First Anthem ideas come from 2014 or even 2012, according to latest details shared by Casey Hudson
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.
This game smells huge downgrade incoming!!!! Huge!!!!
I'm very displeased with how they threw Mass Effect under the bus in favor of copying Destiny's success. As far as I'm concerned Bioware is treading ever closer to my, "nah", list.. But I'll still keep an eye on Anthem, it may surprise me. At least it deserves a chance.
..I did like the art design and graphics even though it's likely going to see a classy manipulative marketing downgrade, and the idea of the wall and the unknown threat was pretty mysterious and interesting... The suit game play looked cool and I do like finding loot and exploring underwater.. I just hope it doesn't suffer from Semi-MMO-itus where it's basically a half baked washed out campaign that really just favors players making the experience valuable online without really developing much on the story front, "Outside of a website codex at least."
Time will tell, it's too early. But I remain sceptical for now.
Not long enough for it to look like that on anything but the highest-end of high-end PCs... not an Xbox One X.
I wonder which will be delayed first, this or Kingdom Hearts 3?
IMO either Late 2018 or early 2019