The difference is that is places the blame for HOW Anthem falls short precisely on BioWare's shoulders. Live service loot shooters exist. They can be good. They can be profitable. BioWare simply failed to make one that is either.
Yeah, people just think of it in a binary of everything that is good? That's Bioware. And everything that's bad is of course the evil EA conglomerate who *hate* video games and are looking for any excuse to kill Bioware
Who to believe, one of the most respected journalists in the industry or
Of course! No way should I be standing up for EA cause EA is responsible for their own share of shit. But THIS? Come on people, its clear as day EA wasn't coming in telling them to make a shitty non existent loot table or make enemy scaling work in reverse.
Holy fuck you are delusional.
I understand your post just fine. I'm just wondering specifically why you chose the term "flesh pit fuck house" to describe a "bad work place". What does that even mean.
Yeah every investor should just blindly give hundreds millions of dollars to any project that comes along, have no oversight of that project, its goals or target revenues, and should just blindly allow them to make anything they want. If you make an investment of that kind no fucking shit you want to see a long term plan in place to make returns on that profit. You dont give that much money out out of the goodness of your heart. If bioware didn't want to be chained to a long term revenue project then go make a smaller game that doesn't require the resources in the first place.
They get a lot these studios right as the star talent starts leaving.
Golly, that's an impressive list of things I never said. You sure showed me. Why, you beat the straw right out of that man!
Yes it does. Just because people dont understand how publishing or investments work doesn't at all change what the OP title is saying.
Says person who pretends that this game was EA's doing despite bioware repeatedly stressing this was their dream project (and jason confirming that autonomy).
It also wasn't real open world it was one of their most successful releases though.
The thread title is technically correct but doesn't accurately reflect the context of the comments, making it very misleading overall
Disagree. The context and the comments align perfectly. People are just trying to distrot them to mean EA was twisting their arm to make this when thats not whats being said nor what Bioware has stated independently either. By all accounts, of every party involved, the context presented by the OP are aligned-its only here that people are trying to spin them to mean "EA coerced them through veiled threats of long term profit", when not a threat, thats just running a business. And again, Bioware has REPEATEDLY-even before the launch and the state of the game was known-stressed this was their desired dream project.
the ideas for the game may have been Bioware's and the studio may have some autonomy. but according to schreier's tweets that autonomy is severely constrained by internal targets and incentives imposed on the studio from the publisher, and Anthem's business model was clearly informed by those constraints. missing this important context makes for a very misleading thread title
it probably also would have been smart to design it with features that made people want to earn new loot, instead of the opposite
The tweet said "what's your version of ultimate team", nothing about demanding that extreme level of profit. Guess what, BW already did their version of UT, before with ME3's multiplayer.
