Anthem - EA’s next PR disaster after BF 5

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I do like the spin that they "communicated far too early" rather than how they, yknow, promised too much on deliveries they knew they weren't going to make.

Despite the shit show that The Division started as, I respected Massive when they took the time to basically go yeah, we fucked up, no more DLC or paid content until we get our shit straight. They took hold of their mistake, but Bioware want to deflect.
 
"lets you finally access your inventory during missions"

It's a good sign when a dev needs 3 months to implement something any other game would have at the outset.
 
I can't understand why people keep buying shit like this. It's EA and SJWare, of course it's going to be trash.

Seriously, BioWare needs to learn how to pull a Paradox. Made a ton of promises but ended with a half-assed game? No problem! Update it with big DLCs, lauch free updates between them, flood it with tiny cosmetic DLCs, hire some streamers for a long time, wrap it all up with nice words and BLAM, you have a diehard fanbase that will never stop buying your shit, no matter how bad it is.

You can even remake core mechanics of your game this way, changing literally everything and players will keep playing and buying, even praising you for your "hard work". It worked with Stellaris.
 
Oh Shit I'm Sorry said:
"lets you finally access your inventory during missions"

It's a good sign when a dev needs 3 months to implement something any other game would have at the outset.
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Nigga fucking what? This game shipped without allowing you to access your inventory?
 
Ruin said:
Nigga fucking what? This game shipped without allowing you to access your inventory?
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You didn't know? Players couldn't access the inventory or their loadout in-game. They had to go back to the base/hub.
 
Nah, this shit is on Bioware. EA had them use the Frostbite engine, but even the most critical elements of the whistle-blower report indicate Bioware were largely left to their own devices.

This is one of the few situations where publisher oversight probably should have been a lot more tyrannical.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
Nah, this shit is on Bioware. EA had them use the Frostbite engine, but even the most critical elements of the whistle-blower report indicate Bioware were largely left to their own devices.

This is one of the few situations where publisher oversight probably should have been a lot more tyrannical.
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This game makes me feel really bad for Bioware Austin. They were founded to work only on The Old Republic and have very little experience in anything else. Then EA basically handed them Anthem and an engine they don't know how to use and told them to have fun.

There's corporate dickishness and there's corporate transcendent disckishness and this whole situation is in the latter category.
 
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EA has updated and redesigned Anthem's roadmap, complete with the removal of all timeframes or estimates as to when the content releases, and no mention of future content.

In other words, it's a roadmap that has no road and no destinations on it.
 
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OmnipotentStupidity said:
www.ea.com

Anthem - World Content Updates - EA Official Site

Check out the latest content updates and news in the ever-evolving world of Anthem
www.ea.com www.ea.com
EA has updated and redesigned Anthem's roadmap, complete with the removal of all timeframes or estimates as to when the content releases, and no mention of future content.

In other roads, it's a roadmap that has no road and no destinations on it.
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This is the third utter failure in a row. Is Bioware kill?
 
Ruin said:
This is the third utter failure in a row. Is Bioware kill?
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Fourth technically, if you count what they announced in the Developer Stream - wherein the in-game event Cataclysm was not only reduced to a limited-time 8 week event, but the entire point of doing the event is to grind for loot boxes and random shit.

And I mean loot boxes. Not loot from playing the looter-shooter. Their thought process being that by making it a limited-time event, it will bring in players who'll fear missing out on the event per WoW expansion packs.
 
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I do think that this is really bad for Bioware. EA put a TON of money into this game, they had every intention of this thing being a money printing Rolls Royce. And it turns out that the general public hates it and normies and whales alike fled in droves. Dragon Age 4, whatever it is that it turns out to be, had better meet or exceed all its marks and have a cash tail, or they are going to be off to QA or Star Wars town.
 
Lou Wrong said:
I do think that this is really bad for Bioware. EA put a TON of money into this game, they had every intention of this thing being a money printing Rolls Royce. And it turns out that the general public hates it and normies and whales alike fled in droves. Dragon Age 4, whatever it is that it turns out to be, had better meet or exceed all its marks and have a cash tail, or they are going to be off to QA or Star Wars town.
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Anthem demonstrated that Bioware is a very niche company, even after Mass Effect: Andromeda called into question whether or not they had any presence remaining in said niche.

Dragon Age 4 is already on track to becoming Anthem 2, though.
 
Honestly EA is keeping Bioware on life support far longer than I thought they would. What gives? No other promising studios willing to be bought?
 
Turns out the massive cataclysm event is just a glorified horde mode with some graphic filters.
 
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