Does Bioware even NEED the Bioware fanbase for Anthem?

Master of Magic (DOS Simtex/Microprose version) for me. That game is still awesome af. I mean, just look at it. And listen -- the midi soundtrack set a new standard, and sounded phenomenal on a Roland MT-32.



Dungeon Keeper is also another timeless classic. The sequels never quite matched the original in total evil glee.

Oh, boy. I am afraid I just can’t play games that look like this. I also see a lot of modem games that do not have appealing graphics as well, like Tides of Numeneria and even Inquisition. I am very picky about it.

I did not mind Anthem’s look, so that’s a plus.

being a hardcore fan of kotor & kotor 2, i was waiting for knights of the old republic 3... i was expecting a story & character driven single player rpg with depth, rich in detail and content, and i hoped that it would continue the stories of revan & the Jedi exile. when the old republic was announced i went "wait... you're making what? seriously?". the reason swtor will never really work is the fact that knights of the old republic setup the idea that a single jedi at the right place, at the right time can change the entire galaxy, your character actually felt like he or she had some impact (or that's how i felt), like the galaxy shifted by your whim. you can't simulate that in an mmo, no matter how you try to do it, or how hard you try period. honestly, i've never tried swtor, and as my friends have described it to me, the gameplay sounds interesting enough, though the game as a whole doesn't interest me at all, so i haven't played it, nor do i intend to. and i still kind of feel resentment that the old republic killed kotor 3, and i may or may not hold all mmos accountable for it. i can't tell. though i do hold swtor specifically responsible.

however, i have played world of warcraft, i've picked it up in 3 separate occasions (though it's been a few years since i've last played, like around burning crusade there abouts), and played it for about a year stretch on all 3 occasions. i've played guildwars 2 (liked that there wasn't a monthly subscription cost), and runescape, and excluding GW2, i've never played multiplayer in a full priced game with microtransactions, though mainly for specific reasons... in me3 i couldn't stand the fact that galactic readiness could only be influenced by playing multiplayer. every time i looked at that incessant 50% plastered all over the war map, my immersion died. it felt like i was being pushed into playing multiplayer against my will, so i put my foot down and decided no... i'm not playing me3's multiplayer, and i'm not filling ea's pockets with microtransactions. as far as me3 goes... i'm going to ignore multiplayer all together, no matter how good it was. in andromeda i was already weary, and when i actually saw the multiplayer i was automatically turned off by that damned loot box system in particular (i'd heard about me3's loot boxes, this seemed worse by far), and the multiplayer gameplay held no real interest for me, i even tried it out a little, for fairness sake.

i suppose multiplayer games hold no real interest for me, nor do multiplayer game modes, less so with microtransactions, and loot boxes lower still. so i doubt anthem will hold my attention for long. but, we shall see. does anyone think the loss of kotor 3 spoiled my interest in MMOs? or have i just never really liked them to begin with?

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I was initially wary about the ME3 multiplayer, which was my first multiplayer and I found it awesome.
I put over 1,000 hours in and my hope for Anthem is in no small part down to my positive experience with MEMP.

I think it is going to need both fans and newbies to be a success. Some Bioware fans will dig it, others not so much, and that's cool either way, but to be a major success on par with ME and DA, and to have a vague hope of favourable comparisons to Destiny it's going to need new blood to fill in those indifferent gaps. It's not like Bioware fans only ever play and enjoy Bioware games, no matter how heated things get on here we all have other interests other than Bioware.

Whatever happens it will be interesting to see.

Absolutely they do. 

Mosey over to Reddit and look at the thousands who actively want this game to fail and Bioware to be shut down. For no other purpose than to piss on their grave or be able to stick it to evil EA.


Their is a sizable community that outright hates Bioware from a negative experience they had once, the fact they made some open-world games, "SJW practices" or the Mass Effect 3 ending, or Andromeda being merely average (or the worst game ever, lmao to that). These fellows went in overdrive when Andromeda didn't live up to the expected le witcherino 3 quality (a game i love btw) and many youtube videos were created bashing Bioware. These fellows carry their hate and display it as strongly as possible. Worst of all, they are ill-informed. Unaware that there are multiple studios with the name 'Bioware' accusing Anthem devs of malicious practices that have actually been patented by a completely different company, Activision, etc.


I think Bioware is in for a very, VERY rude surprise when Anthem is released. Regardless of it's quality (it will probably be good, with a ok-to-cool story and a very engrossing world, like most first-in-the-series Bioware games) I don't think those guys are aware how much the hiveminds of the internet actively hate them for the mentioned reasons and their association with EA.


It's going to be quite sad to see them react to the massive hate-fest that i guarantee is coming. People will scream don't buy, don't preorder, and then, months later, "Hey was that game any good?"


Only Bioware's fanbase will prop them up and help them survive the initial hate-fest until the game is revealed to be a quality effort.


That's what my crystal ball says. It's a dark scenario.