Boycott Anthem & SWBF2 til April 2018

I can't believe your username is serious. I just freaking can't.

No need to boycott something you have no interest in playing to begin with. Generic multiplayer shooters aren't my cup of tea. They certainly won't get my money, rest assured of that.

I'm also not interested in the game and that has nothing to do with it drawing all resources from the franchises I like. I'm not butthurt, just a little disappointed. 

While the game does look kinda pretty I'm simply not interested in another pseudo-coop semi-open world online-game. I already have games for that kind of fun, the market is flooded with games like those and I don't need another one that does basically the same thing.

I think Bioware is foolish to dump all the things they're good at (or used to be good at) and do something very generic everyone already has who enjoys this genre.

I've always thought that if Bioware would go all in and for once put all their resources and money into a single story driven game without any compromises, shortcuts, diverted resources or problems in the management area they would be able to make something truly magnificent - and make a ton of cash with it.

Something like Dragon Age Origins. On steroids, coke, growth hormones and Michelangelo's brain matter injected into it. 

At least it's unique.

That would be great but sadly this would require BW to be its own publisher or be financially independent like the well known polish company that created the well known game everyone praise. Big corporations don't treat games with the respect they should receive as a form of artistic entertainment. EA is all about maximizing the profit and reducing the costs, even at the cost of quality.

People can like or dislike TW3 but none can put in question the quality and dedication the development team put on it. It's simply pure high quality regardless of you liking or not the setting or the protagonist. Everything looks super polished and filled with the devs care and love. I'm sure BW could do the same if they were on their own feet but sadly this is not going to happen.

I enjoyed MEA greatly and defended it against the rabid haters but can't deny it feels like a rushed corporate product , BW development team has surely its faults in the development of MEA but the corporate philosophy of EA is well evident in the type of games they produce and the lack of polish they receive.

EA games feels like those consumerist products, you play for a couple of months then you should throw it away to buy a new one made by the same studio. We are overwhelmed by yearly releases of rushed and incomplete corporate products with no soul and commitment from the devs. I missed the old times when we waited long development cycles for high quality games that are polished to the single detail. I'm willing to pay more for high-development quality games.

I wished we had a brand like for food where you can see the difference between junk corporate food and organic high-quality food. We need the "organic" games or some sort of "Art" label to it. I'm fed up of eating corporate gaming fast-food.

Retake Mass Effect Andromeda?

See. I knew there was a reason why I didn't even know what game we're talking about.

Lol you people are so negative.

Boycotting accomplishes nothing. If anything EA probably should have let the team that created the trilogy work on Andromeda. But for me Andromeda's issues fall more in line with the characters and it's story, the whole animation and story glitches, CC creations etc..Bioware is already taking care of that.

I can see both sides of the argument for EA...they wanted to put their best team on the new IP compared to putting a team that wasn't proven yet on it compared to putting a team that wasn't proven yet on an established franchise (probably thinking that fans would buy it either way because it's ME)

To be honest tho...if Anthem has a decent SP experience, i may be on board with it.....Andromeda wasn't a bad game by any means, and whatever it's sales numbers, one bad game out of the series in terms of sales (if that is the case) should not tank the entire franchise...

Amen to everything you say in your first paragraph.

As far as Anthem is concerned. It doesn't seem to be an SP game with the option to go online. They already said, it wouldn't be an RPG. Since I always hated online games, apart from competitive racers like GPL, I'm not the least bit interested. The deomgraphic found in these games just isn't what I like for recreational purposes. The last one I gave a try was GTAV and that was, as Alex in Clockwork Orange uses to say, real horror show. Filled with people I would give a wide bearth when meeting them on the streets.

Im game for a boycott.

HOWZAT!

It's also a game that has been kickstarted by the community and with input by the community. They had more of an obligation to rise up to their expectations and not their publishers.

It's a great game for old school RPGers, who can live with isometric views. By the way handpainted and really beautiful looking environments.