BioWare must've gave him a cut for writing this article. Anthem is dead AF. I got this day 1 and once you beat the short campaign, there's literally nothing else to do but fly around and do repetitive missions to "HOPEFULLY" have a Legendary drop. And the drop rates for legendaries are still horrible till this day... Just check the reddit, and don't waste your money or time playing this shell of a game....

Uhhhh NO!

Never was to begin with.

Is this article satire?

I really wanted to like Anthem which I did at first but it turned out to be disappointing,though it could have been something really special if they would have executed the game the right way to be exciting,fresh & fun. After playing the "Finding Old Friends" story line I pretty much gave it up. I wasn't doing the Tomb Of Legionnaires" part which broke up the campaign part of the game just to hunt down & find things to enter these tombs which I thought was a pain including boring.I also think EA & Bioware aren't going to support this game like they say they are seeing so many people have stopped playing & folks stating they don't like the game.

“Vocal minority” last I recall almost no one said anything good about it.

When something completely flops the defenders call it a “vocal minority” despite universal panning.

NO

I had forgotten this even existed before this article. So the question "still worth playing?" Is comical.

People are still playing this!?

I quite enjoy the game, too. And to the naysayers, I've never had problems grouping with folks, so I'd say it's thriving rather well. At least on PC. I can't speak for console versions.

Seen about eight other players online in this game picked it up 2nd hand last month put 15 hours in played mostly by myself lol . Had a bit of fun for cheap but it is dead as a door nail on xbox.

No

How much money did EA pay them to say "Anthem is still thriving almost five months later" because no sensible gaming journalist would ever say and mean it honestly.

Have they released info about major new updates etc? Last I heard they'd gone ominously quiet.

It never was.

Free to Play wouldnt even make it worth playing

This game is much worse than Destiny ever was. Hope that answers this question.

It's interesting to me how devoted the players are. I absolutely love the game but I quit playing it quite a long time ago. It lacks content. It's a damn good game, though. Very special and cool.

The bugs and issues were there at the start but blown out of proportion. As a one-off game, it's really damn good. I've given up on it surviving mostly because the internet killed it, not Bioware. Stupid people running their ignorant idiot mouths all over the place while being obviously clueless to the people that actually know better.

It's sad how much power clueless people have through the use of the internet.

I wrote this precisely because of the negative rhetoric found in these comments. A rhetoric that turns people away from an otherwise enjoyable and fun game. In my experience a majority of the nay-sayers fall into one if not all of these categories:

1.) You overhyped the game and made a purchase unworthy of your inflated expectations.
2.) You haven't played beyond the first month
3.) You don't play with friends.
4.) You're a long time Bioware fan that expected the wrong kind of game
5.) You aren't familiar with how service based games work.

Is Anthem perfect? No. Is it still fun? Yes, especially with a regular squad. As someone who didn't pre-order based on hype and truthfully had no interest in the game on release, my suggestion is to be more aware of your purchases in the future. Don't endlessly try to rain on other players parades because of a lack of due diligence on your part.

And no, I wasn't paid. I don't work for IGN.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau