In one of the most amusing video game stories of the summer, Sony has now pulled a YouTube video for BioWare's upcoming sci-fi shooter Anthem after it turned out to be Xbox One X footage, just now with awkwardly doctored PS4 buttons.
BioWare's multiplayer shooter Anthem was terminated this week because EA no longer wanted to maintain servers for people to play the game on, and without them, no one can play the game. But the former executive producer of Anthem has revealed that BioWare had technology working, close to the game's release, that would enable us to host our own servers to play the game on.
I'd be fine just playing it as a localhost and dumb as rocks AI bots. Just give me the choice.
BioWare and EA had previously said the game would be accessible to those who owned it until it shuts down on January 12.
Time flies (like a Javelin suit): there are only 10 days left to play BioWare's ill-fated multiplayer game Anthem before the servers are switched off, presumably forever.
In my opinion, Anthem was a good IP that was worthy of a no man's sky or cyberpunk 2077 treatment.
To this day, their sub reddit is active and I was able to get into a game quickly a few weeks ago when I booted it up.
It is a shame EA and Bioware didn't want to give the game the overhaul it needed to turn it into a competent looter shooter.
I wholeheartedly agree. If ANY game deserved to get the rework/relaunch it deserved it was this one. More than literally any other. Even over FFXIV, No Mans Sky etc.
I just finished this up a couple days ago. Although it's a bit repetitive and the story is meh, the game feels great to play. Even if you can only hop on the game for a couple hours before it shuts down, I think it's worth it.
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They can spend billions to buy or get bought but they can’t spend a fraction of that to fix or overhaul a game that could have been truly special, smh.
Wow it was okay Sony dang that super stinks.
Do better job at photoshopping
Good. The article contains a good deal of nonsense though.
- Implies that it's actually been confirmed that Sony "doctored" footage rather than any chance EA supplied it to them.
- Talks about Sony having a "renewed disinterest in indie games", which has been completely debunked with there being more indie games released on PS4 every week by far than the competition, and just 6 months ago, Sony chose to hold an optional high-profile event at their own expense which showcased the works of over 80 indie developers, and housed plenty of great indie announcements. That event was known as the PlayStation Experience 2016 and will be held again this December.
- Brings up "mounting ire from gamers shouldn't be ignored" when at the very same time a lack of cross-play between Windows 10 and Steam games (even from Microsoft first-party) is being full on ignored and for obvious reason, by a certain contingent of the gaming community, in favor of trying to drag Sony through the dirt about cross-play these people didn't care about just a year ago.
"Sony didn't arrange to get its own Anthem footage but also couldn't show anything with Xbox branding on their official YouTube channel, either."
What do people expect? It was all scripted. MS has had to do the same before with big names 3rd party games like Destiny and Call of duty gameplay. I doubt it has anything to do with either company. It's nothing new to the industry.
We already knew this was multiplatform, whoever at Sony did this. This was unnecessary