And Dragon Age Inquisition before that. You make one online game and apparently you never make single players games again according to this forum.
Gamer:This studio should only stick to one type of genre and nothing else even if they wanted to branch out and make a different type of game. Oh they wanna do something else? Hope it fails.
AS A GAMER, allow me to tell you that you're wrong. /s
I think it's more that Anthem is the next game made by their main team, or at least the Mass Effect team. That series was undoubtedly their biggest icon and representative of the company as a whole with Dragon Age often copying it after its successes and even their MMO. I think Anthem is going to set a precedent that they're going all GaaS even if they try to wrap it around single-player titles like DA4.
Apology accepted.
GaaS is the future, it's gonna be everywhere. Despite inflation games prices haven't gone up at all, AND budgets keep massively increasing.
You can't just incorporate GaaS elements without incentivising it, or it's a dead business strategy. The very fact of GaaS elements being in a single-player game works against the nature of a single-player game and its appeal. It's an unwinnable situation, and I can only wish that there will exist a new market for not necessarily top-tier productions but still graphically impressive games that skimp on the budget to avoid the nonsense of the "Single player GaaS".
Do you honestly believe this pitch would've been made without EA at the top? When you do a pitch to EA, you obviously know what flies and what doesn't. Anthem was always their very slightly altered version of the potential GaaS-like-Destiny money printer.
Bioware sold thenselves to Elevation Partners. Two years later, EA bought Bioware from them.
Lol no.
Yeah. EA is done with SP games for the most part. Hell, they just cancelled a large Star Wars game (twice :P).
EA literally just told them to make Destiny because microtransactions and multiplayer longevity, Bioware very likely has close to no say on the matter. They have also been rejected from doing KOTOR many times.
Well, maybe they should've gone into the self-publishing direction instead such as CD Project. Yeah, hindsight is 20/20 and it is an enormous risk but with sharks like EA or Activision, the deterioration of the studio is pretty much inevitable and only a matter of time. The only rationale for selling a studio like Bioware (or similar) is to quickly fill the pockets of the studio heads with fuck-you money at a critical point in the studio's lifecycle.
They've wanted to do a game for this for years. There's no literally about it, EA wanted the Anthem team to make ME4/MEA but they didn't want to and came up with Anthem instead.
Yeah, they should be like CDPR and crunch their devs past their limit and pay them poorly. Or join EA and get some of the best benefits and working conditions in the industry. Tough choice....
EA told them to make a copy of a game that didn't even exist and wasn't even revealed when Anthem started development? That's what you told yourself?
There isn't one:
I mean its been 5 years since Destiny 1 but in a general sense the MTX and multiplayer longevity is absolutely why they are making the game.
Destiny comparison is obvious even if not direct but the KOTOR thing is from Schreier.
Not so easy. Unlike CDPR they aren't in a country where labor is cheap, nor do they have a digital sales portal for steady income, and as mentioned in my earlier post they were likely in debt and would have gone bankrupt without EA.
So what you're saying is you don't have a source for the part of your statement people were actually questioning.
Anthem started development in 2012. A full year before Destiny had its first gameplay reveal, which was a full year before Destiny actually released. Essentially:
Literally consider market trends in 2012. AKA, the year Anthem was greenlit. They're quite different from market trends in 2014, let along 2019's trends.
If believing that makes you sleep at night, then okay. Lol
Working in this industry is shitty in general (lack of unionization etc.). There have been horrid stories about working for EA owned studios in the past as well, not just CD Project. It's not as black and white as you make it out to be.
I should use the word literally less. But I understand that it started 7 years ago but its just very hard to believe that EA did not force on to Bioware many aspects of the project and EA has done nothing for me to believe the contrary. Also the KOTOR rejection is still telling.
OP states they hope the game fails so BioWare is a cautionary tale so other devs don't do games other than what they usually do - what on earth would you call that?
EA Spouse was in 2004 and the author actually wrote an article on how EA does not get enough credit for how they changed their culture completely around. When CDPR got accued of terrible work conditions their response was "If you do not like the heat, get out of the kitchen". Some things are black and white and CDPR has shown no effort in changing.
BioWare devs have said that this was the game they wanted to make. And one of the co-founders of BioWare literally said that EA gives you enough rope to hang yourself. They actually have more of a history of being too handsoff then too controlling which is how you got to the situation of Mass Effect Andromeda and Visceral, where both projects had years of dev work with nothing to show for it.
I admit it can be hard to see, but I specifically bolded the Destiny part in my reply.
