The number and types of problems facing Anthem are enough to leave one wondering whether or not BioWare really thought this game through while they were developing it. These are basic problems that have already been solved by many games that came before Anthem, yet here they are anyway. Its loot is boring, which makes for a wholly unsatisfactory grind and makes the presence of the cash shop even more suspect than it would normally be. Their handling of said cash shop just makes everything worse too. Its stock is too limited; its refresh timer is annoying; its items are too bland, and they’re all grossly overpriced given the actual earn rate for “coin.” Anthem has potential, but it’ll never realize it if BioWare and EA allow these sorts of fundamental problems to persist much longer.
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.
It has a loot of problems.
Anthem desperately needs end game content. Doing the same boring contracts and stronghold(s) is old already. What keeps me playing though is trying to get that perfect build but once I get that what am I going to do with it? There’s no bosses other than strongholds.