Dan Rodriguez for SG: "With six months of work, could the team at BioWare improve Anthem and finally shape the game into something that could compete with other games in the genre?"
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.
Lets...see bought it at lunch...sell it after 20 days...bought it again mid August...I am an experienced gamer since 1988...I play almost everything..I own all consoles and every major game plus I have 411 games on ps4 ..78 on xbox one..12 on switch..so in my humble opinion..is that I love bioware and I like very much the shooting mechanics of the game.but everything else its just not worth to invest time.for me the best shooter looter game remains destiny.after that division after that? I have my eyes on borderlands 3 right now.
EA is a major destroyer of fine studios
Where is criterion for example?
I just recently bought it (for cheap) and all I can say is it’s a mess at the moment.
I’ve been dropped out of many missions!
The loading is atrocious!
I can’t tell if im doing campaign missions or side quests?
Why does every mission have to matchmake?
I would have hated to see how this game was at launch
You can put glitter in it, stud it with diamonds, and wrap it in gold foil but at the end if the day it's still just a pile of crap.
To make this game good they'd have to add hundreds of uniquely designed pieces of loot, and completely retructure the map to accommodate more mission variety. Which means they'd also have to make dozens of new mssion types that feel pretty different from each other. Design about 5 or so new bosses/bossfights, and add some sort of actual combat functionality to the flying with missions to accommodate. All that as a free update, THEN it would be a game worth my time
who?
It’d be hard to make it worse than it was at launch.