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OPINION: Anthem's Overhaul Has Me Conflicted - MMORPG.com
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OPINION: Anthem's Overhaul Has Me Conflicted - MMORPG.com
In case you missed it, yesterday, Anthem-head Casey Hudson announced in a blog that the team was going to essentially overhaul the game top to bottom. I’m genuinely conflicted about this admittedly unsurprising confirmation from BioWare. On one hand, I don’t want BioWare to dump more resources into the objective failure that is Anthem. However, I do want to see the true fulfillment of that concept shown off to us at E3 2017. Let’s discuss.
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I get what you say about leadership tough, FF14 became as great as it is now because Yoshi had a vision for ARR.
I don't think Bioware has to list all the things that led them to making a game that wasn't well received. They could, but I'm sure there's a lot that goes into that stone soup.
If they say they are going to remake it then it's not a fan project. They aren't doing it for the love of the game (or at least not entirely) but it's a business decision.
Now, they might not have the leadership in place to see this through or they made EA promise to not interfere so they can do what they need to do. We don't know.
All people can do is wait and see. I doubt it will negatively affect other projects if those other projects are a priority.
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Kind of the same thing with Bethesda doing FO76 with support form ESO's ZOS team instead of the other way around.
If you want a big read with all the gory details the old Kotaku article is pretty good: https://kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731964
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however this is bioware and i'm not sure they can do much more than small fixes.
to get this game where it needs to be they'd need a lot of money and competence.
also seems like there's a couple of new competitors about to step up this year so it may be too late.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
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What, me worry?
Gets me how they once improved the drops and said it was a bug and fixed it, and how they had planned to take our flying. O_o Hopefully they will put someone on lead who has more experience with what consumers want in such a game.
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This is Gold , why doesn't this post have make wilkes its the truth! I bought the game at full frakin price on Ps4 and when I found out found out ok you need 2 subscriptions to.pmay it in full on Ps4 I never played it and watched the terrible reviews and traded the game for less than $10 since value dropped so fast, there guys are s ppl greedy that they won't cancel.the game to rebuild it.
swtor rides it's star wars brand and that's about it.
bioware does interesting settings/stories
gameplay not so much
quality even less.
it's like they blow their budget on world building and spend what little they got left on actual development.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
The only reason it worked for FF14 is because it is a Final Fantasy game, a very storied franchise.Yoshi had nothing to do with FFXIV,that was all a smokescreen blaming Tanaka because he was leaving anyhow and it looks good for the press laying blame then bringing in a new producer.I quit FFXIV because it is still imo the same game design,the combat and class structure is still inferior to FFXI.
Anthem was a horrible shallow game and does need a complete overhaul, a simple tweak here or there would not be good enough.Do i think they will actually overhaul the game and fix it,no i do not but it sounds good on paper.It needs top be changed right from the beginning with the exo suits idea.
I feel that ANY flying around in a game world cheapens the effect of the game world.
As to resources and SE versus Bioware.There is no comparison here,SE put a LOT of time and money into building FFXIV,i followed it from the Orange version many years ago.Anthem looks like a game whipped together in a year max with very little resources spent.Point being they could build another Anthem from scratch and still be a cheaper game than FFXIV.Yet again,i do not believe they will put in the work that Anthem needs.
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If SE can do it why can't everybody else?
Shit how many suckers are backing kickstarters that are not delivering?
We got unfinished games launching, rinse and repeat, copy/paste relaunch to take your fucking money again.
For every game launched you have your suckers, whiteknighters, and the fuckers who wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Anthem’s flaws arent just in a poor endgame loop. The narrative and characters are cardboard placeholders. Not to mention Fort Tarsis is a complete black hole of fun. It’s a worse hub than Wolfenstein 2’s Nazi Uboat.