): ‘Anthem’ Is About To Get Through All Of May Without Its Cataclysm, Or Even Mentioning It
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Yeah it shows either they learnt nothing from launch about how a lack of transparency and achievable goals hurt this game, or they really have been massacred behind the scenes and we haven't heard about it yet.
Anthem biggest disappointment this year for me. Loved playing the game but with no update shit got old. Still liked it way more the. Division 2, couldn't even finish the campaign in that snooze fest.
If you go back to last E3, plenty of people on here called it a disaster and were torn to hell for it.
Bioware Austin is going to be shackled with the now-skeleton corpse of Anthem while BioWare Montreal gets to wash their hands and go straight to Dragon Age. Maybe they should switch places and BioWare Austin gets to make a game for once since they were trying to warn BioWare Montreal on the pitfalls they learned from SW: TOR, but Montreal was all like, "no we know more than you do, BioWare Magic, piss off C-tier team."
Much like how Dice Los Angeles kept making Battlefield great, I hope BioWare Austin can make Anthem great with fixes they knew about from previous Online-Only Multiplayer game and knowing what content people will want.
Edit: I meant BioWare Edmonton, instead of BioWare Montreal. My mistake.
Much like how Dice Los Angeles kept making Battlefield great, I hope BioWare Austin can make Anthem great with fixes they knew about from previous Online-Only Multiplayer game and knowing what content people will want.
Edit: I meant BioWare Edmonton, instead of BioWare Montreal. My mistake.
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bio wares silence on this matter means i won't buy shit from them again either (i didn't buy anthem thankfully but used premiere to play). Their management is trash, they refuse to give any update for the games issues. Why should i care about dragon age when its going to be treated in the same crap manor.
And this is why when a developer makes it a point to talk about how transparent they are being, they probably *aren't* actually being transparent.
Thank God I used the 15 dollar deal to play and finish the game. Had I paid 60 bucks for it, I'd be livid.
Thank God I used the 15 dollar deal to play and finish the game. Had I paid 60 bucks for it, I'd be livid.
Actually, one of the things I was wondering about is that EA reduced their days for EA Play in the last few weeks - I wonder if part of that is because what they were going to talk about with Anthem is now on the backburner while they figure out just what they're going to do with it.
Why would they bother? FF14 had 20+ years of franchise history behind it, plus they stood to make money for years off of monthly subscriptions.
Anthem is just a failed game that no one likes. Why not just make something else instead.
I'm going to be optimistic and say that they're dumping Anthem so they can focus all of their efforts on DA4.
The multiplayer GAAS Dragon Age 4? Nah, they can keep that shit.
I'm sure that is the case and i hope consumers remember these last 2 games and don't buy DA4 at launch
Even Fallout 76 has managed to get updates regularly. Somehow this turned into a bigger disaster.
The best case scenario is that Bioware are making big changes to the game in lieu of sticking to the roadmap (like Artifact). But it feels more likely that they're stuck in manpower or management hell.
The best case scenario is that Bioware are making big changes to the game in lieu of sticking to the roadmap (like Artifact). But it feels more likely that they're stuck in manpower or management hell.
I mean, the Era OT is getting like 1 post/day. For a 3-month old game. On Era. Do you know how hard it is for a game to die that hard for an Era community to not be able to sustain some meaningful level of interaction?
EA will not XIV this game.
The $$$ it would cost them would never be cool with them.
Yoshi P is something else man
The $$$ it would cost them would never be cool with them.
Yoshi P is something else man
as a regular player of XIV im fucking amazed that they turned it around from what it was.
Bioware Edmonton. Montreal are the bunch who made Andromeda. They're dead now.
Man, all the pre-release gushing people were doing about Bioware's communication was hilarious. Of course they're talking to the community, they're actively trying to build hype and get people to buy their game. Where are they now? When communication is far more important and their feet are to the fire...dead silent. They've completely disappeared for over a month. It's completely unacceptable.
I actually didn't think Bioware could sink lower than Andromeda, but here we are with Anthem, which makes Andromeda look like Mass Effect 2.
Just goes to show that a developer is a lot more than a name. Whatever Bioware once was, they haven't been it for a long time.
The way BioWare management screwed up the games production they deserve to be sacked .
Feel sorry for all the devs etc that have to deal with incompetent management.
When a game takes 4/5 years just go get a fake demo out it should have been cancelled on the spot .
Feel sorry for all the devs etc that have to deal with incompetent management.
When a game takes 4/5 years just go get a fake demo out it should have been cancelled on the spot .
no this is what happens when you give anything to bioware since most of the original talent left / got burnt out
they defo had all the money and the time in the world. this studio is utter crap since ME 3 sorry
Ah you're right, my mistake, updated my post. Thanks for the correction.
Feel sorry for the people that got tricked into buying this. Feel even more sorry for the people that had to work on this. What a mess EA and BioWare have been this gen.
Yeah, hell, I would have loved a sweet single-player game with these mech suits and their gameplay, with a strong story. The concept is great and wasted.
Fallout 76 gets weekly maintenance and bi-weekly patches and content updates, besides a well-structured road map for 2019 and beyond.
Probably Anthem, since it's been abandoned. And it's weird. Fallout 76's launch was a total disaster - canvas bag, pretty bad performance, some personal information being leaked. And despite all of that, Bethesda still addressed all those issues and continued to communicate to their audience, to this date. They never went quiet, and that's way more than the complete silence over Anthem for a month now.
They deserve it. They straight up lied to everyone a year out and showed us absolute vaporware. They continued to lie all the way through release.
They deserve the same amount of respect that they afforded their customers.
Honestly they should do something. $60+ for a beta is not cool but I don't know if a full refund is the way to go. Everyone perhaps gets Biowarebucks towards the next game if they ever make one but at this point this is the second dumpster fire Bio released so I doubt we will see anything.
The silence speaks louder and possibly worse then the launch (forced crunch aside). This whole gen has been filled with quite a few success stories of developers turning the ship around after a disastrous launch, hell, THEY Bioware said that was a big part of the plan after the early flubs.
If Fallout76 can turn the ship around to at least the point that the remaining player base is fine and enjoying it and Bethesda made a profit, no reason why Anthem can't hammer at it to make it a somewhat enjoyable experience for the fans that stuck with it even after all the bad buzz
If Fallout76 can turn the ship around to at least the point that the remaining player base is fine and enjoying it and Bethesda made a profit, no reason why Anthem can't hammer at it to make it a somewhat enjoyable experience for the fans that stuck with it even after all the bad buzz
It's terrible how EA gives up fast if a game doesn't sell well. Andromena was also canned quickly.
I don't think people remember how BAD Final Fantasy XIV was. I think it was handily worse than Anthem.
How does one fuck up a game with such an awesome concept.
There are many ways i saw this succeeding. Massive open world, explore and loot for gear with friends or alone.I looked at this as The Division 2 but in the far future or something.
Fucking Mech suits. This alone should enable the game to sell by the bucketloads.
But it takes a special kind of EA to fuck things up. Well done EA. Kindly fuck off EAvand take your yearly updates of scripted Fifa with you.
There are many ways i saw this succeeding. Massive open world, explore and loot for gear with friends or alone.I looked at this as The Division 2 but in the far future or something.
Fucking Mech suits. This alone should enable the game to sell by the bucketloads.
But it takes a special kind of EA to fuck things up. Well done EA. Kindly fuck off EAvand take your yearly updates of scripted Fifa with you.
It was just terrible execution all around. It still sold a ton based on the concept and ideas.
I really think the game would be in a very different state if these two points were cleared:
1) Actual solid launch after the rocky betas. It was kind of ridiculous how many S rank bugs persisted post-launch.
2) Interesting loot at the end game. I don't know whose idea it was to not try and create a 'unique/exotic' tier of loot and instead thought they could get away with Legendary weapons being simple skins of previous guns.
Better execution on these two points would have went a long way in my opinion.
EA should just hire Kaz Yamauchi to dead drop all their content updates like he does with GT Sport.