When Anthem launched players quickly realized that, underneath all that hype about an ever-evolving story and world, it was a disjointed, unimaginative loot shooter full of needless padding and repetitive missions. But there was also a glimmer of hope. Anthem wasn't the first live-service game to launch in a bad state, and though things were grim, other games like Diablo 3 and Battlefield 4 had skirted similar launch disasters. But nothing in the past four months since Anthem's release—including its long-awaited and over-promised Cataclysm endgame—has given me any confidence in BioWare's ability to turn things around.
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.
Anthem is hopeless???
*insert surprised Pikachu meme*
The game has loads of potential. It's the management at Bioware that's hopeless.
Anthem IS hopeless. Idc what dlc comes out for this game, I am never going back to it. There are so many design decisions that could've made this game viable. I bought it, I played it. TBH the gameplay is really fun if unbalanced at times. But the hub isn't intuitive, the story is forgettable, it's glitchy, not alot of end game motivation.
The hub is my biggest problem. You have to spend way too much time there. I dont want to slowly walk around trying to find npc's to have drawn out conversations with just to get a side mission or increase loyalties that ultimately mean nothing. On top of that they kinda punish you for free roaming cuz it's the worse way to level up. Spending time actually playing the game is the worse way to level up LOL. I'm good.
Where are all the people that defended this EA classic BS at release? Now suddenly they are all in silence... fanboyism is an ugly thing
Now people are going to be hoping they can pull a Destiny and fix it with an expansion.