ANTHEM - failed Destiny clone from BioWare

[Morgoth]

The anthem of Anthem:

 

[urmom]

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

...while we continue to make progress against all our game projects at BioWare...

I'm guessing Christian is ESL, but that is a pretty hilarious mistake in diction/syntax.

 

[Justicar]

DEAD GAME

 

[prengle]

i would love a conservative estimate on how much money ea and bioware collectively wasted on this soon-to-be-permanently-dead waste of a "live service" game

 

[Terra]

Frees up more dangerhairs to fuck up the next DA/ME I guess.

 

[Tom Selleck]

i would love a conservative estimate on how much money ea and bioware collectively wasted on this soon-to-be-permanently-dead waste of a "live service" game

Still not enough to shutter the studio, for some reason, even though EA has had no issues with blowing up more successful studios with smaller failures than this.

 

[Atlantico]

Gaming as a service. Sounds great! Executives and MBAs everywhere swoon at the very suggestion.

Dump the old way of thinking, with irregular revenue streams and long development lead times.

Join the new way! It literally can't fail!

Even if it could, do you want to be the MBA who isn't going after the new and exciting monetary model? Passing the cocaine would become quite awkward at those corporate outings, if you're the old-school hold-out.

You're not making a game, you're making a service platform. People are not supposed to play because they like the game, but because they're hooked on the game and the constant updates, additions, exclusives, cosmetics and lootboxes.

 

[Caim]

Sell the code to a company that can use it to make a good Iron Man game.

 

[Abu Antar]

Anthem Next from EA and BioWare has been cancelled/discontinued/killed. Probably old news by now. I missed the thread.

Live servers will be online in their current state.

 

[fantadomat]

One week,two failed projects.....and it is still only the first half of the week.

 

[ADL]

Sell the code to a company that can use it to make a good Iron Man game.

Doubt anyone would want it considering it's on Frostbite and they blame that for all the game's failures. Not only this game but half a dozen others at half a dozen other studios. Apparently Frostbite sucks to work on without DICE's team working on it with you.

 

[RepHope]

Good ol’ Bioware riding to CDPR’s rescue today.

 

[Atlantico]

Doubt anyone would want it considering it's on Frostbite and they blame that for all the game's failures.

They do blame Frostbite for a lot, but looking at how janky and undercooked everything else is, the problem is most likely just Bioware.

 

[karoliner]

RIP

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Nice, now they can get back to making more swtor updates.

 

[ADL]

Nice, now they can get back to making more swtor updates.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

i would love a conservative estimate on how much money ea and bioware collectively wasted on this soon-to-be-permanently-dead waste of a "live service" game

Still not enough to shutter the studio, for some reason, even though EA has had no issues with blowing up more successful studios with smaller failures than this.

https://massivelyop.com/2019/11/01/...llion-dollars-and-ea-is-pleased-most-pleased/

Bioware already saved one massive failure and turned it into a financial grand slam. It's the only thing keeping bioware alive but they treat the austin studio like second class.
EA was probably getting angry with them siphoning resources away from it for their failure projects.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

 

[rusty_shackleford]

So is working at McDonalds. Game developers always act like they're the only ones with hard or demanding jobs.

 

[Tom Selleck]

Game Development successful execution of integrated marketing campaigns masquerading as "Games" that develop brand awareness, affinity, and corporate shareholder interests while safeguarding seamless monetization and amplifying promotions across the brand blueprint is Hard

FTFH

 

[Lambach]

>Apparently I'm a YouTuber now
>He/Him

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Who dat old geezer

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Killing whatever update they were working on seems like the dumbest thing they could've done. This is definitely a move that's going to kill whatever goodwill they had with their fanbase that was still hanging onto some hope with this. Going to be interesting if this hurts upcoming BioWare games. Could be funny to watch.

I'd guess the Reddit is full of people that are pissed off about it. Too bad BioWare doesn't have a forum anymore, would be funny to see the reaction there.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

with their fanbase

All five of them?

If you want to talk about killing goodwill, go ask the SWTOR fanbase how they feel about devs constantly being taken off of it to go fix the rest of bioware's failures.