Anthem: Hardcore or casual? (or both)

Casual/hardcore nothing to do with it tbh, they introduced systems in base D2 which were boring an took away systems ftom d1 that kept ppl playing, gave out exotics like candy an well all the rest thats been covered.

Never bothered me because simply put i played D1 from launch till D2 launch individually buying every dlc that came out then when i seen D2 launch with same crappy pay structure i went fuck it am waiting, an thats what i did, i waited for the 3rd an only dlc that would be of any worth to get released then instead of paying over £100 i just paid £50 an as a filthy casual im enjoying myself immensely.

D2 problems weren't casual or hardcore related, it was just boring ass loot with zero incentives to do anything from my understanding of it all, Forsaken fixed alot of that with adding random perk rolls, quest chains for exotics etc an the reason ppl aint going back has all been documented from the cash shop to the xp,BUT, yes always one, giving the base game away free first on psn an now battle.net has brought in alot of ppl who are praising it, wether or not they shell out £40 for tye expac a different story.

If they go the mtx route again in D3 it will kill it, it's that simple an they should know that by the reaction to it in D2.

As for Anthem? I think there experience in SWTOR an MEMP will serve them well, with swtor they should've learned that ppl consume content faster than you can fart so i expect end game to be plentiful at launch, whether or not they put content in the game that requires thought, VC an tactics remains to be seen but MEMP had a good mixture for your casual like me an your more hardcore so i expect difficulty regardless of whats been shown, its just the question of in what form that difficulty takes remains for me.

A good game is a good game, it cannot be balanced for both player types. Many years I have seen with World of Warcraft is that "Blizzard caters to casuals" or "Blizzard only cares about the hardcore players" for no matter what the company will do people will always think they are the forgotten ones.

So as long as BioWare can release a game that is good and doesn't have a lot of problems at launch I think they are fine, but they do have to have something going for people to do regularly when people are done the story. I think they have learned that with the MP portions of their recent games for with ME3MP having the event weekends and also the progress bar when you reach max level if you promote your class starting with Dragon Age: Inquisition they have things that allow players to feel they are continuing to improve over time. That is why there are still people playing the different Diablo games or games like Starcraft PvP because they feel like they are progressing some how. Then have a schedule for new major content drops. That keeps everyone interested to a degree.

To me I think for BioWare its a bigger concern to try and balance single player and group player content, for there are people that are going to want to do the entire story campaign without a group and not want to feel that they have to grind to over gear that content.

I don't know exactly where one draws the line between Hardcore and Casual, but as far as previous Bioware Multiplayer games went, they all had a bias towards the hardcore ones, with a heavy emphasis on RNG (which is directly tied to loot boxes, a big thing on all Bioware Multiplayer games).
They were games in which, at 200 or so hours played, you were a filthy casual, with a poor man's inventory and largely unable to play at the highest difficulty levels.

In Destiny 2, a player who has clocked 200 hours can play next to or against a player who has 2,000 hours with no problem whatsoever. Maybe he will not perform at the very same level on endgame PVE activities (though he can, depending on his understanding of the game's mechanics), but he will definitely carry his own weight. In ME3MP and DAIMP, a 200 hours player is someone who is largely stuck on Silver difficulty. In MEAMP, maybe Gold, but that is about it. The crowds who really enjoyed these games are those who invested 500 hours, 800 hours, 2,000 hours and so on. I've never seen anyone saying like "I played 45 hours of Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer and had a great time, even managed to get my Ultra Rare Human Kineticist!".

So yeah, given Bioware's history, I don't think Anthem will be very different. There may be some endgame content to play for those who play 8-10 hours a week, but the bulk of the endgame will likely be more biased towards the ones who play 25+ hours a week.

what the fuck is anthem?

Thing is assuming the examples are parallel to anthem you still do everything end game. Just not on the dial to 11 platinum stamp. I play meamp on silver I played me3mp on gold and got carried in a platinum game. I never put crazy hours into either. I did all the same missions just on a easier difficulty. I lost bragging rights, some drops and I guess achievements but not much else. I still got to play all I wanted.

While I have concerns about anthem, I’m not too concerned about it being too hardcore. As I expect I’ll still have the content just not bragging rights.

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"LolLancer" work as a name? Hmmmm

I would probably classify myself the same.  ME3 was my first foray into MP (as I recall you were the one to convince me to jump in) and had a blast.  I did manage a couple hundred hours in MEAMP but between the poorly balanced weapons, excessive grind, and lack of playerbase just a few months after release it was doomed.  The two biggest issues imo was it did little to foster coop since everyone were one-person wrecking crews (ME3 required team synergy or you were screwed)....and then giving players all that awesome mobility only to stuff them in a tiny sandbox.  I'll speculate that Anthem will end up being what MEAMP should have been.  It may have the opposite problem that players can end up spread out too much or separated from each other while on a mission, but hopefully we're dependent upon one another to be successful...particularly on higher difficulties.

You are hilarious dude. Those games are doing "well"? Compared to what? The hairball my cat just puked up?

I question your wisdom, entirely. You spout opinion after opinion with the wrath of God, then get proved wrong with evidence and you keep your head down and keep digging.

Obvious troll is obvious.