Are you considering buying Anthem? (Mass Effect thread version)

Am I the only one who feels cheated with nothing to show for in return?? Do you feel the same? Or am I being too hard on them?

I've made the title 'Mass Effect thread' specific to validate discussion here, rather than moving it to the Anthem forum.

To keep it 'on-topic' I suggest we keep this discussion focused on the relationship with Mass Effect and the perception of Anthem among Mass Effect players.

General Anthem discussions may be had here: bsn.boards.net/board/38/anthem-general-discussion

If Anthem is a good game that I would enjoy playing, especially with my friends here, then I'll certainly buy it. I'm a selfish bastard, I like playing good games.

I doubt that Anthem is to blame for the end of MEA support and lack of DLC. I believe that the causalities are reversed here: MEA failed as a project (not necessarily as a game!) because so much time and resources went to waste during its development, and EA preferred to invest in a fresh property instead of a somewhat damaged one after that.

No, not really.

Sad as it may be I'm not overly butthurt over how Bioware treated Andromeda, its simply that I'm not interested in most online shooter games because they always manage to bore me to death. Judging by the screenshots and the trailer of Anthem it looks like this game was cobbled together from bits and pieces from Titanfall, Far Cry 3 and Zero Dawn Horizon with the usual coop-mutiplayer gameplay. Well, bravo. *shrugs*

Not interested in any multiplayer online.

It depends on if I ever get a good enough internet connection that I can attempt multiplayer games. The game itself is intriguing. I'm not going to be convinced to try to hold it hostage because of any ill feelings over the Mass Effect franchise. They are two separate things.

I am on the fence. I am not into games with a strong multiplayer emphasis and I am bitter about MEA not getting more support.

I doubt you are the only one... but that doesn't mean that they aren't over-reacting, just as you are, IMO.  I feel very much that I do have something to show for my purchase of ME:A... I've enjoyed multiple playthroughs of the game so far and there is still a lot within the game that I haven't sampled/unlocked yet.  The combat, in particular, has been very, very fun for me.  Also, it still has absolutely nothing to do with Anthem. 

Regardless of whether or not you liked ME:A, there is absolutely no point to trying to force the company into making a better ME game (let alone a very particular ME game - which is really what has been going on here) by trying to force a connection between Anthem and how ME:A turned out.  I really wish the fan base would get it through their heads that they are not running the company and have no place trying to run the company.  The decision to make Anthem is clearly an effort to improve the company's diversification as a means of securing the company's overall bottom line... sustained profitability in case one genre (SP RPGs) loses overall popularity to another (Multiplayer MMO's).  Not a bad thing for a company to do if it wants to stay in business over the long term and survive various ebbs and flows in genre popularity.

No, but just becauseI'm not interested in Anthem. Not to do with MEA.

Make no mistake, I'm as salty as the next guy, but boycotting Anthem will not send the message of "we want moar Mass Effect". At most, it will say "we don't want Anthem". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bioware Edmonton hasn't disappointed me yet, so there's no reason why I should hate them.
I'm at least somewhat curious about Anthem.

Their Montreal studio was a failed experiment. Doesn't really matter now who's to blame.
MEA was a mediocre spin-off. I don't care if they continue it. Shepard's story has been told. And I'm ok with the idea that Mass Effect ended with Shepard. I'll just ignore MEA was ever made by a different studio.

What matters to me is what happens to Dragon Age. THAT franchise isn't finished yet and I expect them to deliver a satisfying conclusion.

Whether Anthem is good or bad or to my liking is irrelevant to me. I cared about the Milky Way and I care about the fate of Thedas. As long as they don't give their other beloved franchise to a rookie studio, Bioware can do whatever they want in the meantime.

I AM disappointed the new IP turned out to be an online multiplayer. I was horrified how MEA turned out. However, that doesn't mean they won't produce another great RPG ever again. DA4 is the game that will tell if Bioware as a whole is "dead". MEA only told me that Montreal was not up to the task for whatever reason.

"mimimi" theft. Go read, seriously. 

The pre-release "hate-train" against facets of DA4 has already started.  My prediction is the unbased criticisms of it will all but kill a lot of potential for it long before it's released much in the same way ME:A was effectively killed based merely on the premise of leaving the Milky Way long before any of the details of the story or who was writing it or anything else about it was knowable.  ME:A was set up in such a way that it would have had to been absolutely perfect to overcome all that pre-release negativity.  If the fan base follows the same path with DA4... setting it up such that it will have to be perfect to be even remotely satisfying... then the odds of it also failing to impress are significantly increased.  I keep hoping the fans will refrain from setting things up that way... but I'm not optimistic based on what I'm already seeing on that forum.  People are so adament about being negative so they won't be disappointed that they set themselves up to be disappointed long beforehand... and the disappointment becomes a  self-fulfilling prophesy... the bar set so high that Bioware can't help but not overcome it... and knowing that they are unlikely to overcome it only discourages them and ultimately kills their creativity as well.

Of course, we'll just have to wait to see what happens... but that's my prediction right now.