Anthem Twitter Thread

That review of Destiny hits the quality of a game that the author of the trailer liked, and the one that I want to avoid. The treadmill grind with a long term goal that puts gaming into your daily routine, where you have to do your Dailies/Weeklies to stay relevant in the game. The author says an hour or two, but the games I have seen, it was true that a player that has friends and is a good player can clear out the content in usually two hours, while a casual/nothing special player will need 3 to 4 hours per day with endless wiped runs in GF, or not getting the cut of loot they need because they did not hit the top 15 or whatever DPS on the timed event, etc, etc, etc. 

Even if the progression woes are somehow softened, the problem is, that the game turns into chores you have to do, & some content you don't mind doing, so you end up fitting in stuff that makes you wanna weep day after day after day. 

You should really be liking doing the same raids for a few months on end and delighting in progression to buy a title like that. You can't whimsically be re-playing parts of the story you like, on the days that particular game feels appealing.

Because the moment you are off the treadmill, you are really done. Well, at last that's how it was in grinders with "leveling" SP story. I did not like the palpable pressure from the other players to stay on the treadmill, the conversations starting to rotate only around gear and farming, and how empty easy and low level zones and raids become within just a few months after the launch of such a game.

That what bugs me. SWTOR SP was huge, so it avoided that feel, but in the smaller games, with only one leveling SP story-line (if it is there) the treadmill is very noticeable. And, tbh, I have never seen a small-scale puggable dungeon that is interesting to replay on the daily basis. It's either frustrating because the pug can't pass the mechanics, or a faceroll where you just DPS stuff down. The OW PvP gets really bad if it's gear dependent and Faction-based. ME3MP coop was kindda cool, but it is 'each day, every day' and you hit the gearing ceiling if you are not a great player. In Andromeda grind  was way more pronounced, so hitting the ceiling was faster. 

I honestly have my doubts about novel ways to make it appealing?

I know, I have been there. The problem with the drug is that it delivers pleasure to elite, but nothing but nightmares and headaches to the masses - and I belong to the masses. It's not partying and enhancing it with booze & drugs, it's cleaning the dishes & toilets while the rich are partying and having fun, and they rape & abuse you in passing to.

If it's a grinder, then there is no real reason to start. I will never be good at it, and i don't have much time on a daily basis, and i don't want to play a game each day every day as  a chore.

Well. 

Yeah, that was quick (but not entirely unexpected). I wonder how this will impact their other franchises, especially given that (last we heard) over 1/2 of DA's team is working on this game. 

EA told them to make this, I guess. 'We need our own Destiny.'

I really hope it won't affect DA team that much. The gap between DAI and DA4 is already getting too big for my liking, especially with Trespasser's 'to be continued' ending. So yeah, I want DA4.

Let's hope so, but don't you think BioWare would've rather made KOTOR3 instead of SWTOR? EA: 'We need our own WoW.'

It doesn't fit BW, but (despite EA possible pushing this on them) they all seem excited about this.

Or maybe not. Many left after working on Dylan, no.

Just dropping a moderator note in here that a request for an Anthem subforum (really, just a general discussion/speculation place for now) has been made, since a few threads started popping up yesterday in places they don't fit since, well, there's no appropriate forum for it yet.

Cyonan is the only one with The Power to make subforums, however, so he's been paged.

Bioware Austin was created to make an MMO from first place. From the very start, that Bioware studio was funded to create SWTOR. KOTOR 3 was never on table back then.

Plus, Bioware desires to form their own IP's instead of depending on someone else's IP. Remember, Bioware went straight to create Dragon Age and Mass Effect after success of KOTOR 1. They could have made KOTOR 2 instead and get earn more money, but instead went to make their own IP's that nearly bankrupt them until EA bought them out.

Yeah, I assume they didn't just decide to delay it on the day they revealed it.   

It is unfortunate though, as a bunch of news sites already picked up on the "Spring" release and ran articles about it. Now I expect a bunch more articles coming out today saying "It's been delayed again!".

Remember that today's Xbox presentation starts at 2PM PDT hopefully they wont show the game at the end of it, but who am I kidding... Regardless, let's stay tuned.
That's at 6PM for me which means that Bethesda's conference is at 00:00 again... and tomorrow is Monday, and it's cold as Antarctica... bollocks.