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Post by Hrungr on Apr 2, 2019 15:20:50 GMT
Anthem Game Developmentblog.bioware.com/2019/04/02/anthem-game-development/by Author - BioWarePosted on - April 2, 2019 static.cdn.ea.com/blog.bioware.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Anthem-Teaser.jpgWe’d like to take a moment to address an article published this morning about BioWare, and Anthem’s development. First and foremost, we wholeheartedly stand behind every current and former member of our team that worked on the game, including leadership. It takes a massive amount of effort, energy and dedication to make any game, and making Anthem would not have been possible without every single one of their efforts. We chose not to comment or participate in this story because we felt there was an unfair focus on specific team members and leaders, who did their absolute best to bring this totally new idea to fans. We didn’t want to be part of something that was attempting to bring them down as individuals. We respect them all, and we built this game as a team. We put a great emphasis on our workplace culture in our studios. The health and well-being of our team members is something we take very seriously. We have built a new leadership team over the last couple of years, starting with Casey Hudson as our GM in 2017, which has helped us make big steps to improve studio culture and our creative focus. We hear the criticisms that were raised by the people in the piece today, and we’re looking at that alongside feedback that we receive in our internal team surveys. We put a lot of focus on better planning to avoid “crunch time,” and it was not a major topic of feedback in our internal postmortems. Making games, especially new IP, will always be one of the hardest entertainment challenges. We do everything we can to try and make it healthy and stress-free, but we also know there is always room to improve. As a studio and a team, we accept all criticisms that will come our way for the games we make, especially from our players. The creative process is often difficult. The struggles and challenges of making video games are very real. But the reward of putting something we created into the hands of our players is amazing. People in this industry put so much passion and energy into making something fun. We don’t see the value in tearing down one another, or one another’s work. We don’t believe articles that do that are making our industry and craft better. Our full focus is on our players and continuing to make Anthem everything it can be for our community. Thank you to our fans for your support – we do what we do for you.
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Post by alanc9 on Apr 2, 2019 15:36:40 GMT
This refers to the Kotaku article, right?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 2, 2019 15:40:45 GMT
This refers to the Kotaku article, right? Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 15:44:34 GMT
This refers to the Kotaku article, right? I believe so, they commented on that article faster than the loot problem. (Okay bad joke. XD)
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 2, 2019 16:42:10 GMT
I think Bioware needs to be honest with themselves, and stop being publicly dismissive. Obviously I don't expect them to crap on themselves and their employees in public, but Bioware seriously needs to stop being so defensive about anything negative towards them, it's getting a little ridiculous.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 16:59:35 GMT
Wait it was one blog where they defended themselves.
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Post by shinobiwan on Apr 2, 2019 17:05:12 GMT
This refers to the Kotaku article, right? Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now. If by "crying" you mean "pointing out that they are purporting to respond to an article they could not have actually read when the post was written," then sure.
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Post by Gileadan on Apr 2, 2019 17:06:08 GMT
"we do what we do for you"
Please don't do what you did to your team for me, ever again.
Thank you.
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Post by giubba on Apr 2, 2019 17:11:30 GMT
This refers to the Kotaku article, right? Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now.
That fucking idiot realize that he gave these people to a fucking lynch mob for the rest of their fucking career?
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 2, 2019 17:11:50 GMT
Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now. If by "crying" you mean "pointing out that they are purporting to respond to an article they could not have actually read when the post was written," then sure. By crying, I’m referring to stuff like this. Jason Schreier @jasonschreierThe more I reread and think about this BioWare response, the more I'm amazed by how cowardly it is. Written before they even read the article, attacking a journalist for reporting the truth about a company in crisis... It's almost hard to believe.
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Post by linksocarina on Apr 2, 2019 17:13:24 GMT
I got to side with Jason Schreier on this one. That was a weak response.
I fully suspect BioWare is in the process of humbling itself a bit, as I doubt Hudson has that much of an Ego as it seems the other prodcuers and ditectors did, but this was a chance to really take it in stride, and instead it was a toothless reply in everything but pointing out that they need to do better.
I'm dissapointed honestly
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 17:15:07 GMT
If by "crying" you mean "pointing out that they are purporting to respond to an article they could not have actually read when the post was written," then sure. By crying, I’m referring to stuff like this. Jason Schreier @jasonschreierThe more I reread and think about this BioWare response, the more I'm amazed by how cowardly it is. Written before they even read the article, attacking a journalist for reporting the truth about a company in crisis... It's almost hard to believe. And it went on and on victimizing himself. After Gamergate, It just looks hilarious now.
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Post by bigbad on Apr 2, 2019 17:16:14 GMT
I'm honestly LOLing at the people shitting on Schreier here. Apparently some folks never learned anything after the MEA drama.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Apr 2, 2019 17:16:58 GMT
Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now.
That fucking idiot realize that he gave these people to a fucking lynch mob for the rest of their fucking career?
They gave themselves to the "lynch mob" by failing epicly, at almost every level.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 17:17:27 GMT
I got to side with Jason Schreier on this one. That was a weak response. I fully suspect BioWare is in the process of humbling itself a bit, as I doubt Hudson has that much of an Ego as it seems the other prodcuers and ditectors did, but this was a chance to really take it in stride, and instead it was a toothless reply in everything but pointing out that they need to do better. I'm dissapointed honestly They had multiple blogs prior to this one where at least they try to give the appearance of being humble and trying to improve but people obviously didn’t buy it. I found this mild, BioWare would be set aflame no matter what action they took.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 2, 2019 17:17:27 GMT
I'm honestly LOLing at the people shitting on Schreier here. Apparently some folks never learned anything after the MEA drama. I learned not to take certain people seriously.
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Post by giubba on Apr 2, 2019 17:17:29 GMT
I got to side with Jason Schreier on this one. That was a weak response. I fully suspect BioWare is in the process of humbling itself a bit, as I doubt Hudson has that much of an Ego as it seems the other prodcuers and ditectors did, but this was a chance to really take it in stride, and instead it was a toothless reply in everything but pointing out that they need to do better. I'm dissapointed honestly There isn't a "right" response in times like this.
Actually i really appreciate that they stand for those who work and worked on Anthem and didn't throw them at fucking wolves.
That fucking idiot realize that he gave these people to a fucking lynch mob for the rest of their fucking career?
They gave themselves to the "lynch mob" by failing epicly, at almost every level.
He has no fucking rights in putting the livelihood of people at risk, point.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 17:19:49 GMT
I'm honestly LOLing at the people shitting on Schreier here. Apparently some folks never learned anything after the MEA drama. Games journalism is still to be taken with a grain of salt.
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Post by linksocarina on Apr 2, 2019 17:20:23 GMT
I got to side with Jason Schreier on this one. That was a weak response. I fully suspect BioWare is in the process of humbling itself a bit, as I doubt Hudson has that much of an Ego as it seems the other prodcuers and ditectors did, but this was a chance to really take it in stride, and instead it was a toothless reply in everything but pointing out that they need to do better. I'm dissapointed honestly They had multiple blogs prior to this one where at least they try to give the appearance of being humble and trying to improve but people obviously didn’t buy it. I found this mild, BioWare would be set aflame no matter what action they took. I agree there. Problem is this reads like either not understanding the complaints, or dismissing them. It's fine to stand up for employees, but to do that they should have said something along the lines of "we stand by our employees and take responsibility for their feelings on the matter" How they wrote it is too dissmissive.
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Post by warden on Apr 2, 2019 17:24:15 GMT
well, it didn't take long to start trading punches here.
sad for ones, hilarious for others and very "meh" for some.
the thing is, as more time passes, things gonna escalate even faster. one way or another, atleast time will be well spend. lmao
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Apr 2, 2019 17:24:32 GMT
Yeah. Jason is crying about this blog post right now.
That fucking idiot realize that he gave these people to a fucking lynch mob for the rest of their fucking career?
Of course he does. He just doesn’t care. He makes his living doing this to people.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 17:25:32 GMT
They had multiple blogs prior to this one where at least they try to give the appearance of being humble and trying to improve but people obviously didn’t buy it. I found this mild, BioWare would be set aflame no matter what action they took. I agree there. Problem is this reads like either not understanding the complaints, or dismissing them. It's fine to stand up for employees, but to do that they should have said something along the lines of "we stand by our employees and take responsibility for their feelings on the matter" How they wrote it is too dissmissive. It doesnt sound dismissive at all if anything they’re just going to press forward and despite whatever problems they had they’ll stand by them. I feel that it’s just exaggeration by Jason to say that they’re in denial.
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Post by smilesja on Apr 2, 2019 17:27:07 GMT
well, it didn't take long to start trading punches here. sad for ones, hilarious for others and very "meh" for some. the thing is, as more time passes, things gonna escalate even faster. one way or another, atleast time will be well spend. lmao
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Post by linksocarina on Apr 2, 2019 17:28:08 GMT
I agree there. Problem is this reads like either not understanding the complaints, or dismissing them. It's fine to stand up for employees, but to do that they should have said something along the lines of "we stand by our employees and take responsibility for their feelings on the matter" How they wrote it is too dissmissive. It doesnt sound dismissive at all if anything they’re just going to press forward and despite whatever problems they had they’ll stand by them. I feel that it’s just exaggeration by Jason to say that they’re in denial. Read like it to me, and what makes it worse is that even if its not true, it still is a weak response. At the end of the day the hope I have is Hudson can provide team leadership here or the folks screaming about the death of BioWare will be pissing on the grave when they are proven right.
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Post by shinobiwan on Apr 2, 2019 17:28:28 GMT
I got to side with Jason Schreier on this one. That was a weak response. I fully suspect BioWare is in the process of humbling itself a bit, as I doubt Hudson has that much of an Ego as it seems the other prodcuers and ditectors did, but this was a chance to really take it in stride, and instead it was a toothless reply in everything but pointing out that they need to do better. I'm dissapointed honestly Remember that Casey was gone through a big chunk of development, so he doesn't have as much ego wrapped up in the game as the others.
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