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RIP Anthem

Posted on 2/24/21 at 3:21 pm
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
Antarctica
Member since Aug 2018
9272 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 3:21 pm
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After putting a pin in short-term updates and expansions to focus on a “longer-term redesign” of the game, EA announced today that it will be canceling its planned revamp of the game Anthem, called Anthem Next. But the company plans to keep Anthem’s live service running “as it exists today.”

“In the spirit of transparency and closure we wanted to share that we’ve made the difficult decision to stop our new development work on Anthem (aka Anthem NEXT),” BioWare executive producer Christian Dailey said in a recent blog post. “We will, however, continue to keep the Anthem live service running as it exists today.”


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Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
66466 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 3:27 pm to
i tried warning everyone that it was gonna be trash YEARS before it released. good riddance
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
13981 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 3:28 pm to
so glad I never bought this.

All the EA press before it released was basically "look how good we can make games look!"

I couldn't tell you what the story was then and I still can't. That's a red flag for me.
This post was edited on 2/24/21 at 3:29 pm
Posted by SCgamecock2988
Columbia, SC
Member since Oct 2015
14088 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 4:16 pm to
I got it for free with my GPU and it was still a waste of money.
Posted by CornDogCologne
AFUERA!
Member since Nov 2007
8724 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 4:18 pm to
Nothing more joyous than watching a dogshit games as a service platform die.
Posted by theducks
Where The Blazers Play
Member since Aug 2013
13733 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 7:22 pm to
I had a buddy that shilled this game so hard. Even after playing it for a month. He kept falling for the EA promises.

As a veteran Madden player and former NBA live fan, I told him he would only be disappointed in the end. Fortunately he quit playing after another month.
This post was edited on 2/24/21 at 7:23 pm
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
96385 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 9:49 pm to
Given EA’s history of making their subsidiaries do fricking stupid projects and then shutting them down when they fail, how long does BioWare have?

ME Andromeda and Anthem are now two failures caused at least in part by EA’s fricking stupid mandates.
Posted by wish i was tebow
The Golf Board
Member since Feb 2009
46121 posts
Posted on 2/24/21 at 10:04 pm to
I was so hyped for this game then they showed the gameplay demo and I was immediately out

Posted by cfish140
BR
Member since Aug 2007
7256 posts
Posted on 2/25/21 at 6:00 am to
I actually am one of the few that enjoyed it. I don’t play online with friends very often, always much preferred single player rpgs but I had a good time playing with friends when it came out. As someone who’s not big on the looter shooter genre I went in with 0 expectations. I can see how die hards of the genre were dissapointed though
Posted by Rhio
Lake Charles
Member since Dec 2013
1327 posts
Posted on 2/26/21 at 5:18 pm to
This thing was so poorly managed, I actually feel sorry for the guys that worked on it.

They were pressured to make a Destiny clone, on the Frostbite engine. None of the developers on the team had any experience with either of those things. They pushed it out knowing it would fail.

It's a sad story, you can read about it on Kotaku.
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