EA to Decide Fate of Anthem (Update: Development Has Ceased)

Yeah, this was an issue Bungie dealt with over and over again, and they have a hell of a lot more people working on Destiny 2 than what BioWare committed to Anthem. During Curse of Osiris and Warmind, the game suffered some of the biggest player count drops, and it had a heck of a lot more content than Anthem did, even at the base game. This is why I fundamentally disapproved of BioWare bothering to get into this genre, because of how much demanding it is and that it’ll just endlessly take manpower away from the singleplayer stuff I’d think they’d be better off sticking to. 

True. Also, looking for a job, because you're on your last dime, while in a lockdown from a virus and in the worst snowstorm of the last 100 years or so, is also quite bad. It seems to imply that Bioware Austin is getting some major changes and not on the positive side. To me, at least.

With recent news of Bungie doing an expansion of their main HQ in Seattle, Washington, I think they're seeking to make Destiny the next "WoW" game. Luke Smith, Creative Director for the franchise, was a former WoW player, so it looks as though its what he has in mind for the game going forward. It would make sense for why the game needs to be staffed with as many people as it does. 

Maybe. But it is a possibility.

Depends. If EA would consider now a good time to go ahead with announcing it. There was the whole #IBelieveInAthem thing when the news about the evaluation made rounds.

Even if EA didn't announce the cancelation it would have been somehow released one way or another to the public.  Even when BioWare stopped working on Shadow Realms it had a press release and it was in early to mid stage development.  Besides I doubt the ending of future support for Anthem would make any real difference if anything telling people if it has been cancelled could be seen as a positive for they aren't misleading players.

That quest is moronic and nearly was the end of the game for me when I went back, but after thinking about it I think it was designed to demonstrate the "open world" system of the game.  Thankfully that is the only time that happens and in the defense of BioWare in the regard plenty of other games have some mandatory part of their games to demonstrate the aspects nobody wants to play.  I tried to go back to Assassin's Creed Odyssey and the mandatory parts where you have to do ship combat just drove me away for I hate those segments with a passion just like that segment in Anthem and the worst part was finding the chests.

I do think the story would have been better if there wasn't what felt like four different storylines going on.  For there is the campaign, Freelancers, the Sentinels, and the quests from Matthias.  Even if the quests stayed the same, but the overall narrative brought it all into a single cohesive story for me it would have been a better experience.

The real letdown of the game is the end game and the way I have took everything that has been presented as little that has been is that is pretty much where the focus of what they are doing now is with very little changing elsewhere.  A lot of comments I have seen make Anthem 2.0 sound like its going to be some kind of remake/remaster and I don't see that happening. I see it not being that way with the small number of people that they have working on it and that its being done by BioWare Austin which pretty much is where BioWare maintains their server side game. So my expectations were mostly numbers changes and very little else.

I believe the art designs shown in the blog were just mock templates. Someone on Twitter brought up the fact that it looked too closely like Destiny, and Christian Dailey responded with a statement about it just being mock up. I do think they're going to streamline the UI in some regard. The original wasnt all that good to look at, plus there wasnt even a stats page you could reference.

My issue with the whole thing of bringing the game back is, yes, it could be brought back in a better position. However, is the audience gonna be there long enough to matter, and how sizable will said audience be? If the final staffing size for the game is 200 Devs, that puts it right in line with Digital Extremes and - possibly - Massive Entertainment (the studio behind The Division). Those games have an audience, but they wane back and forth in terms of relevancy. If you want a strong, consistent playerbase, you need to deliver consistent content to do so. That I think is where BioWare wont live up to EAs expectations, because I dont see the publisher committing 300+ devs to an already maligned and forgotten game. Let alone to compete with another studio [Bungie] that is upwards of 1000 people, as well said studio just releasing statements about near tripling the size of their HQ, further increases in staff size for Destiny, and seeking to bring the Destiny franchise into other forms of media.

Foolish Pupil @foolish_Pupil
what's the latest with Anthem? Thought they were deciding it's fate last week?

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier
Still waiting on a verdict from above

Woah thats an obscure reference. Nice to see another space ship captain. Ironically Fractured Space suffered from some of the same problems as Anthem: it had great gameplay but couldnt find an overall vision for a game and to top it off it was never finished. Anthem does have an advantage being backed by a major studio and a publisher. FS was also quite niche game unlike Anthem that has a wider appeal IMO.

I agree with your point though, some games just wont fly no matter what you try.