Anthem Twitter Thread

"Certainly, the idea in the short term is to update, update, update, update, update. Put all the team we have on making the live service of Anthem as amazing as possible, and then from there, there are so many different ways we can play out.

But we definitely wanna make Anthem a game that you come and play for years and years to come. Already, we've mapped out story arcs for several years of the game, so we know exactly where we're going and what stories to tell. And obviously the details aren't fleshed out, that depends on so many things on how the game goes, and what players like and don't like. But we're treating it as something we're all-in on. We think that's really important and we need to also prove that to players, we need to."

"I think in a live service, you need a healthy mixture. I think people want frequent stuff, and frequent stuff has to be smaller, right? You can't do big everything all the time. And then I think occasionally you need a medium thing, and then less frequently, you need a big thing.

And they all serve different purposes... I say small, it's relative to how long it takes to build. It can be really big and meaningful to players, but a lot of the frequent updates are about that retention. Keeping players engaged and playing the game. And then the bigger things are about, "Hey, did you leave, you should come back now." And it also works for people playing, because the big thing is cool for them as well.

And so our plan is a mixture of these things, and it's a mixture of "Hey, I go out into free play, and there's this cool thing that wasn't there before." And then it's there for two days, and then it goes away. And there's some reward attached to it. That's a really fun evolving world, changing world experience. Other things will be more content, like cool, more content's great. More progression, more itemization, and then again, brand new things you might not have seen before, or new systems that kind of change how progression works. All that kind of stuff for us is on the table, and it's just more about the cadence and the mixture of it. We need to nail down and change based on player feedback and start sharing to the public."