Anthem confirmed for EA play 2018

I still don't understand why BioWare is only allowed to make one type of game and the moment they do make something different people will get bent out of shape.  If I was a BioWare employee I would want to get away from making Mass Effect games all the time because it would get boring doing the same thing all the time and with how "fans" reacted to Mass Effect 3 nobody should be surprised that the team that worked on that would want to do something different because I would think no matter what I create would never be good enough again since people were making petitions to have everyone that worked on that game fired.

So this.

They tend to always have Sims 4 at EA play, it's not always a big announcement, they generally just let people play the game and have a preview of the latest pack coming out. Last year, I think it was just a stuff pack. They don't usually have a big expansion pack come out til November. They now only have 1 expansion pack a year instead of 2 a year like they did with the Sims 3, instead they bring out two games packs a year, which is a smaller expansion pack that focuses on one theme. They have a Jungle Adventure one coming out soon that looks pretty cool.

I really don't care if you are eager or not, but proclaiming you know what will be a success or not is the problem.  Just because you think companion focus RPGs are what is BioWare's strong point there have been plenty of people eager to point out they haven't been doing that right for multiple games for multiple reasons including pandering. If you go buy what other people are proclaiming they have never done player choice right since even before EA for I remember all the "my choices don't matter" whining after Mass Effect 1 because there wasn't some magical CGI at the end of the game that demonstrated their choices and how they had a major impact on the game's universe.

I really don't want things to be tacked on because people on the internet are claiming it isn't there now, frankly if it isn't there now I don't want it added to the game because it will feel like an afterthought, in many ways it would be the video game equivalent of Justice League where the movie feels like it has two different directions because it did.  

Frankly you could have used those exact same arguments against Jade Empire, Dragon Age: Origins, and Mass Effect 1 for all three of those were massive steps away from what they have done in the past too.  If anything I am surprised BioWare was able to survive the failure of Jade Empire, but then again that could be parts of the reasons behind Microsoft exclusiveness for Mass Effect or the partnering with Pandemic which led to EA buying them.

Yeah like blizzard they were only good at making RTS....oh wait i mean they are only good at making MMOs....oh wait i mean they are only good at making FPS.....

That is cause Blizzard focuses on quality instead of quantity. Between 2003 and 2018, how many games has Bioware produced? Now compare that to how many games Blizzard has made.

When they make games, they take there time and only release it when its ready. Bioware did delay Anthem, but I think the delay was more to move Anthem away from Battlefield and other competitive Holiday releases like Call of Duty and Red Dead Redemption to a less competitve spot. Remember, if Anthem fails then Bioware is done.

I do not see people talking about the possible closure of Blizzard nor do I see people who said that if Overwatch failed then Blizzard is done. And when was the last game from Blizzard that flopped? When was Bioware's?

Point is, Blizzard through the years has proven to be a competent dev, even Bioware. Difference is Blizzard has not dealt with any stingers like Bioware has (DA2, MEA, ME3 ending etc....) SWTOR was a success, but was it cause it was a Star Wars game? Anthem is coming during a time when the industry reception to MTs is not all that good and only a naive person will believe that Anthem will not have MTs. Overwatch has them, but they are purely cosmetic. In addition, Blizzard isnt scrutinized the same way Bioware is. A mistake by Blizzard, CDPR, and Rockstar, even Bethesda will be given forgiveness to an extend. Bioware makes the same mistake and the internet will tear Bioware apart.

A lot is riding on Anthem and if I were Bioware, I would be pushing for a late 2019 or early 2020 release to ensure that this goes dowm as intended. I doubt you'll see Cyberpunk 2077 come out early 2019 and that game has been in developmemt around the same time as Anthem. Why? Cause quality over quantity....

Speaking of Blizzard, anyone hang out in the WOW or Diablo boards? Was there quite as much doom & gloom before the release of Overwatch as we're seeing here? WOW players bemoaning the prostitution of their beloved game studio to icky FPS players, lootboxification, "I hope it fails so Blizzard can get back to doing more Diablo", that sort of thing?

No, because people were generally satisfied with existing offerings and understood that new genres of games require multiple teams. For example, the raid designers for WOW wouldn't be very good at designing Overwatch heroes, just like the sandbox designers for Diablo wouldn't do a great job at designing MMO PvP zones. That's not to say that there's zero overlap whatsoever, but different games with different goals require different sets of expertise.

But was the general consensus that Blizzard needed Overwatch to succeed or else Activision might close down blizzard?

Good point.

Mate you were the one who was bitching about quantity over quality saying that blizzard put out less game than bioware in a time span of 10 years.

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I dunno how much you want to twist your initial post but fact are simple. MMO expansion aren't DLC they require massive amount of money,time and people to create just as much content a normal game have with the sole exception they scope is reduced but we are still talking about creating new classes,doing from scratch dozens of new models,texture mesh etc.,area,dungeons,raid,balance everything and shipping out in a period that it's usually the half on normal game development cycle (2 years instead of 4).

Overwatch had no serious impact on the mood of the Diablo boards. The daily amount of "not-Diablo 2" and so forth still persists. Yup Blizzard is dead because "not-Diablo 2". Sort of like the guys going Bioware is dead because of "not-KOTOR", or "not ME" or "not -Shepard" or "not BG or DAO". You get the picture.