Two things bother me about Anthem (well, three).
1) the game comes out in 2019, the same year as Destiny 3. Probably the same year as Death Stranding.
2) Anthem is billed as a full blown MMO and what I like about Destiny is that it is a shooter first and an RPG MMO second.
3) Bioware messed up Mass Effect Andromeda. The Frostbite engine was probably the wrong choice, and it's going to power Anthem too. I hope EA and Bioware learned their lesson.
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Edited by AWearyTraveler: 6/12/2017 6:53:37 PMIt comes out in fall 2018, actually.
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There is some dispute on the release date. From EA CEO Andrew Wilson: [quote]To accommodate that, we are moving the launch date for this project into fiscal year '19[/quote] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/06/bioware-anthem-e3-release-date/ Also, answer me this, how many games in the last few years have not been delayed and not released as buggy shitshows? (Of course that also means Destiny 3 so maybe it's a moot point.)
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Edited by AWearyTraveler: 6/14/2017 5:07:39 PM"Fiscal year 2019"
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Yes, fiscal year 2019 could mean October 1, 2018. Or it could mean spring of 2019. The more I think about it, using the term "fiscal year" is a red flag. It means EA's priority is bringing the game to market in time to increase profits before the company figures bonuses and draft's investor reports. The focus is not on releasing the game when it is ready. This is the kind of thinking that led EA to release Mass Effect Andromeda even though it was a buggy mess. They had a quarterly deadline and internal reviews predicting low to mid 80s Metacritic scores so they called the game "good enough" and released it despite it's obvious flaws. Let's hope for better with Anthem.
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I was just pointing out that with the fiscal year it would still be out before destiny 3 which most likely will release in September or October of 2019. I enjoyed ME:A but I agree it could have been better, however the fact that bioware Montreal isn't leading the development of Anthem which isn't exactly safe to say it won't be as buggy as mass effect but hopefully the devs of Anthem will learn from their mistake and not do the same thing.
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Keeping my fringers cross that Bioware and EA learned from ME;A. I also hope EA learned from the Titanfall 2 debacle. Releasing too many of the same kind of game in the same season is just a bad idea. Imagine if they push out Anthem early, just before the end of the fiscal year in September 2019, competing with all the other fall releases.
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I mean right now if they're slating it for fall 2018 - spring 2019, unless they have a really major set back, I don't imagine they'd be stupid enough to market it around the fall releases. I guess for now all we can do is wait for more information throughout the year and hope all goes well. If it comes packaged looking even close to how good it looked in the E3 demo around the time they're stating it will be out then I for sure will be playing.
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The guys working on Anthem are same company, different studio. They have more experience with making groundbreaking games like the Mass Effect Trilogy. So I wouldn't worry too much. They were also working on Anthem while Andromeda was in development, I believe. The problem is that Bioware Edmonton has experience with RPGs, not MMOs. I'm not sure how they'll handle this change of gameplay, but hopefully it goes well.