Anthens issues goes far deeper the ME's which are to do with its core mission design, enemy encounters and non-existent story. ME was loved by all gamers, Anthem on the other hand is a poor shell of a game and doesn't offer the basics.
That is me, talking as a person that crawled to the endgame only to laugh at its emptiness.
They had just released Fallout 3 and they were doing Skyrim. They were fine.
They made the decision to put the game under the "Bethesda Game Studios" name. Everywhere you look, be it Wikipedia, the back of the box, promotional material, anywhere, that is the name you will find.
Bethesda Austin Formerly Battlecry. Sure Bethesda takes heat for it but to say to use that one game to signal their downfall when most of the studio is working on their next mainline series is premature.
People aren't just using 76 though. Many people see 76 as a straight continuation of the trend that Fallout 4 had set. Whilst 4 was a critical and commercial success, no one can claim that it didn't also face a significant backlash, and much of the issues people took with 4 are precursors to the issues they take with 76.
I mean, for me that's just another drop of water in a cascade of baffling things.
If you ask me their downfalll started with oblivion but critically and commercially speaking it did not and I just see 76 as a (so far)failed experiment/side project by a Sister studio(who had their game canceled) and not something signaling their doom. 76 had a great world to explore and tons of interesting stories it was just delivered in a mess of a package that seemed held back by focus on always online shared open world. Something Starfield won't be held back by.
Kinda how Andromeda was a "side project" while Anthem was the real deal.
