BioWare has issued a statement over on Reddit with regards to ANTHEM. The game's latest update has just launched, adding a fresh stronghold and some welcome quality of life changes -- but it's not all good news. As the developer focuses on further improvements, such as bug fixes and better game stability, it's noted that some key features have been delayed. This includes the cataclysm -- an important in-game event that was touted even before the title released back in February.
The statement seems quite sincere, but the community's response hasn't been entirely positive. For starters, BioWare writes that it's been ten weeks since the game's "early access release", which has raised a few eyebrows. While the phrasing is technically correct, it makes it sound as though ANTHEM launched in early access, and that's obviously not the case -- it hit the market as a full price product, regardless of when it was made available on certain platforms.
"We know you have been waiting for these updates, and that you might not be pleased with where we are today. We understand and respect these perspectives," the developer writes. Of course, the consensus is that ANTHEM simply shouldn't have launched in the condition that it did, and because of that, players are still waiting on elements that were disappointingly absent on day one.
"The only thing we can say is this – We Believe in ANTHEM. We believe the game will be great, but we recognize getting there will take a lot of hard work. We want to do that work and we want you all to join us on the journey to get there," BioWare concludes.
All in all, it's nice to see the studio communicate like this, but at the same time, it sounds like ANTHEM's still a ways off its expected course. And to be frank, we can't imagine many players have any real patience left. If by some miracle ANTHEM does one day evolve into a great game, we find ourselves wondering whether people will even be there to see it happen.
[source reddit.com]
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Is this game still a thing?
I stop playing when The Division 2 came out.
With Days Gone right around the corner, they can take their time getting stuff done, I'll check-in in a few months.
Il get this down the line. I learnt from destiny to wait a good few months before buying games like this. Its refreshing to see a company admit its behind and its focusing on fixing issues rather than just focusing on new things or dlc. In fairness tho it was way behind the road map it setup for itself and it should have been addressed sooner I feel.
Can see this been a ps plus game early 2020
I dont see this as a nice to see studio communicate like this. I see this as a studio doing this because they have to out of fear of being shut down for good.
If given time, yeah, maybe in a year it can be just ok. But I doubt I would ever play this unless it went f2p or psn+ as mentioned above by B-D. Even if it improves it doesn't mean it won't be shut down soon. Not worth putting money on.
@B-I-G-DEVIL
Exactly my thought, they’ll do life Destiny 2, give the base game free after one year to sell some major expansion and pull people back in.
I will jump in to clear the new stronghold, then I will wait. Soon FFXIV shadowbringers is out anyway, so I can waste enough time there until Anthem has more updates coming.
Division 2s world is sadly far too boring for my taste of games. I wish it was different.
Some people believe the world is flat, others believe that the world is run by the Illuminati, Bioware believes that one day Anthem will be a good game. What a crazy world we live in.
Thank God I didn't buy into this crap instead I continue to play Destiny 2 since I got Forsaken it's so much better. This game should never have been released they just dug the hole even deeper by basically saying it should never have launched in Early Access. Because that was the game was EA (the pun there).
This game won't be anywhere near what they want or set to put out with that content map, and when it does it will be totally forgotten the game server will be dropped and Bioware if not already will be closed.
I'll grab this when it's $5-$10 on PSN or free with PS+, always suspected it'd turn out crappy.
Full price early access 😂😂😂😂
Good luck to everyone who still wants to play garbage like this for some reason
How quickly people forget that BioWare employees are having to sacrifice their mental and physical health working on this game....Every single one of you expressing a fresh interest in this game, or even hope for something better to come from it; you are all a bunch of hypocrites!
So which is the biggest mess Anthem or Fallout 76?
Its admirable they want to improve it, but the game is deader than a dead thing thats been dead for a 100 years. Its probably best to cut their losses, move on, have a break and make sure the next game they work on, doesnt turn out in the same mess.
This b/s of releasing broken, half finished games has to end and only the consumers can end it. People should not put their money into companies cashing in on fancy marketing and empty promises.
Surely the lessons are learnt now. If we don't act, it will never change.
@bindiana Fallout 76 is easily the worse game (in my opinion), and that's mostly because it still runs extremely badly on PS4. The damn thing's near broken — at least Anthem works 95% of the time.
Having said that, it wouldn't surprise me at all if more people are playing Fallout 76 than Anthem at this point.
I don’t play online multiplayer shooters and so I just dropped by to follow the story out of morbid curiosity.
But it seems like it’s the norm now to rely on a game longevity rather than its quality at release. So many of the online-centric games seem to be this way. Bare bones or broken at release, then a year later the game is some semblance of expectations. I just don’t get it. Single player games are bad enough with their day 1 patches and constant updates, but these multiplayer games seem to be a mess for the first several months after release.
I've sold my copy and bought The Division 2. Yes I wrote that elsewhere but I wanted to write it again.
Cause I believed in Anthem. I defended it. And then, one day... I realised that I wasn't paid by EA to do their com'. That my empathy for the developpers had completly obstructed my judgement as a player, clouded the fact that I was in right to expect some quality gaming. Cause, you know, I PAID for this game.
The Division 2 gives you immediatly the exact opposite feeling. There's just too much stuff here for your money / time.
"We Believe in ANTHEM"
Well, they kind of have to, because nobody else does.
To think I had pre-ordered this at some point... what a modern day gaming meme.
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