Anthem - EA’s next PR disaster after BF 5

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Miller said:
Cisquisition was an offline MMO, Andromeda was Cisquisition in space, Anthem was "what if Andromeda was a 4-player co-op game?" and now DA is Anthem with dragons :story:
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To me, it was obvious the thing to do if EA wanted to push online was to start with ME3 and follow that on with a ME:Online multiplayer shooter, and develop them into separate games. Then once they got the kinks worked out with online, start work on a new ME game that was like Anthem/Destiny/Warframe.

But then again I'm just not smart as those big brained executives.
 
V0dka said:
To me, it was obvious the thing to do if EA wanted to push online was to start with ME3 and follow that on with a ME:Online multiplayer shooter, and develop them into separate games. Then once they got the kinks worked out with online, start work on a new ME game that was like Anthem/Destiny/Warframe.

But then again I'm just not smart as those big brained executives.
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Hey i'd play a Mass Effect Warframe/Destiny type game. Add ship battles and I'm sold.
 
EA announced their EA Play (what they're doing instead of E3? Can't remember if they're going or not) schedule which is the reveal of that new Star Wars game which is supposed to be a good SW game for once. That, and absolutely fucking nothing: https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/1135577923992166400

Apex Legends and Battlefield V are both corpses, Madden and FIFA games are only interesting to the people who still buy them every year and topping it all off is more paid expansions for Sims 4 for the people who really like giving EA money. The biggest takeaway here though is the complete lack of Anthem on this list and when fucking BFV is beating you out for slot time it really doesn't inspire much hope in your game's future.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
What happened with Apex anyway? Did the dev team get caught raping an orphan or something?
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It's a Battle Royale game that showed up over a year late to the party. It was a shiny new toy for a bit then people just went back to playing Fortnite again.
 
Season 1 came out and the battlepass/accompanying rewards were shit tier. Not to mention their jewing of only giving a finite number of loot boxes on level up, you want more you pay for credits goy.
 
Oh Shit I'm Sorry said:
EA announced their EA Play (what they're doing instead of E3? Can't remember if they're going or not) schedule which is the reveal of that new Star Wars game which is supposed to be a good SW game for once. That, and absolutely fucking nothing: https://twitter.com/EAStarWars/status/1135577923992166400

Apex Legends and Battlefield V are both corpses, Madden and FIFA games are only interesting to the people who still buy them every year and topping it all off is more paid expansions for Sims 4 for the people who really like giving EA money. The biggest takeaway here though is the complete lack of Anthem on this list and when fucking BFV is beating you out for slot time it really doesn't inspire much hope in your game's future.
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I will never understand how people try to justify the prices on The Sims 4 expansions, they're almost the price of a new game. I will never fault anyone who pirates that shit.
 
Cod of War said:
I will never understand how people try to justify the prices on The Sims 4 expansions, they're almost the price of a new game. I will never fault anyone who pirates that shit.
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For a lot of people it is the only game they play consistently. They might buy other games every once in a while but they mostly stick to Sims. Its kind of like how people drop shit tons on games like Dota 2 and CS:GO mostly becasue they play those games a lot so they get see it as worth the cost.
 
Catgirl IRL said:
What happened with Apex anyway? Did the dev team get caught raping an orphan or something?
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A lot of momentum was generated by their marketing team being really smart about when to push marketing.

The game released with little to no fanfare, got the reputation as "this surprise smash hit" and then the marketing team went full bore and started paying big streamers huge piles of cash to solidify the image of "look at how popular this game is, TFuE and Ninja switched from Fortnite!".

It's rumored that some of the streamers made seven figures to switch over for a while and EA clearly wasn't going to keep that up; so as the momentum died down so did the hype. They hype died down before they figured out how to really monetize the game (via battlepass) so they hurt themselves to some degree in the long run. It still makes money but it's not going to make Fortnite money.
 
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Oh that’s gold....
 
I barely knew about this game besides oooo neat jet packs for a long while, first I heard about it after that was the postmortems, which should say smth about the marketing
 
Isn‘t it funny that you can see a games failure from a mile away?

What makes it funnier is the publishers who spend millions trying to make this stillborn a success.
 
By all accounts EA gave Bioware every chance and advantage. The only corporate mandated thing was the choice of engine, and you can't pin the games failings on that alone.

They had six damn years and had their key mobility shit like flight active with only months to go.
 
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