BREAKING: Bioware tells Anthem fans to go fuk themselves

[LtGoose]

with a watermelon shaped dildo


Anthem Next has been canceled, BioWare announces

BioWare has announced that it's permanently halting development on Anthem Next, which would've been a bottom-up transformation roughly on par with No Man's Sky Next and Destiny: The Taken King. Anthem servers will continue running as usual, BioWare has confirmed.

In recent weeks, EA has reportedly been grappling with decisions around how to handle Anthem's future. Early last year, the studio committed to a complete overhaul of Anthem meant to provide "a more satisfying loot experience, better long-term progression, and a more fulfilling end game." But a recent Bloomberg report described a situation where EA wasn't sure whether to fund Anthem Next.

Sauce:
https://www.gamesradar.com/anthem-ne...are-announces/


Reports are that the Anthem team has been moved to work on a new Dragon Age game

https://mobile.twitter.com/jasonschr...54789443862528



Looks like Anthem worked exactly as intended, cash grab then dip.

[PumkinPie]

Anthem had fans?

[pondus_levo]

Never heard of her.

[freeburn]

I'm pretty sure they told everyone that on launch day when the game flopped like an old ding dong

[rocketfish]

cyberpunk/anthem are great reasons why people should never pre-order. I was very excited from anthem, but I waited and the reviewers saved me money.

[GnomeSaiyanBruh]

Man that sucks. I actually enjoyed the game, though it was really short. I feel it had so much potential, but I guess I’ll just go fuk myself.

[havoc00]

Lmao

[ohiostate124]

Anthem had fans?

This. It was always trash. If you are somehow still playing it at this point then you deserve this.

[JayJ350]

Anthem had fans?

This is the first thing that came to mind when I read the title lol.

[Weezy32]

The game looked great and the gameplay was great as well. The problem is the story was forgettable missions were boring and loot/customization was terrible/non existant.


Sometimes I wonder what a company like GGG (makers of path of exile) could do with a game like Anthem.

[InstantLoser]

I seem to remember getting the game for free when I bought a video card or a monitor/something. It was fun for a few days while I played through the main campaign, but pretty much immediately died after that.

[freeburn]

I wanted to play it but I never got it to work when I was interested. It would crash repeatedly.

The premise seemed great, destiny in an iron man suit basically.

[rectifryer]

Hahahahaha

[ScramFranklin]

good. maybe now they won't focus on making GAAS. I hate GAAS so much. Feels like a hamster wheel combined with a slot machine. Hopefully The Avengers flopping wakes more developers up as well.

I literally don't want a game designed around trying to keep me playing forever and ever, unless it's just regular multiplayer for fun.

Games as a Service 99% of the time feels like a chore or job, not fun.

[Soonerjohn]

Hey, I enjoyed anthem.....for a day.

[dcbone30]

Played it on the EA pass I bought for a single month sub. So glad I didn't pay $60 for that garbage game.

[BearyManilowe]

As long as the next Dragon Age has less bullchit than Inquisition I'm in. Fuk me was the game a long haul.

[sooby]

Is Anthem one of the biggest failed games of this decade?? lol

[AD117]

"Anthem fans"

All both of them lol

[nkiritsis13]

More like EA told Bioware that if they gave them anymore rope to hang themselves with at this point, they'd be standing on the ground with a coil wrapped around them to their necks.

Anthem had fans?

Oh, totally!

Just like Lawbreakers or Battleborn...

good. maybe now they won't focus on making GAAS. I hate GAAS so much. Feels like a hamster wheel combined with a slot machine. Hopefully The Avengers flopping wakes more developers up as well.

I literally don't want a game designed around trying to keep me playing forever and ever, unless it's just regular multiplayer for fun.

Games as a Service 99% of the time feels like a chore or job, not fun.

Too many of these companies that attempt a GAAS don't understand that the few successes are in part lightning in a bottle, and another part a massive investment in delivering content and updates at a steady pace that is unrealistic for most developers because of what a dramatic shift in workflow that entails.

Even the successes amongst GAAS titles like EA's own Apex Legends should have been enough to show what kind of storm they would have to weather; one of the developers even went off on the "community*" after being fed up with the feedback loop.

*Reddit ha ha. What do you really expect when you make the screeching, autistic hivemind of reddit your "community," where it's a coin toss whether everyone there could either be fourteen or forty?

That article links back to Polygon, which has a link to the original reddit thread that is actually worth clicking (since the Respawn dev's comments are all at the top) because it's like watching a textual ping pong ball bouncing back and forth.

From the IGN article, the developer lamented how after working in the industry "long enough to remember when players weren't complete a**-hats to developers and it was pretty neat," yet also lacks the self-awareness to say this in response to complaints over the high price of micromacro-transactions:
"We are not a hugely monetizing game - we just need to make enough money to keep the game going and make more stuff for everyone. When we decided to make Apex Legends a free-to-play game it was imperative that free-only players still can get access to all gameplay while also having the chance at earning the coolest looking cosmetics."

Crazy thought here, but maybe part of those good ol' days when there were healthier communities boiled down to people paying for a game and - huge shocker - actually receiving a game.


I bring all of that up because it's the same with all of these GAAS titles - free like Apex or paid like Anthem - where the real price of the game depends on how long someone is willing to put with the intentionally slow grind to earn in-game currency to recoup the content stripped out of the game or the amount they are willing to drop up front to receive that content immediately.

Without a stream of content, be it gameplay or item-related, there is no reason for people to log back in, but it's the developers who create this incessant loop by designing their game and its reward systems towards nonstop engagement rather than create a solid but more sustainable foundation to build from more gradually.

With Anthem, they already had expensive purchases that were going to be their means of generating revenue to maintain the necessary, ongoing support. The problem is that if you look at the kinds of things they had for sale, it is precisely the sort of content you expect to be in any loot driven game as the incentive for continuing to play.

None of these GAAS developers seem to understand that the Chuck-E-Cheese model of grinding to earn fake coins to exchange for the thing that you actually want is the laziest and least involving way to create a sense of reward. Overcoming a specific challenge to finally attain a unique item as proof of your endeavors has been tried and true since the good ol' days that developers like that Apex Legends one seem to miss, but they keep going back to this model of shallow content being streamed indefinitely that requires constant upkeep despite just how few actual successes there are to cite.

Make a full game, release an expansion, charge for both - seems pretty simple since that's what they've been doing for decades before. Part of what makes that old way so much more reliable is that they no longer have to compete with every other game in existence for the nonstop, undivided attention (and money) from their core fan base.

[anonymous]

As long as the next Dragon Age has less bullchit than Inquisition I'm in. Fuk me was the game a long haul.

You're in for a treat, if by bullchit you mean not enough battling the patriarchy and dismantling white supremacist tropes

[kr1kit]

Is Anthem one of the biggest failed games of this decade?? lol

Anthem, Fallout 76, CP2077.

[JayJ350]

Anthem, Fallout 76, CP2077.

I would replace CP2077 with Evolve. CP2077 still has a future at least, with a rapidly growing mod scene.

[MrBourbon]

Anthem had fans?

This. They shouldn't talk to their mothers that way.

[JStrez]

cyberpunk/anthem are great reasons why people should never pre-order. I was very excited from anthem, but I waited and the reviewers saved me money.

Don't even see the point of preorders anymore. You can download chit straight to your console/PC without a disk. You used to preorder so you'd snag a copy of MW2 when your local Gamestop sold out. Now you can just get anything, anytime, anywhere, with no need for pre-orders.

[M0nsterB0y]

I would replace CP2077 with Evolve. CP2077 still has a future at least, with a rapidly growing mod scene.

At least with CP2077, the experiences varies.

A lot of people like me, only encountered minor bugs and enjoyed the story and side missions a lot. Steam reviews are also on mostly positive. So honestly I think what's really overhyped on CP2077 is the hate for it. It became the cool thing to hate from December to January.

[ohiostate124]

At least with CP2077, the experiences varies.

A lot of people like me, only encountered minor bugs and enjoyed the story and side missions a lot. Steam reviews are also on mostly positive. So honestly I think what's really overhyped on CP2077 is the hate for it. It became the cool thing to hate from December to January.

Now post the reviews for it on console

[M0nsterB0y]

Now post the reviews for it on console

I wouldn't even know where to look because I don't game on console. I can only talk about my own experience, which was on PC. And when it comes to PC games, Steam reviews are probably the most reliable.

[MikeLowrrrey]

cyberpunk/anthem are great reasons why people should never pre-order. I was very excited from anthem, but I waited and the reviewers saved me money.

Why are you comparing CD Projekt Red to Bioware? Witcher 3 still gets support today, 5 years 4 years after release. They're also doing a next gen update for the new consoles.

[MikeLowrrrey]

Now post the reviews for it on console

It wasn't bad for PS5/Series X users. So what it was bug ridden, they'll fix it and the game will be glorious similar to Battlefield 4.

Like I said before, CDPR continues to support their games for years on end. The potential for this game is crazy big. DLC and a multiplayer component.