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Jason Schreier - BioWare Plans A Complete Overhaul for Anthem
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Based on? They are the same team who launched the game, are they not? We need to stop giving passes and handing out good will to companies who launch games in broken states and then pledge to fix them down the line after everybody has moved on. The game had the opportunity to be "the Destiny Killer" and had a lot of good will pre-launch. The opportunity was squandered.
If they can figure out a way to turn it around that'd be great - there's definitely an interesting core of ideas there - but I'm remaining skeptical when they don't have a timeline or details or (seemingly) much of a plan yet. It makes sense that they'd want to combat the negative perception of Bioware, but their latest releases have made that pretty deserved.
Just let it die.
It would be another story if it would have been Mass Effect since people actually care about that IP and its reputation but lets be honest nobody really cares about the Anthem IP.
Take the resources and make sure you make a good game again instead trying to 180 a dead game.
It would be another story if it would have been Mass Effect since people actually care about that IP and its reputation but lets be honest nobody really cares about the Anthem IP.
Take the resources and make sure you make a good game again instead trying to 180 a dead game.
My morbid curiosity keeps bringing me back to Bioware. Whilst I think anthem can probably be salvaged in some way or form ,I don't think that EA's overall vision will let Bioware produce a worthwhile single player RPG.
But having said that, I'm more than open to being suprised.
But having said that, I'm more than open to being suprised.
Sources: BioWare Plans A Complete Overhaul For Anthem
Recent silence and a couple of high-profile departures from BioWare have led fans and pundits to speculate that the studio has abandoned its most recent game, Anthem, but the opposite is true. For the last few months, BioWare and parent company EA have been planning an overhaul of the online...kotaku.com
sounds like a realm reborn situation.
People have moved on to so much more already.. well at least The 5 people still playing will love this, what a strange usage of resources
Loved the flying around and skills, if they can fix stuff around them I'lol play again. As is if I had to make a top 10 games of 2019 for me it's would hang out around 9/10. I had a lot of fun with it.
Square at least knew they fucked up hard and early. EA and Bioware took how long to even think of this?
Basically. Nobody wants to hear that shit. Should've focused on Andromeda DLC.Meanwhile the playerbase:
At least the series is getting a sequel.
it took them 2-3 years to shut down and redo ff14, anthem hasn't even been out a year.
I was pretty sure they did it in a few months. 2 to 3 years? How much of that was beta?
Ff14 came out in September 2010, realm reborn came out in August 2013
I thought FF14 shut down entirely to be completely redone with Realm Reborn?
Final Fantasy XiV doesnt have competition?
You expect people to just give up, nah ...that aint the winners mentality.
If they make the right choices and create a product people want, we will be straight back in there. It's not like destiny hit a home run.
It was. They shut it down in November 2012 and rebooted it August 2013. And Square Enix also stopped charging fees for it at the time until it was fixed.
If No Man's Sky pulled it off, there is no reason Anthem can't as well. If anything, I want them to succeed as it will hopefully allow them to make other games (ahem, return to Mass Effect).
I actually really liked the gameplay itself but the ridiculous load screens, having to return to the fort to equip new loot, the lack of loot in the end game and the lack of end game activities killed it for me. So if they could reboot it I'd be willing to give it another look.
Could have said the same thing about XIV and now Shadowbringers is likely my game of the year.
Good for Bioware. They made a product people weren't happy with and they're trying to make it right. Pleasantly surprised they didn't decide to walk away from it.
Anthem doesnt have 3 decades of IP nostalgia to lean on for a lot of its content (or a monthly subscription fee), they arent equivalent situations
Swap to Unreal Engine.
Keep flight mechanics and expand on them.
Retain the open world but scale down the size but up the amount of encounters.
Either use the Anthem of creation stuff in interesting ways or drop it in favour of something else.
Make it a F2P loot shooter and fill it full of random cosmetics. Keep the actual loot in the game, don't hide is away through other means.
Keep flight mechanics and expand on them.
Retain the open world but scale down the size but up the amount of encounters.
Either use the Anthem of creation stuff in interesting ways or drop it in favour of something else.
Make it a F2P loot shooter and fill it full of random cosmetics. Keep the actual loot in the game, don't hide is away through other means.
Based on Jason's expose, that team barely even had a year to program and build that game. All the previous development time was squandered in pre-development and planning. In my mind, that team hasn't had an adequate amount of time to develop that game. Sure the opportunity was squandered at launch, doesn't mean they should squander the chance to turn it around and build it into something respectable.
Good luck to them, they're clearly committed to Anthem, new Dragon Age and Mass effect are on the way, hope it works out for them.
I really enjoyed the gameplay of anthem - more than a lot of other new games that have dropped over the last few years. I'd love a reason to go back to anthem at some point in ze future...
If they come back with an actual armor to hunt for, numbers and scaling that makes sense and something fun to do inside that world I'll go back for sure.
If they come back with an actual armor to hunt for, numbers and scaling that makes sense and something fun to do inside that world I'll go back for sure.
Same here. As much as Era hates Anthem, there were elements that were genuinely fun to play. It just needed way more time in the oven.
Yes I'm pretty sure we all understand that comparisons only go so far. Nobody expects Bioware to follow the exact development path and timeline of Final Fantasy XIV. Adding Cloud's motorcycle to a game isn't the only way to make a bad game better, Bioware will just have to find their own way to make things right to their customers.
If it helps, I was also happy with where No Man's Sky ended up. They didn't have 3 decades of anything, either! A true miracle.
I actually have some respect for them trying to salvage this rotting, dead corpse of a game, if only because they droned on about how they were supporting it for years to come even in the face of failure. That's honestly a good thing for people that have stuck through and supported the game even under all these circumstances.
If I'm looking at it realistically though, it's honesty probably better to just (continue to) let it die. It's not impossible for a complete turnaround ala Destiny 2/Forsaken, but the game just has too much of a negative stigma around it and I don't think players that left will come back, much less draw in new ones.
Though I suppose it's a wait and see situation, I could end up being completely wrong (Wouldn't be the first time, I thought Destiny 2 was a goner pre-forsaken)
If I'm looking at it realistically though, it's honesty probably better to just (continue to) let it die. It's not impossible for a complete turnaround ala Destiny 2/Forsaken, but the game just has too much of a negative stigma around it and I don't think players that left will come back, much less draw in new ones.
Though I suppose it's a wait and see situation, I could end up being completely wrong (Wouldn't be the first time, I thought Destiny 2 was a goner pre-forsaken)
The flying and movement along with the combat loop focusing on combining elements of different supers is all genuinely fun and actually different compared to a lot of what's out there. I'd rather have those two weeks of enjoying anthem then another CoD.
It really did need like another year of work for content and stability.
Sure, I think it can be done. Anthem has the potential to be great. The question is if it has the potential to be successful. The name Anthem has sorta become a joke, and right after release it was synonymous with everything people hated about EA, live service games, and just the AAA space in general.
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