Is Anthem SW:tOR 2.0?

As much as I loathe these publishing companies that have burned all creativity out of the gaming industry, unfortunately we're stuck with them.

Except for the part were BioWare was already working on SWTOR for almost 2 years before EA bought them or that Anthem was in the work for more than a 1 year before Destiny was even revealed.

I think people are trying to push a wee bit too much the "it's EA fault" when BioWare themselves always wanted to make a "cash cows" game, like any gaming studios might I add.

Possibly, but it also comes out a year later, by which point many could be drawn to sink their teeth into something new. Depending on how they handle it, I think Bioware could still deliver an entirely different story experience.

The biggest problem I imagine would be if Bungie decided to drop an expansion around the same time...

If Destiny 2 is the runaway hit that everybody is after right now then it stands to reason they'd continue to support it long after launch, like how WoW is currently on its 6th expansion.

Though if it's mediocre or even simply just pretty good then Anthem has the door wide open for them to take the throne if it can be an amazing game.

SWTOR was lacking on many fields.
-1st problem was copying the gameplay of wow : WoW had more experience and it was hard to convince players to bring their entire group of friend to play to a copy with less budget and experience.
-The stories of the game were good, for a mmo however the story did not fit the world experience. For those who don't know each class and each planet have a particular story with some key decision (you know...bioware stuff). However you had to do a lot of meaningless quest like fetching a purse in the middle of a war zone (true) and visit a ton of cave big enough to host a star destroyer and filled with 50+ mob (I don't joke at all). I don't know who in the production decided that they will stretch the lonely boring leveling stuff when the game is meant to be play at high level. It was weird to be this dark inquisitor who finish a civil war and kill our previous master just to do errand again by npc calling you lord, clearly world building and leveling were aweful.
-The animation and movement were very weird, the way hostile npc moves or attack were off-puting and most if not all fight mechanic were old with infinite variation on "hit, heal, kill and nothing else".
With time SWTOR got better, focusing on story with the last expansion yet this long solo experience was weird in a MMO.

So no, I hope it is not SWTOR 2.0, I do hope they learned their lesson on how fitting story telling and world building. This was the weakest point of both Inquisition and Andromeda in my opinion.

Which really doesn't make any sense to say if you don't care about them (I'm speaking for myself here).

I'm not sure I'm hooked on Anthem yet. I'd rather hold on to my money and cause the next gaming crash than I would let it go on to cultivate the industry further towards homogenization and games I don't really care for even if it means we'll have some years of really low-budget stuff and B-level graphics. I've stopped supporting Activision since Destiny and they haven't launched other games I care for since. Overwatch is popular but that's social gaming and multiplayer. That's gonna thrive no matter what but can it sustain an entire industry alone while all the singleplayer gamers opt out? I don't think so.

My fallback if singleplayer games and RPGs ever stop being made at a AAA scale is that some of my favorite games of all time are not even that big and they could be done easily on a mobile scale, like Ace Attorney and Hotel Dusk. It would suck if we can never get another thing like the Mass Effect Trilogy in terms of scope and production, but so be it if the industry is moving on to "disruptive social action games" or whatever EA calls it. It's just not got what I'm looking for in a game by its own. If gaming can't be a space of diversity of ideas and creativity I'm done supporting it.