Anthem Twitter Thread

Which is why Anthem's demo wasn't a beta. Whatever issues they've experienced were incidental and ones that they have an OCCASION to fix now (nevermind that a portion of issues from previous week demo happened because of VIP codes/issues with entitlements within Origin) or would have to be fixed during launch. Any person knowledgeable with IT I saw speak seemed to be in agreement that the launch of online games, and especially of that scope, is bound to be rocky, because there is simply no way to predict everything that could go sideways once everybody starts logging in.

And no, not really - the MMO I play is almost 5 years online and even though there's a Public Test Server open for everybody for weeks prior to release, the first day of major patch/expansion is usually the day of server issues and bugginess. If things don't go sideways and server doesn't go down for maintenance for long hours we, the players, usually consider the launch of the patch to be 'pretty smooth', haha.

And the Internet (and gaming press) is full of stories of pretty bad launches. The funny thing is that Anthem appears to be oftentimes compared to Diablo - and I still remember the abysmal launch of the last one, even though I didn't play the game myself (which didn't stop Diablo III from being one of the best-selling PC video games to date).

I am not making 'a bold statement' - I am stating a fact. Anthem is an enormous game, the scope of which is determined by way more than a number of players in an instance, which is why I am entirely not sure why you keep trying to limit it to that or peer to peer reliance? What does it matter how much peer to peer reliance is used in every instance if the game has (potentially) as much or more players playing at the same time as other multiplayer giants on the market?

Nevermind that - and it seems that it needs to be something to I have to repeat - I'm talking about the game as a whole. Anthem would be one of the largest releases this year even if it was mostly a single-player title... which it isn't and its multiplayer and live service features are definitely something more than something tacked on top of the meat of the game. I'm not sure why this is even a point of contention.

I can extract a seemingly small'ish thing from every game on the market to try and argue that they aren't enormous. Problem is, that this is nothing more than cherrypicking. Since when Anthem is JUST Fort Tarsis or JUST 4 players playing?

You can try and say 'Tarsis isn't as big" or "I saw bigger maps" all day long - all those regions and systems as a whole sum up to be a very complex game of enormous size, built specifically to be expanded the moment it launches, with potentially a 10 year plan for content rollout. The devs are already teasing region expansions in articles.

Shaper storm. It spawns an Ancient Ash Titan. The other people in your Freeplay instance will probably be oblivious to what is going on though, so prepare to have to solo it.

I have to laugh at the idea that Anthem not having something that is "the biggest ever!" means that it isn't enormous  I'm fairly sure you're perfectly aware that cherrypicking game features and distilling them to singular issues (it's just a 4-player instance! The game is not enormous because its open world is not the largest of them all!) is ultimately an exercise in futility, because judging the game's scope doesn't work like that at all. Anthem is one of the biggest games Bioware has ever created, which they themselves have stated. It's a project that required building a ton of underlying architecture and features that will be utilized in years to come, so long as things go in a relatively good direction.

And with that said - it's way too early to claim that the game will be criticized for this or that when we haven't yet seen the full breadth of it and have little to no idea about the frequency and substance of post-launch updates.

josh 'smiith' smith @xthetruesmithy
is there more to these storms in the full release or are they the same as what we have in demo ?

Michael Gamble @gamblemike
This is just a tease. All I can say for now.

Ben Irving @benirvo
What you're seeing in the game right now is just a small hint at some of the big things we're planning for Anthem's live service. More to share on that soon.

Michael Gamble @gamblemike
Enjoy the ash titans and the rest of the demo weekend! More on what this all means very soon 😎