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Jason Schreier: This week, EA will review the progress of "Anthem Next" and decide whether to expand the team or put an end to the project.
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Mods will probably merge those threads with mine since this has more posts lolEA will decide Anthem fate this week
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Chalk this one up as a misfire and move forward with Dragon Age, Mass Effect, and maybe even a new RPG/shooter IP that plays more to BioWare's strengths.
That seems like a normal process to me. Doesn't mean anything as of now.
This really feels like when Jason said that Mass Effect was "on ice" after Andromeda's mild reception when BioWare was putting all of their resources on Dragon Age and Anthem. But just one year later, they were already in the pre-production stages for the new game.
Of course, "Anthem Next" can be canceled next week. But I'd wait and see.
This really feels like when Jason said that Mass Effect was "on ice" after Andromeda's mild reception when BioWare was putting all of their resources on Dragon Age and Anthem. But just one year later, they were already in the pre-production stages for the new game.
Of course, "Anthem Next" can be canceled next week. But I'd wait and see.
After so long you'd have thought Next would be almost finished and ready to go, but nope they're literally only at the point where they feel ready to decide to really start it or not. So even if they gave the green light we'd still be what, a year off before release at least? How long is too long before people just don't care anymore, even if the Next update is amazing?
Damn shame. Anthem really isn't a bad game honestly for the most part, was just missing any real content and a story, and just wasn't a game people wanted from Bioware.
It could have actually been something special if it wasn't an EA project during peak EA hate boner times and wasn't developed by the studio known for singleplayer story driven RPGs, instead those two things pretty much killed it in the eyes of the people and it was practically destined to fail
It could have actually been something special if it wasn't an EA project during peak EA hate boner times and wasn't developed by the studio known for singleplayer story driven RPGs, instead those two things pretty much killed it in the eyes of the people and it was practically destined to fail
I think this is interesting if only because rarely does this kind of product review get teased to audiences before they happen. I feel for the developers working on the team at the moment who will have to deal with this added scrutiny now that the stakes of their review have been made public just a week before it was set to happen. I wonder if we'll get stories about crunch this week from this.
Very interesting.
Very interesting.
Lmao, this reaction and the gif to the picture is making me laugh a lot.LIGHT MODE?
I use light mode on era exclusively
And while they may be successful, that's not exactly my point. If they axe Anthem, it just shows how much they're willing to stand behind their product if it doesn't print money from the get go. To me, that's a much more valuable insight into a company and their business practices, rather than focusing on their successful ventures.
The negativity towards game on Era is alive and well, even after all this time. I don't think there is a game as hated as Anthem here. It is despised even more than Cyberpunk on base consoles, more than Fallout 76 at launch, more than anything.
I doubt they will continue working on it, but I would like to see it succeed. The combat is nice, the visuals are great - so why not?
Has anyone besides FFXIV been able to pull this sort of thing off? They only did it because they put MASSIVE financial support behind overhauling it too, yeah?
I wish. ARR was a 3 year ordeal with hundreds of people and extensive outsourcing inorder to rebuild an entire game down to it's engine and all of the content. This anthem rework was nothing more than a tiny team of engineers, programers and artists trying to see if there is enough meat to rework what they had and make something playable that they could continue selling skins for. The bones of anthem are decent unlike the fundamentally bad game 14 1.0 was so that approach at least makes sense, but the half assed way they have treated this game since launch pales in comparison to the all in Square did with ARR. It's a comparison people throw around to liberally imo
Man, I know I'm in a VERY small minority but I actually enjoyed Anthem. For better or worse, there's not really an experience like it, to me. Really hoping EA finds it business-worthy enough to continue development of fixes, cause the game is a diamond in the rough.
Turn it into a single player game done by another EA studio and put all of the Bioware people on Dragon Age 4 and Mass Effect 5.
To be fair to EA (not that they deserve it), if they really were as determined to end this thing as some think, they wouldn't have let 30 developers work on the corpse of it for so long.
They clearly think they might be able to turn it around.
They clearly think they might be able to turn it around.
Yep, flying felt great too and the game is a looker
Shame EA is going to pull the plug but it was bungled from the start
Agreed on both accounts. Had more fun with it than other looter shooters other than Borderlands as I liked the looks, traversal and combat more than things like Destiny. The story just needed a lot of work and the end game loop was terrible.
I'd love to see it brought up to at least Destiny or the Division level of post story content, but I'm not optimistic that EA will see enough profit potential to expand the team to do that.
I think you're misremembering. What I said is exactly what happened. https://kotaku.com/sources-bioware-montreal-downsized-mass-effect-put-on-1795100285
It would be another 2.5-3 years before the next Mass Effect entered preproduction.
