I think Andrea fits in really well and has amazing chemistry with Greg. Their back and forth always feels natural and they just jive will together. With that said I cannot believe they went back to the anthem well today. Like how unselfaware can you possibly be, no one is happy with the coverage youre giving this game. This wasn't a segment about how much theyre enjoying the game, how problems dont bother them because theyre still having fun- it was another segment where they specifically brought up real problems, downplayed the issues and told gamers they were overreacting to the problems at hand. I just truly don't understand how they can be this oblivious. No other game this gen that I'm aware of is forcing you to reboot your console in safety mode because of a patch (least of all from a major triple A release). Andrea even going so far as to suggest this is actually commendable and we should be appreciative of the devs fixing this so fast (while telling greg "then just dont play the game until its patched" for a full priced 60 dollar game, that requires a couple of weeks of waiting for a fix) is up there with "every single game Ive ever played has crashed my ps4" and "I havent played the game but I'm going to tell everyone that has and is professionally reviewing it that criticizing x,y and z that theyre wrong" levels of insanity.
Like yeah gaming has come a long way but online gaming, let alone merely 4 player co-op PVE games, have been a staple of gaming for two generations, the magic wore off because thats what happens when its been two console generations since this stuff was new to gaming. Acting like we should still be bewildered by common practices, and then should be thankful when a dev fixes a problem that shouldn't have existed in their full price game in the first place, is all sorts of backwards to me. When I buy a car I'm not thankful that my dealer fixes a problem that they didn't see when selling it to me, its the very minimum I expect from them when selling me a product that was supposed to come without issues.
It would be incredibly sad if she actually quit over this. Like just take a step back and realize its perfectly ok to really love this game but there is no reason to come on this show and defend it with such dismissive attitudes and tell blatant lies about your experiences with gaming in order to downplay the problems at hand. Like nobody in the world believed her "every game soft bricks my ps4 just like anthem" spiel when she said it. It was just a brazen hyperbolic lie, why did you say something so ridiculous to mitigate the backlash? Even if every game does do this (it doesnt), it still doesn't excuse Anthem for doing it. Telling your audience repeatedly that theyre going overboard for not wanting a full priced game to be soft bricking their system is just as silly, its a serious issue and the fact its gonna take them a couple weeks to fix it isn't super common or something to be praised. Like its insane how intransigent shes being about this, and its insane that they seriously keep coming back to this game when their coverage continues to be "let us tell you why youre wrong to be concerned about Anthem's issues", and then when called on it act like its a hate mob or people telling you not to like the game, or that people just want EA to fail (apex says hello), or titling your videos "Anthem vs the world", because poor little billion dollar anthem is getting criticism for powering down people's consoles-let alone all of its other problems.
I just dont get what theyre thinking and how theyre this oblivious to the situation. Its almost as incredible as watching the anthem train wreck itself. Theres no reason to go down with this ship.
