Anthem Twitter Thread

Actually, the buggy release of MEA and the negative press around it could be part of the reason they're willing to push out the release date.

I'm not too surprised this was delayed since we have next to no information about it and it was supposed to release in less than a year. If you have a new IP (and you actually want people to play it), you need to hype it up. Continuing to be secretive is a recipe for disaster.

Still holding out some hope for this game despite it not being an RPG. I'm definitely ready for a new IP after years of only ME and DA (which I love but ready for something new).

Wonder now what we will see at this years e3 .i cant see a year delay in a game as a good sign

Either its so bad/not what ea now wants/2 risky so they are starting over or there has been a shift in priorities and maybe da4 has been greenlit first

The phrase doesn't mean a whole lot tbh, not until they reveal more.

All it really tells us at this point is that there will be a social aspect of some kind.

But what does the term "disruptive social design" even mean? I hate doing that, but I Tweeted to Bio, probably looking like a Luddite with my silly question. This whole social media thing is not for the sweet old ladies. Chances to get any sort of a satisfactory answer is practically null.

As long as it does not mean: "we aim to recreate the lively, congenial atmosphere of LoL..." I am good.

"Disruptive" is a tech buzzword. It comes from tech journalists' tendency to say things like "Uber is disrupting the transportation space!" or "Venmo is disrupting the old banking model!" A "disruptive" technology is anything that (supposedly) shakes up the old order and creates new winners and losers. It "disrupts" an industry.

At this point, the word has been watered down to the point where it basically just means... "new".

So they probably mean "we plan to disrupt the multiplayer landscape" (that is, come out with a new game format) rather than "we expect players to behave disruptively".

Looks like a buzzword, like "shifting paradigms" or "thinking outside the box"

Even if there are some coop multiplayer activities, like the Strikes in Destiny, I don't think that will bother me as much as long as there's matchmaking.

Nothing vexes me more about Destiny than the lack of matchmaking for Raids and Nightfall Strikes.

And as long as those are secondary to the single player story experience.

Lol...I know what they meant.  That's the problem. 

I'm not a big fan of multiplayer stuff.  In my fantasy land, "disruptive" means, "We're going to say there's MP in this game, but really there isn't.  See?  Disruptive!"

Maybe this will be the game that changes my mind.  I hope so, because I really want to like it.  Either that, or I can completely ignore the MP and not miss out on anything.  We shall see.  

For me it's more of a concern of gaming becoming a daily routine or it becomes pointless to play it due to gearing. But, yes, I do prefer SP style as well, though good pugs like in ME3MP on a low difficulty level are okay.

Sorry for the slight necro, but I'd fallen behind on my Secret IP news. I just wanted to say, as a counter-argument, it can't go too late, because then either, a) there's a huge gap between ME:A and whatever comes next, with no new revenue coming in, or, it starts to upstage DA:4, which could be bad if it's a hit, overshadowing DA:4, or bad if it tanks, pulling DA:4 down with it.