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

I'm not saying "don't be hopeful", I'm just saying "don't be deluded".


Nah, that'd have been fine. Unless "get in some trouble" would mean getting persecuted here. But that's par for the course, for saying things like they are.


Actually, no. At least, as far as I was concerned. I didn't even know it was up for review. I only found out about the cancelation after it. It was the most positive project of Bioware's I had been in a while. Because the news were actually good.

Many of us said that just two weeks after Anthem launched 😂

What reputation does BW even have anymore? They are quite literally not the same studio that made games like ME1 and DAO anymore.

If not for FO76 I would say BW is my own most disappointing dev studio.

Well - What can I say?

My predictions turned out to be true. The moment I heard Anthem would be a multiplayer, and even worst - a "Game As A Service", type of game I lost all my interest. I said far before the launch of the game that it would be a failure. Bioware is a studio that has single player role playing stories in their genes. Apart from that I don't like multiplayer games, I knew that they never could give the same experience in a multiplayer game, as they had given in their single player games. And I was right. And as a result the game failed to be attractive to (most of) the older Bioware game lovers, and was not able to attract enough new gamers simply because they had the core stuff (party shooter-looter) simply wrong.

I am not happy with this outcome. I am still mad when I think that all effort and manpower that has been put in Anthem also could have been used to make Mass Effect Andromeda a really good game. While I still like that game, there is no doubt it could have been so much better. Mass Effect Andromeda was sacrificed for the good of Anthem. And what is the end result? In stead of one really good game (ME:A) we now have two failures. Yeah - It still hurts!

Anyway - I had high hopes for Dragon Age 4. However - As I learned that the core of that game is ripped out, and replaced with key components from Anthem, I got that sinking feeling that another game will be offered to the pitch dark god of "Game As A Service" and even "multiplayer" madness. If that really is the case, I predict Dragon Age 4 will be the next failure, and probably the end of Bioware.

Really - I am a fan of the older Bioware games, but absolutely do not like the new direction of game development in this studios. I can only pray Dragon Age 4 will be a REAL single player story driven RPG, otherwise it's the end of the line as far as I can see.

Sorry for being this negative, but Bioware MUST be sure to have the next thing really, really, really very good. I still have some hope they do, but realistically speaking... Yeah... You know.. Sigh...

At least Bethesda is still supporting and improving FO76.

Bioware's been hurting itself for years. This was just the logical conclusion of their choices

Well I enjoyed Anthem but It's a shame that support for the game had to end. Seriously It makes think that Bioware will just ignore any Andromeda and Anthem fans in the future. Which will stink even more.

Yeah Bethesda actually cares for the fans unlike Bioware with Andromeda and Anthem. They didn't even try to appeal to the people who like those games.

Baby steps.

Moving forward, we need to laser focus our efforts as a studio and strengthen the next Dragon Age, and Mass Effect titles while continuing to provide quality updates to Star Wars: The Old Republic.
 
They've barely touched The Old Republic in like a year.