EA Might Pull the Plug on BioWare’s Anthem This Week

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BioWare has been working hard over the past year in an attempt to reinvent and salvage its failing online multiplayer action role-playing game, Anthem, but the effort may have been in total vain. According to a report published today by Bloomberg, EA executives will be deciding this week whether to continue funding Anthem or to pull the plug completely on the troubled title. While grim, the latter doesn’t seem too far fetched, as sources claim that EA would have to triple BioWare’s current team for it to properly overhaul the game.



“This week, EA executives will review the latest version of Anthem Next and decide whether to expand the team or abandon the project […]” Bloomberg reported. “The Anthem Next team includes about 30 people, BioWare...

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[Auer]

I thought it had a lot of potential, and enjoyed it for a while.
it was like a demo really, so far from being a whole game.

 

[Dan_D]

It was also no where near what was promised. It always felt like a bad Destiny clone with flight mechanics added to it.

 

[LazyGamer]

I've had it installed for well over a year and still haven't convinced myself to play it.

I can say that for a lot of things, but for this one, while the mechanics were great, the feel great, the graphics great, that's basically it. EA knows they only need a fraction more than that too, given the franchises they've... milked, so they really should just own it.


And it really seems like it was the idea that stuck to the wall the longest after the gaming media elite review-bombed Andromeda for being too woke and yet not woke enough at the same time.

 

[Brian_B]

I picked it up for $4.99 one day and played through the main story.

It will be a shame to see the game die - it played very well, controls were smooth, graphics not too bad. If only they could have figured out what to do what that. The story wasn’t bad, just short and the game kinda stops having anything to do after that.

Im honestly shocked they didn’t turn it into either a shooter like COD or a battle royale and just cash in.

 

[Dan_D]

Compared to Destiny 2, the combat of Anthem felt clunky and awkward to me.

 

[Denpepe]

Compared to Destiny 2, the combat of Anthem felt clunky and awkward to me.

Yet that was sill better then walking around the city like a 95 year old with a stroller, game would have been better imo if the city and outdoors would be more seamless, and not getting ported back to town after every quest.

 

[Eduardo_Domingot]

Yet that was sill better then walking around the city like a 95 year old with a stroller, game would have been better imo if the city and outdoors would be more seamless, and not getting ported back to town after every quest.

This was a huge issue for me. It killed any immersion the game could have hoped to have.

 

[Dan_D]

Yet that was sill better then walking around the city like a 95 year old with a stroller, game would have been better imo if the city and outdoors would be more seamless, and not getting ported back to town after every quest.

Definitely. It was one of the games many problems.

 

[Burticus]

I own this for some reason, tried to play it once, gave up during first 30 mins, haven't touched since.

I think it came with a CPU or GPU I bought, I know I wouldn't pay cash for that.

 

[Dan_D]

I own this for some reason, tried to play it once, gave up during first 30 mins, haven't touched since.

I think it came with a CPU or GPU I bought, I know I wouldn't pay cash for that.

It's pretty bad. There are some neat concepts in it but the execution was lacking to say the least.

 

[Grimlakin]

I own this for some reason, tried to play it once, gave up during first 30 mins, haven't touched since.

I think it came with a CPU or GPU I bought, I know I wouldn't pay cash for that.

Came with 2080 video cards. At least when I got mine it did. Or was it the R9 3900x... one of those.